Zayd Dohrn Presents LONG WAY GO DOWN at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, 6/11-27

Zayd Dohrn, award winning playwright and son of Bill Ayers, will be presenting his play, LONG WAY GO DOWN at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting (31 West 27th Street, Floor 3) as part of the Harold Clurman Lab Theatre. Performance dates are June 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 at 8:00 pm and June 13, 20 and 27 at 2:00 pm.

LONG WAY GO DOWN is a new play about a young Mexican couple, who is trapped at a way station when they can't pay off their debts to the American coyotes who smuggled them across the border. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at: link

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting® is an acting school based in New York City specializing in education services, namely, providing classes, workshops, and seminars in the field of acting and theatrical production. The actress and teacher Stella Adler founded the Studio in 1949. Adler founded the Studio on her belief in the seriousness of her art. Adler and the school have trained many of the brilliant actors of our time. The Stella Adler Studio of Acting is a nonprofit organization, which trains over 500 actors annually. The Studio also presents lectures, poetry readings, concerts, theater and dance performances, and an annual arts festival. More information at the school's website: link

Mr. Zayda Dohrn received his MFA from New York University and is currently a Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow at Juilliard. He is the artist in residence at the Harold Clurman Lab Theatre Company sponsored by the world renowned Stella Adler Studio of Acting. His plays have been produced and developed at The Public Theater, Woolly Mammoth, Marin Theatre Company, South Coast Repertory, The Alliance, Kitchen Dog, Magic Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, American Theater Company, Southern Rep, Boston Playwrights' Theatre and New Jersey Rep. He is a recipient of Lincoln Center's Lecomte du Nouy Prize, the Sky Cooper Prize, the Jean Kennedy Smith Award, an IRNE for Best New Play, and residencies with Ars Nova, Chautauqua and the Royal Court Theatre of London.