Written by
ALEXANDRA PANZER, TARA SCHUSTER, ALICE WINSLOW
Starring
JESSIE RENEE HOPKINS, ALEXANDRA PANZER, TARA SCHUSTER, ALICE WINSLOW
and CHRIS LOWELL* (The Help, Up in the Air, “Private Practice”, “Veronica Mars”)
Directed by PIRRONNE YOUSEFZADEH
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
AS PART OF THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL
TICKETS ON SALE now AT FRINGENYC.ORG
HIST 123 is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Alexandra Panzer, Tara Schuster, and Alice WinslowÂ’s I
It is the night of a secret recruiting session for a new, fresh-to-death revolutionary movement, led by three young women who are overwhelmed by their early 20s, swept up in the zeal of the Arab Spring, and taken by the boho chic ways of Occupy Wall Street. For them, globalization is too confusing, localism too provincial, and jeggings are too tight. Their goal: to overthrow the current world order. Their dilemma: who are their enemies, how will they overthrow them, and when exactly did they set their terror meeting, 1:30pm on Tuesday or Thursday?
As they explain the movement and attempt to recruit followers, revolution never looked this good, or went this badly.
The production stars Jessie Renee Hopkins, Alexandra Panzer, Tara Schuster, Alice Winslow, and Chris Lowell* (The Help, Up in the Air, “Private Practice”, “Veronica Mars”).
Produced by Jessica Kerry, I
I
Friday, August 10 at 9:00
Sunday, August 12 at 4:15
Monday, August 13 at 3:00
Wednesday, August 22 at 7:00
Sunday, August 26 at Noon
Tickets are $15 ($18 at the door) and are available July 20 online at www.FringeNYC.org. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the theater ½ hour prior to performance.
Running Time: 75 minutes
The Living Theatre (Fringe Venue #1)
21 Clinton St. New York, NY
Website: www.LadiesOfTheRevolution.com
Web Series: http://www.youtube.com/user/UhHuhYuup/featured
Photos: http://bit.ly/IHRPhotos
BIOGRAPHIES
ALEXANDER A. PANZER (Playwright/Actor) is an actor and production designer living in New York. She is a member of Brooklyn-based theater collective Piehole, and recently performed in Piehole’s 2 Stories That End in Suicide at HERE Arts Center (Mariella). Other recent performances include Antimatter Collective’s Death Valley (Adele), and an AIS Players production of Bert V. Royal’s Dog Sees God (CB’s Sister). Alexandra graduated from Brown University with a degree in Architectural Studies, and she studies improv at the Magnet Theater in New York. Her production design work can be seen in several Piehole productions as well as Epic Pictures’ feature film, Luster (dir. Adam Mason). Alexandra is a graphic designer at GigaOM Media.
TARA SCHUSTER (Playwright/Actor) is a producer, writer, and comedy person. She is a digital producer for Comedy Central where she most recently produced the web series “Obama Anger Translator,” which has been seen seven million times on YouTube. Additionally, she has produced and developed digital shorts featuring comedians including Aziz Ansari, Tracy Morgan and John Oliver. In 2012 she co-founded the YouTube comedy channel Uh.Huh.Yuup., for which she has written and performed two series: “Zooey-Isms,” a parody of manic-pixie-dream-girl Zooey Deschanel, and “Ladies Who List,” which explores the delight of list-making. Tara has written the plays BE BRAVE, ANNA (2008 New York Fringe Festival), i am eloise (Production Workshop), and MEDEACHEESEEXTREME (Honors Thesis, Brown University), and has worked behind the scenes of CRAWL, FADE TO WHITE (13 P), Under the Radar Festival (The Public Theater), and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She holds a BFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, where she studied playwriting under Bonnie Metzgar and Paula Vogel, and is currently studying improv at The Upright CitizenÂ’s Brigade.
ALICE WINSLOW (Playwright/Actor) was recently seen as Mariane in The Miser (Piper Theatre Productions); as Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Columbia Stages); Genevieve in Death Valley, part of Vampire Cowboy’s monthly saloon series; and as Cunegonde in Candide or Optimism at Gallery Players. As a founding member of experimental theater group Piehole, Alice has developed and performed in several shows, including 2 Stories that End in Suicide (HERE Arts Center, The Brick), Love & Geography (HERE Arts Center, Philly Fringe) and Tenticle: A Canticle (The Wild Project). Alice graduated from Brown University, where she was awarded Honors in Playwriting for work with advisor Paula Vogel. Her play In Memory of Memory was produced at Brown’s New Play Experience, and as a mini-workshop at New Georges.
PIRRONNE YOUSEFZADEH (Director) is a Brooklyn based theatre director. Recent projects include They Call Him Young Lou by Daniella Shoshan, Grace, or the Art of Climbing by Lauren Feldman (Barrymore Nomination, Outstanding New Play, NPTC, Philadelphia), and Big Love by Charles L. Mee. She is an Emerging Artist of Color Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop and the Interim Fellowship Coordinator, member of the 2011 Lincoln Center Directors Lab, New Georges Affiliated Artist and member of The Jam, and an alumna of the 2009-10 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Ensemble Studio Theatre Resident Director Program and Drama League Directors Project. Pirronne recently joined the faculty at Bard High School Early College and is a directing mentor at Fordham University and teaching artist at Two River Theater Company. She holds an M.F.A. in directing from Columbia University.
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