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NOW PLAYING: Caridad Svitch's TWELVE OPHELIAS now through August 22 in McCarren Pool: Click HERE for FREE TICKETS! Click here for a multimiedia preview in THE NEW YORK TIMES. AND Tommy Smith's The Break-Up part of The Binge Olympiad Click HERE for more info!
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The latest issues of Theatre Forum and New York Theater Review include the full texts of two plays Ben premiered last year: White Hot and Welcome to Nowhere!
WELCOME TO NOWHERE
A Performance by Temporary Distortion
The Ontological-Hysteric Theater: May 2007
The Chocolate Factory: October 2007
P.S. 122: February 2008
The Via Festival (Maubeuge, France): March 2008
The Exit Festival (Paris, France): April 2008
UPCOMING...
Quebec City: September 2008
New York City: January 2009 See rehearsal footage here.___________________________________________________________________8/22/07 and 8/23/07 Tommy Smith's The Break-Up with Working Man's Clothes. Jake Witlen directs.
7/31/08 Shooting for The Odd Dozen, written and directed by Tommy Smith and Reggie Watts. The film is commissioned by the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art.
7/11/07 thorugh 8/22/07 Caridad Svitch's Twelve Ophelias at McCarren Pool.
2/28/08 through 3/15/08 Performing Welcome to Nowhere at The Via Festival (Maubeuge, France)
2/18/08 through 2/20/08 Welcome to Nowhere plays to packed houses at P.S. 122. Those in attendance include Richard Schechner, John Collins, and Scott Shepherd.
10/30/07 (ongoing) Intensive scene study with Gene Lasko. Gene's previous students include Sigourney Weaver and two-time Obie-winner Reed Birney.
12/03/07 thorugh 12/20/07 Tommy Smith's Sunrise at The Lark Annex. Portia Krieger directs.
12/01/07 thorugh 12/03/07 Shooting for After the War, an emotionally charged film about the terrible cost of obsession and love. Brian Quist (Columbia MFA) directs.
9/18/07 through 10/23/07 Intensive scene study with Scott Freeman
9/6/07 Served as a reader for The Professional Company at The Public Theater.
9/1/07 Voiceover on newyork.com to introduce (soon-to-be-superbowl-champion) NY Giants running back Ruben Drones.
8/4/07 through 8/19/07 Twelfth Night, Ben's New York directorial debut,
enjoys a successful three-week run in Clinton Cove Park.
6/19/07 through 7/2/07 Two premieres running in rep at HERE Arts Center:White Hot, by Tommy Smith (MFA, Julliard), directed by May Adrales (MFA, Yale): a scathing one-act comedy about dying in the naughts, andThe Curse of the Smart Kid, written and directed by David Vining: a searching one-man show about living in the mind.
6/10/07 through 6/23/07 The Mercury Menifesto at The Brick's Pretentious Festival. The show opens and closes with Ben's voiceover (15 minutes total!).
For ABC's coverage of John del Signore, who created The Mercury Menifesto, click here.
5/17/07 through 5/19/07 Title role in Nate Weida's fantastical (and fantastic) musical Commander Squish.
5/5/07 through 5/8/07 Polonius in Prospect Theater Company's Ophelia: Opera in Blue. May Adrales directs the New York premiere.
5/3/07 through 5/5/07 Bullet Hole Road premieres at Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
4/1/07 In a private performance for John Patrick Shanley (Tony, Doubt; Oscar, Moonstruck) and members of the LAByrinth Theater Company, Ben premieres Annie Scott's I Make No Promises.
2/23/07 Pictured again in The Times.
2/21/07Called in for a major recurring role on the FOX sitcom Back to You, starring Kelsey Grammar and Patricia Heaton. The part eventually goes to Tony-winner Josh Gad.
2/15/07 Pictured in the Arts section of The New York Times.
2/14/07 through 4/17/07 Opposite Katherine Waterson in the premiere of Los Angeles, written by Drama Desk-nominee Julian Sheppard. After playing to packed houses at The Flea, the show is extended twice. Obie-winner Adam Rapp directs.
1/29/07 through present Microsoft ad appears in Time, Newsweek, The Economist, The New Yorker, and other major publications. In January of 2008, it's renewed for another year. 
READINGS!
8/30/07
The Sister. The Brick.
written and directed by Eric Meyer 5/24/07
The Mumblings. The Annex.
written and directed by Dan Kitrosser 5/1/07
The Wife. The Flea.
written by Tommy Smith
directed by Sherri Kronfeld 10/21/07
In the Thick. The Lark.
written by Lisa D'Amour
directed by Kip Fagan 9/10/07. The Flea.
Nicotine, Valium, Vicaden, Marijuana, Ecstasy and Alcohol
written and directed by Vadim Newquist
7/27/07
Show Trial. The Flea.
adapted from original transcripts
directed by Jim Simpson
7/17/07
Certain Words in French. The Flea.
written by Normandy Sherwood
directed by Sherri Kronfeld
6/11/07
Kaspar Hauser. The Flea.
written and directed by Elizabeth Swados
2/28/07 and 5/20/07
Some Things Cease To Be. The Flea.
written by Karinne Keithley
directed by Sherri Kronfeld
1/21/07 and 5/20/07
Sextet. The Flea.
written by Tommy Smith
directed by Blair Brown
4/16/07
White Hot. SoHo Rep.
written by Tommy Smith
directed by May Adrales
4/3/07
Air Conditioning. The Flea.
written by Tommy Smith
directed by Jim Simpson
3/29/07
Thyme of the Season. Janus Productions.
written by Duncan Pflaster
directed by Josh Robinson
3/26/07 and 3/27/07
The New Hopeville Comics. Commander Squish Productions.
written by Nate Weida
directed by Isaac Klein
2/26/07
707 Pine. The Flea.
written by Deron Bos
directed by Kip Fagan |
