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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 9, 2013

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Free event | Theater | Performing arts

WHAT
New Play Reading Series: 33

WHO
By Bill Cain
Directed by Jasson Minadakis, MTC artistic director
Featuring Patrick Kelly Jones (It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play), Nicholas Pelczar (The Whipping Man) and Liz Sklar (Othello, the Moor of Venice)

WHEN
Monday, October 14, 2013, at 7:00 p.m.

ABOUT
Join Marin Theatre Company for a FREE public reading of new play in development by the award-winning writer of Equivocation and 9 Circles

Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Colin Farrell walk into a tomb...

Colin, a famous Irish actor, has the chance to land the role of a lifetime, a role that has ruined the careers of many actors, but one that could be his best shot at an Oscar. The part is a 33-year-old carpenter, an ordinary man who achieved something extraordinary over 2000 years ago - he rose from the dead. As Colin seeks the secret of this incredible event, he finds himself in conversation with the man himself, and the woman who made the resurrection a reality.

MTC’s New Play Reading Series offers exciting script-in-hand readings of new plays by emerging playwrights. Readings are followed by a talk-back with the playwright, director and actors.

WHERE
Marin Theatre Company | 397 Miller Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941

TICKETS
New Play Reading Series readings are FREE, reserve tickets online or through the Box Office, seating is limited. Advance reservations are strongly recommended. Tickets may be released if not picked up by 6:50 pm.

CONTACT
marintheatre.org | (415) 388-5208 | boxoffice@marintheatre.org

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Bill Cain is the author of Equivocation and 9 Circles, both of which won the Steinberg/ American Theatre Critics New Play Award and had their early lives at Marin Theatre Company before being produced around the country. 9 Circles won MTC’s 2011 Sky Cooper New American Play Price and received its World Premiere at MTC. Equivocation was produced at MTC during the 2009-10 season. Cain’s other plays include How to Write a New Book for the Bible, which debuted at Berkeley Rep, and Stand-Up Tragedy, which began at the Mark Taper Forum before moving to Broadway.

ABOUT MTC’S NEW PLAY PROGRAM
Marin Theatre Company is committed to exploring and developing new work for the American theater, supporting playwrights with their creative process from conception to production and engaging audiences with the best contemporary new plays. Through multiple programs, MTC seeks out writers and champions projects for continued life on the MTC stage and beyond. With our commissioning program, new play prizes, new play staged readings series, playwright residencies and a commitment to world premiere productions, MTC promotes the future of the American theater.

ABOUT MTC
Founded in 1966, Marin Theatre Company is the Bay Area’s premier mid-sized theater and the leading professional theater in the North Bay. We produce a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in our 231-seat main stage theater, as well as a five-show Theater Series for Young Audiences in partnership with the Bay Area Children's Theatre in our 99-seat studio theater. We are committed to the development and production of new plays by American playwrights, with a comprehensive New Play Program that includes productions of world premieres, two nationally recognized annual playwriting awards, readings and workshops by the nation’s best emerging playwrights and membership in the National New Play Network. Our numerous education programs serve more than 6,000 students from over 40 Bay Area schools each year. MTC is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

PRESS CONTACT
Sasha Hnatkovich, Communications Director
(415) 388-5200, ext. 3313 | sasha@marintheatre.org

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