Tickets on Sale Today for All-Female THE WOLVES at The Playwrights Realm

The Playwrights Realm, led by Founding Artistic Director Katherine Kovner and Producing Director Roberta Pereira, has announced that tickets are now on sale for the world premiere of Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves (August 29-September 24, 2016).

Directed by Lila Neugebauer and featuring a company of all female actors - Brenna Coates, Jenna Dioguardi, Samia Finnerty, Midori Francis, Lizzy Jutila Sarah Mezzanotte, Tedra Millan, Lauren Patten, and Susannah Perkins ­- DeLappe's award-winning debut play will be presented at The Realm's new home for their 10th anniversary season, The Duke on 42nd Street.

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. An all girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. The Wolvesis a portrait of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for nine American teens who just want to score some goals.

Dedicated to providing access to their shows, The Playwrights Realm has created the $1to5 Ticket Drive, where for the first six performances tickets are only $1-$5. Regular tickets for The Wolves are $40, student tickets are $10 and group tickets of six or more are $15 each. For more details and to purchase tickets, visit playwrightsrealm.org.

Performances of The Wolves run August 29-September 24 (see above schedule). Critics are welcome as of Wednesday September 7 for an official opening on Sunday September 11. The creative team includes Laura Jellinek (set design), Ásta Bennie Hostetter (costume design), Lap Chi Chu (lighting design), with sound design by Beth Lake & Stowe Nelson.

The Wolves was a shared recipient of the First Annual Relentless Award, presented in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman, and the largest cash prize awarded in American Theater. Despite working on commissions from the Sloan Foundation, Playwrights Horizons, Studio Theater in D.C. and participating in New Georges Audrey residency, The Wolves marks DeLappe's Off-Broadway debut and first professional production.

DeLappe began writing The Wolves in the summer of 2014 after attending the New Museum's exhibition "Here & Elsewhere" after being struck by the great distance between the ordinary daily experience of suburban young Americans and their counterparts in other countries - most of the artists featured were from the Middle East, including Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. The Wolves captures these young women attempting to digest their ideas of world history, while in the same breath, coming to terms with the reality of their changing adolescent bodies. DeLappe's razor sharp rendering of female adolescence challenges the tired, media peddled stereotypes.

About the play DeLappe says,"These women are warriors. Each scene is a warm-up for a soccer game: they're a troop preparing for battle."

Over the past decade, The Playwrights Realm has continually produced work by brave new voices and worked to introduce new initiatives to expand its commitment to providing holistic support to playwrights as they strive to make a life in the arts. Delappe is The Realm's 2016-17 Page One Resident Playwright, a corner stone of The Realm's services, for which one playwright receives a $10,000 stipend, health insurance, internal readings, travel and professional development funds, theater tickets, and a fully stocked desk in The Realm's offices. The approach is designed to allow a playwright the physical and mental time, space, and resources to take a meaningful step forward in their career.

The Wolves is produced in association with New York Stage and Film. Playwrights Horizons Theater School produced a workshop of The Wolves in 2015 in association with Clubbed Thumb, where the play had been developed previously.

Casting by Telsey + Company, William Cantler, CSA & Karyn Casl, CSA.

The Playwrights Realm is devoted to supporting early career playwrights along the journey of playwriting, helping them to hone their craft, fully realize their vision and build meaningful artistic careers. To serve this mission, The Playwrights Realmprovides comprehensive support to playwrights through its Page One Residency,Alumni Playwrights Program, Writing Fellows Residency, and, of course, productions. Previous productions by The Realm include Mfoniso Udofia's Sojourners, Anna Ziegler's A Delicate Ship, Anton Dudley's City Of, Elizabeth Irwin's My Mañana Comes, Lauren Yee's The Hatmaker's Wife, Ethan Lipton's Red-Handed Otter, Jen Silverman's Crane Story, Gonzalo Rodríguez Risco's Dramatis Personae, Christopher Wall's Dreams of the Washer King, Anna Ziegler's Dov and Ali, and Anton Dudley's Substitution.