ASKING FOR IT Set for Lincoln Center Performance 3/29

ASKING FOR IT, a one-woman show by Joanna Rush, will play on Thursday, March 29 at 8:30 pm at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center as part of the Target® Free Thursdays program to mark Women's History Month. Admission is free.

ASKING FOR IT follows one woman’s journey from “Outstanding Catholic Youth of the Year” to tap dancing on the stage of Radio City Music Hall to the cast of A Chorus Line, as she deals with homelessness, sexual harassment, and wrecked relationships on a path to self-awareness and faith in what she is really asking for from life.

Joanna Rush plays Bernadette O’Connell, who we meet for the first time as a 17-year-old. She also portrays a colorful cast of characters of both sexes, ranging from uptight clerics to sexy chorus dancers.

The one-woman show was conceived, written by, and stars, award-winning actress and writer Joanna Rush. It is directed by acclaimed choreographer and Tony- and Drama Desk-nominated director and choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett, and produced by Tony Award-nominated producer Jana Robbins.

Joanna Rush (Writer/Actor) has appeared in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions, including Pousse Cafe with Charles Durning, Daughters with Marisa Tomei, Inside Out, the original Grandma Sylvia's Funeral, Broadway Scandals of 1928, and Options at Circle Rep. Regionally she has been seen in Beyond Therapy, Fifth of July, Freedomland, Little Mahagony, Great White Hope, Women Who Steal, concert versions of Two by Two and Minnie's Boys at Jewish Rep. Her film credits include: The Luckiest Man in the World, Sunburn with Farrah Fawcett and Joan Collins, On the Cliffs winner Best Short Comedy 2004, Ohio Ind. Film Festival and the soon to be released Saying Goodbye. Ms. Rush’s T.V. work includes Shannon, Archie Bunker's Place, A Killing Affair, Cagney & Lacey, and the pilot Straight no Chaser as the inappropriate mother of Bronson Pinchot. She performed her solo play Asking For It at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, The Kirk Theater on Theater Row, Stocker Arts Center in Ohio, Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwright's Horizons, and in the New York International Theater Festival at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Most recently, Joanna was invited to perform sections of Asking For It on International Women’s Day sponsored by the United Nations Counsel on the Empowerment of Women and the Hunger Project. As a writer, Joanna co-wrote Irish Whiskey, an independent feature and "Best Screenplay" winner at the Temecula Valley Film Festival and a screenplay entitled Mothers Day based on the life of Julia Ward Howe. She is a member of Actors Equity, The Dramatists Guild, and SAG. www.joannarush.com

Lynne Taylor-Corbett (Director) is known for her work in theater, dance and film. She was nominated for two Tony Awards and a Drama Desk for direction and choreography of Broadway's Swing! and for two American Theatre Wing Star Awards for its National Tour. She also choreographed Broadway's Chess and Titanic. Her show, My Vaudeville Man, was nominated for two Lucille Lortel Awards and a Drama Desk Award this past season. Off Broadway, she directed Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi, Marie Jones's Women on the Verge at Irish Arts; Darlene Love: Portrait of a Singer at the Bottom Line; 20th Century Pop at the Rainbow and Stars; and was the original director of the Korean import, Cookin' at The Minetta Lane. She directed the plays: Your Simone at The Culture Project and Boxes and Asking For It at the New York Fringe Festival. Regional shows include Tintypes at Hartford Stage and The Old Globe; Opal at George Street Playhouse and The Lyric Theatre; Flight of the Lawnchair Man for the Goodspeed Opera House; Hats in Chicago; and Girl's Room starring Donna McKechnie and Carol Lawrence in New York and Los Angeles. Upcoming projects include the return of Wanda's World Off Broadway, and Creature of the Black Lagoon for Universal Hollywood. www.lynnetaylorcorbett.com

Jana Robbins is a Drama Desk and Tony Award-nominated Tony Award-nominated producer for the 2009 Broadway production of Ragtime, having joined Kevin McCollum and Manny Azenberg in transferring the musical from the Kennedy Center. Jana founded Better World Productions in 1995 in order to “present theater and film entertainment that inspires us to create a Better World.” Ms. Robbins made her Broadway producing debut with Allan Knee’s Little Women starring Sutton Foster and Maureen McGovern. Her Off-Broadway producing credits include I Love You Because, White Lies starring Betty Buckley, and Daniel Beaty’s Through the Night with producer Daryl Roth which earned her a second Drama Desk nomination. Upcoming Broadway shows currently in development are Allan Knee’s The Jazz Age, a three character play with music and dance about Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and Managing Maxine scheduled to open the 2012-2013 season at The Human Race Theater Company in Dayton, Ohio. Jana is also developing D. Tucker Smith’s The Great Game, which she was co-producing with her late producing partner Randall Wreghitt. www.janarobbins.com

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