Photo Flash: Knock on the Door of APARTMENT 301

AnTony Raymond's new play, Apartment 301, opened at the Access Theater in Tribeca last week. The World Premiere is being produced by the award-winning Elsinore County Theatre Company and is directed by Raymond. The company's previous plays have been recognized by The New York Innovative Theatre Awards and have received critical acclaiM. Raymond's past productions include Pretty Babies, yeah, i met this girl..., JULIO!, and The Title Should Be Spoken Out Loud Around Three-Quarters In (Dream Up Festival 2016), among others.

About Apartment 301:

Lacey, a ballet dancer at the peak of her career finds out she's pregnant. Her roommate Brooke is a Canadian actress who is about to be deported. When Jim, a slightly odd secretary moves in the apartment next door, the strangest New York City love triangular forms and changes their lives altogether.

The cast features Eric Doviak (yeah, i met this girl.../Elsinore County), Abbey Shaine Dubin (Ars Nova/Ant Festival), and Morgan Scott (Outting Wiggtenstein/Castillo Theater).

The creative team includes sound design by Dean Werb, costumes design by Ivi Mesa, lighting design by Daryl Embry, set design by Dimitri Warren, and stage management by Patty Prescott.

Performances take place at Access Theater, 380 Broadway (between White & Canal), 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013 - Elevator building/handicap accessible. Tickets are $25.00 online, $30 at the door (cash only) and are available at - www.apt301.brownpapertickets.com Running time: 75 min.

Remaining Show dates:

Thursday, August 10th @ 8:00 pm

Friday, August 11th @ 8:00 pm

Saturday, August 12th @ 8:00 pm

Wednesday, August 16th @ 8:00 pm

Thursday, August 17th @ 8:00 pm

Friday, August 18th @ 8:00 pm

More info available at www.elsinorecounty.com

AnTony Raymond (Playwright/Director) has managed to build an assorted, wide-ranging body of New York Theater in the last decade. He is a classically trained actor turned playwright and director. His written works produced in New York City include Gin and Milk (CSV Flamboyan), The Autobiography Of A Guy Who Knew Me, Part One (LaMama), Elsinore County (Theatre Row & Cherry Lane Studio Theater), Lustyness: Plays About This Guy Named Lou (UNDER St. Marks), JULIO! (Kraine Theater), Pretty Babies (13th Street Rep), yeah, i met this girl (UNDER St. Marks), and The Title Should Be Spoken Out Loud Around Three-Quarters In (Dream Up Festival). Additional directing credits include the one woman show, Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies (59E59), and Bluff (Provincetown, MA). As an actor, Raymond has appeared in several Off Broadway shows, including: Fools In Love, The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. He has studied with Uta Hagen, Austin Pendleton, Reed Birney, and Robert Perillo. Before turning to the theater he was a professional wrestler who wrestled WWE legends, such as The Iron Sheik, Fabulous Moolah, Mae Young, and The Honky Tonk Man.

Eric Doviak (Jim) last appeared as the French-Canadian snorkeling instructor, Hitchcock, in Elsinore County's most recent production of The title should be spoken out loud... Other Elsinore County performances include yeah, I met this girl..., Julio!, Lustyness..., and Elsinore County TV appearances include ABC Primetime's What Would You Do?, Brain Games, and Celebrity Ghost Stories. Eric received a BA in Theater from Wesleyan University.

Abbey Shaine Dublin (Lacey) holds an MFA from UCLA and recently completed training at the William Esper Studio, NYC. She has been featured in Ars Nova, Fringe Festival, and the Thalia Festival. Shaine was a creative director of the experimental theater/art project Our Literal Speed, which has shown extensively in North America and Europe; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Bergen Assembly, Norway; Documenta 13, Germany; Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin.

Morgan Scott (Brooke) performed at the acclaimed Clarence Brown Theater (Knoxville, TN) in roles ranging from musicals (Into the Woods) to dramas (Closer) to experimental theater (Hamlet Machine). She has also performed Off-Broadway at the Castillo theater (Outting Wiggtenstein), multiple endeavors at The Producers Club (Tales of Plate and Shoe, The Gift), worked as a guest star on the CBS show Love Monkey and just finished a featured role in the new Sanjay Dutt biopic. She can regularly be found performing as a bandleader and vocalist with her band Audio Via under the premier event company Elan Artists.

About Elsinore County Theatre Company:

Elsinore County (EC), so-named after one of their most successful productions, is an award-winning Greenwich Village based theater company founded in 2011 by a small cohort of talented New York City actors under the direction of AnTony Raymond. EC is a tightly knit, uninhibited, impassioned community of artists who are committed to creating entertainment that challenges the status quo. They engage their audiences with works of satire, farce, and dark humor that examine timeless social tenets and the politics of wanton power and sexuality so prevalent today. Elsinore County's mission is to give their audience smart, poignant and exciting entertainment that fearlessly explores the full gamut of human experience: from hilarious to tragic and back again.

Photo Credit: T. Ray