AntiMatter Collective presents Death Valley: A Zombie Western

Set in 1880 on the Texas-New Mexico border, DEATH VALLEY follows smooth-talking Lawrence and his occasional ladyfriend Adele. As the dead return to un-life and the world crumbles around them, our heroes must dig deep to find the strength to survive. This is your front-row seat to the end of the world.

DEATH VALLEY was originally commissioned and developed as a five-part episodic serial for the Vampire Cowboys' Saturday Night Saloon. This will be the play's first full-length production.

Featuring Will Cespedes* (As You Like It with CSC Young Company), Patrick Harrison (Butterfly, Butterfly, Kill Kill Kill!), Alexandra Hellquist, Allison LaPlatney (Todd & I), Alexandra Panzer (2 Stories That End in Suicide at The Brick), Alice Winslow (Candide or Optomism with The Gallery Players), Emily Friend Roberts (Love & Geography), Casey Robinson*, and James Rutherford. The creative team will include Set Design by Jonathan Cottle, Special Effects by Stephanie Cox-Williams (Nosedive Productions; named "New York's Queen of Gore" by New York Press), Costume Design by Bevan Dunbar & Karen Boyer (Titus Andronicus with Manhattan Shakespeare Company), Sound Design by Will Fulton (Ten Blocks on the Camino Real with Target Margin), Lighting Design by Alana Jacoby (Butterfly, Butterfly, Kill Kill Kill!), and Fight Chorography by Adam Scott Mazer (Butterfly, Butterfly, Kill Kill Kill!; The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G). *Appearing courtesy of the Actors' Equity Association

The production, presented by AntiMatter Collective will play a three-week engagement at The Bushwick Starr (207 Starr Street between Irving and Wyckoff Avenues, Brooklyn) June 23-July 10; Thurs-Sat, June 23-25 & July 6-9, Weds-Fri, June 29-July 1 at 8pm and Sunday, June 26 & July 10 at 2pm. Tickets ($15) may be purchased online at www.brownpapertickets.com or by calling 1-800-838-3006.

ADAM SCOTT MAZER (Playwright/Fight Chorographer) grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and attended Brown University. He moved to Brooklyn shortly after graduating with a degree in Theater Arts, and has since trained at Vampire Cowboy's Rabid Vamps Fight Studio and has appeared in or worked on productions for companies including EST, Vampire Cowboys, Target Margin, Roundtable Ensemble, MT Works, The New York International Fringe Festival, and Columbia's MFA program. Most recently, he appeared in Before Placing Me On Your Shelf (Manhattan Theater Source) and co-fight choreographed The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G.

"Fight choreography from Adam Scott Mazer is confident, comedic, and continually surprising." nytheatre.com

"Adam Scott Mazer's fight scenes are deliriously entertaining, and he makes the most of the way these ranked assassins run around shooting each other with cocked fingers, yelling the word ‘bang.'"
Aaron Riccio, That Sounds Cool

DAN ROGERS (Director) is from the Boston area and holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Brown University, where he received the Weston Fine Arts Award for Directing. Director: Those Granny Smiths (Dreamscape Theatre); If the Fates Allow (7th Street Small Stage); The Sound (13th St. Rep); Clap on, Clap Off (Riant Theatre). Actor: Butterfly, Butterfly, Kill Kill Kill! (The Brick, FringeNYC), Three Sisters (Columbia). Producer: Butterfly, Butterfly, Kill Kill Kill!; Do Not Kill Me, Killer Robots (7th Street Small Stage); Piccola Cosi (soloNOVA). Tech Director: The Confidence Man (Woodshed Collective); Lights Out Malfi (art.party.theatre.co); Be Brave, Anna! (FringeNYC). Dan is also the General Manager for Vampire Cowboys.

ANTIMATTER COLLECTIVE Theater, in contrast to other media, exists solely in a perpetually decaying present. Defying solidification, it is, by definition, not Matter (though it may matter, we hope). Adam Scott Mazer, Dan Rogers, and Will Fulton formed AntiMatter Collective in 2011 to excavate a new kind of theater - one that straddles the violent divide between the transient and the permanent, the personal and the communal, the comic and the tragic, the squalid and the transcendent.