Real Optimized Boyfriend Held At The Tank 4/16

Real Optimized Boyfriend held Saturday, April 16, 2011; 3:00pm - Free at The Tank at 354 W. 45th Street, New York, NY 10036

A, C, E, to 42nd Street; 1, 2, 3, S, 7 to Time Square

About The Show

Real Optimized Boyfriend, a staged reading
An extension project of NYU's Gallatin Graduate School of Individualized Study
Real Optimized Boyfriend follows Eiko, a brilliant young Japanese scientist living in America, who creates the perfect robot boyfriend to escape an arranged marriage by her traditional family. Through it all, Eiko comes to find that living life is far more complicated than building it, but making someone love you may be the most difficult feat of all.

About the Artists:

Miyoko Conley (Playwright) is a playwright and an actor. Recent plays include The Joke, a part of Second Generation's Free Range festival, Seiza no Ai (Constellation Love), presented at the Gallatin School, and Stories of Eternal Light, presented at the Experimental Theatre Wing. She was also a collaborator with many other writers and artists on Hamlet Rave, a multimedia, multi-national interpretation of Hamlet. As a performer, Miyoko was last seen in Paper Wings, a shadow-puppet play, and in NAATCO's The House of Bernarda Alba. BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

Leah Hamos (Director) Since moving to New York, she has worked with New York Theatre Workshop and the Lark Play Development Center in development and dramaturgy, respectively. She spent the 2008-2009 Season working at Rorschach Theatre and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in her hometown of Washington, DC where her dramaturgical credits include work on DEAD CITY and world premieres ANTEBELLUM and FEVER/DREAM. Leah currently works at Abrams Artists Agency while completing her Masters studies.

About The Tank
Founded in 2003, The Tank is a non-profit arts presenter whose mission is to provide a welcoming, creative, collaborative, and affordable environment for artists and activists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas. Through a wide range of low-cost, high-concept arts and public affairs programming, The Tank seeks to cultivate a new generation of audience for live performance, civic discourse, and the work of emerging artists. Follow The Tank on Twitter (@thetanknyc), Facebook, Tumblr and Wordpress.

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