Tom Bloom, Dashiell Eaves and More Set for Page 73's PINEWOOD Reading 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 David Jenkins' play PINEWOOD on Monday, November 18 at 4 pm at MTC Creative Center (311 West 43rd St, 8th Floor). Davis McCallum (GODSPELL, GOD OF CARNAGE) will direct.

The reading of PINEWOOD is free and open to the public, but reservations are required: please visit www.page73.org/pinewood.

In PINEWOOD, Daniel Worth returns home. In the middle of the night. Unannounced. After a two-year absence. Wearing an expensive suit. His mom and dad have missed him. His sister would like to kill him. None of them can quite agree on their family myth or the state of their finances. A strange comedy about the ghost that remains as a family ages and irrevocably drifts apart.

The cast of the reading of PINEWOOD is Tom Bloom, Dashiell Eaves, Ronete Levenson, and Lynn McCullough.

David Jenkins is a New York based playwright, producer, and founding member / Artistic Director of Human Animals. His first play, MIDDLEMEN, was produced in New York in 2009 (Human Animals) and premiered in Santiago, Chile in the spring of 2011. It will be produced by NJ Rep in 2013 and at the Oslo International Theater in Norway in 2014. Human Animals' production of his latest play, Post Office, was named one of "The Top Ten Off-Off Broadway Productions of 2011" by Paper Magazine. As an actor, he has worked extensively in Chicago's storefront theaters and on stages throughout the country, including San Francisco's ACT and Yale Rep. He holds an MFA from NYU's Graduate Acting Program, where he was the proud recipient of the Paul Walker Scholarship. Jenkins's plays include: MIDDLEMEN, SMALL CLAIMS, POST OFFICE, and LAISSEZ-FAIRE. He is currently teaching scene study at New York State's Fishkill Correctional Facility in collaboration with Rehabilitation Through the Arts.

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 Producing 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.

Page 73's next production will be the New York premiere of George Brant's GROUNDED, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll and starring Hannah Cabell, opening in January 2014. 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, visit www.page73.org.

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