Playing with Reality to Bring ROCKING DEAD to the Frying Pan, 4/24-5/30

Playing with Reality presents Rocking Dead, an immersive theatre dance party, aboard the Lightship Frying Pan on April 24 and May 2, 9, 16, 29 and 30, 2015 at 7pm.

Playing with Reality company member Trevor Buteau will direct the zombie-themed interactive experience, which was written by company members aLyssa Kim and Trevor Buteau and Artistic Director Jeff Wirth. The show will be produced by Executive Director Shea Elmore and Zach Zamchick (The Bad Years, Queen of the Night).

The cast includes Erin Timony Bump, Jenn Kent, aLyssa Kim, Inês Lucas, Nicole Orabona, Kevin Percival, Zöe Watkins, and Christopher Wren, all Playing with Reality company members, and guest performer Sam Ogilvie.

Rocking Dead is an immersive theatre experience that unfolds at a dance party on the Frying Pan, a boat docked on the Hudson River. Audience members interact with the players in this post-apocalyptic zombie world, in which the Z-virus runs rampant and infected Virals attempt to live alongside uninfected Normals. Together, audience members and performers try to keep the entire boat from "zedding out". Meanwhile, a dance party rages in the hold with happy hour drink specials and DJ DeadMeet spinning electronic and house beats until 9pm.

Playing with Reality creates interactive, immersive theatre that empowers audience members through the process of fearless, ferocious play. In PwR's innovative form of theatre, willing audience members become the lead characters in improvised dramatic stories that they co-create alongside performers.

Under the leadership of Executive Producer Shea Elmore and Artistic Director Jeff Wirth, Playing with Reality has been giving New York audiences free reign to co-create a fictional narrative adventure guided by trained actors since 2010. PwR regularly performs at The Secret Theatre in Long Island City and The Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Rocking Dead, written by aLyssa Kim, Trevor Buteau & Jeff Wirth, directed by Trevor Buteau, runs April 24, May 2, 9, 16, 29 & 30, 2015 on the The Lightship Frying Pan. Performances run Friday and Saturday nights at 7:00 pm. Tickets are $20 and available through www.artful.ly/playing-with-reality/store/events/5476.

The Lightship Frying Pan is located on Pier 66 at W. 26th St. in Hudson River Park. Subway (C, E, F, M, N, R, 5, 6, 1) or PATH to 23rd Street station. Then take the M23 crosstown bus West to the last stop (at Chelsea Piers). Then walk North through the Hudson River Park 3 piers North to Pier 66 (@ 26th St). For more information and tickets, visit www.playingwithreality.org or e-mail erin@playingwithreality.org.