Details Announced For 'SEE BOB RUN' And 'WILD ABANDON'

Swandive Studio (Lisa Snyder, Founder) announces details of its upcoming joint productions of See Bob Run and Wild Abandon, both written by Daniel MacIvor. See Bob Run is directed by Benjamin Watson and features Lisa Snyder as "Bob"; Wild Abandon is directed by Ruis Woertendyke and features Max Woertendyke as "Steve." These solo-performer one-acts will run in conjunction. Performances begin Wednesday, January 7th for a limited run through Saturday, January 24th at Center Stage, NY (48 West 21st Street, 4th floor).

Young, fresh and fearless performers Lisa Snyder and Max Woertendyke combine unadulterated talent and ambition with an award-winning playwright's challenging, thought provoking texts. See Bob Run follows a young woman hitchhiker as she reveals stories both ghastly and charming about her past: a princess born in a pile of shit, a magic lake in a bottle and a rock song that leads to murder. As her tale unravels, the truth between the lines proves her to be anything but an ordinary girl. Wild Abandon is play about Steve, a man who thinks he's alone in the world. Steve is the guide on a dark, introspective journey that is visceral, humbling and hilarious, from dancing to crazy women to a guy named Crab.

Daniel MacIvor is a prolific Canadian playwright and a cult favorite of the last decade. The New York Times has called his work "Dazzlingly entertaining!... A triumph of formal experimentation that is slyly witty, unexpectedly suspenseful, timeless as the battle of the sexes and as quick and forceful as a heavyweight's jab," and has cited him as a "discovery waiting to be discovered." His play Never Swim Alone was one of the biggest hits in the history of the New York International Fringe Festival. MacIvor recently won the coveted Siminovitch Prize in Theatre.

The creative team includes conceptual artist Lia Woertendyke (set), Dana Caputo (lights) and Benjamin Manglos (sound).

LIMITED ENGAGEMENT! JAN 7 - 24, 2009

TICKETS ($18) NOW ON SALE:
Reservations at TheaterMania.com (http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/see-bob-run-and-wild-abandon_149453/) or by calling 212.352.3101.

All performances take place at Center Stage, NY (48 W. 21st Street, 4th Floor).
Running Time: 2 hrs. 10 min. (includes 1 intermission)

Daniel MacIvor (Playwright) was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He is a stalwart of the Canadian theatre scene, having written and directed numerous award-winning productions including 2-2-Tango, This Is A Play, The Soldier Dreams, You Are Here, How It Works and A Beautiful View. Daniel's play Never Swim Alone won the award for overall excellence at the New York Fringe in 1998, and in 2002, he won a GLAAD Award and a Village Voice Obie Award for his play In On It, which was presented at PS 122. His play Marion Bridge received its off-Broadway premiere in New York in October of 2005. From 1987-2007, with producing partner Sherrie Johnson, he ran da da kamera, a respected international theatre touring company that has brought his work to Australia, Israel, Europe, the UK, and extensively throughout Canada and the US.

As a filmmaker, Daniel's work includes the festival favorite shorts Wake Up Jerk Off, Margaret Atwood and the Problem With Canada, Permission and Until I Hear From You, all of which he wrote and directed. He wrote and starred in the Genie award-winning short film The Fairy Who Didn't Want to be a Fairy Anymore, co-wrote and starred in House (based on his own play and directed by Laurie Lynd) and co-wrote and co-directed Parade (with Brad Fraser). Daniel's first feature film, Past Perfect, premiered at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, along with his screenplay adaptation of his play Marion Bridge, which won the CITY TV Best First Feature Award. His second feature film, Wilby Wonderful, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2004 and went on to screen at festivals around the world, including the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain where it was in competition. Daniel co-wrote and starred in Amnon Buchbinder's Whole New Thing, for which Daniel won Best Screenplay and Best Performance by an Actor at the Atlantic Film Festival.

In 2006, Daniel received the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama for I Still Love You a published collection of his plays. In May 2008 Daniel became the inaugural Senior Playwright In Residence at the Playwrights Colony at the Banff Centre.

RUIS WOERTENDYKE (Director, Wild Abandon) has been involved in the theatre for nearly fifty years as a director, playwright, and actor. He has directed more than one hundred shows including the non-academic New York premier of Peter Handke's Offending the Audience, Gunter Grass's The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising, and Mister Mister, also by Gunter Grass. He has directed Chekhov, Ibsen, Shakespeare, Euripides, etc. as well as many original plays. As an actor he played Arturo Ui in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Hartman Theatre, Aaron Burr in Alma, The Ghost of Spring Street at LaMama, and Chekhov's On the Harmfulness of Tobacco in various venues throughout the tri-state area. His one-act plays have been seen in festivals throughout the country. He authored the highly successful acting program at Pace University and is currently the Chair of the Performing Arts Department.

LISA SNYDER (Bob, See Bob Run and Founder, Swandive Studio). Lisa, 25, is a New York-based actress and producer. A graduate of Northwestern University's Theatre Arts and Psychology programs, she attributes her unique, raw acting approach to intensive training at the Russian Theatre School in St. Petersburg and the Stella Adler Studio of New York City.

MAX WOERTENDYKE (Steve, Wild Abandon). A native New Yorker, Max was most recently seen on stage in The Seagull at Columbia Stages and in No Man Can Serve Two Masters at the Times Square Arts Center. He was also featured in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 and can periodically be seen on "Guiding Light." Max is also the founding director of Backyart, a multi-disciplinary arts event based in Brooklyn and going into its second season.

SWANDIVE STUDIO: Founded by Northwestern University graduate Lisa Snyder, Swandive Studio is dedicated to the production of art that strives to communicate ideas larger than the forms themselves. We seek to reveal the beauty inherent in all things honest, however ugly they may seem on the surface. We believe that by exposing the bare truth, we can generate compassion and understanding among humanity.

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