Dixon Place Presents THIS LURKING THING, 10/27

Dixon Place presents This Lurking Thing, a Halloween rumination performed and written by Jonathan Fielding and featuring an adaptation of the short story "Auntie Elspeth's Halloween Story" penned by celebrated science fiction author and Nebula Award winner Esther Friesner. The show is produced by the Artful Conspirators and will have a one night only performance on Thursday, October 27th, 2011 at 9:30 pm.

This Lurking Thing relates a Halloween triptych of tales where the living are far more feared than the dead - the true and grisly history of Dracula, the macabre bedtime story of an infirm woman, and the biography of a man who presides as a living ghost. Each story reveals the scarier side of presenting our true selves. Themes of the play are the power of imagination, life and afterlife, and the boundless art of storytelling.

The production will be led by director Mr. Fielding's credits include the Broadway production Pygmalion, with Jefferson Mays at Roundabout Theatre Company, and Off-Broadway productions at 59E 59, Connelly Theater, Greenwich Street Theater and Cherry Lane Theatre. In 2008 he performed for the grand re- opening of the Ford's Theatre in DC in The Heavens are Hung in Black commemorating the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. As a writer Mr. Fielding has worked with the Misa Table to collaboratively create a full length piece titled 1905 which with the support of a visioning grant received a full production in Amherst, MA at UMASS.
David A. Miller, Artistic Director of The Artful Conspirators whose first play was A Lesson in Art performed as part of Puppet Blok! at Dixon Place (2006). NYC directing: Prospect Theater Company, Vital Theatre Company, Sam French Festival. Elsewhere: Amphibian Stage Productions, Hangar Theatre, Syracuse Stage. Mr. Miller is a Drama League Directors Project Alum and holds an MFA in Directing from Rutgers University. He is part of the theatre department faculty at Wagner College, The City College of New York and Kingsborough Community College.
Esther Friesner is an author of fantasy and science fiction. She has published twenty-seven
novels so far; her most recent titles include Temping Fate from Penguin-Puffin and Nobody's
Princess from Random House. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Asimov's, Fantasy
& Science Fiction, Aboriginal SF, Pulphouse Magazine, Amazing, and Fantasy Book, as well as
in numerous anthologies. Her story, "Love's Eldritch Ichor," was featured in the 1990 World
Fantasy Convention book. Ms. Friesner won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story of 1995 for
her work, "Death and the Librarian," as well as in 1996 for "A Birth Day." (A Birth Day" was also
a 1996 Hugo Award finalist.)

About the Artful Conspirators
The Artful Conspirators are a Brooklyn-based theatre company with a mission to create new
work and involve the audience in the theatre-making process. The Artful Conspirators began
their journey with a workshop production of A Lesson in Art as part of Puppet Blok! at Dixon
Place in the fall of 2006. Since that first production, the Conspirators have created and
performed A Lesson in Art and The Oral Tradition: Reclaiming and Rebirthing the Hero's
Journey and 30 ideas, 3 of them good as part of Prospect Theater Company's Dark Night Series
and most recently Brooklyn Underground: Theatrical Stories from the Green-Wood Cemetery
(performed in the cemetery itself in September of 2011). At the Old Stone House the
Conspirators have performed Whitman's Brooklyn, about the Brooklyn poet, The Second Pipe of
Desire and the Open Rehearsal Series installments of Foothills Park by Dano Madden
and Journeyman of Breuckelen by David A. Miller. Upcoming for the Conspirators is Leaving
IKEA: A new play in two cantos (which will be performed at the Brooklyn Lyceum in May
2012). www.artfulconspirators.org

About Dixon Place
The one night only workshop performance of This Lurking Thing will be at Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, between Rivington and Delancey, New York, NY 10002. Take the F train to 2nd Ave, the J or Z to Bowery, the 6 to Spring or the B or D to Grand Street. Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the door. For more TICKET INFORMATION contact Dixon Place at www.dixonplace.org or call Ovation Tickets at .

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