Ars Nova will present a FREE reading of BOMBS IN YOUR MOUTH by Corey Patrick, directed by Evan Cabnet, as part of the Out Loud series. The cast will feature Dan Eric Gold, Jennifer Mudge, and Cara Greene.
Corey Patrick divides his time between Brooklyn and Los Angeles. This is his third play. His first play, long way back was produced at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2001. His other play, Later Than Before has been work-shopped by the LAByrinth Theater Company and given a reading by the rUDE mECHANICALS Theater Company. BOMBS IN YOUR MOUTH was awarded Best Playwriting at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2007. Corey is a member of the Actor’s Studio Playwright/Director’s Workshop. Most recently, he finished work on the first season of his web series, “The Consultants,” which he writes with Alexandra Hartley-Leonard.
Evan Cabnet’s recent directing credits include
Brooke Berman’s Wonderland (Juilliard),
Donald Margulies’ Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (Long Wharf/East Coast Premiere). Liz Meriwether’s The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels/Culture Project, World Premiere), Tell Out My Soul (Public Theater/SPF), A Little Soul Searching (EST Marathon 2008), Sense of an Ending (Huntington), Then and Now (Ars Nova), JC2K (NYMF), President and Man (Duke Theater), Training Wisteria (SPF), The Morgan Morality Act of 1894 (45th St. Theater), My Renaissance Faire Lady (Rattlestick/Ontological-Hysteric Theater), Herbie (Lincoln Center Library), and his own adaptations of Ubu Roi and
Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Williamstown). Five seasons at the Williamstown Theater Festival, including the 2003 Boris Sagal and 2002 Bill Foeller Fellowships. Founding member of the Ars Nova Play Group, former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and Artist-in-Residence at Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Upcoming: Spin (stageFARM/Cherry Lane, co-directing with Alex Kilgore).
Since 2002, OUT LOUD has attracted a variety of the industry’s top artists, including writers
Stephen Belber, Jorge Cortinas,
Stephen Adly Guirgis, Rinne Groff, Jordan Harrison, Rolin Jones,
Adam Rapp,
Sarah Ruhl and
Christopher Shinn; directors Peter Askin,
Jo Bonney,
Trip Cullman,
David Esbjornson, Moises Kaufman,
James Lapine, Lisa Peterson and
Leigh Silverman; and actors
Jason Biggs,
Robert Sean Leonard,
Marsha Mason,
Denis O'Hare,
Rosie Perez,
Paul Rudd, Mercedes Reuhl,
Daphne Rubin-Vega,
Swoosie Kurtz,
David Strathairn and Fred Weller.
Many OUT LOUD plays have gone on to receive full New York productions, including
Liz Flahive’s From Up Here,
Adam Bock’s Swimming In The Shallows, Rinne Groff’s The Ruby Sunrise,
Daniel Goldfarb’s Modern Orthodox, Elizabeth Meriwether’s The Mistakes Madeline Made and Beau Willimon’s Lower Ninth. Two Out Loud plays have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize: Rolin Jones’ The Intelligent Design Of Jenny Chow and
Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House.
Ticket & Schedule Information
BOMBS IN YOUR MOUTH will be read on Monday, August 25th at 7 PM. The Out Loud Series is FREE and open to the public. Reservations are required. Please call 212-977-1700 or email rsvp@arsnovanyc.com. Ars Nova is located at 511 West 54th Street. For more information, check out
www.arsnovanyc.com
Coming up next in the OUT LOUD Series will be Idaho/Dead Idaho by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Sam Gold, on Monday, September 8 at 7PM
As New York’s premiere hub for emerging artists and new work, Ars Nova is committed to developing and producing eclectic theatre, comedy and music to feed today’s popular culture. To that end, Ars Nova strives to create daring collaborations, meld disciplines and give voice to a new generation of artists. Past productions include Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, Boom, Dixie’s Tupperware Party, At Least It’s Pink, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Holy Cross Sucks!, Freestyle Love Supreme and The Wau Wau Sisters. In addition to its featured productions, Ars Nova supports and develops new work from the most promising emerging artists through its alternative comedy series (Tragedy Tomorrow), music series (Uncharted), public play-reading series (Out Loud), writer's group (Play Group) and artist-in-residence program. Ars Nova was founded in memory of Gabe Wiener.
For more information, visit
www.arsnovanyc.com.
