AIRSWIMMING Makes DC Premiere as Part of Capital Fringe Festival

Charlotte Jones' Airswimming will get its area premiere as part of the seventh annual Capital Fringe Festival. Inspired by true events, Airswimming tells the story of two women who are incarcerated in an asylum for sexual deviancy and having a child out of wedlock in 1920s England. Forgotten by their families, the two women form a bond over their 50 year imprisonment in an alternate reality inspired by the one and only Doris Day.

BIOGRAPHIES

Charlotte Jones (Playwright) Her first play, Airswimming, was premiered at the Battersea Arts Centre, London and later broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In Flame was premiered in January 1999 at the Bush Theatre, London, and later revived at the New Ambassadors, London, in September 2000. Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis premiered at the Bolton Octagon in April 1999 and transferred to the Liverpool Everyman in May of that year. It won the Manchester Evening News Best Play Award and the Pearson Television Best Play Award of 1999. It was recently revived at the Watford Palace Theatre. Charlotte Jones won the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2000 for In Flame and Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis. Humble Boy was awarded the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, 2001, the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award, 2002, and the People's Choice Best New Play Award, 2002.

John Moletress (Director) is a theatre director and educator living in Washington, D.C. since May 2008. In 2009, he co-founded Factory 449: a theatre collective which was awarded the 2011 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company. For Factory 449:4.48 Psychosis; The Saint Plays; Magnificent Waste. For Source Theatre Festival: Foreign Tongue; Collapsing Silence. In September 2011, John premiered his new company force/collision, featured in July/August 2012 issue of American Theatre Magazine. For force/collision: What A Stranger May Know (Kennedy Center), The Nautical Yards (The Yards Park); Shape (Burning Coal Theatre, Atlas Performing Arts Center, La MaMa ETC). Tri-County Performing Arts: Pippin; The Crucible. Stages Repertory Theatre: Mistakes Were Made. Additionally, John is an adjunct faculty of acting at George Mason University as well as a respondent and panelist for the National Playwriting Program of the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival. John is also a member of SDC (Society for Stage Directors and Choreographers). JohnMoletress.com; force-collision.org

Capital Fringe is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 2005 with the purpose of connecting exploratory artists with adventurous audiences by creating outlets and spaces for creative, cutting-edge, and contemporary performance in the District.

AIRSWIMMING

part of the 7th Annual Capital Fringe Festival

July 15, 6:30PM | July 21, 7:30pm | July 24, 8:45pm | July 25, 6.15pm | July 29, 3:00pm

Goethe Institute – Gallery | 812 7th Street NW, Washington, DC 20001

TICKETS: CapitalFringe.org | 866.811.4111