Site-Specific Reimagining of VERITAS to Play The Cave This Fall

The Representatives in association with The Olmsted Salon present this site-specific re-imagining of VERITAS by Stan Richardson, beginning Thursday, October 21st with an Opening on Monday, October 26. The theatre for the production is The Cave @ St. George's in Gramercy Park, 209 East 16th Street, NYC 10003. The play is co-directed by Matt Steiner & Stan Richardson (The Representatives) with environmental design by Meg Stemmler. The full cast and design team will be announced soon.

This is an evening of theatre that is fast, intimate and exciting, The Representatives has a strong following for their presentations. For every performance, there has been an after party that allows the audience to interact with the artists following the show.

VERITAS, is based on the tragic true story of a secret gay witch-hunt at Harvard in 1920. This was completely unknown until a student journalist unearthed a box of handwritten transcripts in the bowels of the Harvard library over eighty years later.

Written in 2007, VERITAS received workshops at Columbia University and Classic Stage Company and was first produced at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival where it became the first show in Fringe history to sell out its entire run before the festival began. VERITAS won the Fringe Excellence Award, a 2010 citation fromTalkin' Broadway for "Outstanding New Play" and was featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and theHarvard Crimson, among other publications.

The playwright stated, "This site-specific re-imagining of my play VERITAS, is the Representatives' most ambitious project yet. Many things excite us about this, our first "public" production: the diverse cast of excellent actors playing the ten Harvard students; the intimate environmental staging; the elaborate after parties. But on a larger scale, we're hoping that this production will encourage Harvard to properly acknowledge their terrible error in judgment by giving honorary degrees to the young men whose lives the university destroyed almost a century ago."

The Representatives is the collaboration between playwright Stan Richardson and actor Matt Steiner. Since 2012, they presented 13 new works, ranging from their signature apartment plays to larger pieces: a film-theater hybrid; a site-specific adaptation of a Russian epic; and a residency at IRT Theater to work on a project with deaf artists. The Representatives' dedication to presenting work as soon as it's written -- in people's homes and other unconventional spaces -- has created an underground following committed to socially-relevant theatrical experiences. In short, they make plays that come from their personal and political dreams and nightmares and they do it fast. TDF dubbed The Representatives as "an underground theatre sensation" and they were also recognized as one of the "Top 10 Theater Experiences" by BroadwayWorld.com for their hyper-intimate, invitation-only productions performed in apartments, churches, restaurants and other alternative venues.

Stan Richardson is a playwright and director from St. Louis, and a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts and Edward Albee's Playwrights Workshop in Houston, TX. Stan's plays, which include VERITAS, The Children (with composer Hal Goldberg), wHormone, and The Tale of the Good Whistleblower of Chaillot's Caucasian Mother and Her Other Children of a Lesser Marriage Chalk Circle (with composer Rachel Peters), have been developed at such venues as Second Stage, Ars Nova, Classic Stage Company, Dixon Place, PS122, The Brick Theatre and the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

Matt Steiner is an actor, director and teaching artist. He has appeared Off Broadway, in two national tours with The Acting Company, and in film & television. Matt trained as a clown in Switzerland & NYC and holds a BFA from CalArts. He is currently a full-time Teaching Artist for Lincoln Center Education.

Performances for the limited engagement are Monday - Saturday at 8:00pm. Tickets are only $18 (plus service charge) and are available at www.therepresentatives.org.