Shelby Company Presents LUCK OF THE IBIS, Opens 1/20/2010

SHELBY COMPANY is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Jonathan A. Goldberg?s LUCK OF THE IBIS, directed by Tom Ridgely (Waterwell co-founder). LUCK OF THE IBIS will play a two-week limited engagement at the Access Theater (380 Broadway, 4th Floor) in rep with Dan Moyer?s You May Be Splendid Now and Raphael Bob-Waksberg?s Mike and Morgan Show. Performances begin Wednesday, January 20th, and continue through Sunday, January 31st. Opening Night is Friday January 22nd 9p.

A fractured adventure filled with girl detectives, a chupacabra, a museum hidden inside a zeppelin, and . . . shrimp. This soaring fable of fanciful fact and mournful fiction examines the stories we must tell to keep safe in a cruel world.

Tickets are $15; two show marathon $20; three show marathon $25; three play pass (all three shows but not on one day) $30; Previews $5; SCoT Free reading series; FREE.

Tickets are available online at www.shelbycompany.org or by calling 1-800-838-3006. Tickets may also be purchased, in person, at the Access Theater, ½ hour prior to performance.

Running Time: 100 minutes

JONATHAN A. GOLDBERG (Playwright) has had work seen at The New Dixon Place, The Public Theater, HERE Center for the Arts, New Jersey Repertory, and other venues. His play The Jew and the Demon won the Rita and Burton Goldberg Award for playwriting. He was a finalist for the Jerome Fellowship at The Playwrights' Center and served as playwright-in-residence for Little Gem Productions. His play The Sharks of Montana was part of the inaugural reading series for the Intravenous Theater Company. He is a frequent contributor to The Playground Reading Series in Brooklyn and has worked with the Woodshed Collective. His play, How to Shoot a Bull Moose, was part of the Seedling Development Series at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga, California. My Father is a Tetris Game was included in HERE?s Summer Sublet Series after it was developed with the Page to Stage program at the New Dixon Place. This past summer he was a guest artist at the LAByrinth Theater Company?s summer intensive at Bard College. He received his MFA from NYU?s Tisch School for the Arts in dramatic writing. He is also an internationally published poet whose book, A Little Dark, is available through March Street Press.

Tom Ridgely (Director) is a Waterwell co-founder and has directed Life In Pink, Sweetness & Light, The Persians...a comedy about war with five songs, Marco Millions (based on lies) (Drama Desk Nomination) and The|King|Operetta. He also performs weekly at the Peoples Improv Theater with his improv group, Big Black Car (2006 CIF Selection; Best Improv Group, 2005 ECNY Awards). NYC dance credits: International Dance Festival, CalArts Dances Downtown, SYREN Modern Dance. Regional: Twelfth Night (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), The Emperor's New Clothes and Li?l Red (Little Apple Theater Co.), and Those Funny Little People (Chicago, IL). Also for Waterwell: Choo! Choo! (actor/writer), In On It (actor), Lost in Yemen; or the Bizarre Bazaar (actor/writer), Fuenteovejuna (actor/writer), and Stuck (actor/writer).

Shelby Company is a theatre group founded in December of 2008 by graduates from New York University?s Tisch School of the Arts, Carnegie Mellon, Occidental and Chapman. With an emphasis and dedication to making quality original theatre, Shelby Company?s first production of New Beulah was performed to a nearly sold-out house for four nights in February 2009. Shelby Company is dedicated to helping emerging playwrights and a strong ensemble of actors work together to produce original, vibrant and exciting new plays. Visit www.shelbycompany.org for more information.