PEOPLE TALK Premieres 12/15 At The Barrow Group

People Talk receives world premiere by the Drama Desk Award-winning The Barrow Group on December 15 and 16 at 8:00pm.

When: Tuesday, December 15, 8:00pm -and- Wednesday, December 16, 8:00pm
Where: The Barrow Group's TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor, NYC 10018
Tickets: $25 benefit tickets; $15 student benefit tickets
Tickets are available on www.smarttix.com, or by calling 212.868.4444.
People Talk runs 75 minutes with no intermission.

People Talk, by Lisa Ebersole and Sidse Sorensen, is the premiere production of TBG's Women's Development Group, F.A.B. Women, conceived by co-artistic director, Lee Brock, to support projects originated by female artists. Ms. Ebersole and Ms. Soerensen met at F.A.B. Women and joined forces to create a show that gives voIce To "the many characters we've encountered on the streets of New York City... and in our minds." People Talk is presented as a benefit for The Barrow Group, with all proceeds going to support programming of TBG and it's new F.A.B. Women.

The evening begins with Bailey, a tour guide who "...is filling in for the guy who usually does this...and then they found something else..." On the "Christmas Places Tour" that follows, audience members enter a wedding, a funeral, a writer's group, an AA meeting, a reality TV audition, a subway car, a surprise party and a graduation ceremony. Bailey's tour of Midtown Manhattan also includes such NYC gems as "some officially Land marked row houses on East 36th Street", "the carolers outside of Bellevue hospital", and a group sing-a-long of the New Years Song, which he hopes is a non-denominational choice. Audience participation is encouraged throughout the evening.

"People Talk is essentially nine stories book ended by this substitute tour guide, who leads the audience on the adventure of the night," says Ebersole. "All of the pieces are direct address, actual situations where one person would be speaking to many. We worked really hard to make sure that everything passed our bullshit test."

The cast for People Talk features The Barrow Group's co-artistic director, Lee Brock, the playwrights, Ebersole and Soerensen, along with Kerry Flanagan, Scott Price, Shawn Regruto, Lulu Roche, Herb Rubens and Karin Sibrava. Jade King Carroll, of Second Stage, directs the world premiere production.

Bios:
Lisa Ebersole's plays include MOTHER (The Wild Project, starring Buck Henry and Holland Taylor); PANDA (Manhattan Theatre Source); METHINKS (Urban Stages); BROTHER and PEOPLE DIE THAT WAY (Paradise Factory). Ms. Ebersole has appeared on stage in Mother, Brother and People Die That Way, as well as The Mouth Pieces Monologues (Paradise Factory); SubUrbia (Red Star Theatre), and in the feature films One Night (2007) and Brother (2008). She directed the world-premieres of BROTHER and PEOPLE DIE THAT WAY.

SIDSE PLOUG SOERENSEN is a Danish actress, writer and solo-show artist. Her solo shows include; WE JUST WANNA BE, directed by Eric Paeper at The PIT, and BODHICHITTA, directed by Virginia Scott at The Barrow Group and at The PIT. Her sketch show DELUDED performed at Ars Nova and was directed by Stacy Shane. She's currently working on her new solo-show, THE WAY I SEE IT.

JADE KING CARROLL's directing credits include Cherry Smoke (Theatre Row), The Persians, Splittin' the Raft (People's Light & Theatre), After Adam (Playpenn), Contents of a Book, Life as a Balloon (McCarter Ink Festival), The Summer House, White Baby (Passage Theatre), Like Father (Producer's Club), The Adoration (Chocolate Factory Theatre), White Trash (Players Theatre). She has directed workshops and readings for McCarter Theatre, New Dramatists, Second Stage Theatre, Playwright's Realm, BE Company, Clockwork Theatre, 24 Hour Plays & New Jersey Rep. As an assistant director she has worked with Michael Greif, Les Waters, Rebecca Taichman, Michael Kahn, Gary Griffin, Lisa Peterson, Lou Bellamy & Ruben Santiago-Hudson among many others. She is currently the Artistic Associate at Second Stage Theatre; mentored by Artistic Director Carole Rothman as a round 9 TCG New Generations Future Leader grant recipient.

More about The Barrow Group
Founded in 1986, The Barrow Group (TBG) has earned its award-winning reputation for unconditional dedication to the art of acting. Originally founded and operated out of a railroad flat on Barrow Street, TBG has grown into a mid-size theatre organization currently housed in the "Theatre Building" in Midtown. TBG received a 2005 Drama Desk Nomination for Best Play for Pentecost and received the 1995 Drama Desk Award for Off-Off Broadway Excellence. Seth Barrish and Lee Brock are the Artistic Directors and award-winning husband and wife team behind TBG.

TBG's commitment to developing new plays is currently witnessed with the:
Broadway production of A Steady Rain, which received a workshop at TBG in 2007
Recent Off-Broadway hit and Drama Desk Award Nominee Sleepwalk With Me, starring Mike Birbiglia and developed and directed by Seth Barrish
Jon Maran's The Temperamentals, which began in our Reading Series receiving subsequent runs in both our Studio Theatre and on our Main Stage as a co-production of Man Underdog and Daryl Roth Productions