Lisa Kohn / Jessica Bauman
Die Fascist Capitalist Pigs! Die!
In residence September 6-10, 2011
Meet the terrorist housewife next door…
A reading of a new play by Lisa Kohn
Performances:
September 9 at 3pm
September 10 at 4pm
At IRT: 154 Christopher St., #3B (3rd floor)
Tickets: FREE (space is limited so advanced reservation is suggested)
Angela Baxter was just another suburban housewife performing in the community theater, when an FBI agent exposed her true identity as an ex-seventies terrorist. Now, Angela has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for crimes she committed thirty-years-ago. Although Angela is trying to focus on bidding adieu to her “perfect” son (a secret Adderall and orgie addict), others seem hell bent on spoiling her final hours of freedom. There’s the FBI agent, who’d sell his soul to pulverize Angela, and Angela’s daughter in-law, the leader of a fringe anti-vaccination organization, whose hobby is hating her mother-in-law. But Angela’s fate could change for the better with the help of a wanna-be revolutionary, who’s full throttle committed to her liberation.
This is a dark and funny play about extremism gone horribly wrong… and, of course, a tale about family.
Written by Lisa Kohn
Directed by Jessica Bauman
With:
Pete Bradbury*
Darcy Fowler
Ken Glickfeld*
Chad Hoeppner*
Julie Kline*
Deirdre O’Connell*
* Appear courtesy of Actors Equity
ARTISTS
Lisa Kohn has been working in television for the past eight years. She has written and produced for networks including but not limited to CBS, MTV, TLC, A&E, and Bravo. Her credits include soap operas, documentaries, and reality shows, and she has had her own comedy pilot in development. Her first play, I Am the Chicken Man, Cluck was read at SALAAM and the Lark. She is a graduate of UCLA film school and Stanford University.
Jessica Bauman recently directed Making Up The Truth by and with journalist Jack Hitt, which premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June. She has been working as a director in New York and regionally for almost 20 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA) and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge. She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges). For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney and Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.