'Mother Earth' by Andy Bragen Reading by Page 73 on Feb.8

Page 73 Productions presents a reading of Mother Earth by Andy Bragen with Michael Chernus (Hunting & Gathering), Zabryna Guevara (Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue), Dick Latessa (Hairspray), Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason (A Feminine Ending), Paul O'Brien (Cymbeline) and Brenda Wehle (Come Back, Little Sheba).

Part of the support that Page 73 provides to the members of its writers' group "Interstate 73," the reading will be directed by Jackson Gay and will be presented Friday, February 8, 2008.  The reading is sold-out. 

"A new play, Mother Earth focuses on Leo, an idealistic twenty-something who attempts to mobilize his neighbors into giving up their electric appliances.   But Leo's idealism and go-getter enterprise mask an inability to cope with the inconvenient truths about his ailing mother," state press notes.

Andy Bragen (Playwright) is a graduate of Brown University's MFA Program in Literary Arts.  Andy is the winner of the 2008 Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission.  Other honors include a Jerome Fellowship, a New Voices Fellowship from Ensemble Studio Theatre, a Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and residencies at Millay Colony and Blue Mountain Center.  In Spite of The Devil (formerly Spuyten Duyvil), which Andy developed at the 2004 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, will be produced by Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep. in July 2008.  Greater Messapia was produced at Queens Theatre in the Park in March 2004.

Jackson Gay (Director).  Recent credits: Workshop presentation of David Adjmi's Marie Antoinette for the inaugural Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in Residence at the Public Theater, as well as Portland Center Stage's JAW/West Festival.  Lucy Thurber's Scarcity at the Atlantic Theater Company, where she previously directed Kia Corthron's Master Disaster (10x20 Festival) and Rolin Jones' The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, which was selected as a 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Lucy Thurber's Stay (Rattlestick Theater).

 Page 73 is a non-profit theater company that produces and develops the work of early-career playwrights who have yet to receive wide public acknowledgment or substantial production opportunities in New York City. For more info, visit www.p73.org