SPF, Launching Ground for Talent, Tickets on Sale June 1st

The Summer Play Festival (SPF) - tickets go on sale June 1st - is opening doors for emerging theatrical talent from across the nation.  The $10-ticket, smash-hit theater festival - now in its fifth season - has helped launch the careers of participants from up-and-coming status to renown in the theater world. Playwrights, producers, and directors alike have caught their first major break at SPF, as well as invaluable career mentoring.

 ·      Quiara Alegria Hudes (2005 SPF Participant), The Adventures of Barrio Grrrl! - Hudes co-wrote the book for the musical In The Heights, currently on Broadway, and was recently nominated for the 62nd annual Tony Awards.

 ·      John Bucchino (2004 SPF participant), whose musical, It's Only Life: The Songs of John Bucchino, opened at the SPF, went on to co-adapt A Catered Affair which opened on Broadway in April, 2008

 ·      Beau Willimon - (2007 SPF Participant), Lower Ninth - Lower Ninth received an off-Broadway production at The Flea Theater from February 28 through April 5.  Willimon's new play Farragut North is slated to open on Broadway this season.  In addition, Willimon has three film projects underway; two for Warner Bros (including a screenplay of Farragut North), and one for Fox 2000 (an adaptation of Peter Morgan's BBC mini-series The Jury).

 ·      Catherine Trieschmann's (2005 SPF Participant) comedy crooked was first staged at NYC's Summer Play Festival in 2005 before opening to acclaim at London's Bush Theatre in 2006.  On April 20th, crooked made its Off Broadway premiere at the Women's Project Theatre in Manhattan.

The SPF season opens July 1st at The Public on Lafayette Street (first time there.)  It will feature seven plays and a musical.

SPF is a program of The  Living Room for Artists, a not-for-profit organization founded by Ms. Arielle Tepper Madover to fuel the growth of emerging theater artists and encourage people to create, attend and work in the theater.

For additional information on the Summer Play Festival visit www.spfnyc.com.

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