THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING THEATRE TRIBE IS PROUD TO PRESENT THE LOS ANGELES PREMIERE OF THE SLEEPER
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THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING THEATRE TRIBE
IS PROUD TO PRESENT THE LOS ANGELES PREMIERE OF
THE SLEEPER
Written by Catherine Butterfield
Directed by Stuart Rogers
THE PARANOIA BEGINS FRIDAY, MAY 25
AT THEATRE TRIBE IN NORTH HOLLYWOOD!
April 17, 2012…North Hollywood, CA…The multi award-winning THEATRE TRIBE is thrilled to present the Los Angeles premiere of the 2004 Kaufman and Hart award-winning play, THE SLEEPER, written by acclaimed playwright Catherine Butterfield (“Grimm”) and directed by Ovation Award-winner Stuart Rogers (The Long Christmas Ride Home, Recent Tragic Events). THE SLEEPER will open on Friday, May 25 and continue through Saturday, June 30 at Theatre Tribe, 5267 Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood.
A suburban “security mom,” shell-shocked by the new post 9/11 reality, finds herself irresistibly drawn to her son’s tutor, a handsome young man with political leanings far different from her own. Her “awakening” leads to a bizarre series of events that blow the lid off her previously sheltered existence and change the lives of all around her. A dark and slightly zany comedy.
ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
CATHERINE BUTTERFIELD (Playwright) newest play is entitled It Has To Be You, a comedy. She is currently work-shopping another new play, a drama entitled Terrible Beauty. Previously produced plays include Brownstone, The Sleeper, Joined at the Head, Where the Truth Lies, Snowing at Delphi, Life in the Trees, John’s Hand, The Backflip.
She was awarded the George E. Oppenheimer/New York Newsday Award for Best New Play (Joined at the Head), the Kennedy Center- American Express award for Outstanding Promise as a Playwright, the Kaufman & Hart Award for Best New American Comedy (The Sleeper), and the Davie Award for Best New Play in Regional Theatre (Life in the Trees). Joined at the Head, in which she starred at the Manhattan Theatre Club, was nominated for a Drama Desk award and an Obie and has been produced regionally at the Pasadena Playhouse, Laguna Playhouse, Huntington Stage and recently in Barcelona, Spain where it won second prize at the Barcelona theatre festival. Brownstone was commissioned by the Laguna Playhouse for their 2008 season. Her plays are published by Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French and Playscripts, Inc. As an actress Catherine played extensively in regional theatre, performing at such theatres as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Long Wharf, California Actor’s Theatre, and in New York at the Manhattan Theatre Club, WPA and Irish Repertory Theatres. She was in the national tour of The Heidi Chronicles and performed her one woman show, Bobo’s Birthday, at the American Place Theatre. She also appeared in and directed numerous one-acts at the West Bank Cafe in New York.
TV writing credits include the NBC TV series “Grimm”, the Lifetime movie “Newark to Lincoln Center”, and the series “Ghost Whisperer,” “Party of Five” and “Fame LA”. Directing credits include the production of Brownstone at the Laguna Playhouse and the film adaptation of her short play John’s Hand, which can be found on youtube.com and StrikeTV.com.
STUART ROGERS (Director) has worked in the industry as a writer/director (and when he was much younger as an actor) for the last 25 years. He founded Theatre Tribe in 1999 as a place to get away from it all and to make theatre just for the sake of theatre. Since then Stuart has directed a string of their hit plays including A Skull in Connemmara by Martin McDonagh (7 Ovation Award nominations, Los Angeles premiere & LA Times Critics’Choice) Paula Vogel’s, The Long Christmas Ride Home, for which he received the Ovation Award for ‘Best Direction of a Play’, Craig Wright’s, Recent Tragic Events (West Coast Premiere, LA Times Critic’s Choice), the World Premiere of The Intern (LA Times Critic’s Choice) and the west-coast premieres of two Lanford Wilson plays, Sympathetic Magic and Book of Days (both were LA Times critics choices). He received a Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle Award and a Garland Award for his direction of the latter. Some of the other plays Stuart directed with Theatre Tribe include: The world premier of Heralds, Richard Greenberg’s The Violet Hour, Memory of Water (West Coast Premiere), Waiting for Lefty, and many others.
Stuart has taught acting classes at Stuart Rogers’ Studios for the last fifteen years. Presently, both current and former students are network and cable television series regulars, acting on Broadway and performing major motion pictures. His students have won Emmys, Golden Globes and Tony Awards. Stuart has also taught classes at UCLA, the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum and Chelsea Studios in Manhattan.
The cast of THE SLEEPER features Mandy Levin, Pete Gardner, Corie Vickers, Ben Mathes, Heather Robinson, Rob Mathes and Ian Gould.
The production has assembled an award-winning design team. The Set Design is by Jeff McLaughlin. The Lighting Design is by Jeremy Pivnick. The Sound Design is by Cricket S. Myers. THE SLEEPER will be produced by Suzie Gardner. The Stage Manager is Tina Spears.
ABOUT THE SCHEDULE AND PRICING
THE SLEEPER will open on Friday, May 25 and run through Saturday, June 30 at Theatre Tribe, 5267 Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood.
Performances are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm. Ticket prices are $20.00. Tickets are available thru Brown Paper Tickets, online at
http://www.the-sleeper.info/ticket-info or at www.theatretribe.com or by calling 800-838-3006.
For further information or for press photos, interviews or press comps, please contact David Elzer/DEMAND PR at 818/508-1754 or at [email protected].
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