RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER ANNOUNCES TWO-WEEK EXTENSION FOR WORLD PREMIERE OF “THE AMISH PROJECT” WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY JESSICA DICKEY, DIRECTED BY SARAH CAMERON SUNDE
New York, NY (June 24, 2009) – Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced a two-week extension (through July 12) of The Amish Project, “a remarkable exploration of loss and forgiveness beautifully written and performed by Jessica Dickey” (The New York Times, 6/19/09), directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde. Performances began on Thursday, June 4th.
Opening night was Wednesday, June 10th. The show, originally scheduled to close on June 28th, will now run through Sunday, July 12th.
A fictional exploration of true events, The Amish Project is the story of a schoolhouse shooting in an Amish community, and the path of forgiveness and compassion forged in its wake. Imbued with poetry and humor, The Amish Project investigates a community grappling with loss and faith. The show was a sensation in the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. It was workshopped at the Cherry Lane Theatre and is being presented in association with Nora Productions. The Amish Project is represented by Morgan Jenness at Abrams Artists Agency.
The creative team is comprised of Lauren Helpern (sets & costumes), Nicole Pearce (lights) and Jill BC DuBoff (sound). Kelly Shaffer is Production Stage Manager.
The Amish Project will have the following performance schedule for the
extension:
Monday, June 29 @ 8pm
Tuesday, June 30 @ 8pm
Wednesday, July 1 @ 8pm
Thursday, July 2 @ 8pm
Friday, July 3 @ 8pm
Saturday, July 4: NO SHOW
Sunday, July 5 @ 3pm
Monday, July 6 @ 8p
Tuesday, July 7: NO SHOW
Wednesday, July 8 @ 8pm
Thursday, July 9 @ 8pm
Friday, July 10 @ 8pm
Saturday, July 11 @ 2pm
Saturday, July 11 @ 8pm
Sunday, July 12 @ 3pm
Tickets are $35.00 and are available through SmartTix (212-868-4444) or www.smarttix.com <http://www.smarttix.com/> . Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is located at 224 Waverly Place (off Seventh Avenue South – between West 11th & Perry Streets).
Bios
Jessica Dickey (Writer/Performer) hails from Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, and lives in New York as an actor, writer and coach. She received her BFA from Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts; she also attended the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts.
New York credits have included Manhattan Theatre Club, Keen Company, Cherry Lane, AndHow! and HERE, with countless workshops and readings with Rattlestick, New Georges, Culture Project, and many others.
Regional credits have included multiple productions with Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, as well as the Denver Center, Portland Stage Company and the Dallas Theater Center. Television credits have included “Law and Order,” “The Education of Max Bickford” and the pilot of “Cop Shop,” the latter both starring Richard Dreyfuss. Developing new work is a passion for Jessica; she is a Founding Member of The Fire Dept and has birthed several new plays with The New Harmony Project. Jessica has been a writer all her life - from designing magazines when she was little (cover to cover!) to creating expressive arts curriculum for all ages (winning her the Bell Atlantic Leadership Award in 1997), to being a semi-finalist in the Emily Dickinson Poetry Contest in 2003, and now at the behest of her mentor, Arthur Laurents, a bourgeoning playwright.
The Amish Project is her playwriting debut. www.JessicaDickey.com.
Sarah Cameron Sunde (Director) is a New York-based theater director specializing in new American plays and contemporary plays in translation. Most recently, she directed Jon Fosse's Sa Ka La at 45 Bleecker Theaters, Peter Gil-Sheridan's What May Fall at The Guthrie Theater, and Elizabeth Hess' Living Openly and Notoriously at Baltimore Theatre Project. Since 2003, she has worked with Jon Fosse (Norway’s leading contemporary dramatist) as his director/translator in the United States. Her 2004 production of Night Sings Its Songs formally introduced American audiences to his work and her 2006 production of deathvariations led The New York Times to call Fosse’s work “fierce poetic simplicity.” Other international directing work includes U.S.
premiere productions of The Asphalt Kiss by Nelson Rodrigues (59E59 Theatre/Drama Desk nominated production*), Mirita by Christopher Dunkley (Cherry Lane Studio), and work abroad in England and Norway. Sarah’s work as Fosse’s translator has been published in PAJ (Performing Arts
Journal) and Words Without Borders. As a core member of Theatre Without Borders and co-founder of Oslo Elsewhere and the Translation Think Tank, she has spoken in venues throughout the country on the art of translation. Since 2001, Sarah has been the Associate Director of New Georges, an OBIE-winning downtown theater that develops and produces ambitious new work by women. New Georges directing credits include Good Heif by Maggie Smith, Velma, Dear by Carson Kreitzer, one week of 365
Days/365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks, and numerous readings and workshops.
Directing residencies and development programs: Voice & Vision’s ENVISION Retreat, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, New Harmony Project and Hermitage Foundation Residency. Awards include an American Scandinavian Society Artist Award and a Princess Grace Directing Fellowship/Robert &
Gloria Houseman Theater Award.
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is a multi-award-winning company which has produced over forty world premieres in the past fourteen seasons and was the recipient of the 2007 Ross Wetzsteon Memorial OBIE Award for its work developing new and innovative work. Rattlestick’s Advisory Board participates in The Emerging Playwrights Project, which matches a new playwright with an established artist for an experienced eye and creative support. Playwright and artist mentors have included Edward Albee, Jon Robin Baitz, Zoe Caldwell, Arthur Kopit, Craig Lucas, Joe Mantello, Terrence McNally and Marsha Norman. Previous plays include Two Boys in a Bed, Message to Michael, Carpool, Volunteer Man, A Trip to the Beach, Ascendancy, Stuck, Vick’s Boy, The Messenger, Saved or Destroyed, Neil’s Garden, My Special Friend, Faster, Bliss, St. Crispin’
s Day, Where We’re Born, Five Flights, Boise, Finer Noble Gases, God Hates The Irish: The Ballad of Armless Johnny, Miss Julie, Acts of
Mercy: passion-play, Cagelove, It Goes Without Saying, Dark Matters, Stay, American Sligo, Rag and Bone, War, Geometry of Fire, That Pretty Pretty; or The Rape Play, the Off-Broadway GLAAD Award-nominated hit The Last Sunday in June and Craig Wright’s The Pavilion (Drama Desk nominee
- Outstanding Play of 2005) and Lady (Drama Desk nominee – Outstanding Play of 2008)
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