As part of the tenth edition of the COIL festival, Performance Space 122 and Parkside Lounge present the New York premiere of The Blind Date Project by Australia's Ride On Theatre. Unpredictable, dark and funny, The Blind Date Project is an event to which everyone can relate - a blind date between two people who have never met and who are desperately in need of connection.
Australian Film Institute award-winner and TV actress Bojana Novakovic (TV: Rake, Shameless) plays Anna, a woman waiting at a karaoke bar for her date to arrive. With no idea of who she is about to meet or what is about to happen, each night a different performer joins her for an entirely improvised, intensely personal interaction-including karaoke numbers-in front of a crowd of willing participants. Guided only by text messages and phone calls and interspersed with random songs, each date promises to be as bizarre as it is dangerous. Things may turn out to be humiliating, tender or totally hot. Participants include Pablo Schreiber (TV: Orange Is the New Black, The Wire; Broadway: Awake and Sing! Tony Nomination), Mamie Gummer (TV: Emily Owens, M.D., John Adams, The Good Wife), Christopher Abbott (TV: Girls), Charlie Carver (TV: Desperate Housewives, Teen Wolf, The Leftovers), Anson Mount (TV: Hell on Wheels), Frederick Weller (TV: Missing Persons, In Plain Site; Broadway: Mothers and Sons) and Reggie Watts (TV: Comedy Bang! Bang! and, in March 2015, The Late Late Show with James Corden), Lachlan Patterson (TV: Last Comic Standing) and more. Additional participants will be announced at a later date.Photo by Walter McBride
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