The Cape Cod Theatre Project to Stage Reading of Cusi Cram's EAST OF WEST TOWN

The Cape Cod Theatre Project presents its final staged reading of the 2017 Season, Cusi Cram's East of West Town, July 27-29, at Falmouth Academy in Falmouth, MA.

Under the direction of Artistic Director Hal Brooks, the Cape Cod Theatre Project has a history of presenting some of America's most intriguing new plays, including: John Cariani's Almost, Maine, Lucas Hnath's Hillary and Clinton and Heidi Schreck's Grand Concourse .After each reading, audiences are invited to participate in talkbacks to assist in the development of these new works, many of which go on to off-Broadway, Broadway, or regional engagements.

Playwright Cusi Cram is a founding playwright of the Obie-winning Fulcrum Theater. She is known for her portrayal of Cassie Callison on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Ms. Cram's show A Lifetime Burning was produced at 59E59 Theaters in 2009. She served as a writer for the television shows Arthur and Octonauts, and contributed two episodes to the Showtime DramaThe Big C.

East of West Town is directed by Kip Fagan. Mr. Fagan's off-Broadway credits include Jesse Eisenberg's The Revisionist and Asuncion, There Are No More Big Secrets and Grand Concourse by HeidiSchreck, How to Make Friends and Then Kill Them by Halley Feiffer, among others. He is also a playwright. Mr. Fagan is a Co-founder of Printer's Devil Theater in Seattle, is also Artistic Associate at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb.

Mr. Fagan and Ms. Cram will be joined by Heidi Schreck as the CCTP 2017 Playwright-In-Residence. Ms. Schreck has worked as a writer and actor on Showtime's Nurse Jackie and Billions, and as reporter in St. Petersburg, Russia. Heidi has received two Obies, a Drama Desk, and the Theatre World Award. Her plays include Grand Concourse, which premiered at Playwrights Horizons and Steppenwolf Theater in 2014/2105, and was a Lilly Award winner and finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize; Creature (New Georges and Page 73); There Are No More Big Secrets (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre); and The Consultant (Long Wharf Theatre). Most recently, her play What the Constitution Means to Me was part of Clubbed Thumb's acclaimed SummerWorks series.

Cram's East of West Town features Kathryn Meisle (Tony Nominee: Tartuffe) , Lucas Papaelias (Broadway's Once), Heather Raffo (9 Parts of Desire - Lucille Lortel Winner), and Zoe Winters (LCT3's The Harvest by Sam Hunter).

The Cape Cod Theatre Project and Hal Brooks, Artistic Director, present a production of East of West Town by Cusi Cram. Director: Kip Fagan. Producer: Declan Riley Kunkel. Artistic Associate: Joshua Chase Gold. Assistant Director: Lana Russell. Starring: Kathryn Meisle as Brea, Lucas Papaelias as Stelios, Heather Raffo as Ava, and Zoe Winters as Audrey. Tickets starting at $25 (suggested donation) at www.capecodtheatreproject.com.

All presentations of East of West Town will take place at 8:00 P.M. in the newly renovaTEd Simon Arts Center at Falmouth Academy in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Tickets are available for (a suggested donation of) $25 each and can be purchased by calling the box office at (508) 457-4242.