T. Schreiber Theatre Presents New York Revival of THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT

T. Schreiber Theatre (TST) celebrates its 48th Anniversary with the first play of their 2016-17 Season, The Motherf**ker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis. The production is the first New York revival of the play since the Broadway run in 2011.

Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2015 for his play Between Riverside and Crazy and co-created the hit Netflix series The Get Down with Baz Luhrmann.

The Motherf**ker with the Hat is directed by TST Artistic Director Peter Jensen whose production of Balm in Gilead, won a 2011 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Play. Producing Director Halle Morse produces the show. Jennifer Weiser assistant directs. TST is currently nominated for 13 New York Innovative Theatre (NYIT) awards, including Outstanding Premiere Production of a Play for Natural Life, and Outstanding Revival of a Play for Hot L. Baltimore and Harper Regan.

Jackie's life is on the verge of coming together. He was just released from jail, joined AA, and has a new sponsor helping him stay clean and sober. Then there's Veronica, his childhood sweetheart. When the smell of Aqua Velva, and a hat comes between them, sparks fly. Fast, furious and filled with sharp poetic dialogue and flawed, colorful, wounded characters, The Motherf**ker with the Hat crackles with truth, humor and a sense of hope. A dark comic tale about friendship, love, addiction, and the difficulties of adulthood in New York City.

The cast features Jill Bianchini (The Hot L Baltimore/T. Schreiber Theatre), Casey Braxton (The Barbecue/13th Street Repertory Theater), Omar Bustamante (The Last Days of Judas Iscariot/T. Schreiber Theatre), Robby Ramos (Contigo/Signature Theatre), and Viviana Valeria (ROACH/Independent Film).

The creative team includes set design by Miguel Urbino, lighting design by Eric Cope, sound design by Andy Evan Cohen, costume design by Sherry Martinez, property design by Lilian Sun, stage management by Clarissa Marie Ligon, assistant stage managers Tai Thompson and Jessica Baird, production assistant Raquel Loving, and technical director Ana Dratz.

The Motherf**ker with the Hat runs tonight, October 19, through November 19, Wednesday - Saturday at 8:00 pm, matinees, November 9 & 16 at 2:00 pm. Tickets are $20.00 general admission, $30.00 reserved seating, and $40.00 for dinner and show package with Crompton Ale House. Tickets are now available at www.TSchreiber.org/MOFO - Performances take place at T. Schreiber Theatre, 151 West 26th Street, 7th Floor (between 6th & 7th Ave.), New York, New York 10001. Subways 1/N/R to 28th Street, F/M/C/E to 23rd. Running time: 1:40

Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2015 for his play Between Riverside and Crazy. Additional plays include Our Lady of 121st Street , Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, The Little Flower of East Orange, and The Motherf**ker with the Hat which opened on Broadway in 2011. He co-created the 2016 hit Netflix series, The Get Down with Baz Luhrmann.

Prior to joining T. Schreiber Studio & Theatre as Artistic Director, Peter Jensen was a member of the Core Faculty of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and served as the 3rd year Academy Company Director. He studied with Terry Schreiber, Uta Hagen, Chuck Olsen (Actor's Studio), 78th Street Theatre Lab. Directing credits at T. Schreiber include Hot L Baltimore nominated for NYIT Outstanding Production, Balm in Gilead winner of the 2011 NYIT Award for Outstanding Production The Pillowman, Lobby Hero, Joking Apart, Hurlyburly, A Taste of Honey, Marvin's Room, You Can't Take It With You, The Real Inspector Hound, The Actor's Nightmare, Fifth of July and Doubt. Other NY directing credits include the premier of John Patrick Shanley's Poisen and Incendiary Agents with Nylon Fusion, The Glass Menagerie at the Sanford Meisner Theatre. Regionally Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and Biloxi Blues. Peter directed his first film Danni written by Diane Reilly premiering this fall, As an actor starred in films Metamorphosis, The Bite, The Father, the PBS Reel Short Contest winner, A Memory, as well as Unexpected Company, The Trailer Park Prophet, and Razor.

T. Schreiber Theatre, under the Artistic Direction of Terry Schreiber and Peter Jensen began operations in conjunction with Terry Schreiber's acting studio in 1969, at the beginning of the Off-Off Broadway movement. With the mission to advance the art of acting by creating an environment in which rigorous professional training, tested by the demands of performance, achieves fulfillment in an Off-Off Broadway venue that nourishes artists through lifelong membership and engages a diverse audience. Since its inception, TSS has been awarded numerous Backstage Readers Choice Awards and has been singled out by Show Business Weekly as one of the top New York Performances of 2011 for their production of Balm in Gilead. In addition, the theatre has been nominated for over 25 NYIT Awards, winning several, including Outstanding Production of a Play for their production of Balm in Gilead.

More information is available at www.tschreiber.org.