Partial Comfort Premieres A GOOD ENDING

Partial Comfort Productions follows up its much-acclaimed productions of Samuel D. Hunter's A Bright New Boise and Thomas Bradshaw's The Bereaved with the World Premiere of Chad Beckim's A GOOD ENDING.

Previews begin March 30 at The Wild Project where Partial Comfort is a resident company. Opening night is slated for April 6.

In A GOOD ENDING, a wrongfully imprisoned man is exonerated by DNA evidence. After seventeen years in prison, he is forced to re-assimilate into a cold, foreign world of toothbrush shopping, doggy day care, and a friendship with an anxious young woman with secrets of her own.

Casting and the production team will be announced shortly.

Chad Beckim is a New York City based playwright whose writing credits include ...a matter of choice, `nami (which received its West Coast premiere at the Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles in October, 2007), Lights Rise on Grace (Winner, Outstanding Play, 2007 FringeNYC; Finalist for the 2007 Princess Grace Award; Finalist for Ojai Playwrights' Conference), The Main(e) Play (Semi-Finalist, The O'Neill Festival), That Men Do (Member of The Lark's 2009 "Playwright's Week"), Mercy and Cookie. He has also authored a number of shorts and one-acts, including Tha Bess Shit, Alexander Pays a Visit, Last First Kiss, Blac(c)ident, and Night, Shift. Last First Kiss was adapted into a film and produced in July 2008, and his cinematic adaptation of The Main(e) Play (currently titled Good Winter) is under option by Table Ten Films. He has also authored the television pilot "Our Gotham," and is working with Robert O'Hara on a new series entitled "Almost." Chad holds an MFA in Playwrighting from Mac Wellman's Brooklyn College's Program, and in July of 2007 was named one of "50 Playwrights to Watch" by the Dramatists Guild. His work has been published by
Playscripts, Smith & Krauss, and in the Plays and Playwrights 2007 collection by NYTE. He is a proud member of Ars Nova's "Play Group," and is a co-Founder and co-Artistic Director of Partial Comfort Productions.

Partial Comfort Productions is a collaborative ensemble devoted to the development and presentation of original new theater. The company was co-founded in 2002 by Chad Beckim and Molly Pearson. Past productions include Samuel D. Hunter's A Bright New Boise, Thomas Bradshaw's The Bereaved (Best of 2009, Time Out New York), a trio of acclaimed works by Beckim (nami, The Maine Play and ...a matter of choice), Ross Maxwell's Open House (Best Ensemble Award winner at FringeNYC 2006); Craft and Nelson by Sam Marks; Kidstuff by Edith Freni, Booty Candy by Robert O'Hara; and Play by OHara, Chay Yew, Kia Corthron, Eddie Sanchez, Keith Adkins and Tracey Scott Wilson. For more information visit www.partialcomfort.org.

A GOOD ENDING runs March 30 - April 23, Wed. - Sat. 8:00pm. The Wild Project is located at 195 E. 3rd Street b/w Aves A. & B. Tickets are $18, available beginning January 15th at 212-352-3101 or www.thewildproject.com.