We Believe Yoga is for Everyone We Believe in the Possibility of Transformation We Believe in Listening We Believe in Supporting and Respecting Each Other We Believe Yoga Keeps the Body Healthy We Believe “Green” is the New Black We Believe the More You Have Done for Others the More You Have Done for Yourself We Believe in Taking Risks We Believe in WET We Believe that YogaWorks! Yogaworks is a Proud Sponsor of WET’s 2009 Season June 15th - June 29th, 2009 www.yogaworks.com WET’s INKubator is made possible through generous support provided by Ray & Kit Sawyer The 2009 INKubator Summer Series is made possible through support from: I EAT PANDAS Musical Improv Superstars! Additional support provided by: Eliza Skinner & Glennis McMurray CURRENT NOBODY Written by Melissa James Gibson Directed by Daniel Aukin DUSTY AND THE BIG BAD WORLD Written by Cusi Cram Directed by Evan Cabnet SWIMMING IN MARCH Written by Kate Robin Directed by Rebecca Bayla Taichman Produced and Co-Curated By Sasha Eden & Victoria Pettibone Co-Curated By Josh Hecht Casting Director Jack Doulin Dramaturg Josh Hecht Senior Assistant Producer Ashley Eichhorn-Thompson Assistant Producer Amy DePaola Graphic & Website Designer Silvia Minguzzi Press ThinkPR and Spin Cycle The 2009 INKubator Summer Series is Supported By: and Ray & Kit Sawyer WET SUPPORTERS Thank you to the following individuals, companies and foundations who have so generously supported WET’s 10th Season. Innovator The Washington Square Fund Trailblazer Ray & Kit Sawyer Time Warner Inc. Champion The Allan S. Gordon Foundation The Department of Cultural Affairs Michael Morley SCHEDULE The Bay & Paul Foundations Leslie Leventman Nancy Newhouse MONDAY JUNE 15TH Producer’s Giving Circle Daryl Roth Eileen Solomon JP Morgan Chase Fund for 7pm: Current Nobody Small Theaters Written by Melissa James Gibson Risk Takers Directed by Daniel Aukin Avinash Ahuja Logan Levkoff Joe Perella Dramaturg: Josh Hecht Mr. Spencer Kellogg II Peter & Jean Pettibone The John Golden Fund Featuring: Christina Kirk, Jessica Love, Natalia Payne, Leader Gareth Saxe, Trevor Williams, Carmen Zilles Luis & Tara Cortes Susan Levkoff Marilyn & Monroe Weiss Susan Hoffman Dr. Florence Milch & Victor Maggitti The Dramatist Guild 9:30pm: I Eat Pandas Trendsetter Eliza Skinner & Glennis McMurray Larry & Margie Altschuler Mr. & Mrs. James Druckman Stuart & Alice Goldman Her & His Honor Judy & Jerry Sheindlin Judy & Steve Kunreuther Peter & Janice Obre MONDAY JUNE 22ND Aimee Raupp Barbara & Allen Schwartz Brooke Shapiro 7pm: Dusty and the Big Bad World Kevin Sin & Teresa Puentes Written by Cusi Cram Believer Directed by Evan Cabnet Cynthia & Woodbury Andrews Patrice Tavoulareas & Jim Bell Ruma Bose Mr.& Mrs. William Buice Mr.& Mrs. Sam Butler Gary & Patricia Cademartori Dramaturg: Josh Hecht Barbara & Igal Chozahinoff Candee Chusid Elizabeth Cohen Featuring: Charlotte Booker, Sasha Eden, Sami Gayle, Kelly McAndrew, Zak Orth Jan Constantine Mr. John Corker & Anthony Galietti Alan Dombrow George Eichhorn Joan & Jack Eichhorn Lois Eil 9:30pm: I Eat Pandas Andrew Finnel Oliver Freundlich & Britta vonSchoeler Tom Fontana Eliza Skinner & Glennis McMurray Robert Frome & LouAnn Moore Christine Stiassni Gerli Charlene & Thomas Giannetti Mr.& Mrs. Alexender Grinnell Aaron Harnick Gregory Heyman Malcom & Anne Holderness Barbara Howard Dan Hunt & Monica Swanson MONDAY JUNE 29TH Win & Spen Kellogg Thomas & Joan Lavery Harriet Newman Leve Linda & Arthur Meisel Eddie & Linda Moore Charlie & Julie Peet 7pm: Swimming in March Betsy & Dan Polatsch Rosanne Quezada Sylvia Ross Written by Kate Robin Jordin Ruderman & Kevin Shand Pamela Ryckman Patricia Sann Directed by Rebecca Bayla Taichman Josh & Rowena Scherer Dr. Rebecca Schrag Mrs. Peter Sellers Dramaturg: Josh Hecht Jessica Sharzer Benjamin Stark Ms. Virginia Stowe Featuring: Adam Driver, Florencia Lozano, Maulik Pancholy, Darren Pettie, Martha Teichner Piper Weiss Mr. & Mrs. David Wicks Jennifer Regan, Keith Reddin Supporter Risa Benson Ms. Judith Childs Aileen & Michael Esposito 9:30pm: I Eat Pandas Larry & Debbie Freundlich Regina Goetz Sue Ann & Jara Greenfield Eliza Skinner & Glennis McMurray James Hoffman Natasha Janson Natasha Janson and Stephen Kline Michael & Samantha Joseloff Mr.& Mrs. Richard Kellogg Barak & April Klein AT: Jaime Nyegaard John & Sarah Pinkham Allison Radzin Kelly Renn Monica Rodriguez Michael & Rani Ruby Alexandra Zabriskie WET is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. WET relies on individual donations for our work to ex- 103 East 15th Street ist and thrive. To become a supporter of WET, you may make a tax-deductible donation to WET by check and mail to: 441 Lexington Ave, PH, New York, NY 10017, or you may visit the WET website at To make reservations, visit www.wetproductions.org www.wetproductions.org to donate online with a credit card. A Note from The 2009 INKubator Summer Series Co-Curator When Sasha and Victoria asked me to curate The 2009 INKubator Summer Series with them developing new work by women writers, I knew there would be no shortage of fabulous material. Though less than a third of 441 Lexington Ave, PH new plays produced nationally are by women, anyone in the field of new play development knows that, scratch New York, NY 10017 the surface of the new writing scene, and you will find that many (dare I say most?) of the most exciting, adven- 212-682-0265 turous, and engaged plays are being written by women. www.wetproductions.org WET is a Resident Company at the DR2 Theatre As the plays started coming in -- from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Louisville, DC, as well as from Brooklyn, the West Village, and Midtown -- I found myself being drawn to plays that, in vastly different ways, WET Staff engage with the sense of a world order ending and another on the horizon.— this sense of a nation on the Executive Producer & Creative Director of WET......................Sasha Eden cusp...but of what? The writers whose plays you will see this June are having an important conversation about Executive Producer & Director of Operations..........................Victoria Pettibone a world on the edge. Senior Assistant Producer & Office Manager...........................Ashley Eichhorn-Thompson Assistant Producer........................................................Amy DePaola Cusi Cram’s play DUSTY AND THE BIG BAD WORLD is the most literal in setting. Cusi takes as her Director of Film Development..........................................Jordana Mollick basis a little-known incident from the height of the Bush era to pose big questions about the nature of art and Graphic & Website Designer............................................Silvia Minguzzi its sometimes contradictory responsibility to reflect and transform the world around us. Cusi provocatively Literary Assistant.........................................................Tasha Gordon-Solmon turns her incisive humor and mordant wit on a moment in our recent history whose effects will be felt for years to come. Summer 2009 Interns................................................Tiffany Au, Lori Anne Barkin, Kate Robin’s play SWIMMING IN MARCH inhabits a more abstract landscape. Using Woyzeck as her inspi- Alexandra Campos, Michelle Clawson, AnaBianca Cuffia, Ashley Sauerfhof, Tara Sonin, Olivia Whelan ration, Kate turns her lens on a world at war as asks: What are war’s effects on our collective psyche? How do we want to reintegrate the thousands of returning GIs into the society at home? What are our responsibilities Board of Directors Board of Advisors to each other and how do we begin to repair the devastating effects war always has? Sasha Eden Jack Doulin Leslie Leventman Olympia Dukakis Melissa James Gibson’s CURRENT NOBODY turns to the ancients to better reflect our own times. Radically Logan Levkoff Robert Lupone re-imagining the quintessential story of war and wandering, Homer’s Illiad and Odyssey, Melissa focuses her tale Michael Morley Victoria Maxwell on those left behind. This time it’s “Od” at the loom, left to raise his child on his own while his wife pursues Nancy Newhouse Neil Pepe glory and adventure abroad. Melissa has said the play is about “the personal costs of epic ambition.” I think Victoria Pettibone Mike Rego you’ll find her telling magical, thoroughly new, and undeniably relevant. Eileen Solomon Jodi Schoenbrun-Carter Adrienne Shelly in memoriam Speaking of “new,” a word about “New Plays” from someone whose passion is developing them: All three of the Bernard Telsey plays you’ll see at WET this month have received a recent first production. Although Cusi, Melissa, and Kate DR2 Theatre were quite pleased with the results, all three walked away brimming with more ideas they wanted to try, things The DR2 Theatre was created by Daryl Roth in 2002 as a sister space to the landmarked, off-Broadway they could learn only by going through a full production. It may surprise you to know that the vast majority of new plays never have a second production. At the TCG conference in Baltimore and The Mellon Foundation- Daryl Roth Theatre. Along with the D-Lounge Cabaret, the theatres are situated in the “heart of Off- sponsored conference at The Humana Festival of New American Plays this year, there was much talk about Broadway” and have the distinct ability to present artists and productions to the community through a why this is. One problem is the premium most theaters place on the “World Premiere,” But this conflation nurturing and inviting environment. The complex has hosted such hits as the seven