New Leaf Theatre Announces Their 10th Season

New Leaf Theatre is pleased to announce our 10 th anniversary season in which we celebrate what has brought us where we are, look ahead to where we hope to go, and ask thequestion, How do we dare live into the change we've chosen? Our season finds us producing two world premiere pieces, both presented outside of the Lincoln Park Cultural Center - the space which determined and defined our aesthetic.

With both showshelmed by our artistic director and signature producing ensemble, we are eager to explore ourunique understanding of site-specific staging in both a traditional theatrical space and a newnon-traditional location.

Opening November 2010

REDEEMERS by Bilal Dardai directed by Jessica Hutchinson

Secreted away in their favorite post-work watering hole, three officemates try to make sense oftheir boss and a rare display of repentance in this darkly comic Dickens-meets-The Officeholiday exploration of forgiveness and revenge. As Nick, Mercy, and Abel nurse their drinksand their consciences, we're left to wonder who is really in charge of personal transformation -and who's to blame when a lack of trust turns deadly.Opening June 2011

LIGHTHOUSEKEEPING by Georgette Kellyadapted from the novel by Jeanette Winterson directed by Jessica HutchinsonSilver, a young woman twice flung from home, learns to tell herself like a story, piecing togetherthe disparate events that make up her life and connect her with those who came before. While examining the structures we use to interpret our experiences, this epic journey of love, longing, and light explores the gambles and gifts of choosing change from one life to the next. This adaptation was featured last season in our Treehouse Readings series; we're proud to presentits world premiere production this year.With a season dedicated to new work and pushing our artistic sensibilities beyond the walls of the LPCC, New Leaf is eager to embrace our aesthetic foundations. We also look ahead to thechallenges that still lay ahead, and dare ourselves to boldly discover how to live into the changewe've chosen, as we tell stories that rewrite ourselves and, from this present we didn't expect,build our future. Together.

New Leaf is a not-for-profit theatre, founded in 2001, which creates intimate, animate theatricalexperiences that renew artist and audience. A producing ensemble of seven artists-in-residence, New Leaf specializes in the investigation of the relationships between artists,audience, and space. Our best known productions include The Man Who Was Thursday (Time Out Chicago's Top Ten of 2009, Joseph Jefferson Awards nominations for Best Lighting Designand Adaptation), The Dining Room (Time Out Chicago's Top Ten of 2007, Jeff nominations forBest Director and Ensemble), the first US production of The Permanent Way (Jeff nominationfor Best Ensemble), and As It Is In Heaven (Jeff nomination for Best Ensemble).

Please visit www.newleaftheatre.org for more about where we've been and where we're going.