Centrifugal Force
Playwright Gary Winter
Centrifugal Force
Directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh
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O'Brien's Bait and Tackle Shop is drifting away, metaphorically and spiritually, and it's owners, the Grossman clan, are going with it. Herman searches for a Spanish Woman in a boat, Jerry runs off to work, and Marissa creates new worlds in the closet. Will the lure of the see and the power of writing save them?
“We don’t often see plays these days about working class jews. Gary’s Long Islanders, hard on the sea for decades, carry a saltiness and grit that brings us back in touch with a kind of character we haven’t seen in a long time. ”
Gary Winter (Playwright) was a member of now-imploded 13P. Centrifugal Force was a runner-up for the Princess Grace Award. Gary's plays have been produced at The Chocolate Factory, HERE, The Flea, defunktheater, PS 122, The Cherry Lane Alternative and Little Theater. His play Daredevil was recently seen at Dixon Place as part of an ongoing collaboration with director Meghan Finn. Support: The Goldberg Award, Lark Theater Fellow, SEG Voices, The Puffin Foundation, Dramatists Guild Fellow, John Golden Award, MacDowell Colony and YADDO. Awarded a Spielberg Foundation Righteous Persons Fellowship to study Eastern European Jewry in Krakow. MFA-NYU.
Pirronne Yousefzadeh (Director) has directed and developed new work at The Public, NYTW, Ars Nova, Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, The Woodshed Collective, Partial Comfort Productions, Rising Phoenix Rep, Noor Theatre, HERE, NYMF, EST, The Lark Play Development Center, Williamstown, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Milwaukee Rep, and Hangar Theatre, among others. She is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop and the Fellowship Coordinator, New Georges Affiliated Artist and member of The Jam, member of the Old Vic/New Voices Network, and an alumna of the Emerging Artist Fellowship at NYTW, Drama League Directors Project, LCT Directors Lab, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and EST’s Resident Director Program. Upcoming: productions at Perseverance Theatre, Interact Theatre Company, and Rutgers University. MFA, Columbia University.