59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes WTC VIEW, written by Brian Sloan and directed by Andrew Volkoff, to Americas Off Broadway. Produced by WTC View Onstage, WTC VIEW begins previews on Thursday, May 19 for a limited engagement through Sunday, June 5. Press opening is Tuesday, May 24 at 7:30 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Thursday at 7:30 PM; Friday and Saturday at 8:30 PM; and Sunday at 3:30 PM. The regular ticket price is $18 ($12.60 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or visit www.59e59.org.
On the night before 9/11, a young man living in SoHo places an ad for a roommate online. Then, the world changes. A surprising and intimate glimpse of life in lower Manhattan during the strange days of September 2001.
The cast includes Michael Carlsen (The Coast of Utopia at Lincoln Center), Martin Cohen, Leah Curney (Broadway's The American Plan), Torsten Hillhouse (Snow in June at American Repertory Theater), Nick Lewis (Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Hamlet, dir Terry Hands), Patrick Edward O'Brien and Charles Warburton.
The WTC VIEW creative team includes Brian Prather (scenic design), Jeff Davis (lighting design), Jacob Climer (costume design) and Jim VanBergen (sound design).
Brian Sloan (playwright) is a writer/filmmaker based in New York City. WTC View is his first full-length play. It had its premiere in 2003 at the NY Intl. Fringe Festival, starring Michael Urie (ABC's Ugly Betty). His first feature, the screwball comedy I Think I Do (1998), starred Alexis Arquette and Guillermo Diaz and was praised by the NY Times as "hysterically funny and very smart." His second film, WTC View (2006), starring Michael Urie, was adapted from his play and premiered on MTV's Logo channel on 9/11/06. Brian also created the short film series Boys Life (1994), which included his NYU short Pool Days. As an author, Brian's first novel A Really Nice Prom Mess (Simon & Schuster) won the 2005 Violet Quill Award for Best LGBT Book of the Year. His second book, Tale of Two Summers (Simon & Schuster) was a finalist for a Lambda Award in 2007. His short stories have also appeared in anthologies like Men on Men (Penguin), Not The Only One (Alyson) and Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys (Dutton). For more details, check out www.briansloan.com and you can read his daily blog, Hi-Fi Bri, at http://hifibri.blogspot.com.
Andrew Volkoff (director) just directed the regional premiere of Mauritius at Milwaukee Rep. In NYC, he has directed the premieres of Fair Game by Karl Gajdusek at Theatre Row's The Lion and Savannah Bay by Marguerite Duras at Theater for The New City. He has also directed 8 Minute Musicals in NYMF; 365 Plays/365 Days at Joe's Pub; Follies for The Blue Hill Troupe; WTC View by Brian Sloan (starring Michael Urie) in the NY Fringe and Bumping Heads at the Vital Theatre. Andrew has directed a reading of Chris Peña's play, untitled suicide piece, at NY Theater Workshop. Andrew served as Associate Artistic Director of Barrington Stage Company (BSC) in Massachusetts for five years and Associate Artistic Director of the Genesius Theatre Group in NYC for three years. At BSC, he staged The Fantasticks, Underneath the Lintel, This Wonderful Life, I Am My Own Wife, Fully Committed, Santaland Diaries, Thief River, The Shape of Things, The Laramie Project, Love and Happiness and My Scary Girl. Regionally, he has directed the Boston premieres of Stupid Kids and The Wild Party at SpeakEasy Stage; A... My Name Will Always Be Alice at Lyric Stage also in Boston; and The Thicket of the Lame and Blue Eyes, Black Hair at the Hangar Theatre. Andrew has served as the Associate Director on Ella for Rob Ruggiero at Dallas Theatre Center, Actor's Theatre, and Cleveland Playhouse among other regional theatres. He is also a six-year member of the First Look Theatre Company at NYU and an Associate Artist with TheatreMasters where he has participated in the National MFA Playwriting Festival (Aspen/NYC) for the past three years. Andrew is a Drama League Directing Fellow and a proud SDC member.
