New Drama BUZZER Coming to ACT in February

AJ Epstein Presents, in collaboration with ACTLab, announce the West coast premiere of Tracey Scott Wilson's Buzzer coming to ACT in February. Directed by Anita Montgomery, Buzzer is a story about class, money, race, love, and fear set in a rapidly changing urban environment.

Jackson went to all the right schools, has the perfect job, an amazing girlfriend - Suzy, and they've just moved into a high-end, newly remodeled apartment building in his old neighborhood. Except Jackson's old hood is being completely overhauled into a place that's barely recognizable and going home again has its drawbacks. When Jackson invites his best friend Don - a white guy recently out of rehab, to stay with him and Suzy, they stir up a world of trouble that Jackson thought he had left behind.

"In the skillful play Buzzer the issue (of gentrification) is examined from a more intimate point of view" - New York Times

"Sizzling drama about race, real estate, and sexual betrayal" -Chicago Tribune

Cast

Andrew Lee Creech - Jackson

Chelsea LeValley - Suzy

Spencer Hamp - Don

Artistic Team

Director - Anita Montgomery

Scenic Design - Catherine Cornell

Lighting Design - AJ Epstein

Sound Design - Dominic CodyKramers

Costume Design - Pete Rush

Producer - AJ Epstein

About the Playwright

Tracey Scott Wilson's additional productions include Order My Steps for Cornerstone Theater Company's Black Faith/AIDS project in Los Angeles; Exhibit #9, which was produced in New York City by New Perspectives Theatre Company and Theatre Outrageous; Leader of the People produced at New Georges; Buzzer at Pillsbury House Theatre and the Goodman Theatre. Wilson's work has received readings at New York Theatre Workshop, Second Stage Theatre, The Public Theater, the Williamstown Theatre Festival and Soho Theatre Writers Centre in London. Awards and residencies include two Van Lier fellowships from the New York Theatre Workshop, a residency at the Sundance Institute Playwright's Retreat at Ucross and the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, the 2001 Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, the 2003 AT&T Onstage Award, the 2004 Whiting Writers Award, the 2004 Kesselring Prize, the 2007 L. Arnold Weissberger Award and the 2007 Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship. In 2009, she was the writer-in-residence at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Wilson has taught and guest lectured at Brown University, Yale University, Rutgers University and New York University. The Story and The Good Negro have been published by Dramatists Play Services.