Dixon Place Presents TUMBLEWEED

DIXON PLACE, presents Marcus Scott's Tumbleweed on August 24, 2018 through August 26, 2018 (performances take place Friday & Saturday, August 24 & 25 at 8:00pm & Sunday, August, 26 at 2:00 pm). Following an interracial family living in a townhouse within the Morningside Park area of New York's Upper West Side over the course of a weekend, TUMBLEWEED is a slice of life drama about a young girl named Willow whose off-putting natural hair combined with both her family's open acceptance of it and lack of maintenance, as well as her blooming womanism, causes controversy in the household. Tensions stir even more so when they get a visit from the patriarch's estranged no-nonsense mother, a former affiliate of the Black Panther party. The play explores beauty standards both in and out of the black community, ethnic relations, the mixed race family, coming of age, interracial marriage and parenting, relationships, womanist identity and the visibility of black men in the family dynamic.

Featuring: Dana Aber*, Jerome Brooks Jr.*, Reneé Flemings*, Anthony Franqui, Karen Joy Pangantihon*, Emma Claye, KC Morse, Alana Barrett Adkins, Sunny Choi, and Schuyler Van Amson.

*Actors appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

Produced by KC Morse, with executive producers the Schwartz Family, associate producers Joann Price & Edwin Shirley, and co-producer Van Amson Family For The Arts.

Directed by Justin Schwartz. Movement & Choreography by Yasmeen Audi. Lighting and Sound Design by Zachary Heffner. Scenic Design By Brian Paccelli.

Marcus Scott's Tumbleweed plays Dixon Place (161A Chrystie Street) runs August 24, 2018 through August 26, 2018. There is a $18 general admission. Tickets and information are available at www.dixonplace.org. For more information, please call: (212) 219-0736.

Marcus Scott is a playwright, musical theater writer, journalist and blogger challenging the representation of race, gender, sexuality, class and intersectionality in popular media, the performance arts and international affairs. His writing has appeared in Soule, Elle, Out, Essence, Uptown, Clutch, Trace, Backstage, Playbill, Passport, Edge Media Network, Broadway Black, Giant, Hello Beautiful, NewsOne, The Urban Daily, Madame Noire, Styleblazer, Bleu, Krave, among others. He also served as a Writing Fellow for Crazy Town Blog. He has appeared in interviews, features and reviews conducted by The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Into, Very Good Light, Get Out Magazine, Estadão, Stage Buddy, American Theatre, Broadway World and NPR. Scott was the 2016-17 Musical Theatre Fellow at Playwrights Horizons.

His plays include "Tumbleweed" (Finalist for the 2017/2018 Humanitas Play LA Workshop, finalist for the Playwrights Foundation's 2017 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, finalist for the 2017 Festival of New American Plays at Austin Playhouse, finalist for the New Play Development Workshops with the 2017 Black & Latino Playwrights Conference at Texas State University; semi-finalist for the 2017/2018 New Dramatists Princess Grace Fellowship Award, semi-finalist for the 2015-2016 Random Access Workshop Readings and the 2016 Premiere Stages Play Festival). His one-act "Malaise" was a recipient at the 2015-2016 Fruitie Awards, where it was honored with the Pomegranate Seeds Award for 'Outstanding Ensemble Effort.' His musicals include "Cherry Bomb" (recipient of the 2017 Drama League First Stage Artist-In-Residence, 2017 Finalist for the Yale Institute for Music Theatre). Other plays include "Blood Orange" (2017 Fresh Fruit Festival), "Double Rainbow" (2017 Fresh Fruit Short Play Competition), "The Vitruvian Man" (with Avi Amon; NYU), and "Cooking with Julia" (with Jesse Goldman; NYU), among others. His work has received readings or development at Joe's Pub, 54 Below, Cherry Lane Theater (Downtown Urban Arts Festival), Theater 80 St. Marks (Downtown Urban Arts Festival), Baruch Performing Arts Center (Heartbeat Opera), Mister Rogers (Exquisite Corpse Company), Judson Memorial Church (Fresh Ground Pepper), CoLAB Arts, The Jewel Box Theater (Midtown International Theater Festival), TADA! (Emerging Artist Theatre New Works Series), New York Musical Theatre Festival (at the Pershing Square Signature Theatre), the Goodspeed Opera House, the National Black Theatre (Keep Soul Alive reading series), The Actors Company Theatre (Musical Theatre Factory), The PIT Loft, The PIT Underground, NYU Tisch, the Nuyorican Poets Café, the Wild Project, MicroTheater Miami and Theater for the New City.

Scott is the recipient of the Buffalo State College Phillip Santa Maria Award for Student Leadership in Equity and Campus Diversity. He is a two-time National Black Theatre I AM SOUL Playwrights Residency finalist, a finalist for the 2016 Fresh Ground Pepper PlayGround PlayGroup, a finalist for the 2016-2017 R & D Group at The Civilians, a finalist for the SPACE on Ryder Farm Writer Residency (2017), and semifinalist for The 'Wright Club Team with The Amoralists. Scott is also the recipient of the Fresh Ground Pepper Artist-In-Residence BRB Retreat and One Co. Writers' Residency at Little Farm. Scott is a co-moderator of Musical Theatre Factory's POC Roundtable and is a member of Athena Theatre Company's 2018 Athena Writes Playwriting Group and Liberation Theatre Company's 2018-2019 Writing Residency Program. BA/BFA: State University College at Buffalo, MFA: NYU.

An artistic incubator since 1986, Dixon Place is a Bessie and Obie Award-winning non-profit institution committed to supporting the creative process by presenting original works of theater, dance, music, puppetry, circus arts, literature & visual art at all stages of development. Presenting over 1000 creators a year, this local haven inspires & encourages diverse artists of all stripes & callings to take risks, generate new ideas & consummate new practices.

The artist's experience is given top priority through our professional atmosphere and remuneration, and their process is enhanced through the reaction of our adventurous audiences. Dixon Place is a local haven for creativity as well as an international model for the open exploration of the process of creation. If you have work that would be appropriate for Dixon Place, please read our open submissions policy.

Located at 161A Chrystie street, Dixon Place features up to three shows nightly with cover charges ranging from $18-$30.