fat kids on fireDirected by Karen M. Dabney
Performance Dates
January 26th - February 6th
Showtimes
| Sundays: | 8:00pm |
| Mondays: | no show |
| Tuesdays: | 8:00pm |
| Wednesdays: | 8:00pm |
| Thursdays: | no show |
| Fridays: | no show |
| Saturdays: | 3:00pm |
Venue
Wings Theatre154 Christopher Street
(between Washington & Greenwich Sts.)
New York, NY 10014
Map This Location
| Subway: | PATH to Christopher St. (walk 1 block west) 1 to Christopher St. |
Pricing
| $15: | General Admission |
| $12: | Students Phare Play members |
Tickets
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For student and Phare Play member discounts, call (646) 241-0823 for reservations.
Back at home, 15 year old Bess is another angst-ridden teenager trying to fit in. But this summer, things are going to be different. Shirts come off, hearts are faint, first times are had, hands sweat, the sun burns. Campers and counselors alike are automatically drawn to the new skinny fat girl who's a definite shoe-in for the illustrious title of Camp Princess. Popularity, power, and self-worth get mixed up as Bess struggles to find her identity. Will she return to school a new woman or will her new self fade like the summer? Colored with sweat stains, stashed sweets, and the awkward innocence of first loves, award-winning playwright Bekah Brunstetter's Fat Kids on Fire is a candid telling of fitting in, living big, and feeling small.
Playwright: Bekah Brunstetter hails from North Carolina. She received her BA in Theater, with an Honors Thesis in Fiction Writing, from UNC Chapel Hill in 2004. As of May, she proudly holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from The New School for Drama. Her plays have been read and staged by The Rattlestick Playwright's theater, NYU's HotINK Festival of New Plays, Canada's NEXTFEST, The Alliance Theater, SPF, The Emerging Artists' Theatre, Boston Theater Works, Working Mans Clothes Productions, Manhattan Theatre Source, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Old Vic New Voices, the Soho Think tank, and in venues such as the Ohio Theater, the Atlantic, and Galapagos Art Space. Her works have been honored by the Cherry Lane Mentorship Program (nominee), The Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award, The Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, KCACTF, Actor's Theater of Louisville, and the Alliance Theater. Her play To Nineveh received Six New York Innovative Theatre Awards in September 2006, including Best New Full Length Play. Her play Sick won the 2006 Samuel French Short Play Competition. Most recently, she was honored as a finalist for the Alliance Theater's Kendeda graduate playwriting award for her play Green. She was a semi-finalist for the 2007 O'Neill Playwright's Conference, and the 2007 Princess Grace Award. A founding member of Working Man's Clothes Productions, she currently serves as its Director of New Play Development. Most recently, the Babel Theatre Project staged Brunstetter's new play, You May Go Now, at the 45th St. Theater, a production which nytheatre.com called "remarkable." Her plays are published by Samuel French, United Stages and Smith & Krauss. She is a contributing member of Working Man's Clothes Productions, Old Vic New Voices, and a member of the Dramatist's Guild and the Playwright's Center. She is also proudly a new addition to the Ars Nova Play Group.
Director:Karen M. Dabney - Upcoming productions include Any Number Can Die with the Amateur Comedy Club. Most recent credits include And Toto, Too, I Have It, Not So Bad Once You Get Used to It, A Stall of One's Own, Drift, Brother, The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year and Mom, Stoned. Other favorite productions include American Buffalo, Zipless, PIMP, Eleemosynary, and Sick, winner of the Samuel French Festival in 2006. AD, Black Snow. Directing Observer on Hamlet, directed by Shep Sobel at the Pearl Theatre. ASM, EST 29th Marathon, Series A. MFA in Directing, The New School for Drama, NY. BA, St. Olaf College, MN. |
Cast Rachel Lin (Bess) is a Stuyvesant High School alum who is currently pursuing her BFA in drama at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Favorite roles include Lucy Van Pelt (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown) and Diana Morales (A Chorus Line). It is her first year performing with the Village Playback Improv Company.
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Faye Rex (Claire) is an NYU Tisch Drama student at the Atlantic Theatre Company. Born in SoHo and bred in Jersey, she is very excited to be making her debut on a New York stage with Phare Play Productions.
Matt Farabee (Scott) is a native of North Carolina and a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Some of Matt's favorite roles have included The House of Yes (Anthony), Equus (Alan Strang), The Diviners (Buddy Layman), and Spring's Awakening (Moritz). Matt most recently stage managed Does the Body Good and sound designed Mary Brigit is Writing a Memoir in the NYC Fringe Festival and was also a faculty member with the National High School Institute/Cherubs program this past summer.
Erin McCarson (Cindy) hails from Yadkinville, North Carolina. Growing up, there were (and are) copious amounts of cows in her backyard. She received her BA in Dramatic Art and Communication Studies (focus in Performance Arts) from UNC Chapel Hill in 2004. Recent roles include Sweetie in Marriage Play (Fuckplays, WMC/The Thursday Problem) and Eliza in Happy Birthday/I'm Dead (Samuel French Finalist, WMC Binge Festival). Other credits include: Theatre: Fat Pig, Elephant Man, La Casa de Bernarda Alba, Gypsy, Closer, Oedipus Rox!, Happen, Exit Plato. TV: This American Life (Showtime), Improv Everywhere Pilot (NBC), 40 Greatest Pranks (Vh1), "Stop the Silence" National Campaign. Film: The Queen of Astoria. Erin is a member of Working Man's Clothes, Everybody Row Films, the girl band CUDZOO, and Improv Everywhere.
Amanda "Maggie" Hamilton (Nurse Joy) began performing and working in theater at the age of 12 and by the age of 22 had some 52 shows to her credit in all capacities of the theater from performing and directing to stage management and design. She studied theater in the South East and was most recently a student at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. October of 2007 she was seen on stage in Bekah Brunstetter's I Used to Write on Walls at Gene Frankel Underground and previously in Men Eat Mars Bars While Touching Their Penis at Under St. Marks. In 2006 Amanda won a New York Innovative Theatre Award as the producer of To Nineveh: A Modern Miracle. Ms. Hamilton is a founding member and Managing Director of Working Man's Clothes Productions, a prolific and award winning Off-Off Broadway Company.
Ryan Serhant (Mark) - Recent NY theatre: Purple Hearts (Lewis, Invisible City Theatre Company), Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), A Streetcar Named Desire (Stanley), Miss Julie (Jean). Regional: Brilliant Traces (Bennington Actor's Express). Ryan received his BA in Honors Theatre from Hamilton College in 2006. He has also studied at the Perry Mansfield School and at the Globe in London. Ryan currently plays the role of the mischievous, yet dashing biochemist, Evan Walsh IV on As the World Turns.
Mark Garkusha (Bridger) is very happy to be working on Fat Kids on Fire, and would like to thank all the wonderful people involved. Mark is a graduate of the Hartt school actor training program. Although Mark has performed all over the place in the U.S Ireland and England, you have probably never seen him in anything.
Kayla Kuzbel (MS) - Past credits include The Heidi Chronicles (Jill/April/Sandra), Company (Joanne), Nine (Saraghina), Footloose (Urleen), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Narrator), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Helena), Once Upon A Mattress (Winnifred), No No Nanette (Pauline), Mame (Gooch). WCSU Summa Cum Laude Graduate. Kayla sang in 2001 at The White House with the Connecticut Youth Jazz Workshop.
Noelle Fair (Bianca) - NYC/Off-Off Bway credits: Eleemosynary (Echo), The Merchant of Venice (Salarino), Those The River Keeps (Susie), Romeo and Juliet (Nurse). She also took part in the acclaimed GIRL POWER as part of the Estrogenius Festival at the Manhattan Theatre Source. Regional: I Am A Woman (Revisited), NINE, Macbeth, Julius Caesar (Baltimore Shakespeare Festival). She will make her Off-Broadway debut this May with "Roots and Branches" - an intergenerational theater company, at the Hudson Guild Theatre. Originally from the DC/Balto metro area, Noelle graduated from Towson University in 2006. When not acting Noelle plays with children for a living (literally), and is a teaching artist with Hudson Shakespeare Company.