Theater for the New City - New City, New Blood

NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD READINGS SERIES

For 35 years, Pulitzer Prize winning THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY has nurtured hundreds of playwrights through its EMERGING PLAYWRIGHTS PROGRAM. In June, 2006, we launched NEW CITY , NEW BLOOD, a play reading series designed to serve our audiences and writers even better. Curated by Michael Scott-Price, TNC Literary Manager, NEW CITY , NEW BLOOD will provide a hearing for worthy plays in earlier stages of Development. Audiences will get the opportunity to provide feedback, and artists will gain valuable insight from audience response. Be sure to check www.theaterforthenewcity.net for details about upcoming readings. Please join us!

NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD READINGS:
Next Reading Monday, June 8th, 7:00pm
Wine and Cheese. COME EAT AND DRINK WITH US AND MEET THE WRITER!
Contribution: $5

Auto Graphic Novel by Johnny Klein

Auto graphic novel is a collage play about the major events in my life, both real and imagined, that led me to become an artist. It combines the interior world of narrative prose with a visceral theatre of images that mimics the dream-like experience of personal memoir. The play incorporates live action, dance, ghosts, interactive video and electronic sound to constantly shift the spectator’s point of view. In this way, Auto graphic novel conveys the beautifully absurd, nonlinear journey of coming full circle.

Bio
Johnny Klein is a writer, director and performer of original work for theatre and film. His work has been seen at La MaMa's Annex Theatre, The Classic Stage Company, Clubbed Thumb, Dixon Place, The Bowery Poetry Club, and The Brooklyn Artists Gym. Outside New York, his physical theatre work has been produced or commissioned by Printer’s Devil Theatre, Freehold and On The Boards in Seattle, and by Sacred Fools and The Company of Angels in Los Angeles, among others. In 2001, Roger Corman optioned his neo-noir screenplay Mother of Pearl, and as an actor he starred in the Independent Feature Project West's New Directors/New Visions film Where the Air is Cool and Dark, directed by Brion Rockwell. In addition, his short film Turtle Rock premiered at the Echo Park Film Center, and The Moon Says I Love You is currently in post-production. Johnny is the Richard Hugo House "Power of Place" Writing Award winner for his prose poem The Pinata, published in The Seattle Times.

This performance reading is directed by Johnny Klein.