ALICE IN BLACK AND WHITE, the Story of One of the First Female Street Photographers Alice Austen, Premieres at 59E59 Theaters

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer; Brian Beirne, Managing Director) welcomes Looking for Lilith Theatre Company (Louisville, KY) with ALICE IN BLACK AND WHITE, written by Robin Rice and directed by Kathi E.B. Ellis. ALICE IN BLACK AND WHITE begins performances on Wednesday, August 3 for a limited engagement through Sunday, August 14. Press opening is Sunday, August 7 at 7:30 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Thursday at 7:30 PM; Friday and Saturday at 8:30 PM; and Sunday at 3:30 PM. Please note, there is an added performance on Sunday, August 7 at 7:30 PM for Opening Night. Performances are at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues). Tickets are $25 ($17.50 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or go to www.59e59.org.

The extraordinary true story of Alice Austen, a bold female street photographer in the Victorian era. Alice Austen fell in love with photography and another woman at a time when women were expected to do neither. ALICE IN BLACK AND WHITE traces her love affairs with photography and her partner Gertrude Tate at the turn of the 20th Century to her heartbreaking fall into poverty and obscurity by the 1950s. The play won the StageWrite Women's Theatre Initiative Award and received its world premiere in Louisville, produced by Looking for Lilith Theatre Company, who revive their production for the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Alice's birth.

The cast features Megan Adair, Shannon Woolley Allison, Laura Ellis, Trina Fischer, Joseph Hatfield, Ted Lesley, and Jennifer Thalman Kepler.

The design team includes Christé Lunsford (scene and projection design); Tom Willis (lighting design); Lindsay Chamberlin (costume design), and Nathan Roberts (sound design/composer). The Stage Manager is Lauren Camargo.

Robin Rice (playwright) Award-winning NYC playwright with New England roots. Play Nice! (Ego Actus-59E59) is newly published by Original Works. Other select NYC productions: The Power of Birds, Lola and the Planet of Glorious Diversity, Everyday Edna Mae, Allie's Appendix, Harmony. Recent premiere: Women w/o Walls (Broads' Word-Hollywood). Other productions worldwide from South Korea to South Africa, Mongolia to London. Member: Dramatists Guild, Articulate Theatre Company, Oracles, ICWP, LPTW. Robin is delighted to once again join hands with the LFL creatives, 59E59, and Alice. @RobinRiceWrites www.RobinRicePlaywright.com

Kathi E.B. Ellis (director) is a member of Lincoln Center and Chicago Directors Labs and an associate member of Stage Directors & Choreographers Association. She has participated in La Mama's International Directing Symposium. Her work has received nominations for the South Florida Carbonell Award. Kathi has directed the world premieres of Alice; Fabric Flames and Fervor: Girls of the Triangle (LFL) and The Snowflake Theory by Nancy Gall-Clayton. An LFL Company member she is also the co-producer and production director for Josephine Sculpture Park's Shakespeare productions.