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Join the Ride!

9/24/2013

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My fellow Americans:

Time to Join the Ride!

Invited dress tonight. Previews start tomorrow.

Sept 24 – Oct 20, 2013

Wed thru Sat @ 8:00pm
Tues @ 7:00pm
Sun @ 3:00pm

St. Clement’s
423 West 46th Street
(betw 9th and 10th)

Bike America
by Mike Lew
directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel

Featuring Vandit Bhatt, Jessica DiGiovanni, Melanie Nicholls-King, David Shih, Marilyn Torres, Tom White, and Landon G. Woodson

Set by Andrew Boyce, costumes by Melissa Schlachtmeyer & Amy J. Pedigo, lights by Matthew Richards, and sound design by Jill BC Du Boff.

Winner of the Kendeda Grad Playwriting Competition!

Bike America is a wildly theatrical picaresque journey that crams the entire continent onto one stage. The play unfolds as a cross-country bike trip from Boston to California, with stops in big cities and small towns along the way. Our feckless heroine Penny is looking to bring more meaning into her life, to find a lifestyle that suits her and a town that feels like a home... so she drops her clingy boyfriend in Beantown and takes off for Santa Barbara! Along the way she befriends a colorful crew of bikers: Ryan, the health nut biking instructor; Tim Billy, the innocent wanderer; Annabel and Rorie, the badass activists seeking to get gay-married in every state they hit on the trip; and the mysterious Man with the Van who carries their stuff.

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Here We Are

9/21/2013

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We're in the theater.
Bike America NYC premiere
produced by Ma-Yi Theater and EST
Sep 24 - Oct 20
For info and tix go here!

From the NY Times theater listings:
‘Bike America’ (previews start on Tuesday; opens on Oct. 1) Kitchen-sink drama does not appear to be the default mode for Mike Lew, who was last seen giving global finance a madcap spin in 2010’s “Microcrisis.” That was produced by Ma-Yi Theater Company, as is this new piece about a young woman’s cross-country bike trip. This time Mr. Lew has set his play in all 48 contiguous states. Theater at St. Clement’s, 423 West 46th Street, Clinton, (212) 352-3101, ma-yitheatre.org. (Grode)

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Watch me learn to ride a bike with Graeme Gillis.

9/11/2013

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Watch me learn to ride a bike with EST/Youngblood's Graeme Gillis.

So the deal is that I wrote a play about biking without really knowing how to bike.

I grew up on a steep hill and my parents thought if I got a bike I would kill myself trying to learn how to ride it, so I didn't learn how to balance on a bike until I was in college.

But in celebration of Ma-Yi and EST's coproduction of Bike America, Tyler Mercer at Ma-Yi thought it'd be fun to pair up Ma-Yi and Youngblood members to have a little chat on bikes, courtesy of GoPro cameras.

Biking one loop around Central Park is by far the farthest I've ever ridden on a bike. Click the link at the top to see what-all we talked about.

(Not pictured: getting a flat, leaning on a pedestrian for balance, leaning on Graeme for balance, falling over multiple times while trying to stop.)

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