Atlantic Theater Company Presents 10X25 Play Festival, 5/18-29

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) concludes its 25th Anniversary season with a celebration of its history with 10x25, an all-commissioned one-act festival of ten-minute plays by twenty five of the extraordinary playwrights who have been produced there since 1985. 10x25 will unite and reunite Atlantic ensemble members, playwrights, and frequent guest actors and directors in three separate offerings of ten minute plays, which will run the gamut of theatrical styles and content.

10x25 will feature new works by David Auburn, Leslie Ayvazian, Annie Baker, Stephen Belber, Bekah Brunstetter, Moira Buffini, Jez Butterworth, Ethan Coen, Kia Corthron, Tom Donaghy, John Guare, Kevin Heelan, Tina Howe, Craig Lucas, David Mamet, Peter Parnell, David Pittu, Keith Reddin, Kate Robin, Kate Moira Ryan, Edwin Sanchez, Sam Shepard, Lucy Thurber, Jeff Whitty, and Bill Wrubel.

Featured actors include Talia Balsam, Reed Birney, Kate Blumberg, Larry Bryggman, Michael Chernus, Nick Choksi, John Early, Kathryn Erbe, Aaron Farenback-Brateman, Mikaela Feely-Lehmann, Glenn Fitzgerald, David Fonteno, Lisa Gorlitsky, Zackary Grady, Kristin Griffith, Rick Holmes, Michelle Hurst, Kristen Johnston, Jordan Lage, Peter Maloney, Mary McCann, Ben McKenzie, Rod McLachlan, Tim Blake Nelson, Stephen Park, Mary Beth Peil, David Pittu, Susan Pourfar, Omar Sangare, Christa Scott-Reed, Danielle Slavick, Joey Slotnick, Greg Stuhr, Ray Anthony Thomas, Maria Tucci, and Jeff Whitty, with direction by Leslie Ayvazian, Annie Baker, Jaime Castaneda, Jackson Gay, Hilary Hinckle, Karen Kohlhaas, Matt McGrath, Christian Parker, Neil Pepe, David Pittu, Anya Saffir, Lucie Tiberghien, Todd Weeks, and Scott Zigler.

10x25 will feature scenic design by Riccardo Hernandez, costume design by Katja Andreiev lighting design by Eric Southern, and sound design by Tony Smolenski IV.

10x25 will run at Atlantic Stage 2 (330 West 16th Street) in three series, from Wednesday, May 18 to Sunday, June 26. Each series runs two weeks: Wednesday-Sunday at 7:30 the first week, Tuesday-Saturday at 7:30 the second week, with Saturday and Sunday matinees each week at 2:30.

SERIES A
May 18 - 29

The Redeemers by Ethan Coen
Directed by Neil Pepe
With Michael Chernus, Tim Blake Nelson, Greg Stuhr

Posh Pill by Kia Corthron
Directed by Karen Kohlhaas
With Lisa Gorlitsky, Kristin Griffith, Michelle Hurst, Peter Maloney, Christa Scott-Reed

In a Linguistics Class by David Mamet
Directed by Jaime Castaneda
With Zackary Grady, Jordan Lage

Master Class with Cassiopeia O'Hara by Kate Moira Ryan
Directed by Christian Parker
With Kristen Johnston

Elzbieta by John Guare
Directed by Neil Pepe
With Glenn Fitzgerald and Omar Sangare

Various Rigors by Stephen Belber
Directed by Lucie Tiberghien
With Michael Chernus and Mary McCann

Marriage by Lucy Thurber
Directed by Hilary Hinckle
With Mikaela Feely-Lehmann, Kristin Griffth, Peter Maloney, Ben McKenzie

Jacob Sterling, Distinguished Alumnus by David Pittu
Directed by David Pittu
With Aaron Farenback-Brateman, David Pittu

SERIES B
June 1 - 12

Practice by Annie Baker
Directed by Annie Baker
With Reed Birney, Michael Chernus, Nick Choksi, Mary McCann, Susan Pourfar, Danielle Slavick

The Naked Eye by Jez Butterworth
Directed by Neil Pepe
Cast TBA

The New Paradigm by Keith Reddin
Directed by Neil Pepe
With Larry Bryggman, Rod McLachlan, Stephen Park

Caution: This Bus Kneels. Stand Clear by Tina Howe
Director: Christian Parker
With Kate Blumberg, Larry Bryggman, David Fonteno, Mary Beth Peil, Susan Pourfar, Joey Slotnick

The Sell by Craig Lucas
Directed by Neil Pepe
With Talia Balsam, Mary McCann

Smiling by Edwin Sanchez
Directed by Jaime Castaneda
With Reed Birney, Michael Chernus

There You Are by Leslie Ayvazian
Directed by Leslie Ayvazian
With Mary Beth Peil, Maria Tucci

This Backstage Life by Bill Wrubel
Directed by Todd Weeks
With Kate Blumberg, Larry Bryggman, John Early, Rick Holmes, Rod McLachlan, and Mary Beth Peil

SERIES C
June 15 - 26

Two Dads by David Auburn
Director TBA
Cast TBA

I Need a Quote by Tom Donaghy
Directed by Anya Saffir
Cast TBA

Sold by Moira Buffini
Directed by Scott Zigler
With Kathryn Erbe

Run by Bekah Brunstetter
Directed by Jackson Gay
Cast TBA

As Himself by Kevin Heelan
Directed by Christian Parker
With Ray Anthony Thomas

Dada Woof Papa Hot by Peter Parnell
Directed by Jackson Gay
Cast TBA

Inside Play by Kate Robin
Directed by Anya Saffir
Cast TBA

Evanescence by Sam Shepard
Directed by Neil Pepe
Cast TBA

In Which I Tender My Resignation by Jeff Whitty
Directed by Matt McGrath
With Jeff Whitty

ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is the award winning off-Broadway theater company dedicated to producing great plays simply and truthfully utilizing an artistic ensemble. Atlantic believes that the story of the play and the intent of the playwright are at the core of the creative process. Atlantic maintains an ensemble of acclaimed actors, writers and directors including Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and director David Mamet and Academy Award® nominated actor William H. Macy who founded Atlantic twenty five years ago in 1985.

Atlantic and Neil Pepe were awarded a 2009 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Body of Work last season for "exceptional craftsmanship, dedication to excellence and productions that engage, inspire and enlighten." In 2006, Atlantic was awarded the Lucille Lortel Prize for Outstanding Body of Work as its critically acclaimed production of Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant Of Inishmore transferred to Broadway, where it was nominated for five 2006 Tony Awards® including Best Play.

Atlantic's acclaimed world premiere production of its first musical Spring Awakening, with music by Duncan Sheik, book and lyrics by Steven Sater and direction by Michael Mayer, won 8 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical.

Atlantic's 2009-2010 season featured Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Mamet returning to the company he founded with a double bill of one-act plays - the world premiere of School and the New York premiere of Keep Your Pantheon, directed by Neil Pepe; fellow Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Sam Shepard made his Atlantic debut with the U.S. premiere of the Abbey Theatre's production of Ages of the Moon, starring Stephen Rea and Sean McGinley; Bekah Brunstetter made her Off-Broadway debut with the world premiere of Oohrah!; the critically acclaimed American premiere of Moira Buffini's play Gabriel directed by David Esbjornson and starring Tony Award® nominee Zach Grenier and Lisa Emery; and the extended sold out world premiere engagement of Stephen Belber's play Dusk Rings a Bell, directed by Sam Gold and starring Paul Sparks and Kate Walsh.

In the 2008-2009 season, Atlantic and Druid's critically acclaimed production of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, directed by Tony Award® winner Garry Hynes, was extended three times and received four 2009 Lucille Lortel Award nominations including Outstanding Revival, three Outer Critics Circle Award nominations including Outstanding Revival, a Drama League Award nomination for Distinguished Revival, and was awarded a 2009 Lortel for Outstanding Ensemble Performance.

Since its inception, Atlantic has produced over 125 productions including the Tony Award® winning play The Beauty Queen of Leenane, the world premieres of Academy Award® winner Ethan Coen's comedies Almost an Evening and Offices, Annie Baker's Body Awareness, Woody Allen's A Second Hand Memory and Writer's Block, David Mamet's Romance and his adaptations of The Voysey Inheritance and Dangerous Corner, the musicals Spring Awakening and 10 Million Miles with music by Patty Griffin and book by Keith Bunin, Conor McPherson's Port Authority, Peter Parnell's Trumpery, Jez Butterworth's Parlour Song, Craig Lucas' Missing Persons and This Thing of Darkness, Lucy Thurber's Scarcity, Howard Korder's Boys Life, The Lights and Sea of Tranquility, Beau Willimon's Farragut North, Bekah Brunstetter's Oohrah!, David Pittu's What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, Tina Howe's translations of Ionesco's Bald Soprano and The Lesson, Kevin Heelan's Distant Fires, Leslie Ayvazian's Make Me, Tom Donaghy's Minutes From The Blue Route, Edwin Sanchez's Trafficking in Broken Hearts and Clean, the American premieres of Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange, Conor McPherson's Dublin Carol, Jez Butterworth's The Night Heron, the New York premieres of Jez Butterworth's Mojo, Rolin Jones' The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow and Peter Parnell's The Cider House Rules as well as revivals of David Mamet's American Buffalo and Edmond, Harold Pinter's The Hothouse and the double bill of Celebration and The Room and Harold Brighouse's Hobson's Choice.

ATLANTIC STAGE 2 is located at 330 West 16th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues). Tickets for 10x25 are $55 and available by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 (ticketcentral.com).