WEST COAST PREMIERE OF NEW YORK TIMES CRITIC'S PICK THE NAVIGATOR!

The Navigator

PRESS CONTACT: David Elzer 818/508-1754

BURNING CLOWN PRODUCTIONS presents

THE WEST COAST PREMIERE OF THE DRAMA DESK NOMINATED “THE NAVIGATOR”
Written by Eddie Antar
Directed by Leslie Kincaid Burby

NOMINATED FOR 2 DRAMA DESK AWARDS (BEST LEAD ACTOR, SOUND DESIGN)
AND 8 NEW YORK INNOVATIVE THEATRE AWARDS!

LIMITED ENGAGEMENT OPENS FRIDAY, JUNE 13 at 7pm AS PART OF THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL AT ACTORS COMPANY LET LIVE THEATRE IN HOLLYWOOD!

CRITIC’S PICK! “Cruises in entertainingly high gear. A delight!” – NY Times

April 14, 2014…Hollywood…New York based BURNING CLOWN PRODUCTIONS are thrilled to present the West Coast Premiere of the Drama Desk nominated play, THE NAVIGATOR, written by Eddie Antar and directed by Leslie Kincaid Burby (NYIT Award winner, Best Direction). THE NAVIGATOR will perform as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival – and will open on Friday, June 13 at 7pm and run for ten performances through Sunday, June 29, 2014 at 2:30pm at The Actors Company Let Live Theater, 916A N. Formosa Ave. in Hollywood.

Your GPS tells you how to get where you’re going, but what if it could tell you more? Dave’s fallen on hard times. He’s out of work, drowning in debt, and his wife is threatening to leave. Suddenly his car’s navigation system starts giving him the answers… to absolutely everything in this funny and possibly prescient new play from Burning Clown Productions.

ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM

BURNING CLOWN PRODUCTIONS is an award-winning production company that specializes in developing and realizing new works of film and theatre. Recent projects include Last Call at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Art of Woo (recently accepted to the 2013 New Media Festival), the web series Burns & Clown, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre member podcast Pillar Talk. For more info, visit www.burningclown.tv.

EDDIE ANTAR (Writer) is a member playwright of WorkShop Theater Company. His body of work includes twelve full-length plays and multiple one-acts. His play The Navigator was nominated for eight New York Innovative Theater Awards (including Outstanding Production and Outstanding Original Full-Length Script), and it also made NY Theatre’s Top Ten and Fifth Wall’s Top Ten Sci-Fi Plays of 2012.

LESLIE KINCAID BURBY (Director) cut her directorial teeth doing ambitious experimental theatre in unconventional spaces with the inter-arts company, The Bull Family Orchestra, including being one of the directors of the 29 Questions Project performed near Ground Zero. She’s a resident director of The Little Apple Theater Company, a traveling company that tours throughout the Eastern US and NYC bringing professional theater to young people of all economic and social backgrounds. For her direction of The Navigator, she received the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Direction.

The Cast of THE NAVIGATOR will feature Drama Desk nominated ‘Outstanding Lead Actor’ Joseph Franchini, New York Innovative Theater Award nominee for ‘Outstanding Lead Actress’ Kelly Anne Burns, NEA performance grant recipient Mike Smith Rivera and LA based actress Heidi Jo Scheller.

THE NAVIGATOR will feature Set Design by Tim Swiss and Sound Design by Drama Desk nominated Quentin Chiappetta/Media Noise.

ABOUT THE SCHEDULE AND PRICING

THE NAVIGATOR will open on Friday, June 13 at 7pm and perform on Saturday, June 14 at 11:30pm; Sunday, June 15 at 2:30pm; Thursday, June 19 at 7:30pm; Friday, June 20 at 5:30pm; Sunday, June 22 at 8:30pm; Wednesday, June 25 at 10:00pm; Friday, June 27 at 8:30pm; Saturday June 28 at 2:30pm and Sunday, June 29 at 1pm at The Actors Company Let Live Theatre 916A Formosa Ave in Hollywood.

Ticket prices are $20.00 for all performances, $10.00 for participants, & half price tickets for AEA members at curtain. For tickets, please visit www.thenavigatorplay.com.

For further information on the play or for press interviews, photos or press comps, please contact David Elzer/DEMAND PR at 818/508-1754 or at [email protected].

Calendar Listing:
THE NAVIGATOR by Eddie Antar
Directed by Leslie Kincaid Burby

Opens: Friday, June 13 at 7pm

Performances are:
Saturday, June 14 at 11:30pm
Sunday, June 15 at 2:30pm
Thursday, June 19 at 7:30pm
Friday, June 20 at 5:30pm
Sunday, June 22 at 8:30pm
Wednesday, June 25 at 10:00pm
Friday, June 27 at 8:30pm
Saturday June 28 at 2:30pm
Sunday, June 29 at 1pm

THE ACTORS COMPANY LET LIVE THEATER
916A Formosa Ave. in Hollywood, CA

Tickets: $20.00

For Tickets, please visit www.thenavigatorplay.com