7 SINS IN 60 MINUTES Plays HERE Arts Center 7/11-15

AAI Productions (Melanie Sutherland, Artistic Director) announced today that 7 Sins in 60 Minutes, a collaboratively-created fever dream directed by John Golden Award winner Ms. Sutherland, will have its world premiere as part of HERE's Summer Sublet Series July 11 through 15, 2010.

7 Sins. 7 Playwrights. 60 Minutes. 7 Sins in 60 Minutes is a high-octane ride through the Seven Deadly Sins, done 21st-century style. Developed by seven award-winning playwrights and one director, the piece boasts a playful and provocative mix of comedy, drama, dance, spoken word and original music. Over the course of one hour, four characters -- Mike, Amadea, Dante and Willow - take a rollercoaster ride from sloth to pride.

In January 2010, New York-based director Melanie Sutherland assembled a group of actors, playwrights and a producer to develop a new piece inspired by the seven sins. Each playwright was assigned actors and asked to write a seven-minute scene based on one of the sins. After the first playwright finished her scene, it was passed along to the next one to continue the story and tell the next seven-minute portion through another sin. And so on...

The playwriting team includes Chisa Hutchinson (2010 GLAAD Media Award, Best Off-Off Broadway Play She Like Girls), Cheryl L. Davis (Daytime Emmy Award nominee, As the World Turns), Paula Cizmar (international documentary piece Seven), Olga de la Fuente (popular Mexican TV series El Pantera), Natalia Naman (Old Ship of Zion, The Lark), Anne Phelan (two-time Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow), and Melisa Tien (New Dramatists, Manhattan Theatre Club). The cast includes Duane Cooper (Stress Positions, FringeNYC 2009) Cortnie Loren Miller (New Jersey Repertory), Michael Rosete (FringeNYC Thirty Minutes or Less) and Karen Sours (Chisa Hutchinson's GLAAD Media Award-winning play She Like Girls). Joyce Liao is the lighting designer.

7 Sins in 60 Minutes will perform July 11 through July 15 at 7:00 pm at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue, Enter on Dominick, 1 Block South of Spring; Subway: C/E to Spring or 1 to Canal). Tickets are $15. For tickets, visit here.org or call (212) 352-3101. The box office opens at 4:00 pm on show days only.

This production is being presented through the Summer Sublet Series, part of HEREstay, HERE's
curated rental program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as
technical and administrative support.

AAI Productions is a Brooklyn-based non-profit theatrical company dedicated to the development of new work.