For Immediate Release:

Kid Brooklyn Productions (Evan F. Caccioppoli, Artistic Director) www.kidbrooklynproductions.org

a world premiere

WILD By Crystal Skillman Directed by Evan F. Caccioppoli

Peter and Bobby graduated from Northwestern together, live together, work together, sleep together. But when one of them cheats with a woman – Nikki – they dive into in a world of wild sexual affairs that threaten what they once had. But through Nikki will they find a different kind of love? Set on a beach on Lake Michigan, WILD is a savagely funny Chicago story of desperate love that asks: can we ever truly know the form love takes and how far will we go to fight to hold onto it when we do?

Preview: June 14, 2012 Opening Night: June 15, 2012 Performances: June 16, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, and 30 at 8:00pm June 17, 24, and July 1 at 5:00pm

Performances at Angel Island 735 West Sheridan Road Chicago, IL 60613

Featuring Julia Daubert*, Jude Hansen, Justin Harner, Evan Linder, Michael Manocchio, and Adam Schulmerich.

Production Stage Manager: Dina Marie Klahn* Set Designer: Dustin Pettegrew Lighting Designer: Fred Uebele Costume Designer: Katherine Meister Sound Designer: Zan Rosenthal Dialect Coach: Rachel Rizzuto Casting Director: Claire Tuft Photography by Sophia Nahli Graphic Design by J. Stephen Brantley

(*Artistic Associate, Kid Brooklyn Productions)

Tickets will be available beginning May 1, 2012 at Brown Paper Tickets (www.brownpapertickets.com)

** Due to mature content and language this production is not recommended for people under the age of 17**

Wild was originally written as a ten-minute scene fro Primary Stages’ Einhorn School of Performing Arts Site-Specific Directing Class (Daniel Talbott, Instructor). Kid Brooklyn Productions commissioned a full length play based on that ten-minute scene. WILD has been developed in private readings and workshops, as well as being read as part of MCC’s PlayLab series of readings at The Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Kid Brooklyn Productions:

Kid Brooklyn Productions’ mission is to create theatrical work that is unique, thought provoking, fearless, relevant, provocative, entertaining, raw, humorous, and honest. We want to create theatre that explores every aspect of the human experience light and dark, heartbreaking and joyful, beautiful and broken. We want to challenge ourselves as artists and break our boundaries in the stories we tell on stage.

“Kid Brooklyn Productions is off to a surprisingly good start. With a little more time to view their work, they could very well be judged as a theatre production company to watch out for.” Paige Listerud, Chicago Theater Beat (Unbroken, Chicago)

Playwright Crystal Skillman:

CRYSTAL SKILLMAN is a Brooklyn based playwright. Her play CUT, produced by The Management in Spring 2011 earned a critic's pick in a rave from the New York Times which noted: “A playwright of growing downtown renown, Ms. Skillman seems to be acquiring something suspiciously Midtown: polish." CUT will be published by Sam French this fall and is scheduled to open in Boston this spring. Recent productions also include: THE VIGIL or THE GUIDED CRADLE (Impetuous Theater Group/Theater; 2010 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Full-Length Script); NOBODY & BIRTHDAY (Rising Phoenix Rep in NYC, Side Project in CH, U.K Premiere in 2010 with Kibbo Productions at Waterloo East, Camden Fringe 2011); ACTION PHILOSOPHERS! (Stage adaptation from the graphic novel premiered Comic Book Theater Festival Summer 2011). Upcoming plays include: SEX AND DEATH IN LONDON with director Michael Padden (Rising Phoenix Rep’s Cino Night Series, February 12th 2012 at Jimmy’s No. 43); ANOTHER KIND OF LOVE (Overturn Theatre Ensemble Residency at IRT March 26 and 27th); 4 EDGES (TerraNOVA Collective’s Groundbreakers Presentation Spring 2012); WILD (Debuting in Chicago with Kid Brooklyn Productions June 14th - July 1st 2012 under the direction of Evan Caccippoli); THE SLEEPING WORLD (Upcoming Member’s Workshop this fall at Ensemble Studio Theater directed by Daniel Talbott) and her new play commission for Vampire Cowboys, GEEK, will premiere in Spring 2013 in NYC. Crystal was recently named one of Manhattan “Best Ofs” for OurTownNY magazine, and was selected as one of nytheatre.com’s fifteen People of the Year for 2011. She is represented by Joseph Rosswog at The Gersh Agency and is a member of the MCC Theater Playwrights’ Coalition, Rising Phoenix Rep, as well as an alumni member of the Women’s Project and Soho Rep lab. You can learn more about her at: https://profiles.google.com/crystalskillman/about

"For decades Hollywood's sick soul has provided cannon fodder for novelists and screenwriters. With "Cut,” playwright Crystal Skillman presents a modest "Hurlyburly" for our time, taking aim at reality television...the real star is the script, bristling with vitality in a compact 90 minutes." New York Times, Andy Webster (CUT, New York)

“Skillman creates a short masterpiece where the running theme is that it is never too late to follow your dreams.” www.fringereview.co.uk, Rochelle Sampy (Birthday, London)

Director Evan F. Caccioppoli:

Evan F. Caccioppoli created Kid Brooklyn Productions with the hope of creating fearless and honest theatre that explores every aspect of the human experience. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York the name Kid Brooklyn comes from a love for where it all began and the joy of looking at things with a kid’s eyes always new and fresh. Evan received his BFA in Theatre Performance from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also studied at The Poor School in London, England, and performed at the International Theatre Festival in Varna, Bulgaria. He is currently a masters degree candidate n Educational Theatre at NYU. Past directing credits include: Unbroken by Alexandra Wood (Kid Brooklyn Productions, American Premiere); In The Key of You by Diana Stahl; Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead; The Last Five Years; and original devised works Shattered Silence and 8:46:40 (The September 11th Project). Assistant Director to Daniel Talbott on Eightythree Down (Hard Sparks/Under St. Marks) and Much Ado About Nothing (Boomerang Theatre Company/The Secret Theatre), and to Pedro Pascal on Yosemite (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater). Contact at [email protected].

“Director Evan Caccioppoli displays deft handling of very mature themes…Caccioppoli has finely honed his cast to build suspense from what goes unsaid as much as what is.” Paige Listerud, Chicago Theater Beat (Unbroken, Chicago)

For Publicity information on WILD and/or Kid Brooklyn Productions please contact Evan Caccioppoli at [email protected]