Midtown International Theatre Fest Presents GEORGIA & ME 7/17-27

Small Pond Enterprises is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Sarah Ford?s GEORGIA & ME, directed by Zoya Kachadurian. GEORGIA & ME will play a Limited engagement at the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre (312 West 36th Street, first floor, NYC, Between 8th & 9th aves.) Performances begin Sunday, July 17th and continue through Wednesday, July 27th.

A woman who thinks she has it all, is awakened by the spirit of renowned painter, Georgia O?Keeffe, who challenges her to pick up an abandoned project. It?s never too late to find out who you thought you were.

The Midtown International Theatre Festival?s 2011 Season runs from July 11 ? 31 at the June Havoc Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor; the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor; the Main Stage Theater, 312 W. 36th Street, 4th floor; and the Jewel Box Theater, 312 W. 36th Street, 4th floor. Tickets are $18-15 and are available at www.midtownfestival.org or by phone at 866-811-4111.

GEORGIA & ME plays the following schedule:

July 17 at 7:30 p.m.
July 23 at 1:30 p.m.
July 24 at 5:30 p.m.
July 27 at 7:45 p.m.

Tickets are $18 (students/seniors $15) and are now available online at https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/834715 or by calling 866-811-4111. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the theatre?s box office a half-hour prior to performance.

Running Time: 70 minutes

Website: www.georgia-and-me.com

The actor appears courtesy of Actors? Equity. AEA Approved Showcase.
The director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

BIOGRAPHIES

SARAH FORD (Writer/Performer) is an Actress, Dancer, Writer living in the Boston area, with extensive theatre and dance background in New York City. She has appeared in many off-off Broadway companies including Pulse, Basic Theatre, Actors Collective and on TV soaps as a day player. More recently she has been a member of the Ted Kazanoff Workshop at Boston Playwrights in roles such as Madam Arkadina, Ella Rentheim, Arthur Miller?s The Last Yankee, Karen Frick, and scenes from Miller?s Playing for Time. Also, the Inspector in Brecht?s In Search of Justice and a new version of The Elephant Calf. In 2011, G.B. Shaw?s Major Barbara, selected scenes. Sarah is a Juilliard Graduate with a B.S. degree in Dance and a former member of the Jose Limon Dance Company, Anna Sokolow, and Nimbus Dance Theatre with Erin Martin and Jack Moore. She was an adjunct professor of Dance at Pace University in White Plains, NY taught children and adults in the Dance Arts Project in Westchester NY for many years, and has also taught movement to actors in N Y City. And by the way, she is originally from West Texas. AEA/AFTRA/SAG

Zoya Kachadurian (Director) directed the world premier of THE RIDE, a dramatic musical about Vietnam Vets by Danny Eaton at the Majestic Theatre in West Springfield Massachusetts where she also directed KING O? THE MOON by Tom Dudzick, THE GRADUATE, and THE MIRACLE WORKER. At New Century Theatre in North Hampton MA, she directed THE COCKTAIL HOUR. Also in Massachusetts, she directed a critically acclaimed production of STONES IN HIS POCKETS for Gloucester Stage and Stoneham Theatre. In NYC, Zoya has directed 6 new plays for Manhattan Theatre Source?s Estrogenius Festival, as well as for Ensemble Studio Theatre's Octoberfest, and the Women?s Project Tandem Acts, She is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors' Lab, the EST Directors? Lab 2001 and the Women?s Project Forum 2004 in NYC, and the LaMama?s International Directors? Symposium. In the corporate arena, she has coached corporate speakers as well as directed them into shows like the AMOCO CENTENNIAL. She stage managed events and galas for Kings, Queens and Presidents, UNICEF, amongst others, as well as V-Day 2001 when 75 celebrities did the Vagina Monologues at Madison Square Garden. In television, Zoya was Production Coordinator for SESAME STREET (two seasons), Coordinating Producer for ONE LIFE TO LIVE and produced various commercials for Nickelodeon and Time Warner. She is a proud member of Actors? Equity Association, the Directors? Guild of America and the Society Directors and Choreographers. Her web site is zoyak.com.

The Midtown International Theatre Festival, now in its twelfth year, celebrates the diversity of theatre. The MITF welcomes theatrical storytelling across a broad spectrum of genres, forms, identities, cultures, and appetites. The MITF seeks to nurture these new ideas, perspectives, and stories on its stages, with an eye set on guiding these productions toward future success and longevity. The festival, traditionally held in summer, represents a fantastic, often paradoxical, adventurous and intriguing cross-section of the forefront of the Theatre World. The MITF proudly hosts production companies from across the country and around the globe, uniting talent in one of the biggest theatre capitals in the world.

John Chatterton created the MITF in 2000, a Midtown alternative to other theatre festivals, as a way to present the finest off-off Broadway talent in convenience, comfort, and safety. In 2008, the Festival added two 99-seat theatres and inaugurated the Commercial Division for upwardly mobile shows with commercial ambitions.

For more information, visit www.midtownfestival.org.

Who: Midtown International Theatre Festival 2011 and Small Pond Entertainment
What: Georgia & Me
Where: Dorothy Strelsin Theatre (312 West 36th St., first floor)
When: July 17 at 7:30, July 23 at 1:30, July 24 at 5:30, July 27 at 7:45
How: $18 (students/seniors $15) now available online at https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/834715