Ars Nova Hosts Free Reading Of Annie Baker's THE ALIENS 4/20

Ars Nova presents, as part of the Out Loud series, a FREE reading of: THE ALIENS by Annie Baker, featuring original songs and lyrics by Michael Chernus and Patch Darragh, directed by Sam Gold. The cast includes Michael Chernus, Patch Darragh, and Dane DeHaan.

THE ALIENS
Two angry young men in sweatpants sit in front of a rural New England coffee shop and discuss poetry. When a lonely high school student arrives on the scene, they decide to teach him everything they know. A play with music and hacky-sacking.
Annie Baker's other full-length plays include Body Awareness (Atlantic Theater Company), Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons, fall 09), Nocturama and Florence (commission for Soho Rep). Her work has been developed and workshopped at New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, Atlantic Theater Company, Soho Rep, the Orchard Project, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Ontological-Hysteric, Ars Nova, the Wilma, the Lark, the Magic Theatre, the Cape Cod Theatre Project, the 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the 2008 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, and the 2008 Sundance Institute Playwrights Retreat in Ucross, Wyoming. Annie is a member of MCC's Playwrights Coalition, Ars Nova's Play Group, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. She is a former member of EST's Youngblood and the 06/07 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and she was the recipient of a 2008 Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship and a 2009 MacDowell Fellowship.

Sam Gold (Director) At Ars Nova: Nick Jones and Raja Azar's Jollyship the Whiz-Bang. Recent credits: Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children and Betty Shamieh's The Black Eyed (New York Theater Workshop), Noah Haidle's Rag and Bone (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Sam Forman's The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (Stage 13), Sam Mark's The Joke (Studio Dante), Colin McKenna's The Secret Agenda of Trees (Cherry Lane), Rogelio Martinez's Fizz (The Ohio Theater), Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (NYU Grad), Anne Carson's translation of Sohocles' Electra (Williams College). At Juilliard (Guest Director): Beau Willimon's Farragut North and War Story, Sam Hunter's I Am Montana, Marlowe's Edward II, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Lanford Wilson's Book of Days, Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer, and Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood. Sam has developed work at American Conservatory Theater, Clubbed Thumb, The Lark, Manhattan Class Company, Manhattan Theater Club, The Marin Theater, New York Theater Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, The Sundance Theater Lab, and The Vineyard Theater. He is a recipient of a Princess Grace Award, a Theater Hall of Fame Fellowship, and is a Wooster Group Associate Artist, a Drama League Directing Fellow, and a New York Theater Workshop Usual Suspect. Sam will be directing Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation at Playwrights Horizons this fall.
THE ALIENS will be read on Monday, April 20th at 7pm. The OUT LOUD Series is FREE and open to the public. Reservations are required. Please call 212-977-1700 or email rsvp@arsnovanyc.com. Ars Nova is located at 511 West 54th Street. For more information, visit www.arsnovanyc.com.
Coming Up Next in the OUT LOUD Series:

Monday, May 18 at 7pm:
99 WAYS TO F*CK A SWAN
By Kimberly Rosenstock
Directed by Shira Milikowsky

As New York's premiere hub for emerging artists and new work, Ars Nova is committed to developing and producing eclectic theatre, comedy and music to feed today's popular culture. To that end, Ars Nova strives to create daring collaborations, meld disciplines and give voice to a new generation of artists. Last season, Ars Nova developed and produced critically acclaimed productions of Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's Boom, Liz Flahive's From Up Here (in a co-production with Manhattan Theatre Club), and Nick Jones and Raja Azar's Jollyship the Whiz-Bang. Past productions include Dixie's Tupperware Party, At Least It's Pink, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Holy Cross Sucks!, Freestyle Love Supreme and The Wau Wau Sisters. In addition to its featured productions, Ars Nova supports and develops new work from the most promising emerging artists through its alternative comedy series (Tragedy Tomorrow), music series (Uncharted), public play-reading series (Out Loud), developmental residency program (Residency Encores) writer's group (Play Group) and artist-in-residence program. Ars Nova was founded in memory of Gabe Wiener.

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