ELEPHANT IN MY CLOSET, UGLY ONE and NOBODY'S HART Win WaterTower Theatre's 2013 'Best of Loop' Awards

By: Mar. 17, 2013
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WaterTower Theatre Producing Artistic Director and Festival Producer Terry Martin today announced the winners of the "Best of Loop" for the 2013 Out of the Loop Fringe Festival. The winners, as voted on by Loop Pass-holders, are:

The Best of the Main Space:
The Elephant in my Closet (David Lee Nelson)

The Best of the Studio Theatre:
The Ugly One (WaterTower Theatre)

The Best of the Stone Cottage:
Nobody's Hart (Diana Sheehan)

The winners will receive an encore performance today, March 17 at 7:30 pm in their respective venues. Tickets to the "Best of Loop" performances on Sunday night are free to all Loop pass-holders. Tickets for non-pass-holders are $10 each available by calling the box office at 972-450-6232.

The 12th annual Out of the Loop Fringe Festival is a 10-day festival of theatre, music, dance and visual arts. The Festival opened on March 7th. Performances are held at the Addison Theatre and Conference Centre in Addison, Texas. For more information about WaterTower Theatre and the Festival visit us at www.watertowertheatre.org.

WaterTower Theatre presents The Ugly One

The Ugly One, by Marius von Mayenburg, directed by Terry Martni, is an absurd farce about identity and human beauty. Lette discovers one day what no one has been willing to tell him: he is ugly. His face is simply not acceptable and for such a man, life is not kind. His job, his marriage, and his self-esteem are all compromised by this shortcoming. But what nature denies him, medical science provides. Attractiveness, he finds, can be bought. But what happens when his looks are a commodity? And what are the consequences of giving up his face?

David Lee Nelson presents The Elephant in My Closet

The Elephant in My Closet is David Lee Nelson's madcap dash through the history of the Republican Party and his own political past, as he works up the nerve to tell his staunchly conservative father that his worst nightmare has come true: his son is a Democrat. The production is directed by Adam Knight (director and co-creator) with dramaturge Kristin Vieira.

David Lee Nelson (Writer/Performer) has created two previous solo shows: Silence of Lucky (78th Street Theatre Lab, Piccolo Spoleto Festival) and Status Update (Out of the Loop Fringe Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 59E59 in NYC, Piccolo Spoleto Festival), and was named "Best Touring Production" of the 2010-2011 theatre season by the Dallas-Fort Worth Critics. Other NYC acting: Stupid F**cking Bitch by Lucy Alibar (EST/Youngblood) and Binge by Thomas Ward (Slant Theatre Project).

Adam Knight (Director and Co-Creator) previously collaborated with David Lee Nelson on Status Update and Silence of Lucky. He is co-founder of NYC's Slant Theatre Project, where he has directed new plays by Michele Lowe, Bekah Brunstetter, Matt Dellapina, Mat Smart, and Thomas Ward.

Kristin Vieira (Dramaturg) has worked as a dramaturg on numerous workshops and productions of new plays such as Binge by Thomas Ward (Slant Theatre Project), The Last Seven Words of Christ created by Scott Alan Evans (Chamber Society of Lincoln Center), Off Compass by Kelly Younger (John Gassner New Play Festival) and Missing Celia Rose by Ian August (NYC Summer Play Festival).

WaterTower Theatre presents Nobody's Hart

Diana Sheehan brings her singular vocal talent to the Festival with her salute to the "Poet of Broadway," Lorenz Hart, in Nobody's Hart. He was the lyricist half of the famed song writing team of Rodgers and Hart, the fabled geniuses of Broadway, who revolutionized American theatre with songs like "This Can't Be Love," "With a Song In My Heart," "Manhattan" and others. All music is by Richard Rodgers. Diana, known for championing the Great American Songbook, will be accompanied by pianist James McQuillen and cellist Sarah Choi. Diana performed at the Festival last year in her cabaret show, Midway: Crisis or Carnival?

Diana Sheehan has performed cabaret at New York's Triad, San Francisco's Plush Room, and Boston's Club Cafe. At WaterTower Theatre, she has appeared in Putting It Together, Shooting Star, Black Pearl Sings! and Grey Gardens. For the roles of Edith and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens, she received the 2009 Dallas-Fort Worth Critics Forum Award and the 2009 Column Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Her Dallas-area debut in Irving Berlin's As Thousands Cheer at Lyric Stage received the 2008 Dallas-Fort Worth Critics Forum Award for Best Ensemble Cast. Diana stood by and went on for Betty Buckley in the role of Martha Brewster in the Dallas Theater Center's production of Arsenic and Old Lace. She also appeared in Casa Mañana's Sound of Music. Diana starred in the Off-Broadway hit, Forbidden Broadway in New York, Boston, Cleveland, and National Tour. Regional credits include: San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Adirondack Theatre Festival, American Stage, North Shore Music Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Forum Theatre, and the Jewish Theatre of New England. Diana is a graduate of Smith College and the British-American Drama Academy. In 2011, she became the first honorary member of WOW!: Women of WaterTower Theatre.



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