F*It Club Presents THE SPRING FLING- 8 Brand New Plays

F*It Club Presents THE SPRING FLING: 8 Brand New Plays by Berman, Brunstetter, Halfnight, Keller, McGraw, Oliver, Schultz, & Ziegler

Maybe your girlfriend's parents are crazy.
Maybe your co-worker is always drunk.
Maybe you're pregnant. And the father is MIA.

You deserve a Spring Fling: short plays, short commitment.

F*It Club, in association with IRT's 3B Development Series, presents
The Spring Fling: 8 Brand New Plays

April 21-May 8 @ IRT Theater
Wed-Sat @ 8pm, Sat-Sun @ 2pm*
*(No show Easter Sunday 4/24)

All tickets $18: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/166920

French Toast and Parsley by Brooke Berman
Drunk by Bekah Brunstetter
A Short, Sad Biography of the Magician's Assistant by Ashlin Halfnight
Our Trip to Ohio by Greg Keller
Minotaur Scavenger Hunt by Caroline V. McGraw
Come Here by Isaac Oliver
We Have the Music by Mark Schultz
If by Anna Ziegler

Directed by May Adrales, Heidi Handelsman, Josh Hecht, Victor Maog, Lila Neugebauer, & Laura Savia

Featuring Ali Ahn, Jeanine Bartel, Marty Brown, Sara Buffamanti, Kevin Dwyer, Julie Fitzpatrick, Ben Graney,
Stephen Graybill, Mara Kassin, Ryan King, Roger Lirtsman, Allyson Morgan, Morgan Reis, David Ross, Amanda Sayle,
Danielle Slavick, & more

Sound Designer: Tim Boyce
Stage Manager: Veronica Graveline
Costume Designer: Jennifer Jacob
Set Designer: Sarah Martin
Light Designer: Dan Winters

Produced as part of IRT's 3B Development Series - irttheater.org

The Spring Fling is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

For more info: http://irttheater.org/developing/spring-fling/

ARTIST BIOS:

WRITERS:

Brooke Berman's Stage Productions: Primary Stages, WET, The Second Stage, The Play Company, Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago); The Humana Festival, New Georges and Naked Angels; Readings, workshops: MCC, Naked Angels, Williamstown Theater Festival, Pentabus Theatre in the UK, The National Theatre Studio in London, The Royal Court Theatre in London, ASK Theater Projects, The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Cape Cod Theater Project, HERE, The Womens' Project, The Children's Theatre Company (MN), The Denver Center Theater Company, the Hourglass Group, and others. She is a member of PEN, the Dramatists Guild, the MCC Playwrights Coalition and an alumna of New Dramatists, where she served on the Board of Directors. Brooke spent five years as the Director of the Playwrights Lab for the MCC Youth Company where she taught playwriting to New York City public high school students. Brooke is a proud graduate of The Juilliard School and she attended Barnard College.
Her memoir NO PLACE LIKE HOME was published by Random House in 2010. More information is avaible at: www.brookeberman.net

Bekah Brunstetter plays include: A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE (Naked Angels, Spring 2011) BE A GOOD LITTLE WIDOW (Ars Nova, Spring 2011) HOUSE OF HOME (Williamstown Theater Festival), OOHRAH! (Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater, 2009), and MISS LILLY GETS BONED (Finborough Theater 2010, Lark Playwrights Week 2009, Finborough Theater, June 2010). She is a member of The Primary Stages Writer's Group, the Naked Radio writing team, and a Playwright's Realm fellow. She is an alumni of the Women's Project writer's Lab and the Ars Nova Play Group. She is the 2011 Playwright in Residence at the Finborough Theater, London. BA UNC Chapel Hill; MFA in Dramatic Writing from the New School for Drama. www.bekahbrunstetter.com.

Ashlin Halfnight's plays include Balaton (Nominated for Best Play of 2009, NYITA), Good Pictures (Outstanding New Play - 2008 Talkin' Broadway), God's Waiting Room (Best Play, 2005 NYFringe), Diving Normal (Plays and Playwrights 2007), and Artifacts of Consequence. He is a Fulbright Award winner, and is the recipient of a TCG Grant, a Ludwig Volgelstein Artist Grant, and the Howard Stein Playwriting Fellowship. He was an artist in residence at the National Theater of Hungary in 2005/2006, received a residency at The Royal Court, is a member of MCC's Playwrights' Coalition, and is Resident Playwright at the Railroad Playhouse. Ashlin received a BA from Harvard and an MFA in playwriting from Columbia. His plays have been performed in Canada, The US, and Europe, and his upcoming films include Northbound and the screen adaptation of Diving Normal.

Greg Keller's Plays: The Young Left (Cherry Lane, 2008 Mentor Project), Dutch Masters (LAByrinth Theater Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival summer 2011)The Seduction Community (Juilliard). Greg was a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwrighting Fellow at The Juilliard School, and two time recipient of the Lecomte Du Nouy prize. He is a member of P73's writing group, I-73. You can see him act in Daniel Goldfarb's The Extinction Method at MTC in May/June.

Caroline V. McGraw's plays include Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys, Debut Track One Chord One Verse One (or, the Shed), Thriftcrawl, Lovely Assistant, The Vaults, and The King Is Dead. Her plays have been produced, developed, and read at the Cherry Lane Theatre by Young Playwrights Inc., the Abingdon by Highwire Theatre, the Yale Cabaret, The Strawberry One-Act Festival, Shortened Attention Span Festival, New York Theatre Experiment, American University's New Works Series, Potluck Plays, The Cleveland Playhouse Next Stage Festival of New Plays, the Barrow Group, Washington Ensemble Theatre, and the Yale School of Drama. She has her BA from Marymount Manhattan College, and is currently in her second year in the Yale School of Drama's MFA Playwriting program. www.carolinevmcgraw.com.

Isaac Oliver's plays include Electra in a One-Piece, Eddie Goshen is Dead, Long Dirty Jokes, and Slim, Dancing Joy. His poetry has been published in The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities, a Knopf anthology. His blog, He Who Laughs, or The Complete Idiot's Guide to Intimacy, can be read at www.hewholaughs.com.

Mark Schultz's plays include: The Gingerbread House (the stageFARM); Deathbed (Apparition Productions); Everything Will Be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy (Soho Rep/True Love Productions) for which he won the 2005 Oppenheimer Award and the 2006 Kesselring Prize; Polar Bear (commissioned and produced by Birmingham Rep, UK); Ceremony (Rising Phoenix Rep); Gift (Rising Phoenix Rep / NY Fringe Festival); and various one-acts including Fun (commissioned and produced by the StageFARM). Everything Will Be Different was produced by the Actors Touring Company with Theatre Royal Plymouth under the title A Brief History of Helen of Troy at the Soho Theatre in London after a UK tour. Other plays include Magic Kingdom; Brightness. He has received a Sloan Commission from MTC, as well as commissions from Playwrights Horizons and The Exchange. Readings and workshops: MCC Theater; The Vineyard; Rattlestick; MTC; New York Theater Workshop; The Public; Studio Dante; Woolly Mammoth. He was selected for a 2006 Royal Court Residency. He is a member of Rising Phoenix Rep, and is coordinator of MCC Theater's Playwrights' Coalition. He holds an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.

Anna Ziegler's plays include: PHOTOGRAPH 51 (Theater J; Ensemble Studio Theatre; Fountain Theatre; EST's 2009 First Light Festival, directed by Lynne Meadow; winner of the 2009 STAGE Competition judged by David Auburn, John Guare and David Lindsay-Abaire; originally commissioned and produced by Active Cultures), DOV AND ALI (Playwrights Realm @ The Cherry Lane; Chester Theater; Theatre503, London), LIFE SCIENCE (Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep), VARIATIONS ON A THEME (2008 New Play Workshop at Chautauqua Theater Company, directed by Ethan McSweeny; 2010 TheatreWorks' New Work Festival directed by Meredith McDonough; finalist for the O'Neill Playwrights Conference), THE MINOTAUR (2009 Fire Dept Salon Series; McCarter Theatre's Lab Festival 2010), AN INCIDENT (2010 New Play Workshop at Chautauqua Theater Company; McCarter Theatre workshop, 2010; finalist for the O'Neill Playwrights Conference), SUNLIGHT IN A CAFETERIA (produced by Dina Leytes/Gbenga Akinnagbe at the Tank, NYC); BFF (W.E.T., 2007; Sundance Theatre Lab; finalist for the O'Neill Playwrights Conference and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award), and NOVEL (SPF, 2007). A graduate of Yale, Ziegler holds an MFA from Tisch. She can be found at: www.annabziegler.net.

DIRECTORS:

May Adrales: Edith Can Shoot Things And Hit Them at Actors Theater of Louisville; Mary at The Goodman Theatre; Cold Hard Cash at Williamstown Theater Festival; The Bereaved at Partial Comfort Productions; The Wife at Access Theater; Exit Cuckoo at Midtown International Theater Festival; Ching Chong Chinaman at Pan Asian Rep; Mrs. Packard at Fordham University; Hamlet at Yale University; The Last Pair of Earlies at Juilliard School; Cloud Tectonics and Faith Hope and Charity at Pure Theatre. Awards: SSDC Denham Award, Van Lier Fellowship, Drama League Directing Fellow, New York Theater WorkshopFellow, Soho Rep Directors Lab and Women's Project Directors Lab. Former Director of On Site Programming at the Lark Play DevelopmentCenter (2008-2010) and Artistic Associate at The Public Theater. (2006-2008) MFA, Yale School of Drama.

Heidi Handelsman recently directed two new plays in the New York International Fringe Festival: Group, by Daniel McCoy, and The Battle of Spanktown, by Jeffrey Pfeiffer. Other credits include Bird House (KNF Co), Brilliant Traces (Clout in the Mug), and Mary Brigit Poppleton is Writing a Memoir (NY Fringe and Fringe Encore Series). She has developed new work with New Georges, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Youngblood/EST, Woodshed, the Tank, New York Theatre Experiment, and the NYU/Tisch Department of Dramatic Writing. Heidi is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and a Resident Director at Ensemble Studio Theatre. She hosts and curates the Potluck (a play-reading series) from various living room across the city.

Josh Hecht is a Drama Desk Award-winning director of new work. His productions have been seen in New York at MCC Theater (Bob Morris's ASSISTED LOVING), The Cherry Lane (Megan MostynBrown's GIRL), New World Stages (CHRISTINE JORGENSEN REVEALS - Drama Desk Award), 13P (Winter Miller's THE PENETRATION PLAY), the DR2 (Anna Ziegler's BFF), Partial Comfort (Ross Maxwell's OPEN HOUSE), regionally at the Humana Festival (Allison Moore's SLASHER), The Guthrie Theater (Megan Mostyn-Brown's LIZARDS), The Berkshire Theatre Festival (Rachel Schroeder's HELIANTHA), the Kennedy Center (Ping Chong's INSIDE/OUT - writer/performer), Axial Theater Company (Howard Meyer's WELCOME...), Half Moon (Annie Baker's CIRCLE, MIRROR, TRANSFORMATION), the Boston Center for the Arts and internationally at the Dublin Arts Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (all three with CHRISTINE JORGENSEN REVEALS), among many other local and regional venues. His productions have also been nominated for the GLAAD Media Award and the IRNE Award (Boston). He regularly works with playwrights developing between one and two dozen new plays a year at theaters like NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, MCC Theater, The Public, LAByrinth, The New Group, and New Georges and at play development Institutions like New Dramatists, The Dramatists Guild, New York Stage and Film, The Playwrights Center's PlayLabs, TheatreWorks's New Play Initiative, Voice and Vision's Envision retreat, the O'Neill's National Playwrights Conference and others. He is a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and is formerly the Director of Playwright Development at MCC Theater and the Director of New Play
Development at WET. He currently teaches the 3rd Year MFA students at The New School for Drama as well as regular workshops at ESPA/Primary Stages School of Theater, The National Theater Institute and the Play Development Collective.

Victor Maog recently directEd Matthew Paul Olmos' The Nature of Captivity for Mabou Mines/Suite, Ed Cardona Jr.'s American Jornalero for The Working Theater and the 2011 Emerging Writers Group's Excerpt Night for The Public Theater. He has also directed and developed work at Hartford Stage, NYTW, Williamstown, Ma-Yi, Lark, MCC, New Dramatists, INTAR and directed/taught for NYU/Tisch, UPenn, Fordham, and others. Recipient: NEA/TCG Career Development Award, Cornerstone's Altvater Fellowship, Second Stage's Van Lier Directing Fellowship, and the U.S. Dept. of Labor's Presidential Award. U.S. Delegate to the 31st InterNational Theatre Institute/UNESCO World Congress in Manila. Member: Lincoln Center Directors Lab, SDC, and Partial Comfort. His long term collaboration, Total Power Exchange by Edith Freni, was just nominated for the "New American Plays for Russia" initiative, which is funded by the U.S. embassy in Moscow under the auspices of the Bilateral Presidential Commission. Currently, he's the Director of Theatre for the 98 year-old Perry-Mansfield in Steamboat Springs, CO. www.victormaog.com

Lila Neugebauer's recent directing work has been seen at Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Cherry Lane Studio, The Brick, and ActorsTheatre of Louisville. She has developed new plays through NewDramatists, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Dramatists Guild,EST/Youngblood, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, NYU TischGraduate Playwriting, and the Yale Playwrights Festival. She is afrequent guest director at NYU Tisch/Atlantic Acting School, a DramaLeague Alum, New Georges Affiliated Artist, member of the Soho RepWriter/Director Lab, LCT Directors Lab, The Civilians' inauguralResearch and Development Group, and a previous Resident Director atEnsemble Studio Theatre.

Laura Savia's directing credits include Pinter's The Lover (Drama League), The Wii Plays and I Am Frightened of My Body (Ars Nova), Party Animals (NYU/Strasberg), and Laura Jacqmin's Ski Dubai (At Play), as well as readings or workshops for The Public Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, 2econd Stage, Naked Angels, and Ma-Yi Theater Company, among others. Assistant directing includes productions with Michael Mayer, Diane Paulus, Neil Pepe and Daniel Sullivan, most recently the Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino. Five seasons on Atlantic Theater Company's staff. Co-conceiver and director of The Living Newspaper, which has performed at Joe's Pub, Le Poisson Rouge, and Club Oberon. Member of The Civilians R&D Group. 2009 Drama League Directing Fellow. Alumna of Northwestern University.

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