Take FLIGHT!

Molière meets "His Girl Friday" 

In a New Verse Play

You end up IN FLIGHT!

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IN FLIGHT is perhaps the world's first verse play ever to be set in the offices of an in-flight magazine. The play has received a reading at the Bridewell Theatre in London, where it won the NAAA Playreading Festival. It has also been nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. This is its first New York City Reading.

About the Play

Marty, the editor of the struggling Omega Traveler, searches valiantly for a new writer to save her beloved magazine. Her CEO, office dragon Melanie Hall, has the perfect candidate - or so she thinks - her privileged (and inept) son. But when a dashing novelist steps through the door of Omega, Marty believes she has found the man who will help her magazine take off to new heights.

The play asks us what it means to take poetic "flight" in our time. What place does poetry have in our everyday language? Where do the realities of travel and the power of imagination collide and converge, awakening and salving our wanderlust all at once? 

Featuring

Rajesh Bose* (Andrew) New York favorites include Theatre 167, Ensemble  Studio Theatre, LaMama, MCC Theater, Abingdon Theatre, Lark Theatre, Second Generation, National Asian American Theatre Company, as well as his off-Broadway debut in the six month run of Masked.  Regional favorites include San Jose Rep, Victory Gardens Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pittsburgh City Theatre, Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre and Quantum Theatre.  Film and television appearances include Law & Order:SVU, Nurse Jackie, The Sopranos, The Good Wife, Damages, Criminal Minds, Days of Our Lives as well as the Academy Award nominated film Frozen River. 





Adrianna Dufay (Marty) is delighted to make her TURN TO FLESH debut with IN FLIGHT.  She has been acting, writing and producing for two decades. Her favorite roles include Julie in Miss Julie, Rainbow in Maria Irene Fornes’ Springtime, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Silvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Libby in Blue Window by Craig Lucas. Adrianna was a founding member of both the Theatre at 45 Bleecker Street and Two Tomatoes, which adapted and produced page-to-stage productions of John Cheever and Mary McCarthy short stories. She also wrote and produced for the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Adrianna can be heard as voiceover for American Express, Ulta, Conde Nast and the B20 Summit. She holds an MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle.


Laura Hooper†(Melanie) trained in London and New York and has worked internationally in Theatre, Film and TV for over 12 years. Her one woman kitchen show, “CRUMBLE” has toured to packed houses (literally!) in NYC, London and Northern Ireland. Theatrical highlights include;  The Woman In A Hurry in “The Places You’ll Go” at Dixon Place, Aphrodite in “Cupid & Psyche” at The Barrow Group, The Queen in “The Persians” a tour of Amphitheaters in Cyprus, Olivia in “Twelfth Night” in London Parks, originating roles in “Supermarket Shakespeare” in Supermarkets across London, the Tango Dancing Girl in “Hothouse” at The Arcola, London, Natasha in “Three Sisters” at The theatre Museum, Covent Garden and devising a show for Miramax. Laura’s debut film “CAT ON THE MATT” which she wrote, produced & starred in will be screened at the Chain Festival in NYC in August. - www.laurahooper.info



Jon Krupp* (Art) Lost and Found (Best in Fringe, the Lucille Lortel), Milk (New Georges), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (3LD), and Venice Saved (PS122), among others.  Regionally, Jon has appeared at the Yale Repertory Theatre, Northern Stage, Penguin Rep, Florida Stage, the Asolo, Baltimore’s Center Stage, Triad Stage, the Delaware Theatre Company and many others.  Film and TV work includes “Direct Mail,” “Everything is Ordinary”, “Friday”, and multiple episodes of Law & Order, Law &Order: SVU, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 

Caitlin Morris (Page) has just returned from working on a stage adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY. In the city, she has been seen at the United Solo Festival, HERE Arts Center, The Brick, Ars Nova ANT Fest, Dixon Place, and Theatre for a New City and has worked with companies such as UglyRhino, Red Fern, NY Madness and New Saloon. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Contemporary American Theatre Company, Arrow Rock Lyceum, and the Dixie Theatre. BFA: Otterbein University.

Daniel Tracy (Ted) OFF-BROADWAY: Pipeline Theatre Company’s Clown Bar OFF-OFF-BROADWAY: Clown Bar (World Premiere, New York Times Critics’ Pick, NYIT Award nominee for Best Ensemble), BYUIOO; REGIONAL: Much Ado, All’s Well, King Lear, Two Noble Kinsmen (Hudson Valley Shakespeare), eight productions with Nebraska Shakespeare, four productions with Broadway Dreams Foundation; FILM: Seed Sprang… (Sean Manzione), Signs (Ke Ke, New York Film Academy). Brand new Ensemble member of Pipeline Theatre Company. BFA in Musical Theatre from  Creighton University. Thank you to Mom and Dad for everything important.

* Denotes member of Actors' Equity
† Denotes Turn to Flesh Productions company member

Creative

Jenny Lyn Bader (Playwright) Plays include None of the Above (New Georges, w/ Alison Pill), which received its international premiere in Montreal in 2013; Manhattan Casanova (Hudson Stage), winner of the Edith Oliver Award for comedy (O’Neill Center); Out of Mind (NYU/Strasberg); and Mona Lisa Speaks (Core Ensemble), a chamber music theatre piece that premiered at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and was presented at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in Palm Beach. One-acts include Miss America (NY Int’l Fringe, “Best of Fringe” selection) and Worldness (Humana Festival of New American Plays). She co-authored How We Are Connected: Caribbean (Museo del Barrio, Brooklyn Museum) and all three plays in The Jackson Heights Trilogy (Theatre 167) and was a lead artist for The Jackson Heights Trilogy Immersive Experience (Queens Museum 2013-14 International). This spring, she was the featured playwright in NYMadness (Cherry Lane Theatre). Nine of her one-acts are published in Smith & Kraus’ Best 10-Minute Play series. Jenny Lyn wrote both seasons ofWatercooler (MSN) and co-wrote He Meant, She Meant (Warner). A Harvard graduate, she is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a board member of the League of Professional Theatre Women.  For more, see www.jennylynbader.com. Twitter: @JennyLynBader

IN FLIGHT won the NAAA Festival in London, where it received a festival reading at the Bridewell Theatre. It has not yet been seen on our shores. 

Rob Urbinati (Director) is a freelance director and playwright based in New York City, Director of New Play Development at Queens Theatre, Literary Manager of The Private Theatre and Artistic Adviser for Houston Family Arts Center. In New York, he has directed for The Public Theatre, Classic Stage Company, York Theatre, The Culture Project, Abingdon Theatre, Pearl Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre and New York University, as well as theatres and universities across the country. Rob's plays as a writer include "Hazelwood Jr. High," "West Moon Street" and "Death By Design," all published by Samuel French, and "Rebel Voices" and "Shangri La," which will both be published by Samuel French in 2014.

About the Series

Turn to Flesh Productions (TTF) is thrilled to be hosting a New York Playreading Series with a new works each month!  From plays in rhyming couplets, to converted operas, to new takes on old myths, TTF continues to seek out the best modern plays in classical form to encourage a cultural Renaissance for our time.  This month, we are pleased to present a stage reading of In Flight.  

For more, check out turntoflesh.com or email us at turntoflesh@gmail.com!  TTF is a verified non-profit through www.fracturedatlas.org