Marin Ireland Leads LCT3's KILL FLOOR, Opening Tonight Off-Broadway

Nicholas L. Ashe, Jeremy Bobb, Natalie Gold, Marin Ireland, and Samuel H. Levine will be featured in the LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater world premiere of KILL FLOOR, by Abe Koogler, directed by Lila Neugebauer. KILL FLOOR opens tonight, October 19, and runs for six weeks only through Sunday, November 15 at the Claire Tow Theater (150 West 65 Street).

In KILL FLOOR, Andy (to be played by Marin Ireland) returns to her hometown after three years in prison and takes a job at the local slaughterhouse, while trying to reconcile with her 15 year-old son, B (to be played by Nicholas L. Ashe).

KILL FLOOR will have sets by Daniel Zimmerman, costumes by Jessica Pabst, lighting by Ben Stanton, and original music and sound by Brandon Wolcott.

KILL FLOOR marks playwright Abe Koogler's professional debut. He earned an MFA in playwriting from the UT-Austin Michener Center for Writers and is currently a fellow in Juilliard's Playwrights Program. His plays have been developed at Kitchen Dog Theater, the Playwrights' Center, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Black Swan Lab. He is a Theatre Masters Visionary Playwright. Abe won the Kennedy Center's Paula Vogel Award for Kill Floor and is a native of Washington State.

Lila Neugebauer directed Amy Herzog's After the Revolution and 4000 Miles at Baltimore Stage and last fall's critically acclaimed revival of A. R. Gurney's The Wayside Motor Inn at the Signature Theatre. A Co-Artistic Director of The Mad Ones, she directed the company's The Essential Straight & Narrow and conceives and directs ensemble-devised works including Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War. Other recent work includes Dorothy Fortenberry's Partners (2014 Humana Festival), Lucas Hnath's Red Speedo (The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC), and Zoe Kazan's Trudy and Max in Love (South Coast Rep).

KILL FLOOR will be performed Monday and Wednesday through Sunday evenings at 7pm, with matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2pm. Tickets, priced at $30 for all performances, will be available at the Lincoln Center Theater box office, at telecharge.com, or by visiting www.LCT3.org.

Photo Credit: Jeremy Daniel