Ma-Yi Theater Company Presents TEENAGE DICK in Association with The Public Theater

Hot off the success of the critically acclaimed KPOP last fall, Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Ma-Yi Theater Company and The Public Theater announce TEENAGE DICK, a new play by Mike Lew (Tiger Style!), being given its world premiere Off-Broadway, June 12 - July 15, 2018, at The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St.

Directed by two-time Tony Award-nominee Moritz von Stuelpnagel (Hand to God and Present Laughter), and choreographed by Jennifer Weber (KPOP), TEENAGE DICK is presented as a new fully realized production, having been developed by The Public Theater as part of its 2016 Public Studio Series.

TEENAGE DICK is a brilliantly hilarious take on Richard III, Shakespeare's classic tale of power and lust. TEENAGE DICK reimagines the most famous disabled character of all time as a 16-year-old outsider in the deepest winter of his discontent: his junior year at Roseland High. Picked on because of his cerebral palsy (as well as his sometimes creepy Shakespearean way of speaking), Richard is determined to have his revenge and make his name by becoming president of the senior class. But as he manipulates and crushes the obstacles to his electoral success, Richard finds himself faced with a decision he never expected would be his to make: is it better to be loved or feared?

The cast features Gregg Mozgala (Cost of Living), Shannon DeVido (The Healing, Difficult People), Nick Dillenburg (Orange Is the New Black),Sasha Diamond (Significant Other), and Marinda Anderson (Bella: An American Tall Tale).

Additional design and creative credits for TEENAGE DICK are: Set Design - Wilson Chin, Costume Design - Junghyun Georgia Lee, Lighting Design - Miriam Crowe, Sound Design - Fabian Obispo, and Movement Coordination - Robert Westley. Alyssa K. Howard is Production Stage Manager.

TEENAGE DICK was commissioned and developed by The Apothetae (Gregg Mozgala, Artistic Director), a company dedicated to plays that explore and illuminate the "Disabled Experience." It was further developed during a residency at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference in 2016 (Executive Director, Preston Whiteway and Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director). This current production by Ma-Yi Theater Company is part of The Lark's Venturous Playwright Fellowship Program, funded by Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation.

TICKETS:

Scheduled through July 15, 2018, TEENAGE DICK will begin performances June 12 and perform Tuesdays through Sundays at 7:30PM, withSaturday and Sunday matinees at 1:30PM. Please note there is no performance on Saturday, June 16 at 1:30 or Thursday, June 21 orWednesday, July 4 at 7:30PM; additionally, performances have been added on Monday, June 18 and July 2 at 7:30PM. Public Theater Partners and Members can access tickets on Thursday, March 22. Single tickets can be accessed on Thursday, March 29. For tickets and information: visitpublictheater.org, or call 212.967.7555

Mobility limited seating and reduced ticket prices for the disabled community and designated companion are available.

Information is also available at www.ma-yitheatre.org

ABOUT Ma-Yi Theater Company:

Ma-Yi Theater Company recently enjoyed great critical and wild success with its double-billed KPOP last fall by Jason Kim, in addition to Carlos Celdran's LIVIN' LA VIDA IMELDA, Hansol Jung's AMONG THE DEAD, A. Rey Pamatmat's HOUSE RULES, Nandita Shenoy's WASHER/DRYER, Michi Barall's PEER GYNT AND THE NORWEGIAN HAPA BAND, Han Ong's CHAIRS AND A LONG TABLE, and Rehana Lew Mirza's SOLDIER X. The company won the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for its critically acclaimed production of Lloyd Suh's THE WONG KIDS IN THE SECRET OF THE SPACE CHUPACABRA GO!

Founded in 1989 and now celebrating its 27th season, MA-YI is a Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning, Off-Broadway not-for-profit organization whose primary mission is to develop and produce new and innovative plays by Asian American writers.

Since its founding, Ma-Yi has distinguished itself as one of the country's leading incubators of new work shaping the national discourse about what it means to be Asian American today. Its numerous acclaimed productions include Mike Lew's BIKE AMERICA and MICROCRISIS, Qui Nguyen'sTHE INEXPLICABLE REDEMPTION OF AGENT G and SOUL SAMURAI (with Vampire Cowboys), Mike Lew's MICROCRISIS and the revival of Ralph B. Peña's FLIPZOIDS. Other productions include: RESCUE ME by Michi Barall, Lloyd Suh's AMERICAN HWANGAP and THE CHILDREN OF VONDERLY and THE ROMANCE OF MAGNO RUBIO by Lonnie Carter. Through successful programs such as the Writers Lab, Ma-Yi emboldens a new generation of Asian American artists to voice their experiences, while developing a steady stream of quality new works by Asian American Playwrights for its own performing repertory. New works developed at the Writers Lab have gone on to successful productions around the country, at such theaters as Victory Gardens, Laguna Playhouse, Long Wharf Theater, Woolly Mammoth, and the Actors Theater of Louisville, to name a few. Ma-Yi Theater Company productions have earned 10 Obie Awards, numerous Henry Hewes Award nominations, a Drama Desk nomination for Best Play and the Special Drama Desk Award for "more than two decades of excellence and for nurturing Asian-American voices in stylistically varied and engaging theater."

Ma-Yi Theater is under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Ralph B. Peña.

ABOUT The Public Theater:

THE PUBLIC, under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham, is theater of, by, and for the people. Artist-driven, radically inclusive, and fundamentally democratic, The Public continues the work of its visionary founder Joe Papp as a civic institution engaging, both on-stage and off, with some of the most important ideas and social issues of today. Conceived over 60 years ago as one of the nation's first nonprofit theaters, The Public has long operated on the principles that theater is an essential cultural force and that art and culture belong to everyone. The Public's wide breadth of programming includes an annual season of new work at its landmark home at Astor Place, Free Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, The Mobile Unit touring throughout New York City's five boroughs, Public Forum, Under the Radar, Public Studio, Public Works, Public Shakespeare Initiative, and Joe's Pub. Since premiering HAIR in 1967, The Public continues to create the canon of American Theater and is currently represented on Broadway by the Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Their programs and productions can also be seen regionally across the country and around the world. The Public has received 59 Tony Awards, 169 Obie Awards, 53 Drama Desk Awards, 54 Lortel Awards, 32 Outer Critic Circle Awards, 13 New York Drama Desk Awards, and 6 Pulitzer Prizes. http://publictheater.org