Downtown artist Tommy Smith's WHITE HOT had its New York Premiere at The Flea Theater in April. Now, The Vagrancy is honored to bring you the raw, intimate and emotionally-invasive Los Angeles Premiere helmed by Director Caitlin Hart at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2013. This dark, psychological thriller is encased in a tight love triangle between a troubled woman, her sexy sister and opportunistic husband. The play opens at Theatre Asylum Lab and plays June 7th-June 28th.
"WHITE HOT is bleak terrain, a buried cesspool of self-loathing and unseemly, sadistic yearnings in love. The play can be read as a critique of the deadening fallout of our reactionary, materialistic, exploitative and soulless era. It can be read as a bad dream or a soap opera about the banality of evil. However you read it, it doesn't go down easy." Craig Lucas, New York Theatre Review
WHITE HOT features Christopher Illing*, Arthur Keng, Michal Sinnott* and Karina Wolfe.
Production staff for WHITE HOT includes Caitlin Hart, director; Nick Santiago, scenic design; Ric Zimmerman, lighting design; Martin Carillo, sound design; Traci LaDue, costume design; Kathleen Jaffe, stage manager; Gabriela Zarate, assistant stage manager and props design; Doug Oliphant, fight choreographer; Sabina Ptasznik, producer; Cole Pensinger, associate producer; Andie Bottrell, publicity artist; Leigh Jandernoa, graphic artist; and Robert Corn, technical director.
Tommy Smith is "a talented dramatic anarchist." -Tim Appelo, City Arts Magazine
Tommy Smith is an emerging playwright based in New York City. Smith's productions include PTSD (Ensemble Studio Theatre; d. Billy Carden), WHITE HOT (HERE Arts Center; d. May Adrales & West Of Lenin, d. Braden Abraham), PIGEON (Ensemble Studio Theatre; d. Billy Carden), THE WIFE (Access Gallery; d. May Adrales), SEXTET (Washington Ensemble Theatre; d. Roger Benington), CARAVAN MAN (Williamstown Theatre Festival, music & lyrics by Gabriel Kahane, d. Kip Fagan).
Tommy Smith's award-winning theatrical collaborations with Reggie Watts played at The Public Theatre, La Mama, The Warhol Museum, MCA Chicago, ICA Boston, On The Boards and PICA: TBA, among others. As a director/writer, Tommy Recently created the environmental sound performances, NECTARINE EP (for Flea Theater) and the LOTUS EATERS EP (for IRT Theater, with voices of Neil Gaiman, Marin Ireland & Reed Birney) and FORTH (for MFB, d. Meiyin Wang). Previous publications include PIGEON for Dramatists Play Service and WHITE HOT in the New York Theatre Review.
The Vagrancy is a bold and daring Los Angeles-based theatre company. The Vagrancy creates visceral work that seeks to touch the human spirit. Caitlin Hart and Sabina Ptasznik, Co-Artistic Directors; Tiffany Moon, Managing Director; Cort Brinkerhoff, Literary Manager; Andie Bottrell, Resident Artist & Communications Director; Nate Aylworth, Company Manager; Doug Oliphant, Resident Movement Director; Leigh Jandernoa, Resident Graphic Designer.
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