Warren Leight Takes Part in 'Works in Progress' Jan. 26-27

Warren Leight will be the inaugural playwright featured at the Ionica Theater's "Works in Progress" Reading Series, on Thursday, January 26th and Friday, January 27th at 7:30pm, at the Ionica Theater, 300 West 43rd Street, Suite 504. Admission is free to the Thursday, January 27th event, which is by invitation only on January 26th.

Produced in association with the Bova Actors Workshop, the "Works in Progress" Reading Series will be presented on a monthly basis at the newly opened Ionica Theater. Several of Leight's one-act plays will be read.          

Warren Leight's Side Man, won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Play, and was a 1999 Pulitzer Prize Finalist.  Side Man was also nominated for several Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and the John Gassner Playwriting Award. Mr. Leight also received Newsday's Oppenheimer Award for Best Debut of an American Playwright.  Other work for the stage includes: No Foreigners Beyond this Point, inspired by Leight's experiences teaching English at the Da Lang Institute of Foreign Trade in China; Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine, which received an American Theater Critics Association nomination for Best New Play; the book to the musical Mayor, which received a Drama Desk nomination; and Fame Takes A Holiday, a musical comedy based on the groundbreaking female comedy group, the High Heeled Women. 

Warren Leight is currently the co-executive producer of Dick Wolf's "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," starring Vincent D'Onofrio.  He is on the council of The Dramatists' Guild, and The Writer's Guild of America-East.

Anthony Vincent Bova is the artistic director of the Ionica Theater as well as the exclusive New York instructor and East Coast authority on the Eric Morris System.  Bova has helmed the Bova Actors Workshop for twelve years in New York and is currently writing a book on acting titled "Re-Acting," to be published in 2006.   He was on staff at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for four years before Eric Morris endorsed him as his exclusive New York voice. He has also taught at H.B. Studio and the New York Film Academy.

For information, call 212-726-8380.  For reservations, visit www.ionicatheater.com.