Flux Theatre Ensemble Presents NYC Premiere of Liz Duffy Adams' Dog Act

Flux Theatre Ensemble will present the New York premiere of Liz Duffy Adams' (Or, at The Women's Project) post-apocalyptic comedy, DOG ACT, February 4-20 at the Flamboyan Theater at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center (107 Suffolk Street at Rivington). The production will be directed by Flux Co-Founder Kelly O'Donnell (Jacob's House; Riding the Bull) and will feature Becky Byers (The Little One), Liz Douglas, Lori E. Parquet (Murder in the Cathedral), Julian Stetkevych, and Chris Wight. The creative team will include Costume Design by Lara de Bruijn, Set Design by Jason Paradine, Musical Direction by Gerard Keenan, Sound Design by Elizabeth Rhodes (Drama Desk nomination for In the Heat of the Night), and Lighting Design by Kia Rogers. The production will be Stage Managed by Cat Adler-Josem.

A theatrical, post-apocalyptic dark comedy, DOG ACT follows Zetta Stone, a traveling performer, and her companion Dog (a young man undergoing a voluntary species demotion) as they walk through the wilderness of the former U.S.A. with their vaudeville troupe. They are heading toward a gig in China, if they can find it...and if they can survive to get there.

"Adams spins language like a juggler twirls chain saws... Dog Act is an unusual, challenging play that creates its own rules but honors the oldest rule of all: good storytelling is its own reward." The Oakland Tribune

"Her language has a natural period flavor and a formidable wit; her characters possess the spark of fully animated spirits; and she weaves into her story both biographical detail and cultural context with grace."
Charles Isherwood, The New York Times (Liz Duffy Adams' Or,)

The production, presented by Flux Theatre Ensemble will play a three week engagement at the Flamboyan Theater at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center (107 Suffolk Street at Rivington), February 4-20, Tuesdays at 7pm, Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm, and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets ($18/$15 students) will go on sale Monday, December 20 and may be purchased online at www.fluxtheatre.org or by calling 866-811-4111.

FLUX THEATRE ENSEMBLE produces transformative theatre that explores and awakens the capacity for change. As an ensemble-artist driven company, Flux believes that long-term collaboration and rigorous creative development can unite artists and audiences to build a creative home in New York. Flux is the proud recipient of two NYC Fringe Festival Awards. In 2007 the Village Voice Audience Favorite Award for August Schulenburg's Riding the Bull and in 2008 for Heather Cohn's "Outstanding Direction" of Other Bodies. In 2008 nytheatre.com chose Flux Theatre Ensemble as one of their "People of the Year" saying "This rising theatre company had a hit in the New York International Fringe Festival with Other Bodies, written by artistic director August Schulenburg, and then went on to mount the fall's most ambitious indie show, Johnna Adams's Angel Eaters Trilogy." Flux received a Citation for Excellence in Off-Off Broadway Theatre from the Independent Theater Bloggers Association and seven New York Innovative Theatre Award nominations for The Angel Eaters Trilogy including a win for Best Sound Design. In 2010, director Heather Cohn was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award for The Lesser Seductions of History.

"Best Underappreciated Indie Theatre Company Whose Work You Should Get Your Ass To" New York Press

"Better than any Bible story, as good as even a superior episode of "The Twilight Zone."
The Jewish Daily Forward (Jacob's House)

"The ambitious, intellectually provocative and beautifully realized play does what theatre too rarely does - it leaves you thinking about your life, your times, your choices."
Just Shows To Go You (Top Sixteen Shows of 2009, The Lesser Seductions of History)

A "taut production" with "strong, affective performances" The New York Times (Pretty Theft)

Liz Duffy Adams (Playwright) Liz Duffy Adams' most recent play Or, premiered Off Broadway at the Julia Miles Theater in November 2009; west coast premiere at the Magic Theater in San Francisco. Other plays include Dog Act; Wet or, Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitude; The Listener; The Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge of It or, The Train Play; and One Big Lie. She received a Lillian Hellman Award for Playwriting in 2010, the Lilly's inaugural year, for both Or, and Dog Act. Other honors include: New Dramatists residency (2001-2008), New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Will Glickman Award (for Dog Act), Weston Playhouse Music Theater Award, and a commission from Children's Theater Company, Minneapolis. Her work has been produced or developed at the Humana Festival, Portland Center Stage, Portland Stage Company, Syracuse Stage, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, New Georges, Shotgun Players, MOXIE Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Cutting Ball, and Crowded Fire among others. Publications include Poodle With Guitar And Dark Glasses in Applause's "Best American Short Plays 2000-2001," Or, in Smith & Kraus' "Best Plays Of 2010," numerous short plays and monologues in anthologies from Smith & Kraus and Heinemann, and several plays in acting editions by Playscripts, Inc. and Dramatists Play Service. She was profiled in American Theater Magazine (December 2004) and has been in residency at the MacDowell, Djerassi, and Millay artist colonies. BFA: New York University's Experimental Theater Wing; MFA: Yale School of Drama.

Kelly O'Donnell (Director) Kelly is a co-founder of Flux Theatre Ensemble and currently serves as the Marketing Director. For Flux, she has direcTed August Schulenburg's Jacob's House, Rue and Riding the Bull (winner of the NYC Fringe Village Voice Audience Favorite Award); Calderon de la Barca's Life is a Dream and Johnna Adams' 8 Little Antichrists (part of the Angel Eaters Trilogy). She has directed staged readings of Jason Grote's This Storm is What we Call Progress and several short plays for Flux's ForePlay reading series. As an actor for Flux, she played Tegan in August Schulenburg's The Lesser Seductions of History. Kelly has worked as an actor or director at the Pennsylvania, Orlando and Utah Shakespeare Festivals, the Walnut Street Theatre, Alchemy Theatre Company, the West End Shakespeare Players, the Cape Playhouse, the Orlando Fringe Festival and the Arden Theatre.