SAM’S ROMANCE Comes To Actors Temple Theater, Begins May 11

Janozak Productions will present Sam's Romance, the new romantic comedy by Paul Manuel Kane, having its Off-Broadway premiere at the Actors Temple Theater (339 West 47th Street), beginning May 11th for an open-ended run. Hillary Spector directs a cast that includes Oni Brown, Lee Anne Hutchison, Ed Kershen, Todd Licea, and Neva Small. Opening Night is set for Sunday June 5th (7pm).

Sam's Romance is an edgy comedy about connections. People who make the wrong connection. People who don't connect no matter how they try. And, people who never connect but go on living with great expectations of connecting.

Paul Manuel Kane is a retired New York City public school teacher turned writer. After serving in the United States Army he used the G.I. bill to get his BA from the University of Wisconsin and his Masters Degree for New York University. Always a writer he turned to teaching English to pay the bills. He found that he was gifted at both and taught for thirty years. Since his retirement he has wasted no time writing many one act and full-length plays. Three of his full-length plays have been produced in New York City; Florabel at the Playbox Theatre, Red Wing at the 29th Street Theater, and Five New York Stories at the Aris Theatre. His one act My Brother Stosh was presented at the Turnip Theatre Festival and Duet in the Park won First Place in the Vancouver Playwriting Festival. Paul has been busy workshopping new plays including Harriet, Duet in a Dark Room, On-The-Merry-Go-Round, Jenny, Beautiful Dreamers, Two Yentas on the Patio, and F is For...! Paul is a member of the Dramatist Guild and NYC Playwrights.

Hillary Spector's directing credits include Solavaya (Prelude Festival 2010 at Repertorio Espanol); Orphee aux Enfers (Tivoli Theatre, Copenhagen); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Rock The Ground Theater); Djamilehand La Jaune Princesse (L'Opera Francais de New York at Alice Tully Hall); Tamburlaine (Target Margin Theater Lab); Trueta (National Theatre of Cataluña, Barcelona); Parallel Lines (Princeton University and Brown University); Out Of the Blue (PEN World Voices Festival); Feminazi (Player's Theater); Woyzeck with Victoria Pero (Monster[less]); The Garden of Tortures (Stella Adler Theater); Hildegard (EST); One for the Road (New York Fringe Festival); and Sweeney Todd, Private Lives, The Voice of the Prairie, The Golden Cockerel (Water Street Theater, Port Townsend, WA). As a choreographer: Romeo et Juliette (Spoleto Festival USA); Les Contes D'Hoffman (L' Opera D' Angers, L' Opera de Nantes); Thais directed by Andrei Serban (L' Opera de Nice); and La Cenerentola (Seattle Opera); Darkling (AOP/Classic Stage Company & Guggenheim's Works in Process Series); Thirst (La Mama, NYC); Don Cristobal (HERE Arts Center); Hotel Savant's world premiere of Susan Sontag's A Parsifal (P.S. 122) and Funeral Games (The Public Theater). She was Co-Artistic Director of the Water Street Theater with Jonathan Haugen (Port Townsend, WA) and is Co-Artistic Director of Nomad Theatre with Grant Neale in NYC.

Sam's Romance will have set & lighting design by Josh Iacovelli, costume design by Elizabeth Flores, and sound design Kristin Worall.

The playing schedule for Sam's Romance is Wednesday at 3PM, Thursday and Saturday at 8PM, and Sunday at 2PM. Tickets from $36.50 are available at Telecharge.com or by calling 212-239-6200.