Christy Escobar Joins INTAR Theatre's Acclaimed Premiere Of SCISSORING

INTAR (Lou Moreno, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director) announced that Christy Escobar joins Ryan Vincent Anderson (We Live Here - EST); Kim Brockington ("Guiding Light," School of Rock, upcoming: lead in "Asunder," USA Network); Vanessa Butler (2017 Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Actress in a Play for Queens for a Year, Hartford Stage); Marie Louise Guinier (ABC's "What Would You Do?," Most Dangerous Man in America - NFT); Ashley Marie Ortiz (INTAR Unit 52); and Elise Santora (Reba in "Orange Is The New Black," Broadway: In The Heights, The Capeman) in the World Premiere of Scissoring.

INTAR presents Scissoring, a new play by Christina Quintana, directed by Estefanía Fadul, for a limited Off-Broadway engagement through June 30th. Performances are at INTAR's Theatre, 500 West 52nd Street at Tenth Avenue, on the 4th floor. Tickets are only $35, and may be purchased at www.intartheatre.org or by calling 212/352-3101 or toll free, 866/811-4111.

Abigail Bauer, a New Orleans native and resident, must confront the clash between the life she has created with her long term girlfriend and her career as a devoted teacher in a repressive Catholic school. Through her struggle, Abigail receives pressure from the school's shape-shifting, personified public address system and guidance from the figures of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Roosevelt's devoted friend and lover, Lorena Hickok.

Christy Escobar's New York Theatre credits include: The Hollow (The Brick), Lady Macbeth and Her Lover (Director's Company), Jesus Hopped the A Train (Atlantic), The Artist of the Beautiful (Metropolitan Playhouse), Hello, Red! (Best Actress nomination, Strawberry Theater Festival). Regional theatre: Bad Jews (Long Wharf), The Great Gatsby (Virginia Stage), Murder on the Nile, Fantastic Mr. Fox (Dorset Theater Festival), Around the World in 80 Days (Berkshire Theatre Group). TV: "Blindspot" (NBC), recurring this summer on "Dietland" (AMC). Film: Who We Are Now (now playing at Cinema Village), The Man in the Woods, Shotgun, Untitled Short Film About White People, A Trumpet + A Feather, Loser Leaves Town, Anomalous, Viral Beauty, Bright Morning. Winner of 2018 New Dramatists Charles Bowden Award.

INTAR, one of the United States' longest running theatres producing Latino/Latina voices in English since 1966, works to:
-Nurture the professional development of Latino/a theater artists;
-Produce bold, innovative, artistically significant plays that reflect diverse perspectives;
-Make accessible the diversity inherent in America's cultural heritage through an integrated program of workshops, productions of works-in-progress, and mainstage productions. INTAR brings to the public vital and energetic voices of emerging and accomplished Latino/a theater professionals, giving expression to the diversity and depth of today's Latino-American community.

INTAR is an organization committed to the development of "theater arts without borders." Over the past four decades, INTAR has produced classics, Latino/a adaptations of classics, cabarets, and 70 world premieres of plays written by Latino-Americans and Latina-Americans, including Oscar nominee Jose Rivera and Pulitzer Prize recipient Nilo Cruz. INTAR, one of the United States' longest running Latino/a theaters producing in English, works to nurture the professional development of Latino/a theater artists; produce bold, innovative, artistically significant plays that reflect diverse perspectives; and, make accessible the diversity inherent in America's cultural heritage. INTAR has commissioned, developed, and produced works by more than 175 Latino/a writers, composers, and choreographers. It has assisted hundreds of Latino/a playwrights, directors, and actors in obtaining their first professional theater credits, union memberships, and reviews in English-language media. "There's scarcely a Latino artist in America who hasn't been supported or trained or produced by INTAR" according to The New York Times.

Performances take place at INTAR's theater space (500 West 52nd Street, at Tenth Avenue, on the 4th Floor). Tickets for all performances are only $35 and may be purchased at www.intartheatre.org or by calling 212/352-3101.

For more information on Scissoring and all the programs at INTAR, visit INTAR on the web at www.intartheatre.org

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