GLUTEN! Opens at 59E59 Theaters Next Month

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer; Brian Beirne, Managing Director) is thrilled to welcome Adjusted Realists with the US premiere of GLUTEN! written by Stephen Kaliski and directed by Mr. Kaliski and Amanda Holston. GLUTEN! begins performances on Thursday, November 19 for a limited engagement through Saturday, December 5. Press opening is Tuesday, November 24 at 7:30 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Thursday at 7:30 PM; Friday at 8:30 PM; Saturday at 2:30 PM & 8:30 PM; and Sunday at 3:30 PM. Please note, there are no performances on November 25 and November 26. Performances are at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues). Tickets are $18 ($12.60 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or go to www.59e59.org.

Newlyweds Copious Fairchild and Hibiscus Van der Waal are doing everything they can to conceive a child. They've moved into a dazzling new apartment that's free of all the common killers, including plastic, sunlight, and IKEA. They're seeing the best doctors. They're even trying sex the new way, but that doesn't seem to be working out too well. When Copious' estranged hippie mother and her mysterious companion pay an unexpected visit with a radical proposition, Copious and Hibiscus suddenly face an impossible decision, one that may cure their malady but still kill them in the process. This post-apocalyptic comedy is a timely romp that exposes demonic glutens in the less obvious culprits of language, parenthood, sexuality, and (of course) God.

The cast features Shawna Cormier, Maggie Low, Jeremiah Maestas (Macbeth at Lincoln Center), Roger Manix, and Josh Tobin (4000 Miles at Baltimore Center Stage).

The design team includes Jason Sherwood (set design), Jessica Greenberg (lighting design), William Mellette (costume design) and Matt Sherwin (sound design/original music). The production stage manager is Haejin Han.

Stephen Kaliski (playwright/co-director) is a director, playwright, and educator. Directing credits include Pterodactyls (Teatro Circulo), A Midsummer Night's Dream and In the Next Room or the vibrator play (Yale Dramatic Association), Vinegar Tom (Manhattanville College), The Minervae (On the Square; Backstage "Critic's Pick"), This (Proprietors Theatre Company), Cardenio, The Violet Hour and The Dumb Waiter (Brooklyn College), West Lethargy (59E59, Edinburgh Fringe, New York Fringe), and His Minute Hand (Hollywood Fringe, 45 Bleecker). Playwriting credits include West Lethargy, which was published in Plays and Playwrights 2011 (ed. Martin Denton), His Minute Hand, Any May Now, and Memoriam, a sequel to Euripides' Alcestis. He has worked with such directors as Austin Pendleton (Three Sisters, Assistant Director) and Michael Grandage (Evita on Broadway, SDC Traube Fellow) as well as with The Royal Shakespeare Company, Classic Stage Company, and LAByrinth Theater Company. Stephen received his BA in English from Davidson College and his MFA in directing from Brooklyn College. He's taught acting, directing, public speaking, and master classes on leadership and joy at Fordham, Brooklyn College, NYU, LIU Post, Yale, The Professional Performing Arts School, Talent Unlimited High School, and BMCC. He's also the co-founder of Upright // Outloud, a corporate training group that specializes in public speaking and postural realignment.

Amanda Holston (co-director) is a theater artist and educator now based in Philadelphia. She is happy to return to work with Adjusted Realists after her previous foray into directing (and creature-building) with last summer's production of Pterodactyls. Acting credits include: Blue Bloods (CBS); A Respectable Wedding (World Wide Lab - Irondale); In Conflict (The Culture Project - Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Long Wharf Theater, Barrow Street Theater); To Fool the Eye (1812 Productions). Amanda received her BA in Theater from Temple University and her MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College. Amanda is a posture educator offering private and group structural alignment coaching for actors and laypersons alike. She's also a professor of public speaking and the co-founder of Upright // Outloud, a corporate training group that specializes in public speaking and postural realignment.