World Premiere of YORKTOWN Plays the Abingdon, 8/28

THE DRAMA GARDEN is pleased to present the world premiere of YORKTOWN by Robert MannS (The Swan that Slept, Lincoln in the White House) and directed by DDCC Award Nominee ERIC C. DENTE.

YORKTOWN will play a 4-week limited engagement at the June Havoc Theatre at The Abingdon Theatre Complex (312 West 36th Street). Performances begin Friday, August 6thand continue through Saturday, August 28th.

YORKTOWN
In a field house overlooking the Colonial Army at the decisive battle of the American Revolution, two great Generals and their wives devote themselves to the cause of liberty, avow their love for one another and marshal the constitution of purpose, to birth a fledgling nation.

The production features: Tom O'Neill, Robbie Baum, Tommy Nelms and Jason Gray.

Tickets are $18.00. For reservations, please call 212-501-4811 or visit www.smarttix.com to purchase online.

For more information visit: www.dramagarden.com
BIOGRAPHIES

Robert MannS (Playwright) is the author of fifteen full length plays and more than 30 one acts. After studying philosophy and creative writing at Wayne State University, he began his theater experience at World Stage in Detroit on the production end: light and sound. In 1949 at 21 years of age, he opened the Lyric Theatre in downtown Detroit with productions of Shaw and Ibsen. Venturing to New York with his first finished one-act, Pygmalion and Galatea and after completing two more, Alan Schneider found a production for them with Lucille Lortel at her White Barn Theater in Westport, CT. A young John Astin was the Director. Next his one act, The Useless Man and the Useful Man was performed at the Actors Repertory Theater of Third Street in New York. In 2004. The Neighborhood Playhouse presented a very successful costumed reading of Lincoln in the White House (2004). Leaving New York City for Florida in 1960 and after productions at the Beaux Arts in Clearwater, FL, he moved to Atlanta. His three years with the National Audubon Society as its Southeastern Representative (1968-72) was very influential in the wildlife imagery in his plays. In Atlanta he was Director of Callenwolde Art Center and play writing (1972-75) and later an administrator and teacher at the Atlanta College of Art (1975-80) He also taught poetry at Emory University. His volume of verse, The Pines of Atlanta, won the endorsement of the Atlanta Bicentenial Commission (1976) A successful production of Night of the Frogs (1971) was followed by The Hedonists (1993), a reading at the Georgia Ensemble Theatre of The Lincoln Plays, Part I and II (1994), The Rats (1996), and a staged reading of his epic piece, Lincoln I and Lincoln II at the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern (1996). Other productions included his one-acts: The White Fish (1993) and Requiem for an Old Bus (1993) Upholding the Law (1998), and One Starling, Two Magpies(1998). In Maine where he currently resides, his productions include The Pendulum Swings in Belfast and elsewhere (2003), The Swan That Slept in Rockland ( 2005), One Manns' Maine in Damariscotta(2006)) and a costumed reading of Yorktown at the Knox Mansion in Thomaston (2008). Other plays include The Avian Connection, Boys will be Boys, Sautee and Nacoochee, Cry the Loon, and most recently, The Smithson Matter and The Greek Play.

ERIC C. DENTE (Director) Eric C. Dente - Artistic Director of The Drama Garden and Stage Director of Yorktown is a professional director, award winning playwright, sound designer, actor and a teacher of theatre arts. He is a member of Actors' Equity Association and has been a member of The Dramatists' Guild of America. Eric serves as a Guest Artist Director for NYU and Stella Adler Studio of Acting and as a guest artist actor for the Graduate Dramatic Playwriting program at NYU/Tisch. New York Directing Credits include: Brother, Mine at Manhattan Theatre Source; The Canterbury Tales, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Sandy Shores Shenanigans at The Theatre Arts Center; Fen, The Secret Rapture, Six Passionate Women, The Factory Girls and The Cripple of Inishmaan as a guest director at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting; Two Ships, Virgo Ascending and Courier Mercury at the 43rd Street Theatre Festival; Say You Love Me at ATA and Family for Sale at PGT. Regional Directing Credits Include: Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Othello, WoodyAllen's God "A Play," Apartment X "The Series," Bagels, Brecht and the Bourgeoisie, The Bottomless Cup, Three Men in Search of A Pair of Shoes, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, Little Women and Homecoming Hullabaloo. Eric's plays have been produced in theatres across the country to much acclaim. Most recent his comedic/thriller Langress and Munger Sittin' in a Tree, co-written with k.c. keene, was given a reading at The Manhattan Theatre Club space to great cheers and continues in development toward a commercial New York run. His newest contemporary re-imagining of a classic story, Twelve Nights premieres in July of 2010 at The Theatre Arts Center. His play, Brother, Mine also co-written with k.c. keene was awarded a DDCC Award, a Westword "best of" for the year and has been solicited by The Oregon Shakespeare Festival for consideration in their American History Cycle. His play Three Men in Search of a Pair of Shoes was nominated for best play of the year. Mr. Dente is working toward the completion of his first novel, The Re-Animators "A Gothic Tale of Science and Fire" A contemporary re-imagining of the Frankenstein Myth. Eric's Acting credits include the lead role in Cyrano De Bergerac, Stanley Kowalski in AStreetcar Named Desire, Dracula in Dracula, Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, Richard III, The Gentleman Caller in The Glass Menagerie, Mortimer Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace, Larry Foreman in the Mark Blitzstein musical Cradle Will Rock, conducted by Metropolitan Opera Conductor Jesse Levine and Orson Welles in Project 891. Eric has been a member of The Denver Center Theatre Company, Compass Theatre Company under the tutelage of Christopher Selbie former Associate of The Old Vic Theatre in Bristol, UK. He has had the great pleasure to work with some amazing stars of theatre and film including Olivier award winning actor Julian Glover, Mr. Dick Van Dyke, Raymond Burr and the generous Len Lesser.
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