Lissie (Liza Fernandez) and her brother, Roger (Justin Huen), fled their family farm when they were both still in school. Today, they’ve come back for their father’s funeral. When Billy (Rob Nagle) — who they both knew when they were kids — offers to buy the farm, it sets them tumbling down a rabbit hole of memory. Will they confront the tangled past — or burn it to the ground?
MOVING ARTS
L.A. BORN, L.A. BRED, L.A. BUILT
presents
the National New Play Network
Rolling World Premiere of
APPLE SEASON
Written by E. M. Lewis
Directed by Darin Anthony
Limited Engagement Opens Saturday, July 13 at 4pm
at Atwater Village Theatre in Atwater Village!
MOVING ARTS is thrilled to announce the Los Angeles premiere production of APPLE SEASON, written by E. M. Lewis and directed by Darin Anthony (BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!)). APPLE SEASON is produced by Moving Arts as a part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Other partnering theaters are New Jersey Repertory Company (NJ) and Riverside Theatre (IA). Mr. Anthony and E. M. Lewis are long time collaborators, he has directed three premiere productions of E. M. Lewis’ work, plus two “Car Plays” and a one-act for the Samuel French Ten Minute Play Festival in New York.
APPLE SEASON will preview on Thursday, July 11 & Friday, July 12 at 8pm; will open on Saturday, July 13 at 4:00pm and will run through Monday, August 5, 2019 at the Atwater Village Theatre, 3269 Casitas Ave. in Los Angeles, 90039.
Lissie (Liza Fernandez) and her brother, Roger (Justin Huen), fled their family farm when they were both still in school. Today, they’ve come back for their father’s funeral. When Billy (Rob Nagle) — who they both knew when they were kids — offers to buy the farm, it sets them tumbling down a rabbit hole of memory. Will they confront the tangled past — or burn it to the ground?
ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM AND CAST
E. M. LEWIS (Playwright) is an award-winning playwright, teacher, and opera librettist. Her work has been produced around the world, and published by Samuel French. She received an Edgerton Award for the world premiere of her epic play Magellanica at Artists Repertory Theater, the Steinberg Award for Song of Extinction and the Primus Prize for Heads from the American Theater Critics Association, the Ted Schmitt Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle for outstanding writing of a world premiere play for Song of Extinction, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a playwriting fellowship from the New Jersey State Arts Commission, and the 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowship in Drama. Her plays include The Gun Show (which has been produced at more than thirty theaters across the country, as well as at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and was published by Samuel French), Apple Season (currently enjoying a rolling world premiere at New Jersey Repertory Theater, Riverside Theater, and Moving Arts), and How the Light Gets In (which will have its world premiere at Boston Court Pasadena in the fall of 2019). Other plays by Lewis include: Infinite Black Suitcase, Now Comes the Night, Dorothy’s Dictionary, Reading to Vegetables, True Story, and You Can See All the Stars (a play for college students commissioned by the Kennedy Center). Operas by Lewis include Town Hall (with composer Theo Popov), and Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant (with composer Evan Meier). She is currently working on a big, new political play set in her home state of Oregon called The Great Divide. Lewis is a proud member of LineStorm Playwrights and the Dramatists Guild. She lives on her family’s farm in Oregon.
DARIN ANTHONY (Director) is the Artistic Director of Moving Arts in Los Angeles, a company dedicated to the development, production and promotion of adventurous new work by Los Angeles artists. For Moving Arts he directed: the joint world of BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) by Jami Brandli, the world premieres
of Apocalypse Play by Cory Hinkle, and The Kill-or-Dies by Meghan Brown, and the west coast premieres of Viral by Mac Rogers and The Gun Show by E. M. Lewis.
Other recent productions: the world premiere of the rhythm and blues musical The Devil You Know for Devilish Productions and Nureyev’s Eyes at American Stages (FL) and The Bluebarn Theatre (NE). Other productions include: New York premieres of The Good Boy at the Abington Theatre and The Incident Report at The Lion Theatre. Regional credits: premieres for La Jolla Playhouse, Unbound Productions, Bootleg Theater, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Radar L.A., Odyssey Theatre, The Road, The Open Fist, Moving Arts’ The Car Plays, The Blank Theatre, Syzygy, InterACT, Furious Theatre. Academically, he has directed at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Theatre of Arts, and Miami University of Ohio.
Darin’s film directing debut, “Hitting the Cycle,” was awarded Best Feature Film by The Manhattan Film Festival. He also directed and developed the web series “Before We Go to Sleep with Steve Serpas”. His productions have received many awards and nominations including The Ovation Awards, The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards, The LA Weekly Awards, Stage Scene LA and The Backstage Garland Awards.
National New Play Network is the country’s alliance of nonprofit theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays. Since its founding in 1998, NNPN has supported more than 250 productions nationwide through its innovative National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere program, which provides playwright and production support for new works at its Member Theaters. Additional programs – its annual National Conference, National Showcase of New Plays, and MFA Playwrights Workshop; the NNPN Annual and Smith Prize commissions; its residencies for playwrights, producers and directors; and the organization’s member-accessed online information sessions, Collaboration, Festival, and Travel banks – have helped cement the Network’s position as a vital force in the new play landscape. Its most recent project, the New Play Exchange, is changing the way playwrights share their work and others discover it by providing immediate access to information on more than 23,000 new plays by living writers. NNPN’s 32 Core and 88 Associate Members – along with the nearly 300 affiliated artists who are its alumni, the thousands of artists and artisans employed annually by its member theaters, and the hundreds of thousands of audience members who see its supported works each year – are creating the new American theater. nnpn.org | newplayexchange.org
The cast of APPLE SEASON will feature: Rob Nagle (The Judas Kiss, Boston Court; The Little Foxes, Antaeus Theatre Company), Liza Fernandez (“Mom,” “The Good Place,” “How To Get Away With Murder”) and Justin Huen (Mojada, Getty Villa; Oedipus El Rey, Boston Court; 2010 Ovation Award nomination for ‘Best Lead Actor’).
APPLE SEASON has assembled the following design and production team. Scenic Design is by Stephanie Kerley Schwartz. Lighting Design is by Martha Carter. Sound Design is by Warren Davis. The Production Stage Manager is Kirsten Turkle. The Producer is Cece Tio.
ABOUT THE SCHEDULE AND PRICING
APPLE SEASON will preview on Thursday, July 11 & Friday, July 12 at 8pm; will open on Saturday, July 13 at 4:00pm and will run through Monday, August 5, 2019 at the Atwater Village Theatre, 3269 Casitas Ave. in Los Angeles, 90039.
Performances are Fridays, Saturdays & Mondays at 8:00pm; Saturdays & Sundays at 4:00pm.
Tickets are $24.00 for advance purchase of all performances; $30.00 for at the door purchase of all performances; Previews are $19.00; Opening Matinee and Opening Night Tickets are $30.00. Tickets can be purchased online at www.movingarts.org or call 323-472-5646.
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Calendar Listing:
APPLE SEASON
Written by E. M. Lewis
Directed by Darin Anthony
An NNPN Rolling World Premiere
Opens: Saturday, July 13 at 4:00pm
Runs: Saturday, July 13 – Monday, August 5, 2019
Performances will be Fridays, Saturdays & Mondays at 8:00pm; Saturdays & Sundays at 4:00pm
Previews: Thursday, July 11 & Friday, July 12 at 8:00pm.
ATWATER VILLAGE THEATRE
3269 Casitas Ave. in Atwater Village
Tickets: $24.00 – Previews: $19.00 – Opening Night: $30.00
For tickets – visit www.movingarts.org or call 323-472-5646
