Thirtini Awards Come To Joes Pub 5/11, Barnes, Bergl, Emery Set To Appear

13P, the OBIE-winning company comprising 13 playwrights, as previously announced, will present its spring benefit The First (and Last) Annual "THIRTINI AWARDS" at Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, for one performance only on Monday, May 11 at 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:00 p.m.) The coveted awards will be presented by 13P to the mentors and heroes who have inspired them with their seminal contributions to new American plays: Craig Lucas, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, and Mac Wellman. Excerpts from the four honorees' work will be directed by Sarah Benson (Soho Rep's A.D., and director of this season's smash hit Blasted). Lisa Kron, the Tony-nominated writer-performer, last seen on Broadway in her play Well, will serve as host for the evening.

The performers scheduled to appear will include: David Wilson Barnes (Becky Shaw, The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Emily Bergl (Becky Shaw, Some Americans Abroad, A Touch of the Poet), Lisa Emery (Distracted, Abigail's Party, Dinner with Friends), Peter Frechette (Eastern Standard, The Dazzle, Flesh and Blood), Betty Gilpin (Boys' Life, Good Boys and True), Jennifer Ikeda (Top Girls, Theatre for a New Audience's Hamlet), Brian Hutchison (Exit the King, The Invention of Love), Elizabeth Marvel (Fifty Words, Top Girls, Seascape), Steve Mellor (Nixon's Nixon, An Oresteia, The Wooden Breeks), and Michael Stuhlbarg (The Pillowman, The Voysey Inheritance, and the Public's Hamlet).

Tickets start at $100. Admission will include reserved seating at Joe's Pub, entrance to the silent auction and post-show reception with cast and 13 playwrights. VIP seating at the benefit is also being offered. Joe's Pub menu and bar will be available. For tickets and more information, call 212-613-3119 or go to www.13p.org.

13P was formed in 2003 by 13 mid-career playwrights concerned about the trend of endless readings and new play development with the motto "We don't develop plays. We do them." 13P realizes full productions of new plays. The resources of the company are placed at the disposal of the playwright at work, who serves as the company's artistic director during the production of his or her play. 13P has presented the world premieres of The Internationalist by Anne Washburn, The Penetration Play by Winter Miller, Aphrodisiac by Rob Handel, At Said by Gary Winter, Mark Smith by Katherine Ryan, Have You Seen Steve Steven? by Ann Marie Healy, and the New York premiere of Crawl, Fade to White by Sheila Callaghan. The evening will benefit 13P's upcoming season.

13P is: Sheila Callaghan (Dead City), Erin Courtney (Demon Baby), Madeleine George (The Zero Hour), Rob Handel (Millicent Scowlworthy), Ann Marie Healy (Now That's What I Call a Storm), Julia Jarcho (The Highwayman), Young Jean Lee (The Shipment), Winter Miller (In Darfur), Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House), Katherine Ryan (Woman of Trachis), Lucy Thurber (Stay), Anne Washburn (The Communist Dracula Pageant), and Gary Winter (The Lake).

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Some of the top auction items will include:

Sarah Ruhl (P#11) IS COMING TO BROADWAY!
Two tickets to the Opening Night of Sarah Ruhl's In The Next Room (or the vibrator play)
on Broadway, plus two passes to party with the cast after the show, and a personally signed
copy of the script for you.

LET THE SUNSHINE IN
Two tickets to Broadway's runaway hit Hair, including a backstage tour with members of the
cast, lead by Tribe member Theo Stockman.

TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL DO IS HAVE A GREAT TIME
Tickets to the Opening Night of Twelfth Night at the Delacorte Theater, starring Anne Hathaway,
Audra McDonald, Raúl Esparza, Michael Cumpsty, and more! Plus two passes to party with
the cast after the performance.

 

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