Undermain Theatre to Stage World Premiere of THE DROLL

To open its 32nd season the Undermain Theatre is thrilled to bring the World Premiere of Meg Miroshnik's The Droll to their home in Deep Ellum at 3200 Main Street. The premiere will open on Saturday, September 26th, 2015 - curtain time 8:15 with the playwright in attendance. Preview performances will be on Sep. 23rd, 24th and 25th. The production will run through October 17th.

Seduced by the magic of the Stage, young Nim Dullyn seeks to join an illegal theatrical troupe-pursued by the beastly Roundheads, who deem theatre an abomination during this time of sickness and troubles. The Droll (Or, A Stage- Play about the END of Theatre) imagines a world in which theatre is banned, but one troupe resists by organizing a clandestine performance of Hamlet. Undermain is excited to bring Dallas this world premiere by Meg Miroshnik, author of last season's hit comedy, The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls. Inspired by the theatre closures of Puritan England, The Droll asks: "What evil would you do in the Name of Laughter?" Miroshnik's fascinating play was

work-shopped at the Yale School of Drama's Studio Series in 2009 and at the South Coast Repertory's Pacific Playwrights Festival in 2011.

Meg Miroshnik is a dramatic writer whose work features a heightened attention to language. Her plays include The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, The Droll (Or, A Stage-Play about the END of Theatre), The Tall Girls, Old Actress, and an adaptation of the libretto for Shostakovich's Moscow, Cheryomushki. She is the recipient of a 2012 Whiting Award. Her work has been developed or produced by the La Jolla Playhouse, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Center Theatre Group, South Coast Rep, the McCarter Theatre Center, Alliance Theatre, Yale Rep, the Kennedy Center, Lark New Play Development Center, Chicago Opera Theater, The Moscow Playwright and Director Center, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Circle X, The Wilma Theater, Perishable Theatre, WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory, One Coast Collaboration, and published in Best American Short Plays, 2008-2009 (Applause, 2010). The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls was a finalist for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn prize and winner of the 2011-2012 Alliance/Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award. Upcoming: Commissions for new plays for South Coast Rep, Steppenwolf, and Yale Rep. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama where she studied with Paula Vogel. Meg hails from Minneapolis and currently lives in Los Angeles, where she is a member of the Playwrights Union and The Kilroys.

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