Reed Birney, Enid Graham and More Set for Page 73's SONG OF EXTINCTION Reading, 5/15

Page 73 Productions - the Off-Broadway company dedicated to producing and developing works by early-career playwrights - will present a reading of their 2013 Interstate 73 member E.M. Lewis' play SONG OF EXTINCTION on Wednesday, May 15 at 4pm at Roundabout Theater Company's rehearsal studios (115 West 45th Street 12th Floor). Calloway Award winner Carolyn Cantor (THE GREAT GOD PAN, AFTER THE REVOLUTION) will direct.

The reading of SONG OF EXTINCTION is free and open to the public, but reservations are required: visit www.page73.org/tickets.

Max, a musically gifted high school student, is falling off the edge of the world - and the only person who notices is his biology teacher. SONG OF EXTINCTION is a play about the science of life and loss, the relationships between fathers and sons, Cambodian fields, Bolivian rain-forests and redemption.

The cast of the reading of SONG OF EXTINCTION is Drama Desk Award winner Reed Birney, Ephraim Birney (son of Reed Birney), Curzon Dobell, Tony Award nominee Enid Graham, Jonathan Hova, and Obie and Lortel Award winner Francis Jue.

EM Lewis received a 2012 Fellowship in Playwriting from the New Jersey Council for the Arts, and the 2010¬-2011 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. She won the 2009 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for SONG OF EXTINCTION and the 2008 Primus Prize for HEADS from the American Theater Critics Association. She is the NJ Rep and member of the Dramatists Guild. www.emlewisplaywright.com

Recipient of the League of Professional Theatre Women's 2008 Lucille Lortel Award for "innovative and creative work dedicated to the emerging dramatist," Page 73 Productions (under the leadership of Executive Directors Liz Jones and Asher Richelli and Associate Director Michael Walkup) is an Off-Broadway theatre company dedicated to developing and producing the work of early-career playwrights, done so through a series of development opportunities, workshops, readings and full-scale productions.

Past productions include: the world premieres of ELLIOT, A SOLDIER'S FUGUE by Quiara Alegría Hudes, directed by Davis McCallum (2007 Pulitzer finalist), SIXTY MILES TO SILVER LAKE by Dan LeFranc, directed by Anne Kauffman and co-produced with Soho Rep (2010 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award); CREATURE by Heidi Schreck, directed by Leigh Silverman and co-produced with New Georges; JACK'S PRECIOUS MOMENT by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Kip Fagan and most recently SLEEPING ROUGH by Kara Manning directed by Sam Buntrock (Drama Desk Award Nominee for Featured Actress).

For more information about Page 73 Productions, visit www.page73.org.

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