16th Street Theater Announces Midwest Premiere of HARBUR GATE

16th Street Theater announces the midwest premiere of HARBUR GATE by Kathleen Cahill directed by Ann Filmer January 11 - February 17, 2018 at North Berwyn Park District's 16th Street Theater, 6420 16th Street in Berwyn with a press opening of Thursday, January 18 at 7:30 PM.

Playwright Kathleen Cahill is the author of Charm nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. This is the first offering in 16th Street's 2018 Season Eleven: Heroes.

Something happened at Khabur Gate, the U.S. military base on the Turkish/Iraqi border, called Harbur Gate by the Americans. Something which was never revealed. Harbur Gate consists of three interconnected stories about three women in the combat zone linked by a single incident. "Orpheus" is set in 2005 as two Army medics are about to receive Purple Hearts for being wounded in battle. The title piece is set in Iraq where two marines engage in a battle of the sexes while in a truck convoy on way to Mosul. In "Veteran in a New Field" a veteran suffering from PTSD finds comfort when she meets a blind painter in the park.

The cast of Harbur Gate features Arti Ishak, Laurence Stepney, Stephanie Shum. Felipe Carrasco, Debbie Baños and Jay Worthington. Amanda Forman and Robert Cecott are understudies.

KATHLEEN CAHILL'S awards include the Jane Chambers Playwrighting Award, two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwrighting Awards, a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award, a Rockefeller Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts New American Works Grant, three Edgerton Foundation Awards and a Drama
League Award. Her play Charm was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; her play The Persian Quarter was nominated for a Steinberg Award.(Both published by Dramatic Publishing.) Her produced musicals include Friendship of the Sea (North Shore Music Theatre) Dakota Sky (Olney Theatre), an opera, Clara, two opera/cabarets, A Tale of Two Cities: Paris and Berlin in the Twenties (Maryland Center for the PerformingArts), a comic opera cabaret, Fatal Song (most recently Utah Opera) and Perdida, the Winter's Tale set in Mexico.(most recently Catholic University, DC and upcoming at the Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City. Published by Dramatic Publishing.) Her plays include the comedy, Course 86B in the Catalogue (Salt Lake Acting Company) The Still Time (Georgia Rep/ Porchlight Theatre, Chicago) the comedy, Women Who Love Science Too Much (Porchlight Theatre and NPR Radio) Joy Forever (Cleveland Public, Firehouse Theatre, Massachusetts) Charm ( National New Play Network Festival, Salt Lake Acting Company premiere, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Dallas; Orlando Shakespeare; Taffety Punk, Washington D.C. among others) The Persian Quarter ( Salt Lake Acting Company, Merrimack Rep.). A new play/dance/romance, Silent Dancer, is being developed by the Salt Lake Acting Company and Ballet West. She wrote the screenplay for the independent feature, Downtown Express. She is Playwright-in-Residence at the Salt Lake Acting Company.
THE DIRECTOR

Ann Filmer is founder and Artistic Director of 16th Street where she has developed and produced 51 new plays in ten seasons including directing the Jeff Nominated Yasmina's Necklace by Rohina Malik (which just enjoyed a sold-out run at Goodman Theatre), Blizzard '67 and co-directing Into the Beautiful North with Miguel Nuñez. Filmer also directs around Chicago, most notably The Clean House (Remy Bumppo), Disconnect (Victory Gardens), Yasmina's Necklace (Goodman Theatre), Eric LaRue (A Red Orchid), Botanic Garden (Citadel), House of Blue Leaves (Shattered Globe), The Liquid Moon (Chicago Dramatists) and A Charlie Brown Christmas (Emerald City at Broadway in Chicago). Her adaptation and direction of Tony Fitzpatrick's American tetralogy gained critical acclaim for all four of its productions at Steppenwolf Garage including Stations Lost which also played The Boiler in Brooklyn and Brown University.

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