LIMITED ENGAGEMENT BEGINS APRIL 20th
WITH OPENING NIGHT SET FOR APRIL 21st
at The Red Room, 85 E 4th Street
Third Floor, No Wheelchair access

ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE (Curt Dempster, Founder/Artistic Director) and HORSE TRADE will present Time/Unstuck, an evening by The Gang of Four, EST’s young directors’ residency, featuring new plays by Neal Bell and Bathsheba Doran. Performances begin Thursday April 20th and continue through Sunday April 30th, with opening night set for Friday April 21st.
In Neal Bell’s A Time Piece (directed by Jordan Young), a man falls into the memory of a seminal moment in his relationship with his father and faces what happened in the two hours wiped from his memory during one sweltering night in August fifteen years prior. In Bathsheba Doran’s 2 Soldiers (directed by Dominic D’Andrea), two soldiers, one from 1412 and one from 1974, debate honor, courage and sacrifice while waiting to battle an unknown and unseen enemy.
Jordan Young, director A Time Piece.
Jordan is currently a director in residence for the 2005-2006 season at Ensemble Studio Theatre, where he has assisted on new plays by Warren Leight and David Lindsay-Abaire. Also at EST: ASKING FOR TROUBLE, GLORY DAYS AT JESUS HIGH, SEXMENTO, RILEY GIRLS. Other collaborations: The Civilians, Youngblood, New York Theater Experiment, and El Cabildo de Teatro (Santiago, Cuba.) Other directing credits include: ROMEO AND JULIET, DUTCHMAN, WOLFBOY, RESIDENT ALIEN, and THE HOUSE OF YES. Jordan developed new plays as a staff member of the Shenandoah International Playwrights’ Retreat for three seasons. Training: BFA, University of Colorado.

Dominic D’Andrea, director Two Soldiers
Dominic D’Andrea is a director in residence at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, where he recently directed the World Premiere of Anton Dudley’s Pleaching The Coffin Sisters. Recent Credits Include: The World Premiere Of Michael John Garces’ Last Call (Prospect Theatre Dark Nights), Alexis Sotile’s Damn Teddybears (Brick Theater’s Baby Jesus 1 Act Jubilee), Sam Forman’s Utica Forever (East 7th Small Stage), Workshop Production of Jakob Holder’s Bedtime Solos (Ohio Theatre/Soho Think Tank), and David Lindsay-Abaire’s A Devil Inside (Sanford Meisner Theater.) He was the recipient of the Kennedy Center/ACTF National Directing Fellowship, The Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship, The Stage Directors and Choreographers Assistantship, and is a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and is an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Dominic is currently working with writer/director Bill Pullman to develop/produce his play Expedition 6 about the Astronauts on the International Space Station after the Columbia Explosion, which will be workshopped at the Kennedy Center and move to the Denver Theatre Center this summer. He is a graduate of The University of Maryland.

Neal Bell
Neal Bell’s plays –including TWO SMALL BODIES, RAW YOUTH, COLD SWEAT, READY FOR THE RIVER, SLEEPING DOGS, RAGGED DICK, ON THE BUM, MONSTER, TERESE RAQUINE, and most recently, SPATTER PATTERN—have appeared at Playwrights Horizons in New York and at regional theatres, including Berkeley Rep, the Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, the La Jolla Playhouse, and Actors Theatre of Louisville, where his ten-minute play OUT THE WINDOW was a co-winner of the 1990 Heideman Award. A recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment, and the Guggenheim Foundation, Mr. Bell was awarded an Obie in 1992 for sustained achievement in playwriting.

Bathsheba Doran
Bathsheba Doran’s plays include this season’s LIVING ROOM IN AFRICA at Edge Theater Company directed by Carolyn Cantor, ODES AND GAMESHOWS (The Camden People’s Theatre), UNTIL MORNING (BBC Radio 4), 15 MINUTES (Edinburgh Festival), THE WAR PLAY (Abingdon Theatre), THE PARENTS’ EVENING (Cherry Lane Theatre). Her adaptation of PEER GYNT was directed by Andrei Serban at The Riverside Church. She is a playwriting fellow at The Julliard School.

The Ensemble Studio Theatre is a not-for-profit developmental theatre founded in 1972 with two primary goals: to nurture individual theatre artists and to develop new American plays. Under the guidance of Artistic Director Curt Dempster, the theatre’s membership has grown from a core of 20 artists to a flourishing community of over 500 theatre artists of the highest caliber. Among them are winners of accolades and higher awards including Pulitzer Prizes, Oscars, Tonys, Emmys, and Obies. EST is a lifelong artistic home for its member playwrights, directors, actors, designers, technical personnel and administrators. EST has generated more than 3000 full-length plays that have been produced at more than 360 theatres across the United States.