Free Reading at Ars Nova with SNL's Rachel Dratch

Ars Nova (voted "Best of New York" by New York Magazine) and The Underwood Theater present, as part of the FREE Out Loud reading series, THE MISTAKES MADELINE MADE by Elizabeth Meriwether. Directed by Evan Cabnet and featuring Saturday Night Live's Rachel Dratch, Zak Orth, Austin Lysy and Susan Pourfar, THE MISTAKES THAT MADELINE MADE will be read on Monday, March 28 at 7 PM at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street).

Ablutophobia, the fear of bathing, becomes a problem for three personal assistants working in cramped quarters. An unlikely story of love and dirty people.

ELIZABETH MERIWETHER (Playwright). Her work has been developed at the Long Wharf Theatre, the Underwood Theatre, the Tank, Chashama Theatre, and the SoHo Playhouse. Nicky Goes Goth was produced as part of the New York International Fringe Festival 2004, and The True Love Story Of My Parents was produced as part of Vital Theatre's Vital Signs Festival. She is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood writing collective and was commissioned by the Les Freres Corbusier theatre company to write Heddatron-- an adaptation of Hedda Gabler with live robots-- which will be produced spring 2006.

EVAN CABNET (Director). His recent credits include Masterpiece Theater (Ontological), Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Williamstown), and My Renaissance Faire Lady. Other credits include Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout, NYC Opera, Signature, Flea, P. S. 122, and more. He is the recipient of the Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Fellowships for Directing, Artist in Residence at the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, and a member of the 2004/05 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab.

Ticket & Schedule Information

THE MISTAKES MADELINE MADE plays Monday, March 28 at 7 PM. The Out Loud Series is FREE and open to the public. Reservations are required. Please call 212-977-1700. Ars Nova is located at 511 West 54th Street. For more information, check out www.arsnovanyc.org.