BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//artshound.com//NONSGML iCalcreator 2.6// VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Calendar of artshound.com X-WR-CALDESC:In this calendar you will find information about events that y ou did save X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Pacific BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20120210T213925CET-5745kkU0RP@artshound.com DTSTAMP:20120210T203925Z CATEGORIES:Personal CLASS:EVENT DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Gruesome Playground Injuries\nEvent Url: http://www .artshound.com/event/detail/31287/Gruesome_Playground_Injuries\nEvent Date Begin: 2009-10-16\nEvent Date End: 2009-11-15\n\nThe Alley Theatre presen ts Gruesome Playground Injuries. The world premiere of Rajiv Joseph's (Be ngal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo) Gruesome Playground Injuries features Selma Blair (Hellboy\, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army\, Storytelling\, Legally Blon de\, NBC's Kath & Kim) playing Kayleen and Brad Fleischer (Center Theatre Group's premiere of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo\, Broadway's Coram Boy \, Off Broadway's Streamers) playing Doug. Gruesome Playground Injuries be gins performances Friday\, October 16 and runs through Sunday\, November 1 5 on the Neuhaus Stage.\nGruesome Playground Injuries charts two lives\, u sing scars\, injuries and calamity as the mile markers. An imaginative tou r de force the play explores why people hurt themselves to gain another's love\, and the cumulative effect of such damage\, of such demands.\nRecomm ended for mature audiences. Strong language\, profanity and violence.\nCre ative team includes Riccardo Hernandez (Scenic Design)\, Miranda Hoffman ( Costume Designer)\, Christopher Akerlind (Lighting Design)\, Jill BC DuBof f (Sound Design)\, and Mark Bly (Dramaturg). Rebecca Taichman directs.\nRa jiv Joseph's (Playwright) play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo was produce d this past spring by the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles at the Kirk Douglas Theatre under the direction of Moisé\;s Kaufman. Center Thea tre Group will remount that production in Spring 2010 at the Mark Taper Fo rum. Bengal Tiger was awarded a grant for Outstanding New American Play by the National Endowment for the Arts. Joseph's New York productions includ e Animals Out of Paper\, Second Stage Theatre\, Summer 2008\; The Leopard and the Fox (adaptation)\, Alter Ego\, Fall 2007\; Huck & Holden \, Cherry Lane Theatre\, 2006\; All This Intimacy\, Second Stage Theatre\, 2006.\nL ast spring\, Joseph was awarded the Paula Vogel Award by the Vineyard Thea tre and last winter he received the 2009 Kesselring Fellowship. He is a Fo unding Member of the New York-based Theatre Company\, The Fire Department\ , and is a former Lark Playwriting Fellow and Dramatist Guild Fellow. He r eceived his BA in Creative Writing from Miami University and his MFA in Dr amatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.\nSelma Blair (Kayleen) . Having worked for visionary and acclaimed film directors in a diversity of challenging roles\, Blair is one of today's most exciting and versatile actresses and is now making her theatre debut. She will appear as a reclu sive heiress in the upcoming film Columbus Circle\, directed by George Gal lo\, and recently played a drug-using abusive mother in the indie film The Poker House\, directed by Lori Petty. In 2008\, she reprised her role as Liz Sherman in HellBoy 2: The Golden Army\, directed by Guillermo del Toro \, after the success of HellBoy in 2004. In 2007\, she was in the Feast of Love\, directed by Robert Benton. She was directed by Newton Thomas Sigel in the short film The Big Empty (2005). In 2004\, she was in In Good Comp any directed by Paul Weitz and played Caprice Stickles\, daughter of Sylvi a in A Dirty Shame\, directed by John Waters.\nBlair played Vivian in Robe rt Luketic's 2001 hit comedy Legally Blonde and in 2001 was critically acc laimed in the controversial film Storytelling\, directed by Todd Solondz. She gained much attention in Roger Kumble's 1999 film Cruel Intentions. On television\, Blair starred as Kim Day in NBC's regular series Kath & Kim and guest starred on Friends. Blair graduated from high school in Michigan \, moved to New York City and studied acting at the Stella Adler Conservat ory and the Column Theatre.\nBrad Fleischer (Doug) is making his Alley deb ut. Fleischer received a Drama League ensemble nomination for Coram Boy on Broadway. This past spring he was Kev in the world premiere of Rajiv Jose ph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at Center Theatre Group. Off-Broadway he was Billy in David Rabe's Streamers\, a role he played in 2008 at the Huntington Theatre. He played Tim in the 2006 production of Pig Farm at So uth Coast Rep. Fleischer was also in Paris Commune at La Jolla Playhouse. \nFleischer was in the 2006 Robert DeNiro film The Good Shepherd and the s hort films: Big Al\, Tim and Grey Jyamers in Barclay's\, Baby Drew and the Hoover Queenan. TV credits include Jericho\, The Unit\, Prison Break\, La w & Order\, and Over There. He received his MFA from the University of Cal ifornia\, San Diego.\nRebecca Taichman (Director) is making her Alley Thea tre debut. Off-Broadway credits include The Scene by Theresa Rebeck\, star ring Tony Shalhoub and Patricia Heaton\, at Second Stage and Menopausal Ge ntleman at The Ohio Theater\, which received a Special Citation Obie Award . Regional credits include Shakespeare Theater Company's Twelfth Night and Taming of the Shrew\; McCarter Theater's Twelfth Night\; ACT's At Home at The Zoo by Edward Albee\; Woolly Mammoth Theatre's world premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl\; the world premiere of The Velvet Sky by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa\; The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl (2006 Helen Hayes A ward for Outstanding Resident Play)\; Yale Repertory's world premiere of T he Evildoers by David Adjmi\; Iphigeneia at Aulis by Euripides\; The Hunti ngton Theatre Company's world premiere of Mauritius by Theresa Rebeck\; Th e Humana Festival's world premiere of The Scene by Theresa Rebeck\; Round House Theatre's The Diary of Anne Frank adapted by Wendy Kesselman (winner of three Helen Hayes Awards)\; A Body of Water by Lee Blessing\; The Gree n Violin by Elise Thoron with music by Frank London at The Prince Music Th eater (2003 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Direction of a Musical)\; Swim ming in March by Kate Robin at The Market Theater\; and The People vs. The God of Vengeance at The Theater Offensive.\nShe is an instructor at The O 'Neill National Theater Institute\, MIT\, Yale University and the Universi ty of Maryland. Training and Affiliations include TCG New Generations Gran t Recipient with Woolly Mammoth and a Drama League Directing Fellowship. S he is a Yale School of Drama graduate.\nRiccardo Hernandez's (Scenic Desig n) Broadway credits include Caroline\, or Change\, which received the 2007 Olivier Award and the 2006 Evening Standard Award for Best Musical\; Topd og/Underdog\, which received the 2002 Pulitzer for Drama\; Elaine Stritch at Liberty\, Bring in 'da Noise\, Bring in 'da Funk\; The Tempest\; Parade (Tony\, Drama Desk Nominations\; Hal Prince\, director) and Bells Are Rin ging. Recent credits include Philip Glass and Christopher Hampton's Appoma ttox for San Francisco Opera\, directed by Robert Woodruff\; Lost Highway for London's English National Opera/Young Vic and Don Giovanni\, both dire cted by Diane Paulus\; Ethan Coen's Offices and Almost an Evening for Atla ntic Theater\, directed by Neil Pepe\; The Miser at Alley Theatre\, direct ed by Dominique Serrand\; The Seagull for A.R.T.\, directed by Janos Szasz \; and An Oresteia for CSC.\nHe has designed over 20 productions for The P ublic Theater and over 200 across the United States. Opera credits include Lyric Opera of Chicago\, New York City Opera\, Houston Grand Opera\, L.A. Opera\, Santa Fe Opera\, and Florida Grand Opera among others. Internatio nal credits include London's National Theatre\, Old Vic\, Royal Court\, Ce ntre Dramatique Orleans\, Festival Automne Paris\, Det Norske Teatret Oslo \, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Upcoming productions include Best of Both Worlds f or A.R.T. directed by Diane Paulus\, Bernard-Marie Koltes's Battle of Blac k and Dogs directed by Robert Woodruff\, Il Postino for L.A. Opera\, Chᠺ­telet Paris and Vienna directed by Ron Daniels. He is a 1992 graduate o f the Yale School of Drama and is on the faculty at Princeton University. \nMiranda Hoffman's(Costume Designer) New York credits include Well on Bro adway\, Stunning at Lincoln Center Theater\, Beauty of the Father at Manha ttan Theatre Club and Satellites and Well at Public Theater. Other credits include Essential Self Defense\, Spatter Pattern and She Stoops to Comedy at Playwrights Horizons\; Oedipus at Palm Springs at New York Theater Wor kshop\; Landscape of the Body at Signature Theater\; Othello at Theater fo r a New Audience and The Marriage of Figaro at Target Margin Theater. Regi onal credits include Twelfth Night and Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare Theatre Company\, Romance at A.R.T.\, Mauritius at Huntington Theatre Comp any\, Uncle Vanya and Titus Andronicus at The Court Theatre\, Godspell at Papermill Playhouse\, Eurydice and Smart Cookie at Alliance Theatre\, The Ramayana at ACT\, Betrayal at Yale Repertory Theatre\, and Outrage and The Merchant of Venice at Portland Center Stage. Opera credits include La Voi x Humaine and Portrait de Manon at Glimmerglass Opera Festival\, Portrait de Manon at Gran Teatre del Liceu and Mirandolina\, Lord Byron's Love Lett er and The Village Singer at Manhattan School of Music.\nShe is a Helen Ha yes Nominee\, a Henry Hewes American Theater Wing Nominee and a NEA/TCG Ca reer Development Grant Recipient. She is a Yale School of Drama graduate. \nChristopher Akerlind (Lighting Design) is a lighting and sometime set de signer who has designed over 600 productions at theater and opera companie s across the country and around the world. Broadway credits include Superi or Donuts\, Top Girls\, 110 In The Shade (Tony nomination)\, Talk Radio\, Shining City\, Awake and Sing (Tony nomination)\, Well\, Rabbit Hole\, A T ouch of the Poet\, In My Life\, The Light in the Piazza (Drama Desk\, Oute r Critics Circle\, Tony awards)\, Reckless\, The Tale of the Allergist's W ife\, Seven Guitars (Tony nomination)\, and The Piano Lesson among others. \nHis extensive credits in opera include productions at the Boston Lyric\, Dallas\, Glimmerglass\, Hamburg\, Houston\, Lyric Opera Chicago\, Metropo litan\, Minnesota\, New York City\, Nissei\, San Francisco\, Santa Fe\, an d Washington National Operas and over 40 productions for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis where he was Resident Lighting Designer for twelve years.\nRec ent projects include Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail (San Francisco Opera)\, the off-Broadway revival of Martha Clarke's Garden of Earthly Delights (M inetta Lane Theatre)\, Kafeneion (Athens/Epidaurus Festival)\, Rebecca Tai chman's production of Twelfth Night (McCarter Theatre)\, and Rinde Eckert' s Orpheus X (Edinburgh and Hong Kong Festivals). He is the recipient of an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design\, the Michael Merr itt Award for Design and Collaboration and numerous nominations for the Dr ama Desk\, Lucille Lortel\, Outer Critics Circle and Tony Awards among man y others.\nJill BC DuBoff's (Sound Design) Alley Theatre credits include O thello and Much Ado About Nothing. Broadway credits include The Constant W ife\, The Good Body and Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home . Off-Broadway credits include Lincoln Center\, Atlantic\, MTC\, MCC\, Playwrights Horizo ns\, The Public\, Vineyard Theatre\, Second Stage\, NYTW\, WP\, New George s\, Flea\, Cherry Lane\, Signature\, Clubbed Thumb\, Culture Project\, Act or's Playhouse\, New Group\, Promenade\, Urban Stages\, Houseman\, Fairban ks\, Soho Rep\, and Adobe. Regional credits include Minneapolis Children's Theatre\, Bay Street\, La Jolla Playhouse\, Cincinnati Playhouse\, Westpo rt Country Playhouse\, Berkeley Rep\, Portland Stage\, Long Wharf\, Kenned y Center\, NYS&F\, South Coast Rep\, Humana Festival\, Williamstown Theatr e Festival\, Berkshire Theatre Festival\, and ATF. Film credits include We Pedal Uphill . Television credits include Comedy Central and NBC. Radio c redits include Studio 360 and WNYC News. Awards include Drama Desk Nominat ion\, Henry Hewes Nomination and Ruth Morley Design Award. She is on the F aculty at Sarah Lawrence College.\nMark Bly (Dramaturg) joined the Alley T heatre in 2008 as Senior Dramaturg and Director of New Play Development. H e serves also as Distinguished Professor of Theater at the University of H ouston where he teaches Playwriting and Dramaturgy. This season\, he drama turged Our Town. Last season he dramaturged Cyrano de Bergerac\, Secret Or der\, Rock 'n' Roll\, Eurydice and The Farnsworth Invention . Prior to thi s he was the Senior Dramaturg at the Arena Stage and Director of Arena's N ew Play Development Series.\nBefore joining Arena Stage\, Bly served for 1 2 years as Chair of the Playwriting Program at the Yale School of Drama an d as Associate Artistic Director for the Yale Repertory Theatre. Bly has d ramaturged over 90 productions at major resident theaters and on Broadway. Highlights of his career include dramaturging the premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks' The America Play at the Yale Rep and Public Theater\, and dramaturg ing the premiere of Moises Kaufman's 33 Variations at the Arena Stage\, La Jolla Playhouse\, and on Broadway last Spring. He became the first Produc tion Dramaturg to be credited on a Broadway production when he worked on E xecution of Justice\, written and directed by Emily Mann in 1985.\nHe has written for Dramaturgy in American Theater\, Theater Forum\, American Thea tre\, The LMDA Review\, and also Yale's Theater as Contributing and Adviso ry Editor. He wrote introductions for and edited Volumes I and II of The P roduction Notebooks: Theatre in Process . A graduate of the Yale School of Drama\, Bly was the Chair of the Board of Directors for Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas from 2001-2005.\nLaura Stanczyk's (Casting Director) Broadway credits include Ragtime\, Impressionism\, Radio Golf\, Coram Boy\, Translations\, Damn Yankees (Encores! Summer Stars)\, Who's A fraid of Virginia Woolf ? (also West End)\, Sweet Charity\, Wonderful Town \, Urinetown (also National Tour) and Judgment at Nuremberg. Other credits include Ragtime\, Broadway Three Generations (Kennedy Center)\, Don't Dre ss for Dinner (Royal George\, Chicago)\, Dirty Dancing (National Tour)\, T he Cripple of Inishmaan (Atlantic Theatre Co./Druid Theatre Company)\, The Shawshank Redemption (West End Theatre\, London and Gaiety Theatre\, Dubl in)\, The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center Theater and Pittsburgh Public)\, G ate/Beckett (Lincoln Center Festival)\, Long Day's Journey Into Night (Dru id Theatre Company\, Dublin Theatre Festival)\, Tryst (Promenade)\, Nation al Anthems (Old Vic)\, The New Moon (Encores!)\, Opening Doors (Carnegie H all) and Once Upon a Mattress (ABC TV).\nShe is the resident casting direc tor for The McCarter Theatre Center\, Princeton\, NJ and has worked with T he Gate Theatre (Dublin)\, The Drury Lane Theatre\, The Chicago Shakespear e Theatre\, The Westport Country Playhouse\, The Huntington Theatre\, The Wilma Theater and American Conservatory Theatre. Upcoming projects include the world premiere of Neil LaBute's play Break of Noon\, Golden Age at Th e Philadelphia Theatre Company and The Kennedy Center\, Master Class and T he Lisbon Traviata at The Kennedy Center\, Edward Albee's Me Myself & I on Broadway\, the Broadway Company of Dirty Dancing\, and the feature films There Are No Soulmates and Zeroes and Ones.\nNEW PLAY INITIATIVE:\nThe wor ld premiere of Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries is the first pl ay in the Alley Theatre's New Play Initiative. The Alley Theatre's New Pla y Initiative facilitates the creative collaboration between playwrights\, directors\, actors\, designers and dramaturgs during all stages of a new p lay's development. Central to this Initiative are readings\, workshops\, a nd residencies that allow writers the unique opportunity to work with and write for Alley Theatre Actors in a concentrated manner over an extended g estation period.\nThree world premieres are being developed through this I nitiative this season: Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries\, Jack Murphy\, Gregory Boyd\, and Frank Wildhorn's Wonderland\, which starts at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in November and then moves to the Hub bard Stage in January 2010\, and Kenneth Lin's Intelligence-Slave\, which will be on the Neuhaus Stage in May and June of next year.\nGruesome Playg round Injuries is sponsored by Neuhaus Stage Season Sponsor Randall H. Jam ail. The Alley Theatre is supported by the 2009-2010 season sponsor Contin ental Airlines\, the official airline of the Alley Theatre.\nCAPTIONED PER FORMANCE\nSaturday\, October 17\, 2:30 PM\nThe Alley Theatre is pleased to offer open captioning for many of our productions throughout the season. To ensure that your seats will accommodate your needs\, please call the bo x office 713.220.5700 when ordering tickets to this performance. Discounte d tickets are available for groups of ten or more. Call 713.315.3346 for m ore information.\nTALKBACK\nTuesday\, October 27\, 7:30 PM\nMembers of the cast return to the stage following the performance to take questions from the audience. TalkBacks are led by a member of the Alley Artistic Staff. \n\nStart time: TUE - THU\, SUN eves 7:30PM \nFRI - SAT eves 8:00PM\nSAT - SUN matinees 2:30PM\nPreviews start October 16\, 2009\nOpens October 21\, 2009 DTSTART:20091016T000000 DTEND:20091115T000000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Gruesome Playground Injuries TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR