Baltimore by Kristen Kosmas
Dixon Place Mondo Cane! presents a workshop production of:
The Mayor of Baltimore
By Kristen Kosmas
Fridays and Saturdays, February 17, 18, 25, and 25
All shows at Dixon Place, 258 Bowery, 2nd Fl, between Houston & Prince
Show begins at 8pm, door opens at 7:30pm
Tickets are sliding scale $10-$15
Advance $12 tickets at theatremania.com
TDF vouchers accepted Thursday only
Reservations: 212-219-0736 x110
Margaret's been elected to an unnamed, low-level, non-partisan position in East Baltimore's city government and she’s having thirteen of her closest friends over to celebrate. John’s in love, Shelly's enraged, Tyrone’s drunk, Charles is overly optimistic, and Pearl's at the wrong party. With friends like that, who needs strangers? Meanwhile, Annelie gives an ambiguous lecture and tries to find that elusive, perfect word while Lila searches in earnest for the world’s last most beautiful object and tries to answer the age old question: out of what should we construct a future? The Mayor of Baltimore is a completely impractical play with songs and a window, written by Kristen Kosmas, directed by Kip Fagan, and featuring 15 or 16 of Chico California's most beloved performers, including Denver Latimer, Elizabeth Latimer, Tyler Nolan, Haley Hughes, Jesse Karch, and Forest Gillespie.
Kristen Kosmas is a writer and performer living in Brooklyn. Her solo plays and performances include The Frieda Story, The Scandal!, SLiP, again, and blah blah fuckin blah. SLiP was named best solo play of the year (1996) by Misha Berson of the Seattle Times; again was cited by The Stranger's Bret Fetzer as one of the top ten theater events of the decade (1992 – 2002), and The Scandal! was listed in The Stranger’s Memories of 2000, Theater That Sticks to the Brain. Kristen has performed her solo work in Seattle (New City Theater, Printer’s Devil, On The Boards, Bumbershoot, AHA!, Annex), Austin (Physical Plant, Frontera @ Hyde Park), Chicago (Splinter Group), and Boston. Other plays include Palomino or: be nice to have some company, SUPERHERO, The Bird Wind Flower Moon Plays, and Shooting! Star!. In New York City, her plays have been seen at venues including Dixon Place, Little Theater, Barbes, BRIC, Nada, and the Ontological/Hysteric Downstairs series. She is the co-founder (with Judy Elkan) of the 2005 OBIE award winning performance series, Little Theater at TONIC, and as a performer, she has appeared in new plays by Karinne Keithley, Anne Washburn, Jim Strahs, Judy Elkan, Evan Cabnet, Tory Vazquez, and Erin Cressida Wilson.
In the spring of 2006, Kristen will be one of four writers included in a festival at the Classic Stage Company inspired by Walter Benjamin';s essay, The Storyteller, featuring adaptations of classic short stories reinterpreted for the theater. She is also currently working on a cycle of short stories called TriggerFlower, and a new play, Hello Failure, which was presented as a work in progress at Dixon Place in April.
Dixon Place Mondo Cane! Commissions are made possible with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Peg Santvoord Foundation and Jerome Foundation.
Dixon Place theatre events are made possible, in part, with public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and generous private funds from Alliance of Resident Theatres/NY's Fund for Small Theatres; Altria, Inc.; Blue Man Group; Edith C. Blum Foundation; Carnegie Corporation; Dramatist Guild Fund; Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts; Greenwall Foundation; Jerome Foundation; Jerome Robbins Foundation; Katherine Dalglish Foundation; Low Wood Fund; Lucille Lortel Foundation; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; and Peg Santvoord Foundation.
