'Kansas City Or Along The Way' To Be Presented At Fringe

 Set in Southern Ohio during the Great Depression, a chance encounter alters the course of Joseph and Louise's lives forever. Featuring powerful monologues set against a Woody Guthrie-inspired folk music soundtrack, KANSAS CITY OR ALONG THE WAY is about struggling to find a life worth living and how to find beauty in the challenges life throws you.

KANSAS CITY OR ALONG THE WAY features Rebecca Benhayon (Louise) and Adam Groves (Joseph) with design by Justin Sturges (Lighting Design) Bret Haines (Set Design).

The production, produced by Disgraced Productions as part of The New York International Fringe Festival, will play at The Milagro Theater at the CSV Cultural and Educational Center (107 Suffolk Street at the corner of Rivington and Delancey). Thursday, August 14 at 10pm. Sunday, August 17 at 12:30pm. Monday, August 18 at 7:45pm. Thursday, August 21 at 3:15pm. Saturday, August 23 at 9:45pm. Tickets ($15) are available at www.FringeNYC.org or by calling (212) 279-4488 or 1-888-FringeNYC.

Robert Attenweiler (Playwright) is a playwright and independent theater producer living in New York's East Village.  He received his M.A. in English from The Ohio State University and his M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied with Arthur Kopit, Doug Wright, and Neil LaBute, among others.  In 2005, he formed his production company, Disgraced Productions, through which he has produced five of his plays: Places Like Here (FringeNYC, 2005), Thick Like Piano Legs (The Red Room, 2006), Kansas City Or Along The Way (The Red Room, 2006), The Butterfield Tones (FRIGID New York, 2007), ...and we all wore leather pants (co-produced with Horse Trade Theater Group, UNDER St. Marks, 2007).  His new play, Torrents just ran at the TBG Arts Complex, produced by the Barracuda Theatre Club.  He is a member of the Lark Play Development Center and the Dramatists Guild and he was a recent recipient of a FAR rehearsal space grant from The Field.  He was a semi-finalist (top 25 of 2500) of the 2005 ABC Television Writing Fellowship and ...and we all wore leather pants was recently published in the New York Theatre Experience's Plays and Playwrights 2008.

Joe Stipek (Director) is a New York based actor/director. This is his fourth collaboration with Robert Attenweiler having acted in his plays The Butterfield Tones, ...and we all wore leather pants, and All Kinds Of Shifty Villains. He has also worked with Neil Pepe at The Atlantic Theater Company and Darren Aronofsky, as part of the Montana Meth campaign: montanameth.org.

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