Tom & Eliza

Written by Celine Song, Directed by Knud Adams
February 18 - 27, 2016

Tom & Eliza is a play in one long breath – two characters use rapid-fire language to chronicle their entire relationship, mercilessly withholding nothing. A teethy battle of wills that centers on obsessions with bathing and book-burning, the play wakens both ecstasy and disgust with life – propelling the audience from an ordinary first date toward the end of civilization. The production features Eliza Bent and Daniel Kublick.

PERFORMANCES:
Thursday, February 18 - Saturday, February 20 at 8 pm
Monday, February 22 at 8 pm
Thursday, February 25 - Saturday, February 27 at 8 pm
ADDED SHOW: Friday, Feb. 26 at 5 pm

RUN TIME: one hour

Directed & Designed by Knud Adams
Featuring: Eliza Bent & Daniel Kublick*
Assistant Director: Skylar Fox
*these Actors are appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association
​Equity approved Showcase
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CELINE SONG (Playwright) is a member of Ars Nova Play Group 2014-2015, a IATI Theater's 2015 Cimientos Playwright, a 2014 resident at Yaddo, a 2014 Great Plains Theatre Conference Playlab Playwright, and a 2012 Edward F. Albee Foundation Writing Fellow. Her plays include The Feast, Four Horsemen, Family, and Tom & Eliza. They have been developed by and performed at Signature Theater, Ars Nova, Potomac Theater, The Flea Theater, MAP Theater in Seattle, New Court Theatre in LA, Shelterbelt Theater in Omaha. MFA: Columbia

KNUD ADAMS (Director) is a director of experimental and new plays. After graduating Kenyon College, he continued his training by assisting some of the nation's foremost theater artists, including André Gregory, Elizabeth LeCompte, Richard Foreman, Sam Gold, and Sarah Benson. In NYC, Knud has directed and developed plays with Ars Nova, Brooklyn College, The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, Cloud City, Columbia University, dell'Arte Opera, Dixon Place, Juilliard, La MaMa, Manhattan School of Music, The New Ohio, New York Theatre Workshop, The Pearl, Playwrights Horizons, Playwrights Realm, PRELUDE, Rutgers University, Soho Rep, terraNOVA Collective, and Waterwell. Recently, he's worked with local playwrights Sam Alper, Will Arbery, Mallery Avidon, Eliza Bent, Emma Goidel, Carl Holder, Nick Jones, Justin Kuritzkes, Jiehae Park, Max Posner, Amelia Roper, Jenny Schwartz, Celine Song, Torrey Townsend, and Bryna Turner. He was a Drama League Directing Fellow, a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and a Playwrights Horizons Directing Resident. Before moving to the U.S. at age fifteen, Knud grew up in France, England, and Scotland.

ELIZA BENT (Eliza) is a performer, playwright, and journalist. Plays: Toilet Fire, (JACK, Abrons, Exponential Festival), Asleep at the Wheel (dir. Knud Adams), The Beyonce (2014 Payne Award for Outstanding Theatrical Event), The Hotel Colors (L magazine’s 25 best stage shows of 2013), Blue Wizard / Black Wizard. Bent is a MacDowell Colony fellow, a Bay Area Playwrights Finalist, a New Georges affiliated artist, a Target Margin Institute fellow, and an LMCC space grant recipient. Journalisms: American Theatre magazine + TDF. Frequent performer with the Obie-award winning company Half Straddle. MFA in playwriting Brooklyn College.

DANIEL KUBLICK (Tom) has appeared in new works by Dan Rothenberg, Kristin Marting, Ashlin Halfnight, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Jerry Lieblich, Eric Bland, Tracy Bersley, Jeremy Pickard, Mikhael Tara Garver, Sister Sylvester and art.party.theater.company. Recent credits include: Toshiki Okada’s The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise (The Play Company); Ghost Stories (Tiny Little Band); Dead Behind These Eyes (Sister Sylvester); and Health Insurance (United Solo Festival-- Best Avant-Garde Show). Upcoming: IDIOT (HERE). He is a graduate of The Studio/New York and Princeton University, and currently lives in oh so beautiful Brooklyn.

Photo by Knud Adams