Cape Cod Theatre Project's 2015 Season to Feature New Works by Hnath, Jacqmin, Armento & King

Artistic Director Hal Brooks has announced that the 21st Season of the Cape Cod Theatre Project will feature staged readings of new work by Lucas Hnath, Laura Jacqmin, Kevin Armento, and actor-turned-playwright Ryan King. The 2015 Season, the fourth under Mr. Brooks' leadership, runs weekends from July 2 through July 25, 2015 in Falmouth, MA.

Whiting Award Winner Lucas Hnath (Soho Rep's A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney) opens the season with Hillary and Clinton to be directed by Chay Yew. Performances are on July 2, 3 and 4. As previously announced, Hillary and Clinton will have its world premiere at Chicago's Victory Gardens in 2016. Hnath's The Christians will play at Playwrights Horizons next season.

Wasserstein Prize Winner and Kilroy member Laura Jacqmin returns to CCTP to develop Residence. At Cape Cod Theatre Project, Jacqmin previously workshopped And When We Awoke There Was Light and Light in 2011. Set in an extended stay hotel in Tempe, Residence will be presented on July 9, 10 and 11.

Brooklyn-based playwright Kevin Armento, a member of the 2015-2016 Ars Nova Play Group, will develop a way to reach me. which explores the tricky intricacies of relationships through emails, texts and chat transcripts. Armento's play performs the weekend of July 16, 17 and 18.

Actor-turned-playwright Ryan King will workshop Love Shack in '87, directed by Stella Powell-Jones. Set in Times Square just as the area transitions from squalor to Disney, Love Shack in '87 performs on July 23, 24 and 25. King, trained at the Yale School of Drama as an actor, is a member of Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers Group.

The 2015 writers-in-residence will be announced later. Previous Writers in Residence include Sharr White, Halley Feiffer, Academy Award© Nominee Lucy Alibar (Beasts of the Southern Wild), Jackie Sibblies Drury (We Are Proud to Present a Presentation..., Soho Rep), Sarah Burgess, Mona Mansour and Stella Fawn Ragsdale.

All presentations of staged readings are at 8 p.m. at Falmouth Academy in Falmouth, Mass. Tickets (suggested donation of $23 each or a season subscriptions for $80) may be purchased by calling the box office at (508) 457-4242 or online at www.capecodtheatreproject.org

For the past 20 years, The Cape Cod Theatre Project has brought top theater artists together to present staged readings to help develop the best new American plays and playwrights in the country. Of the 68 plays developed, 50 have gone on to Broadway, off-Broadway, to the country's finest regional theaters and to other theaters around the world. Plays developed at The Cape Cod Theatre Project have later been produced at The Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, The Roundabout Theater, The Daryl Roth Theater, The Rattlestick Theater, The Public Theater, The La Jolla Playhouse, Rep Theater of St. Louis, Dallas Theater Center, and many, many others.

The Cape Cod Theatre Project consistently hosts topflight theater artists, including Bill Pullman, Anna Paquin (Academy Award winner), Amy Ryan (Academy Award nominee), Neil LaBute, Lanford Wilson (Pulitzer Prize winner), Heidi Schreck, Bess Wohl, Frank Wood (Tony Award winner), Rip Torn, Lois Smith, Jimmy Breslin (Pulitzer Prize winner), Didi O'Connell (Obie winner), Johanna Day (Tony Award nominee), Josh Hamilton, Mike Daisey, Christopher Ashley, Pam Mackinnon, Leigh Silverman, Marshall Mason (five-time Tony nominee, Obie Award winner), Adam Rapp (Pulitzer Prize runner up in 2006), Annie Baker (Pulitzer Winner) and many others.

For more information, take a look at our website at www.capecodtheatreproject.org.

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