Gift Theatre Presents William Nedved's FACT & FICTION May 24-26

The Gift Theatre Company will host a limited engagement presentation of co-founder William Nedved's Fact & Fiction - which enjoyed a critically-acclaimed, sold-out run at the 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festival - for five performances Thursday, May 24th at 7:30pm; Friday, May 25th at 7:30pm and 10:00pm; and Saturday, May 26th at 7:30pm and 10:00pm. Tickets are $20.

Fact & Fiction is a genre-defying double-monologue that uses stand-up comedy, documentary theatre, and multimedia to explore how we tell true-ish tales about ourselves.

In Fact, William Nedved recollects his year in Brazil as a high school exchange student – the worst exchange student ever. In Fiction, Adam Silver recounts being stalked from Chicago to Los Angeles by an autobiographical filmmaker.

William Nedved is the co-founder of The Gift Theatre, where his play Northwest Highway premiered last season. Other full-length works include Not Fade Away (Blank Theatre's Living Room Series), A Young Man in Pieces and County Fair (The Gift.) His short play Kid was awarded "Best Production" at Collaboraction's Sketchbook 2009. He holds a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Iowa, an MA in Theatre Studies from the University of New South Wales – Sydney, and an MFA in Film and Television Writing from the University of Southern California. Williamnedved.com.

Adam Silver was born and raised in Chicago, where he made his professional acting debut at age twelve and appeared in over thirty productions. He has appeared on stage in Los Angeles as Ralph in Awake and Sing! at A Noise Within (Ovation Award Nomination: Best Play, LADCC Award Nomination: Best Revival, Broadway World Award Nomination: Best Actor, Stage Scene LA Award: Best Ensemble) and as Orpheus in the rock opera Surf Orpheus at the Getty Villa. Television: Community, Californication, Torchwood. Adam received his degree in Cultural Studies and Anthropology from Columbia College Chicago. IAmAdamSilver.com

Dámaso Rodriguez is Co-Artistic Director of Los Angeles' acclaimed Furious Theatre Company where he has directed over 20 productions of new plays. From 2007-2010 he served as Associate Artistic Director of the Pasadena Playhouse where he directed main stage productions and oversaw all programming for The Playhouse's Second Stage, including its Hothouse New Play Development Program. He has directed many award-winning, critically acclaimed productions at theatres such as Seattle's Tony Award-winning Intiman Theatre, A Noise Within, The Theatre@Boston Court and Furious Theatre. His production of The Heiress is currently running at the Pasadena Playhouse. Damaso-rodriguez.com.

The Gift Theatre is located at 4802 N. Milwaukee in Chicago's Jefferson Park neighborhood-two storefronts north of Lawrence, on the west side of Milwaukee-and is easily accessible by the Kennedy Expressway, the Lawrence and Milwaukee buses, and the CTA Blue Line.

For tickets: (773) 283-7071 or www.thegifttheatre.org.