As part of an effort to introduce themselves to the new, local artists working in Michigan’s professional theatre scene, The New Theatre Project is pleased to offer complimentary tickets to all current apprentices on Sunday, February 26 at 8 pm.
“These are our most valuable, hard-working, and underappreciated group of young people working in the theatre. I know, I was there,” says Artistic Director Keith Paul Medelis. “We are working with two current apprentices on this show. Somehow they have found time in their busy schedules to serve as the director and properties designer. We’re thrilled to have them and can’t wait to introduce our company to others and possibly provide professional work for them someday.”
Reservations are strongly recommended for Apprentice Night. And of course industry folk and former apprentices are welcome as well for the low industry price of $10.
Lucy and Chris are typical American twenty-somethings struggling to survive the Great Recession with their dignity intact. They hate their jobs like most everybody else, but they need the insurance, and at least they have each other. Right? When Chris loses his job, he convinces Lucy they should launch a boutique sex website and sell the idea of her as an all-American girl next door, somehow both pure and hedonistic at the same time.
Kevin Kautzman, originally from North Dakota, is pursuing his M.F.A. with a focus in playwriting and screenwriting as a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He began studying playwriting in London at The Royal Court Theatre, where he became a core writer out of the Young Writers Program. He has received commissions from Red Eye and History Theatre, and his work has been performed, read and/or developed at places including the American Story Project, the Living Theatre, The New Theatre Project, Nouveau 47, The Players’ Guild Theater, the Playwrights’ Center, Poliglot Theater, the Soho Theatre Studio (UK), the UK National Student Drama Festival, and Zeitgeist Theater. Honors include the Jerome and Michener fellowships and Tennessee Williams Scholarship for Then Waves, Lavender Magazine’s Best Playwriting for Iris and the International Student Playscript Competition and Repertory Theatre Iowa’s Alpha Project awards for Coyote. He has been a finalist for the Yale Drama Series and Pen Center awards (Then Waves) and the NNPN Smith Prize for Quiver. Kevin is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota, where he studied history and philosophy, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild Inc., the Playwrights’ Center, and Scriptworks.
If You Start a Fire is directed by Natividad M. Salgado and features Peter Giessl and Ensemble member Elise Randall. The show plays through March 4, 2012 with performances taking place Friday-Sunday at 8 pm.
All performances take place at the Mix Studio Theater, 130 W. Michigan Ave. at the corner of Washington and Michigan. The entrance is through Mix which will be open prior to all performances.
