Buran Theatre to Premiere T.B. SHEETS as Part of The Tank's Flint & Tinder Series

The Tank will present the world premiere of T.B. SHEETS written by Adam R. Burnett and directed by lisa nevada & Adam R. Burnett.

Produced by Buran Theatre as part of The Tank's Flint & Tinder series, T.B. SHEETS begins performances on Saturday, May 13 for a limited engagement through Saturday, May 27. Press Opening is Wednesday, May 17 at 7:30 PM. The performance schedule is Monday at 7:30 PM, Wednesday - Friday at 7:30 PM; Saturday at 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM & Sunday at 2:30 PM. Please note, there is no evening performance on Saturday, May 13.

Performances are at The Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres (502 West 53rd Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues). Tickets are $25 for general admission; $35 for reserved seating. ($15 for students with a valid ID.) To purchase tickets, visit www.thetanknyc.org.

Set in a tuberculosis sanatorium on a remote mountainside (not unlike Magic Mountain), a community of terminally ill Ones transcend to an order of living saints and build a spaceship to escape their physical ailments. This dizzying and iconoclastic new work celebrates the power and beauty of the fragile body and the multiplicity and fluidity of identity.

The cast features Brady Blevins (Nightmares with Buran Theatre), Danny Brave (the Brooklyn collective Switch n' Play), Maybe Burke (The Trans Literacy Project with Honest Accomplice Theatre), Nehassaiu deGannes (Equus with Alec Baldwin), Yuki Kawahisa (Temporary Distortion's Amerikana Kamikaze, PS122), Daniel Nelson (Richard Foreman's Idiot Savant, Public Theater), Colleen O'Neill (TWEED Fractured Classicks), Lori Elizabeth Parquet (The Providence of Neighboring Bodies, Ars Nova), Tina Shepard (founding member, The Talking Band), and Moira Stone (The Pig at 3LD).

The design team includes Nicholas Kostner (scenic design); Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew & Masha Tsimring (lighting, video and puppetry design); Baille Younkman (costume design). The original sound and music is created by Broken Chord. The choreography is by lisa nevada. The Production Stage Manager is Kathryn Sykes.

Adam R. Burnett (playwright/co-director) is a New York City based playwright and director. His original plays include Prelude; Shores of Lake Michigan (2008, Dixon Place), Meile be Akcento (2009-2014, Vilnius Chamber Theater), Money Buckets! (2009, Metropolitan Ensemble Theater), Nightmares: A Demonstration of the Sublime (2013, The Brick Theater/Buran Theatre), Magic Bullets (2014, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre/Incubator Arts Project/Buran Theatre), Mammoth (2015, The Brick Theater/Buran Theatre), The Keep (2015, Tricklock Company/Cabula6), Erik Satie / If I told Him / Erik Satie (2015, Bushwick Starr/Target Margin; adapted from Gertrude Stein), Poshlost Saudades! (2016, Ars Nova), and The Dolly Dali Show (2017, The Duplex). His work has been presented nationally at Revolutions International Theatre Festival (Albuquerque, NM), Highways Performance Space (Los Angeles), Las Vegas Little Theater (Las Vegas, NV), Unicorn Theatre (Kansas City, MO), and the Marigny Opera House (New Orleans, LA), and internationally at the Vilnius Chamber Theater (Vilnius, LT). Adam was a 2013 NYTheatre Person of the Year and a 2015 Lead Artist for Target Margin Theater's Gertrude Stein Lab Series. Adam's plays are permanently housed at New York Public Library Billy Rose Theatre Division at Lincoln Center. He is currently working on a new play that will be workshopped at University Settlement in 2017 under the direction of Jess Chayes (The Assembly). He has served as the Artistic Director of Buran Theatre since 2007.

A native of Albuquerque, NM, lisa nevada (choreographer/co-director) is a curious and avid dance artist influenced by modern dance techniques, improvisation, theatre and environmental/social activism. Through her choreography and movement direction, Nevada aims to develop a physical vocabulary that imparts abstract narrative that delivers a visceral impact. Her choreography has been commissioned by New Mexico Ballet Company, John Donald Robb Musical Trust, The Vortex Theater, 516 Arts, Tricklock Company, 24 Hours of Art (ABQ), Radical Evolution (NYC), The Gibran Play (NYC), Santa Fe University of Art and Design and Buran Theatre (NYC). In 2014, Nevada was named the Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge Performance Artist for her site-specific dance concert, Radicles: Rediscovering humankind's primary roots. She is a founding member, co-director and resident choreographer for SHIFT | DANCE, an Albuquerque-based presenting platform that serves as a vehicle to elevate and generate awareness for the range of contemporary dance forms within the Albuquerque community. Nevada is also choreographer, dancer and artistic director for her own project lisa nevada dance.

Buran Theatre is a NYC-based ensemble of disparate multidisciplinary and intergenerational artists who joyfully and anarchically reconfigure narrative, form, genre, gender, and design to develop and present new performance works. Past productions include The House of Fitzcarraldo, Meile be Akcento, Nightmares: a demonstration of the sublime, Magic Bullets, and Mammoth, among others.

The Tank is a Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer. We serve emerging artists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas and forms of expression. Our goal is to foster an environment of inclusiveness and remove the economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers and experimenting within their art form. The heart of our services is providing free performance space in the 62-seat blackbox that we operate in Manhattan, and we also offer a suite of other resources such as free rehearsal space, promotional support, and artist fees. Our programming is multi-disciplinary, representing disciplines including theater, music, dance, comedy, film, and storytelling. We keep ticket prices affordable and view our work as democratic, opening up both the creation and attendance of the arts to all and positioning the arts within civic and socio-political discourse.

Founded in 2003 by nine emerging artists, The Tank has since provided an artistic home for tens of thousands of New York City-based performers. Recent successes produced by The Tank as part of Flint & Tinder include Manual Cinema's Ada/Ava (Drama Desk nomination for Unique Theatrical Experience, New York Times Critics' Pick), Mac Wellman's The Offending Gesture (New York Times Critics' Pick), Andrew Schneider's youarenowhere (Drama Desk nomination for Unique Theatrical Experience, New York Times Critics' Pick), and Torry Bend's The Paper Hat Game (New York Times Critics' Pick). Artists who have presented work at The Tank early on in their careers include Alex Timbers (Tony-nominated theater director), Reggie Watts (theater performer/comedian/ musician currently the bandleader on The Late Late Show with James Corden), Amy Herzog (Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright), Lucy Alibar (whose one-act play Juicy and Delicious premiered at The Tank and was adapted to be the Oscar-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild), Andrew Bujalski (film director, Computer Chess), and We Are Scientists (rock band). The Tank also presented the premiere of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant by Kyle Jarrow, which won an Obie Award and went on to a national tour. The Tank has been honored with an official City Council proclamation, chosen for the WNYC *STAR* initiative, and featured on CNN, BBC, the New York Times, and more.