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For Immediate Release

Working Artists Theatre Project

presents

GREGORIAN
by Matthew Greene
August 18 September 2nd at SoHo Repertory Theatre
Artistic Directors Jessica Darmody and Charlie Sutton bring to life Gregorian a new play by
Matthew Greene, which portrays one family's journey through the bloodiest century in
human history as four generations discover the gravity of a name passed from father to
son. Beginning with the Gregorian family's own tragic roots in the Armenian Genocide,
through the rise of the Nazi Party, across the killing fields of Cambodia, and the
continuing crisis in Africa, they do all they can to hold on to heritage, history, and hope.
(Not really sure how to incorporate the words humor/heartwarming ect)
The creative team is helmed by Director Jessica Dermody (Fruits Unheard Of) with
Movement by Charlie Sutton (Wringer), Set Design by Jeff Hinchee (Something Rotten),
Costume Design by Irma Brainard (Fish in the Dark) and Lighting Design by Michael
OConnor (Echoes of Ebola).
The cast includes Aaron Lynn (The Glory of the World @ BAM), Heather Lang (An
American in Paris), Margaret Reed (Orsons Shadow), Madeleine Barker (Grease), and
Geri-Nikole Love (Jay & Ruby Get Religion).

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Production dates run August 18 - September 2, 2016

@SoHo Repertory Theatre
46 Walker Street
two blocks south of Canal Street
between Broadway and Church
A/C/E, N/R/Q/W, or 6 train to Canal
1 to Franklin
Performances of Gregorian will be:
THURSDAY 8/18 @ 7:30pm
FRIDAY 8/19 @ 7:30pm
SATURDAY 8/20 @ 7:30pm
SUNDAY 8/21 @ 3:00pm & 7:00pm
MONDAY 8/22 @ 7:00pm
WEDNESDAY 8/24 @ 7:30pm
THURSDAY 8/25 @ 7:30pm
FRIDAY 8/26 @ 7:30pm
SATURDAY 8/27 @7:30pm
SUNDAY 8/28 @ 3:00pm & 7:00pm
MONDAY 8/29 @ 7:00pm
WEDNESDAY 8/31 @ 7:30pm
THURSDAY 9/1@ 7:30pm
FRIDAY 9/2 @ 7:30pm
Tickets available at:
http://watproject.brownpapertickets.com

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Website: http://www.WATproject.com

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Biographies
CREATIVE
Working Artists Theatre Project (Producer) is a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit organization dedicated to
providing platforms for Entertainment Industry professionals to build and incubate skills outside their
dominant disciplines. Our programs support artists and technicians through the development and
production of innovative theatre, film, and new media projects. WAT Project believes in a
multidisciplinary approach to storytelling, nurturing industry-focused career longevity, and building a
supportive community for artists to take new and bold risks across genres.
Jessica Dermody (Director) has both a formal education and decades of practical experience on
stage and behind the scenes in theatre, live concert events, industrials, print, film, and television.
She spent a good portion of her life performing before shifting her focus to directing, producing,
technical stage production, and writing. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from The Florida State
University, School of Theatre, she landed in New York City where she continued to lay strong roots
for a career in Broadway theatre. Jessica has since enjoyed working as part of the Broadway
companies of Movin Out, The Producers, LoveMusik, Young Frankenstein, West Side Story,
Superior Donuts, American Idiot, Catch Me If You Can, Lysistrata Jones, Peter & The Starcatcher,
Annie, First Date, All The Way, This Is Our Youth, Fish In the Dark, Hamilton, and Misery. Her most
recent credit is as Wardrobe Supervisor on the new Broadway show, The Crucible. As a member of
the award winning production company, Awaken Entertainment, Jessica worked as a Producer
on Superior Donuts and Green Day's American Idiot, gaining nominations for both a Drama Desk
and TONY Award for Best Musical, as well as the 10th Anniversary, 9/11 Benefit production of 110
Stories starring a cast of Hollywood A-list celebrities raising funds for the New York Says Thank You
foundation. Jessica was an Associate Producer on the Vision Vehicle Productions award winning
independent feature film, Construction. She also spends time lecturing for a variety of arts
organizations and universities. In 2005, Jessica co-founded Working Artists Theatre Project with a
fellow Broadway colleagues and has since developed, directed, and produced much of the
companies work with grants awarded from the National Endowment for the Arts and
chashama. www.JessicaDermody.com
Charlie Sutton (Movement) Choreography credits include the New York premier of Wringer (City
Center Stage II), Young Charles Dickens (MINT),The Big Show (Working Artist Theater), Flesh and
Spirit (MMAC Theater), Photograph (Dance Film), Sweater Weather (Dance Film), Descent into
Madness (Dance Film) 35 MM (54 Below). Hes enjoyed an exciting career as a performer in 10 hit
Broadway shows including: An American in Paris, Kinky Boots (Astaire Nom), How to Succeed in
Business, Lysistrata Jones, Catch Me If You Can, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,
The Adams Family, Crybaby, La Cage Aux Folles and Wicked . During the course of these shows he
had the privilege to work with Tony award winning Directors and Choreographers. These creative
icons have influenced his use of story telling through movement.

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Matthew Greene (Playwright) is a playwright, director, and teaching artist from California, currently
living and working in New York. His original play ADAM AND STEVE AND THE EMPTY SEA had its
sold-out world premier at Plan B Theatre in January where it was named Best Original Play by the
2013 Salt Lake City Arty Awards. It subsequently had a run at the 2013 New York International
Fringe Festival and was presented as part of OUTReachs LGBTQ Youth Summit. His other plays
include JOB WELL DONE (national finalist, American College Theatre Festival), BREAD OF
AFFLICTION (Society for the Study of Jewish American and Holocaust Literature) and
#MORMONINCHIEF (New York International Fringe Festival). His film BOY WITH BLUE was
awarded Best of Fest at the Oceanside Film Festival. He currently works as a teaching artist with
Opening Act, an organization that provides theatre education to underserved high schools.
IRMA BRAINARD (Costume Design)Elf (Papermill Playhouse); Madame Butterfly (Glimmerglass
Opera) ; The 39 Steps, Hair (WPPAC); Alfred Kinsey: A Love Story (Michael Weller Theater);
Shakespeare in Hollywood (Hope Summer Rep); Avalon (Looking Glass); Much Ado (Rutgers). Asst.
Costume Design TV: Madam Secretary, The Americans, America's Got Talent, Boardwalk
Empire; Broadway: Fish In the Dark, The Best Man, Follies, Book of Mormon, Elf.
www.IrmaBrainard.com

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CAST
Aaron Lynn- (Gregorian) is an actor, writer, and musician. Acting credits include, New York
Theatre: The Glory of the World (BAM); The Christians (Playwrights Horizons); Troll King
Rises (Shapiro Theatre/Columbia Uni.); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Hamlet Isn't Dead); and
workshops/readings at New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ars Nova, The Lark,
and Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. Regional Theatre: The Glory of the World, So Unnatural A
Level, That High Lonesome Sound (Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville); A Christmas
Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Other Theatre: Cymbeline (Oval Theatre, London); Noises Off,
Scapin, Antigone, Icarus and Aria (Bolton Theatre, Ohio); A Steady Rain, Macbeth, Hunting
Cockroaches (Hill Theatre, Ohio). Additional Credits: Aaron is a member of the Field Research Team
for The Civilians. He trained at Actors Theatre of Louisville as an acting apprentice, at the British
American Drama Academy in London and received his B.A. in drama at Kenyon College. Proud AEA
member.
MARGARET REED-(Frances)is perhaps best known as Shannon O'Hara McKechnie on As The
World Turns and from Seinfeld's The Baby Shower. An award-winning actor with a B.A. from
U.C. Santa Cruz and an M.F.A. from Cornell University, Margaret enjoyed 2015 playing global
celebrity Masha in Christopher Durang's Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike at The Cleveland
Play House, GEVA Theatre Center, and The Cape Playhouse. With John Houseman's The
Acting Company, she toured the U.S. in a repertory of seven classical plays including Olivia
in Twelfth Night, and then again played that role at The Huntington Theatre with Elizabeth
McGovern. Other theatre includes Orson's Shadow (Barrow Street NYC), the Los Angeles
premiere of Other People's Money (DramaLogue Award, with Kevin Conway), Dinner with
Friends (Best Supporting Actress NJ Critics Award) among many others.Other television roles
include Limitless, seven times on the various Law and Order shows, Dr. Serova on Star Trek
TNG, The Young Riders, The Golden Girls, Spin City, HBO's Mildred Pierce, etc. Margaret is
now starring in the quirky new TV pilot Puppets, directed by Dylan Bank, Rya Komen's dark,
family comedy The Re-Union, Natalie Roy's mother-daughter film Far From The Tree, Hugh
Scully's romantic comedy Confabulation, Damien Leone's horror flick Terrifier, Josh Mostel's
wife in Isaac Chehebar's The Amazing Ray, and she plays the erotic-Jeopardy mom, Alice, in
Joe Ronca's "By the Dashboard Light". She also plays the recurring role of Aviva's mother,

Alice, in Lauren Augarten's webseries Scissr. For more information, please go to

http://TheMargaretReed.com

Heather Lang- (Gladys) is a multifaceted artist originally from Chicago. As an actor, dancer, and
performance-maker some of her favorite projects include: Trash is Fierce (original sketch comedy
in collaboration with Eleanor Bauer), New Work for the Desert and Catacomb choreographed
by Beth Gill, #blessed (film), Happy We'll Be choreographed by Al Blackstone, An American In Paris,
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Grendel, Across the Universe directed by Julie Taymor, Radio City
Rockettes, Met Opera. Broadway Workshops: Addams Family, Dangerous Beauty, Fat Camp, Up
Here. Film: I Am Legend, Smurfs, Frances Ha, The Great Observer. TV: Smash, Rescue Me,
Gossip Girl, VH1 Fashion Rocks. BFA (Dance) NYU
Geri-Nikole Love- (Sonia) obtained a BFA in Theatre at New York University's Tisch School of the
Arts. While at Tisch, she studied at CAP21, The Advance Classical Studio, and Stonestreet
Film/Television Studio. Since graduating, she became a co-founder of The Movement Theatre
Company, a NASM Certified Personal Trainer and a SoulCycle Instructor. [Theatre]: 'Higgins in
Harlem' (Playhouse on Park), 'Carlisle: a different Three Sisters' (La Mama), 'Black Boy & the War'
(Harlem School of the Arts). [Independent Films]: 'Molly Takes A Trip' Dir. Annika Kurnick, 'Downshift'
Dir. Ryan Schmitz [New Media]; 'Livin' The Dream' Dir. Kim Spurlock.

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