Horse Trade Presents THE DRAFTS FEST: ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE IMPOSSIBLE

Sex, guns, cigarettes and senile agitation, this short play festival is inspired by classic print ads that are actually a bit shocking. The Drafts Fest is the collaborative effort of six playwrights, six directors, and eight multifaceted actors. Playwrights receive randomly compiled cast lists and create stories tailored to The Drafts based on this year's theme, Accidental Discharge Impossible.

THE DRAFTS FEST: ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE IMPOSSIBLE, presented by Horse Trade Theater Group, will play a limited two week engagement at The Red Room (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery), May 5-14, Thursday through Saturday at 7pm. Tickets ($18/$12 students & seniors) are available online at www.horseTRADE.info or by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444.

Hard to Kill
Written by Aliza Einhorn,
Directed by Danny Sharron
Featuring Penny Pollack and Gary Warchola
There is a plague in this city! Or, how the dreaded bedbug brought two New Yorkers together.

Senile Agitation
Written by Quinn D. Eli
Directed by Shay Gines
Featuring Amanda Von Nostrand and Quinn Warren
Two sisters contemplate a complex proposition for the care of their ailing grandmother.

Paper Rose of Sarajevo
Written by Eric Kingrea
Directed by Nicole Watson
Featuring JB Rote and Evan Taylor Walker
Tripp has come up with the perfect caper that will get him away from his mother and his trailer park life: selling cigarettes... in a war-torn Balkan state.

A Better Destiny for Bethany
Written by Derek McPhatter
Directed by Nicole Gerhing
Featuring Yesenia Tromp and Matthew Wise
Bethany's the biggest fan for the best-est boy band you've never heard of. And tonight she's finally putting the publicity stunts, medications, restraining orders, hallucinations and whatever else behind her...we hope.

The Bling and the Bang Of It
Written by Megan Hill
Directed by Axel Avin Jr.
Featuring Evan Taylor Walker and Amanda Von Nostrand
A woman enters a jewelry store to buy a gun...

Pigeons, Sharks, and Vixens
Written by Matthew-Lee Erlbach
Directed by Randi Rivera
Featuring Penny Pollack and Matthew Wise
When sex meets commerce, Lance and Kara struggle to find redemption, resolution, and relief in a world that has forced them to the edge.

THE DRAFTS are a non-equity ensemble of actors who are relatively new to the New York theater scene. The mission of The Drafts is to develop new plays. Like their namesake, The Drafts are a group of versatile actors from largely varied backgrounds and experiences. They are the most talented New York actors you've never heard of!

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work, it has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent Theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York - the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.