Jackson Gaye to Direct MOONLIGHT ON THE BAYOU Reading at Classic Stage Company, 12/5

Lindsey Ferrentino's new play Moonlight on the Bayou will have a staged reading Thursday December 5th at 4:00pm at Classic Stage Company - 136 E. 13th St.

The reading is directed by Jackson Gaye (recently Lucy Thurber's Where We're Born) after being developed with dramaturg Mark Bly (33 Variations).

The reading features actors Marsha Stephanie Blake (Marie Antoinette, Hurt Village) Chris Stack (Marie Antoinette, Killers) and Guy Boyd (Broadway's August O'Sage County, Sex & Longing and Rose).

This is an industry reading with some seating available to the public. Email moonlightatcsc@gmail.com for a reservation.

In Moonlight on the Bayou, oil rig worker Sonny must come off the rig to care for his aging father and win back his pregnant girlfriend. Increasingly sleep deprived, Sonny can't stop having nightmares about his father's legends of New Orleans. Can he recreate home in a post-Katrina FEMA trailer before it is too late?

Lindsey Ferrentino is an up and coming playwright to watch. Her work has been performed/developed by The Kennedy Center Theatre Lab, Atlantic Theatre Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, New York Theater Worlshop, The Blank in LA, among others. The Philadelphia Theatre Company recently nominated her for the Terence McNally Playwriting Award, she is a runner up for the 2013/2014 Kendeda Prize, and recipient of The Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship and Residency. She has an MFA in playwriting from Hunter College and is a current playwriting candidate at the Yale School of Drama.