Tribes Players Presents TV IN MY BONES at Theater for the New City

Tribes Players presents TV IN MY BONES, by C.S. Hanson, directed by Stephen Cedars, August 9 through 13, 2017, in the Cino Theater at Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, between 9th and 10th Streets.

TV IN MY BONES is a world of related, quirky short romantic comedies for TV junkies, stalkers, futurists, and the cultured set - in which colorful characters desperately pursue love.

Ensemble Cast: Devon Caraway*, Phoebe Mar, Jason Nuzzo*, Peter Oliver*, Katelyn Pearce, Michael Pettey, Alexander Stine, and Gabriel Wright*. *Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.

"After Tribes Players hiatus of a decade, I was inspired to bring this new C.S. Hanson play to Theater for the New City, the quintessential Off Off Broadway house here in the East Village, the neighborhood I've called home for nearly thirty years," said Steve Cannon, founder, A Gathering of the Tribes. "In this age where we often have more connection to our devices than one another, we're here to show that there is no substitute for live theater."

Tickets are $18 (preview tickets, $12); available at Smarttix.com or by calling (212) 868-4444. All details at www.facebook.com/TVINMYBONES/.

About the Producer: A Gathering of the Tribes is an arts and cultural organization dedicated to excellence in the arts from a diverse perspective. In 1991, Steve Cannon, poet, playwright, novelist, and retired professor from the City University of New York, converted a portion of his lower east side apartment into an informal salon. Despite his loss of eyesight to glaucoma, he encouraged the exchange of alternative points of view traditionally overlooked by mainstream media. The ideas raised in the discussions served as inspiration to the pieces later published in A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine.

About the Playwright: C.S. Hanson is an award-winning playwright based in NYC. Credits include: Play productions in NYC (Cherry Lane, Fringe Festival, Theater for the New City, The Brick, Metropolitan Playhouse, Estrogenius, 3Graces); Miami (CityTheatre), Washington, D.C. (The Source), Pittsburgh (New Works Festival), Denver (The Three Leaches), and Montreal (Montreal International Fringe Festival). Her work has been developed at The Lark, Culture Project, Lake George Theater Lab, EST, LaMaMa, Abingdon Theatre, Naked Angels, New Jersey Rep. Four of Hanson's plays have been named Heideman Award finalists at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Her plays are published by Smith and Kraus. Dramatists Guild member.

About the Director: Stephen Cedars is a writer, director and teacher originally from south Louisiana. His work has been produced or developed through Theatre Masters, the NY Fringe Festival, Incubator Arts Project, the Brick Theatre, the Downtown Urban Theatre Festival, Chashama, Theatre for the New City, Stella Adler Studios, NYU, the Reproductive Festival, Grain of Sand Theatre, Over Our Head Players, the Renaissance Guild, Valley Rep, the Working Theatre Collective, Fractal Productions and other theaters throughout the United States. For several years, he created and produced community programming in south Brooklyn designed for specific neighborhoods, funded through the Brooklyn Arts Council. His plays have been published by Original Works and IndieTheatreNow. Amongst his awards are the Theater Masters Visionary Playwright Award and Commission, a Fellowship with the Target Margin Institute for Collaborative Theater Making, a Residency with America-in-Play, and the John Golden Playwriting Prize. He has taught myriad subjects in the liberal arts to kids grade 2 through 12, and is a creative writing instructor with Writopia Labs and Kimball Studio, where he helps working actors develop their own writing. He earned his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU, which he attended as a Rita and Burton Goldberg Fellow.