Wide Eyed Productions

Wide Eyed Productions is a New York-based collective dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the creation of risk-taking, relevant theatre. Through a core ensemble committed to both the birth of contemporary works and the rebirth of classic texts, it is our goal through collaborative process to discover and create new theatre that stimulates the imagination and awakens the public's passion for high standards in performing arts.Wide Eyed ProductionsFor Immediate Release: May 15, 2008 Contact: Kristin Skye Hoffmann at (212) 300-5939 or [email protected] Eyed Productions presents A Devil Inside By David Lindsay-AbaireThurs. June 26 @ 8pm Fri. June 27 @ 8:00pm Sat. June 28 @ 2pm & 8pm Sun. June 29 @ 2pm Thurs. July 3 @ 8pm Fri. July 4 @ 8pm Sat. July 5 @ 2pm & 8pm Sun. July 6 @ 2pm Thurs. July 10 @ 8pm Fri. July 11 @ 8pm Sat. July 12 @ 2pm & 8pm Sun. July 13 @ 2pm CLOSING PERFORMANCERichmond Shepard Theatre 309 E. 26th Street (at 2nd Ave.) New York, NY 10010 www.richmondshepard.comTickets are $18 for adults and $15 for Students and Seniors. Tickets will be available for purchase at the door. For ticket information visit www.theatremania.com or email [email protected] Eyed Productions unleashes their explosive sense of humor this summer with Pulitzer-Prize-winning-playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's hilarious tragedy (that's right), A Devil Inside.On his 21st birthday Gene is informed that his 400-pound father was brutally murdered while hiking in the Pennsylvania Poconos. Now, left with only the old man's severed feet (carefully preserved in a jar of formaldehyde by his mother), Gene must find the killer and avenge his footless father.Wide Eyed Productions will transform the Richmond Shepard Theatre into a Lower East Side laundromat where the play is set. Audiences will also be teleported to a university lecture hall and a number 6-train subway car. Fans of classic Russian literature will enjoy nods to Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and for the stiff of stomach there's bloody violence a-plenty.Director and company member, Justin Ness, leads the Wide Eyed team in this their third full-length production. Wide Eyed has been building steam since last fall's inaugural production of Euripides' The Medea. NYTheatre.com called it "exhilarating and haunting." Wide Eyed then answered this success by mounting a modern take on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing that The Shakespeare Revue hailed as a "slam dunk production" and Sugarzine deemed "a hilarious night of theatre."The cast of delightfully disturbing and wacky characters include Wide Eyed Productions’ Artistic Director Kristin Skye Hoffmann as Mrs. Slater, Co-Founder Liz White as Caitlin, as well as company members, Sage Seals as Gene, Andrew Harriss as Carl, Lauren Bahlman as Lily and newcomer Jake Paque as Brad.David Lindsay-Abaire won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Rabbit Hole."Murder, gore and psychosis. All purposeful and funny. A Devil Inside keeps the house laughing for two hours” -The New York Times.For more information, contact Kristin Skye Hoffmann at 212-300-5939, or [email protected] and visit our website www.wideeyedproductions.com