We’re in pre-production for our fall show, premiering September 14th at The Wild Project, and the work of the company in total keeps reaching new levels. We’re updating you here on where to see the latest from Partial Comfort Productions. Take notice – there’s a lot more to come.
WHAT’S UP NEXT
Beginning September 14th, catch PCP-er’s Jackie Chung, Andrew Garman, Alfredo Narciso, Maria-Christina Oliveras in Chad Beckim’s latest play, After. Stephen Brackett directs withWhitney Locher as Costume Designer and Lindsey Austen as Production Manager.
With Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Justin Blanchard will appear as Willoughby in an adaptation of Sense and Sensibility beginning August 30th.
Louis Ozawa Changchien has two upcoming productions this fall: Jen Silverman’s Crane Story, produced by the Playwrights Realm at The Cherry Lane Theater and also Pinter’s The Dumbwaiter directed by Andy Pang with the National Asian American Theater Company. You can catch Louis in PREDATORS, airing this month on HBO.
In the midst of her work as a director, Erica Gould is currently teaching a Shakespeare and Classical Acting class this August based in the work of John Barton, Michael Chekhov, Kristing Linklater and others. For information, Erica can be reached at ericagould@gmail.com.
Frank Harts travels to Australia at the end of this month to premiereCrime USA created and directed by Alix Lambert of The Civilians.
Whitney Locher’s costumes can be seen this summer in Josh Koenigsberg’s Herman Kline’s Midlife Crisis with At Play Productions beginning August 7th and in Fiasco Theater’s Cymbeline at the Barrow Street Theater.
The feature film VIOLA is making the rounds at film festivals this summer, featuring Peter O’Connor. A trailer of the film is available here: www.violamovie.com
As a part of this year’s Fringe Festival, Curran Connor is appearing in Apothecary Theater Company’s original comedy Bella and the Pool Boy by Dennis Flanagan.
Sarah Nina Hayon is also performing in the Fringe. Catch her alongside Vayu O’Donnell in The Apartment: A Play with Four Sides, directed by Adam Blanshay and presented by team that brought you the fringe hit Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead.
Tiffany Rachelle Stewart is currently performing as Lady Ann in The African Company Presents Richard III in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
WHAT’S GONE DOWN
Chad Beckim and Stephen Brackett took the cast of After. to The Orchard Project, a play development retreat space in the Catskills, to further develop Chad’s play with the help of other off-broadway theater artists.
Justin Blanchard recently appeared as Henry in the New York Classical Theater’s production of Henry V at Castle Clinton.
Jackie Chung performed in the final reading of the Ma-Yi’s Labfest, a play called Locked House written by Samantha Chanse and directed by Kel Haney. Jackie and Jenny Seastone Stern were featured inThe Germ Project, a collaborative development project of 4 new plays with New Georges.
Two Partial Comfort actors were a part of Fulcrum Theater Company’s inaugural production Julius by Design, written by Kara Lee Corthron: Crystal Finn and Curran Connor.
Dirty Paki Lingerie, a play conceived and performed by Aizzah Fatima and directed by PCP’s Erica Gould, just recently ran in the Midtown International Theater Festival.
Frank Harts just workshopped William Jackson Harpers The Man From Madisonville at MTC which was initially performed this summer with Frank in the cast at EST’s Southampton Writers’ Retreat.
Berkshire Theater Festival’s world premiere production of Dutch Masters, written by Greg Keller (The Seduction Community) closes this Saturday evening.
Maria-Christina Oliveras performed in a staged reading ofZoetrope by Javierantonio Gonzalez in celebration of the Public Theater’s Emerging Writer’s Group in their Spotlight Series. She was also featured in the season premiere of “Damages”, which just aired earlier this summer on DirectTV.
Just recently at the Cape Cod Theatre Project, Debargo Sanyalappeared in the reading of And When We Awoke There Was Light and Light by Laura Jacqmin.
Produced in the FringeBENEFITS Series, Cynthia Silver brought her one-woman-show Bridezilla Strikes Back! to the Fringe Festival last week for an encore presentation.
Chris VanDijk appeared in Untitled by Korrina C. in MCC Theater’s FreshPlay Festival.
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