Bulldog Theatrical Presents THE 49 PROJECT As Part of 13th Annual NY Int'l Fringe Fest 8/14-30

Producer Jack Thomas of Bulldog Theatrical will present Mary Adkins' new play The 49 Project as part of the 13th annual New York International Fringe Festival August 14-30. The six performances will be held at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street) on: Tuesday, Aug. 25, 8:45 PM, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2 PM, Thursday, Aug. 27, 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM, Friday, Aug. 28, 9:15 PM, Saturday, Aug. 29, 5:30 PM

Years have passed since men, the minority population, have been marginalized in government by the female majority. Discriminatory legislation has stripped them of many of the rights and privileges they once held. The only hope for male equality may rest with 20-year-old Christina. But will she be the passionate provost for change or a deceptive pawn in an impious political game? The truth may be more complicated than anyone imagined, in this daring new play. www.the49project.com

Marshall Pailet directs this remarkable drama featuring Clayton Apgar, Dylan Moore, Brian Russell (The Farnsworth Invention and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial), Zoey Martinson, Alexis McGuinness and Finnerty Steeves. The creative team includes scenic design by Eugenia Furneaux-Arends and lighting design by Grant Yeager.

Tickets are $15 and may be purchased by visiting www.FringeNYC.org or by calling 866.468.7619 between 9am-7pm. Tickets may be purchased in person at FringeCENTRAL (54 Crosby Street) as of July 31 from noon until 8pm. The 49 Project is part of The New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC - A production of The Present Company.

The 49 Project

Running time: 100 minutes

Press Performances Please RSVP to ShaneMarshallBrown@gmail.com

Thursday, Aug. 27, 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM

Friday, Aug. 28, 9:15 PM

Saturday, Aug. 29, 5:30 PM

VENUE #15: The Cherry Lane Studio

38 Commerce Street

( 7th Avenue & Hudson Street)

Clayton Apgar *(Nathan) - Theatre: Perfect Harmony (The Essentials), Working, Dancing at Lughnasa, Major Barbara. Television: "Guiding Light," the pilot "Level 10." Film: the forthcoming Notes On Being Young, You Should Have The Body (Winner, Goethe Institute International Civil Rights Film Competition), John Jay, The Funeral. A co-founder of The Regional Company and the playground reading series, he is a graduate of Princeton University and NYU's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts and the author of a novel, Thorofare.

Dylan Moore (Christina) - Theatre / The Juilliard School: Helen of Troy in The Greeks (dir. Brian Mertes), Dancing at Lughnasa (dir. Ethan McSweeny), Reborning (dir. Hal Brooks), Arlie in Getting Out (dir. Vivienne Benesch).

Brian Russell * (Charles) - Theatre: This is Brian's second Fringe Festival play. He appeared in Dana Slamp's highly-acclaimed The Importance Of Marrying Wells. He just got back from The Arden Theatre in Philadelphia where he played Richard in The Seafarer. Brian has appeared on Broadway in The Farnsworth Invention and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Film: the upcoming films Handsome Harry and Paper Man. Television: "Law & Order," "30 Rock," and "Rescue Me."

Zoey Martinson * (ensemble) - Theatre: Caviar on Credit (Guthrie), The Tempest (Shakespeare on the Sound), 365 Plays/365 Days (Public Theater). Zoey recently graduated from NYU's Graduate Acting program; her favorite roles were Matilde in The Clean House and Cherie in Bus Stop. She also performed A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Diorama Theatre in London, and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet in Ghana, West Africa where she founded Bright Future Arts International.

Alexis McGuinness * (ensemble) - Theatre: Waxing West (La MaMa, Bucharest and Sibiu, Romania and Stockholm, Sweden), The Lacy Project (Ohio Theatre), Half of Plenty (SPF, NYC), Twelfth Night (Milwaukee Shakespeare), Abandon (La MaMa), Safe in Hell (Yale Rep). She is an adjunct faculty member at Fordham University, Lincoln Center. She has studied at NTI/Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and the Guthrie Theater, and has a BA in Theater from Dartmouth College and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

Finnerty Steeves * (ensemble) - Theatre: Almost, Maine (Daryl Roth Theatre), Marion Bridge (Urban Stages), Tumor (Lincoln Center's Directors Lab) and Diary of a Chambermaid (Dramahaus NY). Regional: Dead Man's Cell Phone (Hartford Theaterworks), Enchanted April (Arizona Theatre Company), The Norman Conquests (Milwaukee Rep), Hedda Gabler (American Conservatory Theater), Lost In Yonkers (Guthrie Theater), Wonder of the World (Barrington Stage), Picnic (Baltimore Center Stage), The Garden of Hannah List (Florida Stage), The Heiress (Caldwell Theater Company). Film and television: Morning Glory, Away We Go, Calling it Quits, The Great New Wonderful, Filmic Achievement, Law & Order, The Sopranos. Ms. Steeves is a graduate of A.C.T.'s MFA program.

Mary Adkins (Playwright) will shortly begin her final year at Yale Law School. She is a graduate of Duke University. This is her first play to be produced in NYC.

Marshall Pailet (Director) Marshall's recent directing credits include Thursday (World Premiere), With Kings in the Back (World Premiere), The 70 Scenes of Halloween, The Darq Knight: The Epic 80's Rock Musical (Find it on YouTube), Bat Boy, Escape Artists (World Premiere) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. As a writer, he has composed the score to On a Glorious Day (formally The Chocolate Tree) and Where It's At. His work has been showcased at the NY Fringe Festival, NYMF, Prospect and TRU (New Voices Finalist). He was the youngest ever participant in the ASCAP musical theater festival at the age of 15. As an actor, he has performed on Broadway in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Sound of Music and A Christmas Carol. He is a proud recent graduate of Yale University, and received the V. Browne Irish Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts in 2009, and the John Thoroun Fellowship for Special Study at Cambridge University in 2007. He was the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Streetlamp Repertory Company of Yale. marshallpailet.com.

Grant Yeager (Lighting Designer) - Carnegie Hall: An Evening with Kevin Smith, The Music of R.E.M., The McGarrigle Christmas Hour (starring Rufus Wainwright). Other NY: Love Child (Primary Stages), Caligula (Theatre Row), The Voyage of the Carcass starring Dan Fogler (Soho Playhouse), Life Science (Shetler Studios), Between You and Me (Kaye Playhouse). Recent favorites include The Tempest starring Anthony Stuart Head at The Bermuda Festival of the Arts, along with numerous associate design credits at Paper Mill Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Joyce Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Huntington Theatre, and The Kennedy Center.

Eugenia Furneaux-Arends (Scenic Designer) - Theatre: Slipping with Rising Phoenix Rep and Piece by Piece Productions at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre (Asst. Scenic Designer and Properties Designer), The Amish Project at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre (Asst. Scenic Designer and Scenic Artist), Hillary: A Modern Greek Tragedy with New Georges (Properties Design), Sophia's Fall at NYMF (Scenic Designer), Taboos at SoHo Playhouse (Asst. Scenic Designer) and Kindness at Playwrights Horizons (Asst. Scenic Designer). She has worked regionally at Shakespeare & Company, Arizona Theatre Company, The University of Northern Iowa and The University of Arizona doing various jobs in the world of scenic design, scenic art and properties.

Jack Thomas / Bulldog Theatrical (Producer) - Jack is a theatrical producer in both London and New York. His most recent production was the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, directed by Robert Falls. London / West End: Marguerite, an original musical by Boublil and Schonberg, creators of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, in collaboration with 3-time Academy Award winner Michel Legrand; the 2007 revival of Fiddler on the Roof, nominated as Best Revival of a Musical; the 2006 production of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke. In New York, he produced Anna Ziegler's drama Life Science, John Cariani's romantic comedy Almost, Maine, and Stephen Adly Guirgis' Our Lady of 121st Street, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, honored as one of the best plays of the New York season in 2003. He spent fifteen years working for The Shubert Organization, and another three years as Vice President at Broadway.com.