WHITE HOT by Tommy Smith Joins Hollywood Fringe Festival 2013

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.