Horse Trade Theater Group will present aMios Theatre Company's World Premiere of David L. Williams’ (nominated for a Kevin Kline award for best new play for The Winners; book writer for The Bully with Vital Theatre Company) IN THE MEANTIME, May 3-19 at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Avenue and Avenue A). The production will be directed by Rachel Dart (credits) and will feature Lauren Berst* (St Crispin's Day at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Eddie Boroevich* (Marathon Festival of One-Act Plays with EST; Five By Tenn with Manhattan Theatre Club) and Jillian LaVinka* (Kimberly Akimbo with Hudson Stage). *Appearing courtesy of the Actors’ Equity Association.

Sitting in a bar watching a game are a couple and a woman sitting by herself. Before the game ends, time stops, and the three of them have the ability to play out new reality after new reality. As the variations play on, the three begin to learn too much about each other, and are forced to make a decision whether to be free of the past or to hold on to what is theirs.

DAVID L. WILLIAMS (Playwright) is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Cornell University, where he was a four-time award recipient in the Heerman’s-McCalmon Playwriting contest (two 1st prizes for his plays The Murder of Gonzago and Ingulf and two 2nd prizes for his plays Behind the Nine Ball and Near Tragedy). In 1999, his play Ampersand won Riverside Stage Company’s Founder’s Award (Connecticut) and David moved to New York to see Riverside produce the world premiere at the Chelsea Playhouse to kick off their 1999-2000 season in the city. David has had four of his works selected for the New York International Fringe Festival: the “children's theatre for adults" musical comedy Tess' Last Night, for which he wrote the book, the conspiracy-theory drama The Information She Carried, the end-of-the-world comedy, The Armageddon Dance Party, and the "love letter to '80s underdog movies" musical comedy, The Johnny, for which he wrote the book and lyrics. He also wrote the book to the children's musical The Bully which the New York Times called "insightful," "hilarious, witty, and even moving." His unproduced play Spake won EBE Ensemble’s “You Fill In The Blank” festival (NYC) and was a finalist in HotCity Theatre’s GreenHouse New Play Festival (St. Louis) and Inkwell Theatre’s Inkubator Festival (Washington, D.C.).  His most recent play, The Winners won the 2010 HotCity Theatre GreenHouse New Play Festival, and had its world premiere produced by HotCity in St. Louis this past September The Winners was also nominated for a Kevin Kline award for best new play, and reviewers called it "a Pinter play with a dirty mind," "disquieting stuff," "a shocking look at human nature," and "a sharp, edgy story." David has written more than twenty-five plays and musicals of all different lengths and genres and his work been produced in California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Oregon, and Washington, D.C.  He is currently working on his newest play, The Divine Visitor, a restoration comedy with a twist. 

RACHEL DART (Director) received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her directing work has been featured at companies such as The Culture Project, The 52nd Street Project, aMios, Emerging Artists Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Oberon Theatre Ensemble, and Prospect Theater Company. She has also directed in various festivals, such as the Estrogenius Festival, the West Village Musical Theatre Festival, and the Manhattan Shakespeare Project’s Emerging Female Voices Playwrights Fest. Rachel is the creator, producer, and director of The Importance of Being Not So Earnest, a series of evenings of new musical comedy songs by emerging writers. She is also a Jonathan Alper Directing Fellow and an SDCF Observer.

AMIOS THEATRE COMPANY (Art and Music in Our Souls) was founded by alumni of the National Theatre Conservatory with the goal to constantly create new work; work that engages both artist and audience in a process that is immediate, inspired, personal, organic, and which injects vitality into this scene we call theatre.