September 10th to 27th

 

presents

The Sold Out Hit Show of FringeNYC 2009

"Four Stars! Hilarious and touching!" -Time Out New York

"The cast is absolutely amazing! Very entertaining. A great play, beautifully directed by Mark Finley.
It is one show that shouldn't be missed." - NYTheatre.com

 

Five Shows ONLY   -   NO LATE SEATING
Sat, Sept 12 - 7:30pm; Sun, Sept 13 - 6pm; Mon, Sept 21- 7pm;

Wed, Sept 23 - 8pm; Sat 26 - 10:30pm
All tickets: $18.   visit www.fringenyc-encoreseries.com   or call 1-866-468-7619

 

Venue #16 - Soho Playhouse - 15 Vandam Street

(between 6th Ave & Varick)

Subway: #1 to Houston Street or C, E to Spring

 

 

 

Doric Wilson - Mark Finley - Barry Childs

 

production of

2009 ATHE Jane Chambers Playwriting Award winner

Meryl Cohn’s

And Sophie Comes Too

photo by Kelly Campbell  www.kellycampbellphoto.com 

 

Will Sophie Abramowitz wake from her coma? Her daughters hope not. Barbara fears a medical miracle;

Perfect Rose is falling apart, and Sandra wants a penis.

And Sophie Comes Too is a comedy about becoming fully conscious.

 

 

directed by Mark Finley

 

with

Birgit Darby - Lue McWilliams - Karen Stanion - Jacqueline Sydney

Susan Barnes Walker - Elizabeth Whitney - Katherine Williams

 

stage manager: Jennifer Marie Russo       produced by Robin Kaufman

costume design: TBD  -  technical direction: Michael Muccio  -  graphic design by Howard Cruse

 

 

The New York International Fringe Festival — Fringe NYC

A production of The Present Company August 14th – 30th 2009

 

!! 5 performances  SOLD OUT for the run !!

Sat, Aug 15 - 4:30 pm; Tue, Aug 18 - 12:15 pm; Wed, Aug 19 - 7:00 pm;

Mon, Aug 24 - 5:30 pm; Sat, Aug 29 - 10:30 pm

 

Fringe Venue #13: The Cherry Pit

155 Bank Street (between West Side Highway & Washington Street)

 

And Sophie Comes Too is a fast-paced, deeply-felt family comedy/drama, concerning adoption, sibling rivalry, aging, and gender.  The play was first produced by the Provincetown Theatre Company in October 2005 and was presented last year as part of the TOSOS Robert Chesley / Jane Chambers Playwrights Project.. Kathleen Warnock, director

 

Meryl Cohn was a semifinalist for both the 2008 and the 2006 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, a 2007 Massachusetts Cultural Council Playwriting Grant Finalist, and a semifinalist for the Lark Play Develop-ment Center’s Playwrights Week and the 2009 winner of ATHE Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. She is also a recipient of the Denis Johnston Playwriting Award, and Curve Magazine's Lesbian Theatre Award. She studied playwriting at Smith College and received an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from N.Y.U.’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her recent play commissions have included the New Provincetown Players productions of: The Siegels of Montauk, Reasons to Live, Naked with Fruit, And Sophie Comes Too, Ask Andrea Anything, Almost Home, and Funny, Sexy, Smart. Her plays have been produced and read in numerous places, including ManhattanTheatreSource's ESTROgenius and HOMOgenius festivals, Studio 400, Northampton’s 24-Hour Festival, and the TOSOS Chambers/Chesley series.

Meryl is also the author of Do What I Say: MS. Behavior's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Etiquette (Houghton Mifflin, 1995). She offers humorous advice on love and relationships in her nationally syndicated "Ms. Behavior" column. Her articles and reviews have been published in The Washington Post, The Village Voice, The Boston Phoenix and other publications. She can be reached at msbehavior@mac.com

 

About TOSOS: In 1974, Off-Off Broadway veteran Doric Wilson, cabaret star Billy Blackwell and director Peter dell Valle, started the first professional gay theatre company in NYC. It was called The Other Side of Silence; TOSOS for short. In 2002, directors Mark Finley and Barry Childs and playwright Wilson resurrected the company as TOSOS II, dedicating it to an honest and open exploration of the life experience and cultural sensibility of the GLBT community and to preserving and promoting our literary past in a determined effort to keep our theatrical heritage alive.  The newly renamed TOSOS is now in eighth season. Please visit www.tosos2.org for more information and a complete production history.