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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 21st, 2009
Press Contact: Morgan Lindsey Tachco
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Danielle Karliner presents

ETHER STEEDS
A new play by Jason Williamson
Directed by Niegel Smith
As part of The 13th Annual New York International Fringe Festival – Fringe NYC
A production of The Present Company

FRINGENYC PREMIERE! FIVE PERFORMANCES ONLY!

(NEW YORK, NY) – Danielle Karliner proudly presents the FringeNYC debut of Ether Steeds, a new play by Jason
Williamson. Directed by Niegel Smith (Rainy Days and Mondays, Fringe Encores 2008), Ether Steeds debuts its limited
five-show engagement at the historic Actors Playhouse Friday, August 14 at 7pm.
In this evocative, magical new play set in coastal North Carolina, cheap beer and anonymous gentlemen spur Mom and
her venus-fly-trap obsessed daughter, Skeeta, toward the inevitable…
Ether Steeds comes to FringeNYC after a Lincoln Center showcase as a result of the 2007-2008 Dramatist's Guild
Fellowship, and was partially published in The Dramatist magazine. Ether Steeds received an evening of development at
the Public Theater's Director's Lab, was a finalist for the 2008 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and a workshop production at
Carnegie Mellon in 2007.
Award-winning Playwright Jason Williamson returns to FringeNYC after his one-acts, Secrets Of Lamp Lit Blinds was
produced by Tip My Cup Productions in 2008. Jason Williamson's original plays have been produced at Actor's Theatre
of Louisville, Carnegie Mellon, the O'Neill Conference, NC Theatre Conference and The Kennedy Center, where a new
commissioned piece celebrating the upcoming anniversary of JFK's inauguration will workshop this fall.
Ether Steeds also marks Director Niegel Smith’s return to FringeNYC after directing 2008's award-winning Rainy Days and
Mondays (2008 Fringe Encores, Best Costumes). He is the Artistic Leadership Associate at The Public Theater and a
founding member of 425D, a director’s lab. New York directing credits include: We Declare You a Terrorist (2009 Summer
Play Festival), Maud– The Madness, One For The Road and LIMBS: A Pageant. He is Associate Director to Bill T. Jones
on the new musical FELA! (Broadway, Fall 2009; Eugene O'Neill Theatre), and has assisted directors Richard Nelson, Jo
Bonney, George C. Wolfe, Kristin Marting and James Lapine. Casting and additional creative team to be announced.
Ether Steeds’ five-show engagement in FringeNYC debuts at the Actors’ Playhouse Friday, August 14th at 7pm and
continues Sunday, August 16th at 12pm, Wednesday, August 19th at 7pm, Saturday, August 22nd at 4:45pm and Monday,
August 24th at 2pm. The run time is 150 minutes with one intermission.
The Actor’s Playhouse is located at 100 Seventh Avenue South Between Grove & Bleecker Streets in downtown Manhattan,
and is accessible by subway: 1 to Christopher St or A, C, E, B, D, F, or V to West 4th St. By bus: M20 to 7th Ave South & W
10th St, and parking is available at Barrow St Garage, 2-12 Barrow Street.
Tickets to Ether Steeds are $15, and are available by phone at 866-468-7619, or online at www.fringenyc.org.
Press Contact: Morgan Lindsey Tachco, pr@morganlindseytachco.com, 917-443-5978
http://sites.google.com/site/ethersteedsnyc/
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