GROWING INTO MY BEARD Set for QUEERLY Festival

GROWING INTO MY BEARD is playing at the Kraine Theater at 8pm. The performance is 60 minutes long with no intermission.

Bay Bryan - Writer, Composer, Performer

Bay is a Colorado-born Scotland-trained, and Manhattan-based performance artist & singer-songwriter. Recently he opened for Horse McDonald at Dundee Rep Theater (Scotland) just shortly after a run of True Believer at TheaterLab (NYC) in which he composed/performed the music. His current move into solo-performance/devised theater (Growing into My Beard, ShanaeNae The Cabaret (NYC)) is a product of his desire to find a medium where all his passions can intertwine; where various guises of storytelling can work together to create unique and multifaceted narratives. For festival dates and other info check out Bay's website www.baybryan.com

Artem Yatsunov - Director

Artem Yatsunov is a Ukrainian-born, Brooklyn-based theatre director and storyteller. Since graduating from Montclair State University in 2008 Artem has been directing non-stop, creating over 50 full-length works of theatre in both regional theater and non-conventional venues such as bars and warehouses. Artem has had the pleasure to work with Obie-Award winning producer Kelly Nicole Girod, The Horse Trade Theatre Group, acclaimed artist David Gothard, PACE Head of Theatre Jorge Cacheiro, John Pietrowski of the Playwrights Theatre of NJ, Cheryl Katz of Luna Stage Theatre Company, and many more. Up next he is working on a new solo-storytelling show about Americanized immigrants dealing with conflicts in their native lands. Artem is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of NJ-based StrangeDog Theatre. www.strangedogtheatre.com

GROWING INTO MY BEARD had a workshop production on May 10th as part of Horse Trade's own Cabaret Showdown's Winners Showcase. Bay won a Cabaret Showdown and subsequently had the opportunity to compete against other month's winners, which he won! He was awarded this "Grand Champion" Winners Showcase as a result, which is where Bay and Artem decided to try out Growing Into My Beard.

Artem and Bay have a unique improvisational rehearsal process that has become the signature style of their budding theatre company I've Seen The Future, a devised theatre collective immersed in works of body revolution and social evolution - telling queer and foreign stories of endless wonder.

QUEERLY Festival marks the first stop on Bay and Artem's Festivals tour this summer: they will travel and perform in Minnesota Fringe Festival July-August, and following that they will bring the show to Philadelphia Fringe Festival where they will play in four different venues across three neighborhoods.

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