Leah Nanako Winkler's 'MINAMI' to Play The Brick This December

A Japanese android inspired by the real-life robot celebrity Geminoid F, finds herself passed along to one household to the next - including a wholesome yet severely unhappy all-American couple, a grieving daughter in the wake of the 2016 Presidential Election and the lustful scientist who created her.

Technology, desire and the need to unload onto a third party intersect in PART 1 of a trilogy that asks: What does it mean to be human?

The Adventures Of Minami: The Robot From Japan Who Makes You Feel Safe When Loneliness Is Palpable: Part 1 will play at The Brick (579 Metropolitan Ave at Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn) December 19-30th. Tickets ($18) may be purchased online at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 866-811-4111.

Leah Nanako Winkler (writer) is thrilled to be a Dramatist Guild Fund recipient at The Brick. She is a Japanese American playwright from Kamakura Japan and Lexington Kentucky. Her play KENTUCKY was among the top 10 on the 2015 Kilroys List and recently received an Off-Broadway Premiere at Ensemble Studio Theatre in coproduction with Page 73 and the Radio Drama Network. It received a West Coast Premiere at East West Players in November-December 2016). Leah is also the author of Two Mile Hollow (Kilroys Honorable Mention, 2016 CAATA conference), Death For Sydney Black (terraNova Collective, 2014 Kilroys Honorable Mention) Diversity Awareness Picnic (2014 Kilroys Honorable Mention), Double Suicide At Ueno Park (EST/Marathon) and co-author of Flying Snakes in 3-D!!! (Everywhere Theatre Group/The Brick 2012). She is an alumnus of youngblood, a member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Playwrights Group, a 2016-2018 Time Warner fellow at the Women's Project, and a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre.

Matt Dickson (Director): Upcoming credits include: THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, PART 1: HERE IN ST. CLOUD'S (Rutgers University: Mason Gross). Recent credits include: KID PRINCE AND PABLO (Ars Nova), Amy Fox's SILVER MEN (Ensemble Studio Theatre), UNTITLED CHERRY ORCHARD MUSICAL (NYU Grad), CARMEN (New York Opera Exchange), Charles Mee's A PERFECT WEDDING (Atlantic Conservatory), Brian Quijada's WHERE DID WE SIT ON THE BUS? (Kennedy Center), and Leah Nanako Winkler's TAISETSU NA HITO (Winner Samuel French Festival). Regional credits include: Lanford Wilson's HOME FREE! and Michael John Garcés AUDIOVIDEO (Williamstown Theatre Festival). As an actor he has appeared on Broadway in War Horse and THE COAST OF UTOPIA (Lincoln Center Theater), and most recently Off-Broadway in Nicky Silver's TOO MUCH SUN (Vineyard Theatre). B.F.A. from Boston University. mattjdickson.com

The Brick is located at 579 Metropolitan Avenue (between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on the L & G subway lines (L: Lorimer stop; G: Metropolitan stop). For more detailed directions & further information, visit www.bricktheater.com.

The Brick and its non-profit company, The Brick Theater, Inc. were founded in September of 2002 by Robert Honeywell and Michael Gardner. Formerly an auto-body shop, a storage space and a yoga center, this brick- walled garage was completely refurbished into a state-of-the-art theater complex, with a large sprung floor and professional lighting and sound package.

Winner of THE 2009 CAFFE CINO FELLOWSHIP AWARD, The Brick is Williamsburg, Brooklyn's destination for subversive theatrical experiences. Home to the critically acclaimed premieres of Bouffon Glass Menajoree (NY ITAward Winner-Outstanding Play), Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (NYIT Award Winner-Outstanding Play), The Golfer (NYIT Award Winner-Outstanding Ensemble), The Brick has hosted some of downtown theater's most innovative artists, including Target Margin Theater, New Georges, Jason Grote, Annie Baker, Young Jean Lee.