Theater For The New City Presents TOO MUCH TOO SOON 9/29-10/9

Theater for the New City (Crystal Field, Artistic Director) has announced that it will present Too Much Too Soon, an evening of short plays by Nikole Beckwith, Dean Imperial, Nick Jones, Melissa Ross, Emily Schwend, and Ken Urban, beginning Thursday, September 29 and running through Sunday, October 9 at Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, between 9 and 10 Streets. Too Much Too Soon, which was commissioned by Red Elevator Productions and Lesser America, is directed by Stephen Brackett and Portia Krieger.

Too Much Too Soon is a sequel to Red Elevator's production of Too Little Too Late, which ran at HERE Arts Center in 2010 and earned three New York Innovative Theater Award nominations, including Best Short Play, Best Actress in a Featured Role, and Best Ensemble. That production included work by Lucy Alibar (Sundance Screenwriting Award), Bekah Brunstetter (Be A Good Little Widow), Sam Forman (The Moscows of Nantucket), Amy Herzog (4000 Miles - Lincoln Center, After the Revolution - Playwrights Horizons), Elizabeth Meriwether (No Strings Attached, New Girl) and Daniel Talbott (Yosemite - Rattlestick, Theater Hall of Fame Fellowship Award).

Too Much Too Soon features several cast members returning from Too Little Too Late, including Daniel Abeles (Offices by Ethan Coen - Atlantic), Craig Jorczak (Awesome 80s Prom), Anna O'Donoghue (Rock 'n' Roll), and Laura Ramadei (Squealer). It also features Liesel Allen Yeager and Nate Miller (Keep Your Baggage With You At All Times).

Lesser America is a burgeoning theater company, currently in residence at Theater for the New City. Too Much Too Soon is the second theatrical venture of the company's inaugural season. The team's first show, Squealer, played to full houses and enthusiastic critical praise. Lesser America was founded by Daniel Abeles, Jonathan Blitstein, Nate Miller and Laura Ramadei. www.lesseramerica.com

Red Elevator Productions is a Production Company that utilizes multiple
mediums to foster a cooperative relationship between performing arts & the emerging
technological revolution, creating work that showcases the myriad talents of rising
artists and cultivates creative ways for those artists to engage with their audience.
www.redelevatorproductions.com

Theater for the New City is a Pulitzer Prize winning community cultural center that is known for both its quality artistic work and unique widespread community
service. One of New York's most prolific theatrical organizations, TNC produces 30-40
premieres of new American plays per year, at least 10 of which are by emerging and
young playwrights. Many influential theater artists of the last quarter century have
found TNC's Resident Theater Program instrumental to their careers, among them Sam
Shepard, Moises Kaufman, Richard Foreman, Charles Busch, Maria Irene Fornes,
Miguel Piñero, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Vin Diesel, Oscar Nuñez, Laurence Holder,
Romulus Linney and Academy Award Winners Tim Robbins and Adrien Brody. TNC also presents plays by multi-ethnic/multi-disciplinary theater companies who have no
permanent home. TNC seeks to develop theater audiences and inspire future theater
artists from the often-overlooked low-income minority communities of New
York City by producing minority writers from around the world and by bringing the
community into theater and theater into the community through its many free Festivals.
TNC productions have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and over 42 OBIE Awards for
excellence in every theatrical discipline. TNC is also the only Theatrical Organization to
have won the Mayor's Stop The Violence award. Facebook.com/theaterforthenewcity; Twitter.com/tncinnyc

Too Much Too Soon plays at Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, between 9th and 10th Streets, Thursday, September 29 through Sunday, October 9 on the following schedule Thursday through Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 3pm. Tickets are $15 (with a $10 student ticket) and may be purchased at www.smarttix.com. For more information visit www.theaterforthenewcity.net.