BroadwayWorld.com Takes Up the Squeaky Bike Flag

The buzz train (Is that even a thing? It is now.) has left the station, kids!

BroadwayWorld.com has posted a delicious piece on our summer show, Alligator Summer (See what we did there? Summer show. Alligator Summer. CLEVER).

Take a gander at the full write-up here. Buy your tickets for Alligator Summer here. Donate a dollar or ten here. Watch a cute kitten nibbling on a watermelon here.

New Show New Show New Show

Summer is almost here and we are so excited to announce our sweet plan to bring a little of the South to the big city.

We presented it as a staged reading during our 2013 Winter Reading Lab and now we are thrilled to announce: 

Alligator Summer will be live in the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre (Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex) June 20 - July 7!

Written by Dylan Lamb, the dark-dark-darkly comic memory play centers on young Antietam Julep, a closeted prepubescent coming of age during the reptilian rapture in 1940s Louisiana. Sequestered with his family and the neighbors who have outstayed their welcome, Antietam discovers that the real blood-thirsty beasts are not the ones that lurk below. With wit, gore, sentiment, idiocy, archetypes, accents, and Gators, Alligator Summer is the guiltiest of pleasures for the refined sadist in all of us.

We will have more exciting information to share with you in the coming month, so keep an eye out! Find us on Twitter or Facebook or keep up with the goings-on here at squeakybicycleproductions.com!

Can't wait to see you at the show!

By the way, we're giving away a one-hour headshot session with 

TangySweet Photography!  

Enter to win at either of our 2013 Reading Lab events:

Alligator Summer (Sunday, February 17 at 7PM)

Far From the Trees (Monday, February 25 at 7 PM)

2013 Winter Reading Lab

Squeaky Bicycle's Reading Lab is back, and we have some awesome pieces to show you! Our Reading Lab was created to focus on helping emerging playwrights develop new work. This year, we're featuring two fantastic new plays: Dylan Lamb's Alligator Summer and Christina Gorman's Far From the Trees.

As audience members, you are invaluable. Not only will you get the chance to see staged readings of two promising new scripts, but you will also be able to help in the development process by participating in a short talkback (complete with wine!). With your help, we'll be able to get these shows ready for fully-staged productions.

 

Sunday, February 17 at 7 PM

Alligator Summer

by Dylan Lamb

Tennessee Williams gets absurd in this dark-dark-darkly comic memory play of a closeted pre-pubescent, Antietam Julep, coming of age during a reptilian apocalypse in 1940s Louisiana. With wit, gore, sentiment, idiocy, archetypes, accents, and Gators, Alligator Summer is the guiltiest of pleasures for the sadist freak in all of us.

Featuring:

Nicholas Yenson*

Bryan Marshall

Sharon Hunter*

John Say*

Annalisa Loeffler*

Nathan Brisby*

Laura Ramadei

Jeff Johnson

Directed by:

Brandi Varnell

February 25 at 7 PM

Far From the Trees

by Christina Gorman

A middle-aged widower learns his beloved forest of petrified trees, which he has spent years painstakingly unearthing, is priceless. He can save his family from bottomless debt if only he will sell. Why then, can't he let go?

Featuring:

William Kozy

Kelly Kay Griffith*

Sergio LoDolce

Brandi Varnell*

Mark A. Keeton*

Jeff Johnson

Directed by:

Kathryn McConnell

Both readings hosted by
The Drilling Company
236 West 78th Street, Third Floor
New York, NY 10024


Produced in association with The Drilling Company: Hamilton Clancy, AD
Donations are accepted to benefit The Drilling Company's newly expanded Arts Space

Get Your 2012 Tax Deductions!

There are only a few days left to squeeze in one last deduction for your 2012 taxes! Your contribution to Squeaky Bicycle Productions will go directly to the materials and artists needed to produce new theater of the highest quality. The best news about it? It's TAX DEDUCTIBLE! 

To donate, everything you need can be found at fracturedatlas.org 

As we continue to grow (and grow we will! stay tuned...) we depend more and more on contributions from arts supporters like you. The generosity of our donors has made many great things possible, and we are so very grateful for each and every donation.

From our Squeaky hearts to yours: Happy New Year!

*Earth without art is just eh.*

The year was 1984.  Massachusetts became the first state in the union to declare a state-wide ban on the phenomenon known as the "Happy Hour."

Fortunately, we are NOT in Massachusetts and we are most definitely not in the 80s (though, current fashion trends may disagree).  Allow me to announce:

Squeaky Bike's Happy Hour Fundraiser at the Village Pourhouse

On Friday, the 26th, from 7 - 9 PM, drop by the Village Pourhouse, cough up $25, and prepare to be rewarded with your fill (and then some, but be safe!) of beer, wine, and well drinks.  Bring your friends, family, coworkers (if you can stand 'em) and help us produce our upcoming project: Winter Reading Lab 2013.

Village Pourhouse

64 Third Avenue (at Eleventh Street)

*we'll be in the back*

Q&A with set designer Brandon Pietras

Pop Dies in Vegas, sprung from the mind (yes, Zeus-style, as we imagine it to have happened) of playwright W.M. Akers, is a never-ending cycle of hijinks revolving around the desperation of two men fallen from the spotlight.  Grappling hooks, spray paint, zip lines, blood and a bevy of weapons litter the crime scene, set in a posh Las Vegas hotel.  Set designer Brandon Pietras, shares his thoughts on the show:

Squeaky Bicycle:  What was the first thought that came to mind after reading Pop Dies in Vegas?

Brandon Pietras:  “Oh man, not another show with blood!”

SB:          What did you find the most challenging about the project?

BP:         So far, it's been finding an affordable way to spray-paint and blood-proof the set.  The vision for the design came very quickly initially, but it's taken a lot of tweaking and fine tuning.  Also, citing everything we need efficiently in the venue, which is quite small!

SB:          What kind of research happened for this show?

BP:         I looked through a ton of 1970's interior design pictures and furniture pictures to get an idea for the aesthetic, then we narrowed it down to a few images we liked the best.  From there, I picked out color swatches to inform the design, and used them to create the digital sketches for the set.

SB:          Favorite teen heartthrob (current or from your teen years)?

BP:         Oof, teen heartthrob? I don't know if I was ever the "heartthrob" type but waaay back in the day I remember thinking Lindsay Lohan was cute in the Parent Trap, but I wasn't a teen then.  I always listened to really old music from the 60's and 70's so I wasn't really paying attention to the Mistys of my day :)

SB:          Did you have a super pop playlist to listen to for inspiration?

BP:         (laughs)No, I didn't.  It's hard enough to escape from Justin Bieber and One Direction on my commute - I didn't have to go out of my way to make a playlist!

Brandon Pietras graduated from Fordham University in 2012 with a degree in Pre-Architecture. While at Fordham, he set designed for Bridget Carpenter's The Death of the Father of Psycoanalysis (& Anna), and a student written piece Front Porch Play by Sean-Patrick Monahan. Pop Dies in Vegas is his first project with Squeaky Bicycle Productions.