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DREAM UP FESTIVAL
Theater for the New City’s Summer Showcase
August 8 – September 5, 2010
TNC’s DREAM UP FESTIVAL WEBSITE
All Premiere Festival opens August 8 a month long festival of new works.
Show Info and Buy tickets to the Dream Up Festival
Day by day show schedule on Ovation Tix to buy tickets by phone 866-811-4111
Tickets for The Dybbuk are not on Ovation tix. You must call (212) 868-4444 or purchase using the Buy Tickets link for The Dybbuk on http://www.dreamupfestival.org/shows.html
Dream Up Festival Staff
Presenting Organization: Theater for the New City (TNC)
TNC Executive Director/ Festival Producer: Crystal Field
Festival Director/Curator: Michael Scott-Price
TNC Administrator: Jonathan Weber
Festival Publicist: Jonathan Slaff
Festival Light Design: Alexander Bartenieff
Technical Director: Richard Reta
Festival Coordinator: Roger Brown
Recruitment/Development: Michele Davis
Press/Media inquires: please contact Jonathan Slaff and Associates, Jonathan Slaff, Press Representative, at 212-924-0496 or js@jsnyc.com
Theater Background
Theater for the New City (TNC) Selected Awards: TNC has won over 42 VILLAGE VOICE OBIE AWARDS for excellence in for excellence in every theatrical discipline. TNC has won 5 ASCAP AWARDS. Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Sam Shepard's BURIED CHILD, premiered & commissioned by TNC.
From August 8 to September 5, 2010, Theater for the New City (TNC), under the direction of Crystal Field, Artistic Director, will present its first "Dream Up Festival," a theater festival of plays from artists across the country and abroad. It is curated by the theater's Literary Manager, Michael Scott-Price.
"Dream Up" is an all-premiere festival with 23 world premieres and two American premieres, offering a month long anthology of wide-ranging and original theatrical visions.
The Festival opens up Theater for the New City to artists from the country at large and to artists from overseas. Both Ms. Field and Mr. Scott-Price feel it is especially important for the world to know of these artists, whose work needs to be done and needs to be seen. These include emerging writers, whose work will likely become an important contribution to American culture and which is already stimulating and enlightening. There are also mid-career artists whose work is already of great importance and should be viewed by the public, even in a time of declining donations to the arts, when grants not being awarded due to market conditions and there are arts funding cuts on almost every level all across the country and abroad.
Tickets prices range from $12 to $15 (roughly the cost of a movie). Audiences will have the opportunity to view most of the productions at least five times.
Theater for the New City maintains a unique commitment to high artistic standards and community service. In an effort to make theater accessible to all, TNC traditionally sponsors a variety of distinctive, unique events each year, including the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, which celebrates the artistic and cultural diversity of TNC’s Lower East Side community; an annual Village Halloween Ball and an annual summer Street Theater tour that presents a free, live, original musical in thirteen neighborhoods in all five boroughs. Most of these are free to the public.
TNC's Lower East Side Festival of the Arts and Village Halloween Ball offer scenes from plays, solo turns and variety acts, but to-date TNC has never before offered a festival for fully produced shows in repertory. That was the concept when the theater's literary manager, Michael Scott Price, proposed to the theater's founder, Crystal Field, that TNC start a new festival for fully realized works previously unproduced.
The Dream Up Festival staff includes TNC's Executive Director, Crystal Field; the Festival Director/Curator, Michael Scott-Price and TNC's Administrator, Jonathan Weber. The Festival's lighting designer is Alexander Bartenieff. Technical Director is Richard Reta. Festival Publicist is Jonathan Slaff. Production Director is Mark Marcante. |
