Rattlestick to Present Jessica Dickey's CHARLES IVES TAKE ME HOME, 5/29-6/29

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long have announced the cast and creative team for the world premiere ofCharles Ives Take Me Home, written by Jessica Dickey and directed by Daniella Topol. Charles Ives Take Me Home will begin performances on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater at 224 Waverly Place. The official opening night is set forThursday, June 13 at 7pm. The production is scheduled to run through June 29.

When a father's love of music clashes with his daughter's passion for basketball, modernist composer Charles Ives is the perfect referee. Charles Ives Take Me Home is a comedic and poignant story of dissonance, defense, and devotion.

The cast includes Drew McVety, Kate Nowlin, and Henry Stram.

Jessica Dickey (Playwright) is incredibly thrilled to be returning to Rattlestick with her play Charles Ives Take Me Home (nominated for the Susan Blackburn Prize). Jessie made her playwriting debut with her hit one-woman show The Amish Project, a deeply moving multi-character examination of the 2006 Amish schoolhouse shootings. The Amish Project premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival and then transferred to Cherry Lane Theatre before it opened at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and was greeted with tremendous accolades from audiences and critics alike. The Amish Project has since gone on to be produced around the country and the world, and is published by Samuel French. Jessie was recently a Writer in Residence at the New Harmony Project with her newest play about Civil War re-enactors, Row After Row, which premiered in the Cino Nights program curated by Rising Pheonix; Row After Row also has a production with Winding Road in Tuscon currently running, and is slated for its Off Broadway premiere in NYC next winter (details to be announced). Jessie is also an actor and works in TV and theatre, most recently in the Broadway production of Wit and Hit The Wall at Barrow Street Theatre, plus The Big C, Amish Grace, and the upcoming feature film A Good Marriage. www.jessicadickey.com

Daniella Topol (Director). Off-Broadway - Catherine Treischmann's How the World Began (Women's Project & South Coast Rep), Lloyd Suh's Jesus in India (Ma-Yi Theatre & Magic Theatre), Judith Thompson's Palace of the End (Epic Theatre), Sheila Callaghan'sLascivious Something (Women's Project/Cherry Lane), Trista Baldwin's Sand (Women's Project), Sheila Callaghan's Dead City (New Georges). World premieres around the country include: Rajiv Joseph's Monster at the Door (Alley Theatre), Willy Holtzman's The Morini Strand (City Theatre, PA), Stefanie Zadravec's Electric Baby (Quantum Theatre), Ari Roth's Andy and The Shadows (Theatre J, DC), Niko Tsakalakos and Janet Allard'sPool Boy (Barrington Stage). Committed to nurturing new models and writers of new plays, Daniella served as the Artistic Program Director of the Lark Play Development Center, New Works Program Director of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and Associate Producing Director of City Theatre. She is a board member of the Lark, member of EST, NYTW Usual Suspect, and a graduate of Carnegie Mellon.

The scenic design for Charles Ives Take Me Home is by Andromache Chalfant; costume design is by Michael Krass; lighting design is by Austin Smith; sound design is by Aaron Meicht and Daniel Baker; property design is by Andrew Diaz. The production manager is Eugenia Furneaux; the production stage manager is Kate Croasdale; the assistant production manager is Alling Langin.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theateris a multi-award-winning company which has produced over sixty world premieres in the past seventeen seasons and was the recipient of the 2007 Ross Wetzsteon Memorial OBIE Award for developing new and innovative work. Previous plays include Two Boys in a Bed, Message to Michael, Carpool, Volunteer Man, A Trip to the Beach, Ascendancy, Stuck, Vick's Boy, The Messenger, Saved or Destroyed, Neil's Garden, My Special Friend, Faster, Bliss, St. Crispin's Day, Where We're Born, Five Flights, Boise, Finer Noble Gases, God Hates The Irish: The Ballad of Armless Johnny, Miss Julie, Acts of Mercy: passion-play, Cagelove, It Goes Without Saying, Dark Matters, Stay, American Sligo, Rag and Bone, War, Geometry of Fire, That Pretty Pretty or The Rape Play, The Amish Project, Killers and Other Family, Post No Bills, Blind, Little Doc, underneathmybed, There Are No More Big Secrets, The Hallway Trilogy, Carson McCullers Talks About Love, The Wood, Asuncion, Horsedreams, Yosemite, Massacre (Sing to Your Children), 3C, The Revisionist starring Jesse Eisenberg and Vanessa Redgrave,the Off-Broadway GLAAD Award-nominated hit The Last Sunday in June, Craig Wright's The Pavilion (Drama Desk nominee - Outstanding Play of 2005) and Lady(Drama Desk nominee - Outstanding Play of 2008), as well as The Aliens by Annie Baker (2010 Obie Award winner for Best New American Play). Currently running at Rattlestick on Waverly Place is Jonathan Tolins' Buyer & Cellar starring Michael Urie.

Charles Ives Take Me Home plays a Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 7pm; Friday at 8pm; Saturday at 3pm and 8pm; Sunday at 3pm at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 224 Waverly Place. Tickets are $55 for general admission, $15 for patrons under 30 and $10 for students (with valid ID), and are available through www.rattlestick.org or by calling Ovationtix at 866.811.4111.