THEATRE + COMEDY

Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company and Stark Naked Theatre present the second of four reading performances for the FRESH INK READING SERIES: a staged reading of Elsewhere by Adam Szymkowicz. Monday, October 3, 2011, at 7:30pm, at Barnevelder Movement Arts Complex: 2201 Preston.

When Teddy comes to Celia's house to deliver a package, he doesn't expect to be invited for dinner. When he comes for dinner, he doesn't expect to be invited to live with her. When he starts to live with her he doesn't expect to fall in love. And he definitely doesn't expect the rest of what happens!

Directed by: Philip Lehl and Featuring: Kim Tobin-Lehl , Jennifer Decker and Norm Dillon.

There will be a Talkback for audience feedback after the reading.

ADAM SZYMKOWICZ’s plays have been produced throughout the U.S., and in Canada, England, The Netherlands, Germany and Lithuania. His work has been presented or developed at such places as MCC Theater, Ars Nova, South Coast Rep, Playwrights Horizons, LAByrinth Theater Company, Primary Stages, The New Group, Southern Rep, The Lark, Kitchen Dog, Theatre of Note, Naked Stage, Azuka Theater and Studio Dante among others.

He received a Playwright’s Diploma from The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program and an MFA from Columbia University where he was the Dean’s Fellow. Szymkowicz is a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Prize winner, a member of the Dramatists Guild, Writer’s Guild of America, Primary Stages’ Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group, the MCC Playwright’s Coalition and was a founding member of the Ars Nova Play Group. He served as Playwright in Residence at the William Inge Center, received a grant from the CT Commission on Culture & Tourism, and was commissioned by South Coast Rep. He is the premiere Resident Playwright at The Chance Theater in Anaheim, CA and the first playwright to participate in Bloomington Playwrights Projects’ Square One Series.