By Robert Askins
Directed by Dylan McCullough
PLEASE BE ADVISED THIS SHOW CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE.
Featuring
Steven Boyer*, Geneva Carr*, Frank Deal*, Kevin O’Donnell*, Amelia Pedlow*
*Appears courtesy of the Actors Equity Association.
Monday, May 23rd, 2011 at 7pm
Location: Good Shepherd United Methodist Church [Google Map], 30-44 Crescent St (@30th Rd), Astoria, NY 11102
Directions: Take the N/Q to 30th Avenue. Walk down 30th Ave, toward Trade Fair supermarket. Turn left on Crescent Street, then right on 30th Rd. The entrance is the second set of red doors on your left. Street parking only.
ADMISSION IS FREE.
Limited Seating – RSVP: [email protected] or call 718-393-7505
Story
Margery’s got problems. Her husband’s dead. The Pastor thinks she’s cute. She’s got a crush on a 16 year old Nihilist and her son’s puppet is possessed by the devil. Hand to God. Come see what happens when the puppets start to talk for themselves.
Production History
Hand to God has had readings through EST’s Youngblood Bloodworks 2010 and P73 173 Readings in 2011.
Playwright Robert Askins
Robert Askins (Playwright) APAC debut. Rob was born in 1980 in Houston. In 1998 he moved Waco Texas. In 2005 he moved to New York City. Since then Rob’s work has been produced in several one-act festivals in Manhattan, the United States and around the world. He also received several commissions, including ones from DiversCity. E.S.T./Sloan, and Living Image Arts. In 2007 Robert’s play The Rotting of Tycho de Brahe was chosen to be presented at the Prague Quadrennial. That same year he won the Arch and Bruce Davis award for playwrighting for a play called Clean Living. In 2008 Broken was performed in Belfast and his original screenplay Hardland was developed in L.A. In 2008 Rob joined Youngblood. In 2009 both Youngblood and 9th and Madison developed Rob’s play Princes of Waco. Rob’s play Everything is Ruthless Everything is Cruel was featured in the 2009 Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival. In January of 2010 Princes of Waco received it’s New York premier at E.S.T. In May Matthew and the Pastor’s Wife was performed as part of E.S.T’s Marathon of one-act plays. Robert is currently a member of I-73, p-73’s playwrighting workshop. This April marked the culmination of a second E.S.T./Sloan grant with the First light Reading of Rob’s new play Smash.
