Tongue in Cheek Theater Closes DEAD WHITE MALES 10/16

Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions (Jake Lipman, Artistic Director and Producer) is pleased to announce its fall 2010 production of Dead White Males: A Year in the Trenches of Teaching by William Missouri Downs. Brock H. Hill directs its New York City premiere. Dead White Males marks Tongue in Cheek Theater's eleventh production.

Dead White Males follows Janet (Jake Lipman), a rookie history teacher, over the course of a school year in which she is closely evaluated by her superiors (Leanne Linsky, Brady Adair and Robert Gonzales Jr.) and haphazardly mentored by two seasoned teachers (Shana Wiersum and Brynne Kraynak). Countless memos, lesson plans, and an incident involving a troubled student (Graciany Miranda) all test Janet's ability to acclimate.

Dead White Males is stage managed by Katy Moore. Virginia Monte is the scenic designer. Philip Rothman is technical advisor and sound designer. Playwright William Missouri Downs's other works include Innocent Thoughts (winner, National Playwright's Award), Jewish Sports Heroes and Texas Intellectuals, Kabuki and The Seagulls in a Cherry Tree (winner of the Larry Corse Prize for playwriting). In Hollywood, Mr. Downs wrote for NBC's My Two Dads, Amen, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and he won the Jack Nicholson Award for screenwriting.

During the dark nights of Dead White Males, Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions is pleased to present the Fall 2010 Plus One Solo Show Festival, featuring four original solo shows on both nights, on topics as diverse as becoming a dad (JACKed Up by Mark Gessner), the complicated lives of a daughter of revolutionaries (Can't the Revolution Wait? by Jamila Webb), getting laid off and finding a place to belong (I'm Fired! by Margie Suvalle) and a not-always-romantic journey into the sea of texters and Facebook stalkers (Call Me by Katherine Williams). Guest singer-songwriter Erica Russo will perform her latest songs as musical interludes.

Tongue in Cheek Theater is an independent theater company dedicated to producing seriously funny theater. Its mission is to tell stories which resonate with universal truth and which make its audiences laugh in recognition of those truths. About the company's recent revival of David Auburn's Proof, NYTheatre.com called it "First rate. Auburn's story is given vivid life by a quartet of talented actors."

Dead White Males runs for eight performances, October 6-16, 2010, Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. at the Bridge Theatre @ Shetler Studios. The Plus One Solo Show Festival runs Sunday and Monday, October 10 and 11, 2010 at 8 p.m.

Bridge Theatre @ Shetler Studios at 244 West 54th Street, 12th Floor, between 7th and 8th Avenues in New York City, is accessible from the B, D, E train to 7th Avenue, N, Q, R, W to 57th Street, and the A, C, 1 to 59th Street/Columbus Circle. Tickets are $17 online ($20 at the door) at www.tictheater.com or by telephoning 212-868-4444.

Need more Off-Broadway Theatre News in your life?
Sign up for all the news on the Summer season, discounts & more...