Sean Dugan to Lead Page 73 Productions' Reading of RITU COMES HOME Today

Page 73 Productions - the Off-Broadway company dedicated to producing and developing works by early-career playwrights - will present a reading of their 2013 Interstate 73 member Peter Gil-Sheridan's play RITU COMES HOME on Monday, June 17 at 4pm at A.R.T./New York's Studios@520 (520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, Studio B) Davis McCallum (WATER BY THE SPOONFUL; ELLIOT, A SOLDIER'S FUGUE) will direct.

The reading of RITU COMES HOME is free and open to the public, but reservations are required: please visit www.page73.org/ritu.

Brendan and Jason are the ideal gay couple: beautiful home, dinner parties galore, a sassy best friend. But their entire world is rocked when they get an unexpected visit from a faraway land. RITU COMES HOME explores the limits of charity in a world of seeming abundance.

The cast of the reading of RITU COMES HOME is Sean Dugan, Michael Cyril Creighton, Maria Christina Oliveras, Nikki Massoud, and Sanjit De Silva.

Peter Gil-Sheridan is a multidisciplinary artist whose plays include RITU COMES HOME, COCKFIGHT, THE RAFA PLAY, THE DEADLY BELLES, EVERYDAY I WAKE THE FOOL, GLOW, VANISHING SON, and TOPSY TURVY MOUSE which has been produced by Cherry Lane Theatre (mentor: Michael Weller), Borderlands Theatre in Tucson, and Gustavus Adolphus, developed at Sundance Institute's Playwright Retreat at Ucross, New York Theatre Workshop and was named the winner of The Smith Prize from National New Play Network for outstanding political work. TOPSY TURVY MOUSE is published by Playscripts, Inc. His play, WHAT MAY FALL, was commissioned by the Guthrie Theatre and was performed there in 2009, followed by a production with Fordham's Alumni Company directed by Morgan Gould and at Theatre of Note in Los Angeles. Residencies: Jerome Fellowship (Playwright's Center, Minneapolis), A Theatre Group in Silverton, CO (annual), The Millay Colony (Austerlitz, NY) and the Ucross Foundation (Clearmont, Wyoming). RITU COMES HOME was written as a 20/20 Commission for InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia. He was a member of the 2011-2012 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab where he wrote COCKFIGHT and the Playground at the Lark Theatre, where he developed THE RAFA PLAY. He received his MFA from The University of Iowa's Playwright's Workshop and his BA from Fordham University at Lincoln Center.

Recipient of the League of Professional Theatre Women's 2008 Lucille Lortel Award for "innovative and creative work dedicated to the emerging dramatist," Page 73 Productions (under the leadership of Executive Directors Liz Jones and Asher Richelli and Associate Director Michael Walkup) is an Off-Broadway theatre company dedicated to developing and producing the work of early-career playwrights, done so through a series of development opportunities, workshops, readings and full-scale productions.

Past productions include: the world premieres of ELLIOT, A SOLDIER'S FUGUE by Quiara Alegría Hudes, directed by Davis McCallum (2007 Pulitzer finalist), SIXTY MILES TO SILVER LAKE by Dan LeFranc, directed by Anne Kauffman and co-produced with Soho Rep (2010 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award); CREATURE by Heidi Schreck, directed by Leigh Silverman and co-produced with New Georges; JACK'S PRECIOUS MOMENT by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Kip Fagan and most recently SLEEPING ROUGH by Kara Manning directed by Sam Buntrock (Drama Desk Award Nominee for Featured Actress).

For more information about Page 73 Productions, please visit www.page73.org.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride