Obie Award Winning 13P Presents Benefit on 5/13

 13P, the OBIE-winning collective of 13 playwrights, as previously announced, will present its spring benefit "13P: UNDONE" at Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, for one performance only on Tuesday, May 13 at 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:00 p.m.) The company bills the benefit as a "dizzying evening of wine, theater, and song," featuring the unproduced or little known work of four lions of the American Theater: Christopher Durang, John Guare, Michael John LaChiusa, and Stephen Sondheim. The 2007 OBIE-winning director Anne Kauffman (The Thugs, God's Ear, and 13P's Have You Seen Steve Steven?) will direct their unproduced, or little known scenes and songs. Lisa Kron, the Tony-nominated writer-performer, last seen on Broadway in her play Well, will serve as host for the evening.

The award-winning performers scheduled to appear will include: Lea Delaria (On the Town, The Rocky Horror Show), Jessica Hecht (The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Stop Kiss), Marc Kudisch (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Assassins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), Swoosie Kurtz (The House of Blue Leaves, Fifth of July, Frozen), Michael John LaChiusa (composer-lyricist of The Wild Party, Marie Christine, See What I Wanna See), Reg Rogers (Proposals, Holiday) and Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent, Anna and the Tropics, The Rocky Horror Show).

Tickets start at $100. Admission will include reserved seating at Joe's Pub, entrance to the silent and live auctions and post-show reception with cast and 13 playwrights. VIP seating at the benefit is also being offered. Joe's Pub menu and bar will be available. For tickets and more information, call 212-613-3119 or go to www.13p.org.

13P was formed in 2003 by 13 mid-career playwrights concerned about the trend of endless readings and new play development with the motto was "We don't develop plays. We do them." 13P realizes full productions of new plays. The resources of the company are placed at the disposal of the playwright at work, who serves as the company's artistic director during the production of his or her play. 13P has presented the world premieres of The Internationalist by Anne Washburn, The Penetration Play by Winter Miller, Aphrodisiac by Rob Handel, At Said by Gary Winter, Mark Smith by Kate E. Ryan, and Have You Seen Steve Steven? by Ann Marie Healy.

The evening will benefit 13P's upcoming season, which will include plays by Sheila Callaghan (P#7) and Lucy Thurber (P#8).

13P is: Sheila Callaghan (Dead City), Erin Courtney (Demon Baby), Madeleine George (The Zero Hour), Rob Handel (Millicent Scowlworthy), Ann Marie Healy (Now That's What I Call a Storm), Julia Jarcho (The Highwayman), Young Jean Lee (Church), Winter Miller (In Darfur), Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House), Kate E. Ryan (Woman of Trachis), Lucy Thurber (Stay), Anne Washburn (The Internationalist), and Gary Winter (The Lake).