NEWS: 2011-2012 SEASON @ SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY

Salt Lake Acting Company News Release PRESS CONTACT: CYNTHIA FLEMING. 801 363 7522. CYNTHIA@SALTLAKEACTINGCOMPANY.ORG FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY ANNOUNCES ITS 2011-2012 SEASON Salt Lake Acting Company is on the brink of our fantastic 41st season. Perpetuating our history of producing the very best of contemporary theatre with internationally recognized, award-winning plays and terra nova world premieres, we are thrilled to announce our 2011-2012 Season. This season we forge deeper into our mission ~ Salt Lake Acting Company strives to make a significant contribution to both our community and the national theatre by recognizing, developing and producing revelatory new work as we nurture and support a vital community of professional local artists. The 2011/2012 Season will feature seven plays including two Tony Award winning productions, GOD OF CARNAGE and RED, the World Premieres of Elaine Jarvik and Kate Jarvik Birch’s A MAN ENTERS, Kathleen Cahill’s COURSE 86 B IN THE CATALOGUE, Charles Lynn Frost’s DOTTIE – THE SISTER LIVES ON!, and SLAC’s annual musical satire – SATURDAY’s VOYEUR, as well as our third annual professional production for children – HOW I BECAME I PIRATE. SLAC opens its 2011-2012 Season with the best of the best in theatre, GOD OF CARNAGE by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton. We are delighted to bring this Olivier Award and six-time Tony Award winning comedy to SLAC audiences. This play is centered around two sets of upper middle class parents having a cordial meeting in reaction to a schoolyard brawl between their sons. When rum replaces coffee and fragile egos crack, the conversation goes from civilized to savage. The New York Times describes God of Carnage as “a satisfyingly primitive entertainment with an intellectual veneer.” When parents parent you on parenting, the only thing left standing is the set. GOD OF CARNAGE will be directed by John Caywood with Darrin Doman, Nell Gwynn, Zack Phifer & Christy Summerhays. It will run October 12 – November 6, 2011 in SLAC’s Upstairs Theatre. Next, in SLAC’s intimate Chapel Theatre – the world premiere of A MAN ENTERS by Utah playwrights and mother/daughter duo Elaine Jarvik and Kate Jarvik Birch. This play was introduced in SLAC’s 2010-2011 New Play Sounding Series and is a semi-autobiographical and wildly-whimsical comic odyssey about love – and what happens after. Rosie is attempting to create the perfect party for her father Peter’s homecoming. Peter Montgomery Curtis is famous- he has won a Nobel Prize for his work in artificial intelligence. He is married to the smartest woman in the world and he hasn’t seen his children from his first marriage in twenty years…. A MAN ENTERS will be directed by Alexandra Harbold with Joyce Cohen, Terence Goodman, Amanda Mahoney, Deena Marie Manzanares & Jesse Peery. It will run November 2-December 4, 2011 in SLAC’s Chapel Theatre. A perfect holiday tradition to share with your family, SLAC continues its tradition to produce children's theatre which honors a child’s creativity and intelligence. SLAC will bring HOW I BECAME A PIRATE based on the book by Melinda Long by Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman and winner of the Irma S and James H Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature, to the stage. We are proud to merge arts and education through our third annual professional production for children, offering Title I schools that often lack access to the arts seven free performances of the play to K-2 students, complete with a study guide, pre-play warm up and post-play discussion with the actors. SLAC will continue to form literary partnerships with the Salt Lake Public Library and King’s English Bookshop. Watching children beam and come to life during and after each performance is truly rewarding for SLAC, reaffirming the notion that theatre and the arts are vital to the human experience. HOW I BECAME A PIRATE will be directed by Penelope Marantz Caywood. It will run December 6-30, 2011 in SLAC’s Upstairs Theatre. With the fourth play of the season, RED by John Logan, SLAC brings Broadway to Salt Lake. Winner of the Drama Desk Award, Drama League Award and six Tony Awards, RED is an intimate glimpse into the world of outspoken and opinionated artist Mark Rothko and his young assistant Ken. Intellectually thrilling, this two man drama illustrates the struggle between artistic compromise and poverty. It is an intense, witty play that will ignite passion and creativity. As Rothko articulates, “I’m here to stop your heart. Im not here to paint pretty pictures.” RED will be directed by SLAC’s Executive Producer Keven Myhre with Morgan Lund & Ted Powell. It will run February 8-March 4, 2012 in SLAC’s Upstairs Theatre. For a must-see season add-on, follow the zany and kind-hearted comedic journey and Latter Life of City Weekly’s BEST UTAHAN - Sister Dottie S. Dixon, Spanish Fark’s most famous citizen. World premiere, DOTTIE - THE SISTER LIVES ON! deftly explores the ongoing hoedown of promoting equality, personal life evolution, synchronicities, female empowerment, motherhood, love, loss, & facing fear. A hilarious & poignant sequel, and as Sister Dottie says herself “Landsamighty, this new play has all the makin’s of bein’ simply GRAND I tell ya!” DOTTIE -- THE SISTER LIVES ON! by Charles Lynn Frost will be directed by Robin Wilks-Dunn. It will run February 15 - March 11, 2012 in SLAC’s Chapel Theatre. SLAC is thrilled to champion the work of playwright-in-residence Kathleen Cahill for the third year in a row, bringing her world premiere, COURSE 86B IN THE CATALOGUE, to the main stage. This play was introduced in the 2010-2011 SLAC New Play Sounding Series and is a comedic riff on evolution and time set at a small community college in an arid state where extraordinary artifacts from the ancient past abound – some of them still living. COURSE 86 B IN THE CATALOGUE will be directed by Tracy Callahan with Colleen Baum, Daniel Beecher, Elise Groves & Topher Rasmussen. It will run April 11-May 6, 2012 in SLAC’s Upstairs Theatre. The 2011-2012 season with close with the biggest summer party in Utah- SATURDAY’S VOYEUR by Allen Nevins & Nancy Borgenicht. For 34 years this poignant and upbeat musical satire written for us and about us from scratch every year, has given a voice to the more liberal audience base of Utah. Political. Liberating. Always hilarious. One Voyeur 2011 fan said, “Being at VOYEUR is like watching the clouds part on a grey day.” SATURDAY’S VOYEUR will run June 27-September 2, 2012 in SLAC’s Upstairs Theatre. ADDITIONAL NOTES: As always, Salt Lake Acting Company deeply thanks their many season subscribers, without whom this theatre’s work would not be possible. Season tickets are available now and season packages range from $61-$186. Single tickets are available, ranging from $15-$31. For more information call 801.363.7522 or visit www.saltlakeactingcompany.org. SLAC was founded in 1970 and is dedicated to producing, commissioning and developing new works and to supporting a community of professional artists. SLAC has been nationally recognized by the Shubert Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Edgerton Foundation, among others. SLAC is a Constituent Member of Theatre Communications Group, a national organization for non-profit professional regional theatres, and the National New Play Network. Salt Lake Acting Company is a member of the Actor’s Equity Association. ________________________________________________ Cynthia Fleming Executive Producer Salt Lake Acting Company 801.363.7522 www.saltlakeactingcompany.org www.nowplayingutah.com