Flux Theatre Ensemble Presents THE LESSER SEDUCTIONS OF HISTORY 11/6-22

August Schulenburg's new play, The Lesser Seductions of History, follows ten characters through each year of the 1960's. History becomes as intimate as a lover when the decade's fracture points of race, sex and war break and remake the characters in this coming-of-age story. Written, directed and performed by the children of those that lived during the tumultuous 60's, The Lesser Seductions of History asks the question "what does it mean to be part of something greater than yourself?"

The Lesser Seductions of History will feature Jake Alexander, Matthew Archambault, Tiffany Clementi, Michael Davis, Candice Holdorf*, Ingrid Nordstrom, Kelly O' Donnell*, Jason Paradine, Christina Shipp, Isaiah Tanenbaum, and DeWanda Wise*. *Appearing courtesy of The Actors' Equity Association

The design team for The Lesser Seductions of History includes Costume Design by Becky Kelly, Sound Design by Asa Wember, Lighting Design by Lauren Parrish, and Set Design by Will Lowry. Stage Managed by Jodi Witherell.

The production, presented by Flux Theatre Ensemble will play at The Cherry Pit (155 Bank Street) November 6-22, Wednesdays-Sundays at 7:30pm with Sunday matinees at 2pm. Tickets ($18) are available online at www.fluxtheatre.org or by calling TheaterMania at 212-352-3101.

August Schulenburg (Playwright) August's plays include Carrin Beginning, Kidding Jane, Rue, Riding the Bull, Good Hope, Other Bodies, 19 Words, Perfect Children, Wake to Dream and The Lesser Seductions of History. His plays have been produced and developed at The Lark, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Chelsea Playhouse, Theater for the New City, Portland Stage Company, Dayton Playhouse, Colonial Players, Contemporary Stage Company, Abingdon Theater Company, GidEon Productions, Impetuous Theater Group, Blue Box Productions, and of course, Flux Theatre Ensemble. His work has been published in the New York Theater Review and Stage and Screen. As an actor, August's favorite roles include Ezekiel in 8 Little Antichrists and the Professor in Rue (both Flux), Angelo in Measure for Measure and Touchstone in As You Like It (both APAC), and has also acted at the Pennsylvania and Orlando Shakespeare Festivals and the Theater at Monmouth.
August directed Flux's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and the staged reading of The Dream Chain. He has also directed for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and Equalogy, a theatre for social change where he was the playwright-in-residence.

Heather Cohn (Director) Heather is a co-founder of Flux Theatre Ensemble, and currently serves as the Managing & Development Director. For Flux she has directed staged readings of Jose Rivera´s Sueño and Adam Szymkowicz´s Pretty Theft, and a full production of August Schulenburg´s Other Bodies for the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival for which she won the Fringe Excellence Award for "Outstanding Direction". She also set designed Flux's full production of Adam Szymkowicz's Pretty Theft in April 2009. Heather recently joined Epic Theatre Ensemble as the Director of Development. She is a member of the Women's Project Producer's LAB (2008-2010) and serves on the Board of Directors of The Equus Projects. Heather has worked with New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), The Pearl Theatre Company, Fourth Arts Block (FAB), Cornerstone Theater Company, Red Bull Theater, No Time for Love Productions, Cherry Lane Theatre, and Repertorio Español.

Flux Theatre Ensemble is a group of multi-faceted theatre artists composed of playwrights, directors, actors and designers. Through continual collaboration and development of new works, re-imagined classics, and ensemble-based projects, Flux creates seasons with an underlining theme that unites work that is character-driven, transformative, and uniquely theatrical. Flux is the proud recipient of two NYC Fringe Festival Awards. In 2007 the Village Voice Audience Favorite Award for August Schulenburg's Riding the Bull and in 2008 for Heather Cohn's "Outstanding Direction" of Other Bodies. nytheatre.com chose Flux Theatre Ensemble as one of their "People of the Year" for 2008 saying "This rising theatre company had a hit in the New York International Fringe Festival with Other Bodies, written by artistic director August Schulenburg, and then went on to mount the fall's most ambitious indie show, Johnna Adams's Angel Eaters Trilogy." Flux also received a Citation for Excellence in Off-Off Broadway Theatre from the Independent Theater Bloggers Association and 7 New York Innovative Theatre Award nominations for The Angel Eaters Trilogy including a win for Best Sound Design.

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