Page 73 and Soho Rep team up to present the world premiere of Dan LeFranc's new play SIXTY MILES TO SILVER LAKE directed by Anne Kauffman (Obie Award-winning director of Adam Bock's THE THUGS at Soho Rep). Previews begin January 15th prior to an official press opening of January 22nd at Soho Rep (46 Walker Street). Following Page 73's critically acclaimed productions of Jason Grote's 1001 and Quiara Alegría Hudes' ELLIOT, A SOLIDER'S FUGUE (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) and fresh from Soho Rep's extended and acclaimed production of Sarah Kane's BLASTED comes this co-produced world premiere.
A moving car. A father and son. The father drives. The son's face is pressed against the rolled up window. A lifetime can pass in the sixty miles between a boy's soccer practice and his father's new apartment. In this world premiere production, playwright Dan LeFranc and Obie Award-winning director Anne Kauffman team up to see just how much time and space can exist between the pleather seats of a father's used car.
The cast of SIXTY MILES TO SILVER LAKE is
Joseph Adams (seen on Broadway in last season's revival of COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA with
S. Epatha Merkerson) as "Ky", and Dane DeHaan (u/s Broadway AMERICAN BUFFALO) as "Denny". The design team for SIXTY MILES TO SILVER LAKE is Dane Laffrey (Set &Costume design); OBIE award-winning
Tyler Micoleau (Lighting design); and Leah Gelpe (Projection &Sound design).
Dan LeFranc's (Playwright) plays include SIXTY MILES TO SILVER LAKE, ORIGIN STORY, BRUISE EASY, NIGHT SURF, IN THE LABYRINTH, THE FISHBONE FABLES, BACKYARK, KILL THE KEEPERS, and CATGUT. This spring, Catalyst Theater Company will premiere BRUISE EASY in Washington, DC. His plays have been seen or developed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Vineyard Theater, MCC, The Kennedy Center, Sundance Theatre Institute, American Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, ArsNova, Rattlestick, Clubbed Thumb, The Magic Theater, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Perishable Theater, foolsFury, Babel Theatre Project, Kitchen Dog Theater, Santa Cruz Actors' Theatre, Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati, UCSB Summer Theater Lab, and the Page 73 Summer Residency at Yale, among others. Dan is a member of New Dramatists, the MCC Playwrights Coalition, and a former member of the
Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. He is the recipient of the John C. Russell Fellowship in Playwriting, the Weston Prize in Playwriting, the Whitfield Cook Award, and commissions from Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, Catalyst Theater Company, and Emory College in Atlanta. A graduate of the MFA playwriting program at Brown University, Dan is now visiting faculty in Literary Arts at Brown and head playwriting instructor of the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium.
Anne Kauffman's (Director) recent credits include THE COMMUNIST DRACULA PAGEANT (A.R.T.); GOD'S EAR (Vineyard Theater & New Georges Theatre); Anne Marie Healy's HAVE YOU SEEN STEVE STEVEN (13P);
Adam Bock's THE THUGS (
Soho Rep; Obie Award for directing);
John Patrick Shanley's DOUBT &
Lisa Loomer's EXPECTING ISABEL (Asolo Repertory Theatre in Florida); Jordan Harrison's ACT A LADY (Humana Festival of New Plays); SIDES: THE FEAR IS REAL (
Culture Project);
Adam Bock's TYPOGRAPHER'S DREAM (Encore Theater, San Francisco); Jorge Ignacio Cortinas' THE LOYAL OPPOSITION (New York Theater Workshop);
Karen Hartman's HANG TEN (
Women's Project & Productions); THE CHILDREN'S HOUR (Loyola University, Big Easy Award) and Anne Washburn's THE LADIES WITH THE CIVILIANS (Dixon Place & Cherry Lane Theatre). Upcoming directing projects include David Adjmi's STUNNING (LCT3, Lincoln Center). Ms. Kauffman has also worked at
Playwrights Horizons, New York Theater Workshop, CSC, The Vineyard, The Public, Rattlestick, Clubbed Thumb, American Conservatory Theater, The Guthrie Theater, and the Sundance Institute. She is an alumna of the
Soho Rep Writers and Directors Lab, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, The Drama League of New York, a founding member of The Civilians, and was a 2003-2004 New Dramatist Resident Director. She is also on the directing faculty at NYU in the
Playwrights Horizons Theater Studio.
Page 73 Productions (Executive Directors, Liz Jones and Asher Richelli) has been making a name for itself as a home for the development and production of new work by untried early-career playwrights. Page 73's development programs are all production-oriented. The company's goal is to usher the work of unknown writers towards their New York City and world premieres. Ongoing development program include the P73 Playwriting Fellowship, a week-long summer residency at Yale, and "Interstate 73", a writing group. Page 73's most recent productions include the world premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes' ELLIOT, A SOLDIER'S FUGUE (2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist) and the New York premiere of Jason Grote's 1001 (Top 10 of 2007, Time Out New York). Page 73 is the 2008 recipient of the
Lucille Lortel Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women for their "innovative and creative work to serve the emerging dramatist". "We have been fans of
Soho Rep's project-based aesthetic for years and are thrilled to be producing with them not only the world premiere of this extraordinary new play, but also Dan LeFranc's first professional production," noted Liz Jones and Asher Richelli. For more information, go to
www.p73.org.
Now in its 33rd year,
Soho Rep's 2008-09 season is the second under the leadership of Artistic Director,
Sarah Benson, and the first for new Executive Director, Tania Camargo. This is the second season the company will operate as an Off-Broadway company after decades of presenting work in the off-off-Broadway arena. This is the second season the company will operate as an Off-Broadway company after
decades of presenting work in the off-off-Broadway arena. One of the company's most popular and innovative programming features from last year -- .99-cent tickets for all Sunday performances of main stage productions throughout the year -- returns this season, as well.
Soho Rep is dedicated to cultivating and producing visionary, uncompromising, and exuberant new plays. They perform to one of the youngest adult audiences in New York City, with over three-quarters of its audience aged 18-40. Over the last nine seasons,
Soho Rep productions have garnered nine OBIE Awards, four Drama Desk nominations, the Oppenheimer Award and two Kesselring Awards. "We have long admired the amazing work of Page 73 Productions and their dedication to new writers, so are delighted to be able to work with them on Dan LeFranc's play" noted Artistic Director,
Sarah Benson. For more information go to www.sohorep.org.
Scheduled January 15 through February 8, performances of SIXTY MILES TO SILVER LAKE run Tuesdays - Sundays at 7:30pm, with Saturday matinees at 3:00pm (no matinee performance on Saturday, January 17) at
Soho Rep (46 Walker Street - between Broadway & Church, 2 blocks south of Canal Street). Tickets are .99 cents through $35 and can be reserved by calling TheaterMania at 212-352-3101 or online at
www.sixtymilestheplay.com,
www.p73.org &
www.sohorep.org.
