PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS THEATER SCHOOL in association with
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY / TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS’
DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA, UNDERGRADUATE
Presents
FOX HOLLOW
April 14-16 & 19-22 at 8PM
April 16 & 23 at 2PM
April 17 at 3PM
Linhart Theater
3rd Floor
440 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003

Tickets $10 General Admission / $5 Students & Seniors
For Reservations & Information: Call Ticket Central at 212-279-4200

New York City, NY
Playwrights Horizons Theater School is proud to present the world premiere production of
Fox Hollow by Steven Drukman, directed by Fritz Ertl.

The plot concerns the small New England town of Fox Hollow, where for the second year in a row, four Ivy League-bound high school seniors have deferred their educations for a year in an attempt to become animals. Dom, a New York Times reporter, places her career on the line in an attempt to discover the mystery of this recurrence. Upon her arrival in Fox Hollow, Dom discovers that the odd behavior of its best students is not the town’s only mystery.

Fox Hollow is the culmination of a six month long workshop involving nine undergraduate New York University students majoring in drama. Working directly with the playwright, these students have spent their semester exploring animality, including human and animal nature, cultural animal practices, and “animalizing performance”. This research has been a source from which the author drew to develop the play over the course of the workshop.

Last year, Playwright Steven Drukman premiered Another Fine Mess (Pulitzer Prize Nomination) last year at Portland Center Stage, as well as Collateral Damage at Minneapolis's Illusion Theatre and an adaptation of Ostrovsky's The Snowmaiden at S.M.U. in Dallas. The previous season's premieres include Going Native (Long Wharf Theatre), Flattery Will Get You (Connecticut Repertory) and Youth in Asia (N.Y.U. Dept. of Drama), and his play Truth and Beauty was part of the Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Repertory. His new play, Me Too, has been commissioned by Seattle's Intiman Theatre. He is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Award and the Paul Green Foundation Award. His work has been developed at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Sundance Theatre Lab, Playwrights Horizons, Mark Taper Forum, New York Theatre Workshop and other venues. As a critic and journalist, his writing has been featured in The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Village Voice, The Nation and many magazines. He is the former Associate Editor of American Theatre magazine. He received his Ph.D. at NYU in 1999.

Director Fritz Ertl has been an active educator and director in New York City for over fifteen years. He has directed and produced many new American plays by Mac Wellman, Paula Vogel, Neena Beber, and Erik Ehn at HERE, BACA Downton, Hudson Guild Theater, and the Berkshire Theater Festival. His productions at NYU, where he teaches, include Pentecost by David Edgar, The Pains of Youth by Ferdinand Brunker, Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill, and Youth in Asia: A Techno Fantasy Fritz also co-founded the award-winning BACA Downtown New Works Project in 1989.

Dramaturg Una Chaudhuri is Professor of English and Drama at New York University. She is the author of No Man’s Stage: A Semiotic Study of Jean Genet’s Plays, and Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama, editor of Rachel’s Brain and Other Storms: The Performance Scripts of Rachel Rosenthal, and co-editor, with Elinor Fuchs of the recently published critical anthology Land/Scape/Theater. She is currently working on a project that explores the intersections of theatre and performance with the emerging field known as critical animal studies.

Playwrights Horizons Theater School is a four year undergraduate training program which leads to a BFA in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. An auxiliary program of off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons, the school provides interdisciplinary training with the goal of creating complete theater artists who are knowledgeable in every aspect of theater creation. Other significant productions throughout the school’s history include Project 9/11 (2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and Cows in Flight (2003 NY International Fringe Festival). Playwrights Horizons Theater School has sponsored many semester-long productions and development of new works in its 21-year history, most notably Kaspar Hauser and Doonesbury Flashbacks directed by Liz Swados and K directed by Diane Paulus.

Fox Hollow bridges the gap between the educational and professional worlds through the use of both student and professional designers in an off-off Broadway production. The creative staff includes:  David Szlasa (Lighting), Marc Gwinn (Sound), Angrette McCloskey (Scenery), Denise Maroney (Costumes), David Tennent (Multimedia), and Jenny Koons (Movement)

The cast of nine, all current students, are:  Jamie Abelson, Eric Clem, Libby Conkle, Nicole D’Amico, Dylan Dawson, Alexandra Henrikson, Nick Korbee, Jacquelyn Landgraf, and Elon Rutberg

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