Cast of Pretty Theft Announced

March 2009

Greetings!

February may be the shortest month of the year, but for your friends at Flux, it was one of the busiest.

We participated in Partial Comfort Productions' Battle of the Bards, coming in second for the raucous Audience Favorite Award!

We prepared for our newest staged reading series, Poetic Larceny.

We rehearsed our third Food:Soul, Erin Browne's Narrator One, which played last Sunday to great warmth and cheer.

AND...we cast our upcoming Spring production of Adam Szymkowicz's Pretty Theft! Yup, it's been a busy and productive month, and with Pretty Theft tickets going on sale March 17th, we're only getting started.

Read on, and help us make it all happen.

In This Issue

Food:Soul - Narrator One

Save the Dates - Poetic Larceny

Cast of Pretty Theft Announced

How to Help

Food:Soul - Narrator One

(Pictured: Michael Davis, Scott Ebersold, Brian Murray, Christina Shipp, Jake Alexander, Erin Browne, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Cotton Wright)

On Sunday March 8th, Flux held the third entry in our potluck play reading series Food:Soul with a staged reading of Erin Browne's beautiful play, Narrator One. Read more about play and evening here, and check out pictures from the event here. A special thanks to the cast, director Scott Ebersold, and Erin for their wonderful work!

Save the Dates for Poetic Larceny

In honor of our Spring production of Pretty Theft, Flux will present the staged reading series Poetic Larceny to further explore the theme of what beauty gives and takes.

Over four nights of theatre, sixteen playwrights will 'steal' three things - a line, a character, a theme, a location, anything - from the play before them. See what happens when playwrights like Johnna Adams (The Angel Eaters Trilogy), David Ian Lee (Sleeper), Rob Ackerman (Tabletop), Crystal Skillman (The Telling Trilogy) and more steal a little inspiration from each other.

The plays of Poetic Larceny will be staged over four Mondays: April 6th, April 13th, May 4th and May 11th. Keep your eyes open for an e-blast coming soon with more information on casts, directors, and locations!

Cast of Pretty Theft Announced

(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Candice Holdorf, Brian Pracht)(Photo: Johnna Adams. Pictured Cotton Wright, Marnie Schulenburg)

Tickets go on sale March 17th - check your inbox then for early bird discounts!

Pretty Theft

by Adam Szymkowicz

Director: Angela Astle
Stage Manager: Kate August
Choreography: Ashley Martinez
Scenic Design: Heather Cohn
Sound Design: Kevin Fuller
Costume Design: Becky Kelly
Lighting Design: Andrew Fritsch

Allegra: Marnie Schulenburg
Suzy: Maria Portman Kelly*
Joe: Brian Pracht
Bobby: Zack Robidas
Marco: Todd D'Amour*
Ballerina/Waitress/etc: Candice Holdorf*
Ballerina/Supervisor/etc: Cotton Wright*
Ballerina/Psychiatrist/etc: Lynn Kenny

We are so excited by the cast and crew assembled for our Spring production of Pretty Theft! Flux Members Candice Holdorf (Rue, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 8 Little Antichrists, F:S of This Storm Is What We Call Progress) and Cotton Wright (Rue, Angel Eaters, Channeling, F:S of Narrator One) return, as do Flux friends Brian Pracht (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Marnie Schulenburg (Angel Eaters) and Zack Robidas (8 Little Antichrists).

We also welcome Todd D'Amour (Stella, What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends) Maria Portman Kelly (MITF Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play in Out of Control) and Lynn Kenny.

Flux also continues to support and develop multi-faceted theatre artists, with director Heather Cohn (Other Bodies) and actor Becky Kelly (Rattlers) joining our design team.

How to Help

(Photo by Johnna Adams)

As we venture into our 2009-10 season during these challenging economic times, we need the support of our friends, family and dedicated audience more than ever. To help us with a tax-deductible contribution, click here. And a big thank you to those of you who have already given so generously!

Why give to Flux? Just look at what we were able to accomplish last year with your help:

-We were named one of nytheatre.com's "People of the Year"

-The New York Press called Flux "The Most Underappreciated Indie Theatre Whose Work You Should Get Your Ass To"

-We received a grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to help support our production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Imagination Compact

-We produced three plays in rep! Our ambitious Angel Eaters Trilogy, which involved over 50 artists, was named "Pick of the Week" by nytheatre.com

-Backstage magazine made our production of A Midsummer Night's Dream a "pick," calling it a "production of engaging lucidity and immediacy"

-August Schulenburg's Other Bodies played to sold-out audiences at the NY International Fringe Festival and Flux member Heather Cohn won a Fringe Excellence Award for "Outstanding Direction"

-We received an Organizational Development Grant from Fractured Atlas

-We became members of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York and The Network of Ensemble Theaters

-We continued our workshop projects Flux Sundays, Have Another and Food:Soul, helping to develop over fifty plays.

For a more in depth look at our season, check our Year in Review post on our blog here. Help us make 2009/10 an even more rewarding season!

Flux Theatre Ensemble is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.

Flux's 2009/10
Season of Give and Take

A dark comedy about what beauty steals...

An epic journey through the seductions of history...
A classic tragedy of what remains when all is taken...

Pretty Theft
By Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by Angela Astle
April 23rd - May 17th, 2009

The Lesser Seductions of History
By August Schulenburg
Directed by Heather Cohn
October-November, 2009

J.B.
By Archibald MacLeish
Directed by Kelly O'Donnell
Winter 2010