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"Slipping" Gets Published!
The hit play Slipping by Daniel Talbott is now available on bookshelves!
Directed by Kirsten Kelly, and starring MacLeod Andrews, Adam Driver, Meg Gibson, and Seth Numrich, Slipping proudly closed Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s 14th Season. This month, the Dramatists Play Service publishes the play whose production, presented by Piece by Piece Productions and Rising Phoenix Repertory in collaboration with Rattlestick, was named on the top ten plays of 2009 by “The Advocate,” and played a sold-out run.
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“Beautiful, deeply felt, and very moving…gorgeous and wise, balancing teenage angst with an adult perspective that gives SLIPPING both emotional heft and universality.” —NYTheatre.com.
“Daniel Talbott has written a funny, dark, and gorgeous new play in SLIPPING.” —NY Press.
“Well-observed and wise.” —BackStage.
“Raw energy.” —The Village Voice.
“A complex and engaging love story…full of heartbreak and loss, but also of hope and love.” —TheaterMania.com.
“A taut, fast-moving and totally riveting piece of theatre…packs an intense emotional wallop.” —MusicOMH.com.
“Compelling because of the specificity of character and emotional complexity of Talbott’s script.” —Hollywood Reporter.
“Smart, smoldering drama.” —Advocate.
Daniel Talbott has most recently worked as an actor on The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis), Master Builder (Irish Rep), Rocket City (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Tartuffe (McCarter Theatre/Yale Rep), Marat/Sade (Classical Theatre of Harlem), the feature film “Pretty Bird” and “The Big C” on Showtime. Recent directing work includes Footprint (+30NYC/Red Fern Theatre), Afterclap, Birthday and Nobody (Rising Phoenix Rep at the Seventh Street Small Stage at Jimmy’s No. 43), The Umbrella Plays (the teacup company/FringeNYC – Overall Excellence Award: Outstanding Play), and Fall Forward (Sitelines/River to River Festival). Slipping was produced by The Side Project in Chicago in 2008 in a production that traveled to the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. His play What Happened When was produced at HERE Arts Center and The Side Project and was published as part of the Plays and Playwrights 2008 anthology. He received a 2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for directing, a Drama-Logue Award, two Dean Goodman Choice Awards and a Judy Award for acting, and was also named one of the 15 People of the Year 2006 by nytheatre.com. He is a graduate of Juilliard and of Solano College Theatre’s ATP, and is a literary manager of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and the artistic director of Rising Phoenix Rep (recipient of the 2007 NYIT Caffe Cino Fellowship Award).
Piece by Piece Productions is a not for profit organization that was started in 1999 by Wendy vanden Heuvel. Its mission is to produce film and theater that is socially, politically, and spiritually relevant to our times. Piece by Piece is also very interested in supporting the development of theatre artists and their original work through workshops, readings, and the productions of new plays. Productions have included: Medea directed by Deborah Warner with Fiona Shaw, The Tricky Part by Martin Moran, Ode to the Man Who Kneels by Richard Maxwell, in association with the NY City Players, and The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh, as well as the 2009 “comeback” of Mabou Mines DollHouse, both in association with St. Ann’s Warehouse. Films: Fierce Grace: Ram Dass by Mickey Lemle, and The Rest I Make Up: Documenting Irene by Michelle Memran (a documentary about the life and work of the playwright Irene Fornes). Wendy vanden Heuvel also served as co-artistic director with RoseMary Quinn of The Other Theater; her past producing and associate producing credits include: Three by Beckett ’94 and ’96 directed by Joseph Chaikin, Mud by Irene Fornes, Women. War. Comedy. by Thomas Brasch, Springtime by Irene Fornes, Counting the Ways by Edward Albee, and My Name is Rachel Corrie (with Royal Court Theatre).
Founded in 1999 by Artistic Director Daniel Talbott, Rising Phoenix Repertory began by producing an ongoing reading series of new plays and has continued to add workshops, festivals, and highly praised productions of new plays. Recent productions include the acclaimed, sold-out Off-Broadway runs of Slipping, produced with Piece by Piece Productions and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and Too Much Memory (also with Piece by Piece Productions) which transferred to the New York Theatre Workshop’s Fourth Street Theatre after winning the FringeNYC award for Outstanding Play in 2008. Other recent productions include Afterclap, Birthday, and Don’t Pet the Zookeeper (Seventh Street Small Stage); 365 Days/365 Plays (Jimmy’s No. 43 and The Public Theater); What Happened When (HERE Arts Center); Fall Forward (part of the Sitelines/River to River festival produced by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council); The Telling Trilogy (including The Ride, 2006 NYIT Award Nominee – Outstanding Original Short Script- Crystal Skillman), Rules of the Universe (Winner, 2007 NYIT Awards for Outstanding Original Short Script – Daniel Reitz and Director – Daniel Talbott), and Three Sisters (Seventh Street Small Stage at Jimmy’s No. 43); and Gift by Mark Schultz and Ponies by Mike Batistick (FringeNYC).
