GRAY MATTERS is an original production by Jaques Lamarre, presented by Emerson Collaborative Theater (ETC).
No memory. No insurance. No opportunities. What's an actor to do?
After an emergency hospitalization, actress Sarah Gray finds herself with faulty memory, no insurance and no opportunities. Is it possible for an actor with an Etch-a-Sketch for a brain to get back to what matters?
Performances dates are September 9 - 12.
GRAY MATTERS is a new play written by Connecticut playwright, Jacques Lamarre. Jacques is the Director of Communications for The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, CT. Previous work experience includes Hartford Stage, Yale Repertory Theatre/Yale School of Drama and TheaterWorks Hartford. He has co-written seven shows for international drag star Varla Jean Merman including the current The Loose Chanteuse. His short play Stool was selected for the inaugural New Works New Britain and was a top ten finalist for the 2009 NY 15 Minute Play Festival. He has written two children's plays that were produced by the American Stage Festival. Gray Matters is his first full-length play for grown-ups featuring real ladies.
Joshua Lee Ramos (Director) is a native of Hartford, CT and a graduate of University of Hartford where he received a BA in Drama and Film. He is overjoyed to once again take part in the Midtown InterNational Theatre Festival. In 2008 he made his professional theatre directorial debut with Princebury Productions directing A. R. Gurney's "Love Letters " in Massachusetts. He also did the lighting design for that show that would express the changes in time and compliment the change in emotions. The show earned him critical praise for these elements as well as his direction. Joshua brought the revival of Maria Irene Fornes' "The Conduct of Life" to the Off-Broadway June Havoc Theatre as part of the Midtown InterNational Theatre Festival in summer of 2008 as the director, lighting designer and sound designer. Additional regional professional credits include working as a director for "New Works New Britain Theatre Festival," as well as having been a lighting designer for CONNetic Dance in Hartford and for their regional tour. For his first show of 2010 he directed "Cinderella Eats Rice and Beans" for the Hartford Children's Theatre. Most recently he reunited with the Emerson Theatre Collaborative (etc.) as Assistant Director alongside Andrea Andresakis (director) for "Chestina Vanessa Poulson" Other etc. credits include: stage manager for "Harriet2", director for Bill Corbett's and Kira Obolensky's "Hate Mail." He first worked with etc as director of a very successful run of Rebecca Gilman's "Spinning into Butter" for etc. in Fall 2009. "Working with etc. has been real, educational, humbling and most of all fun"- Ramos. He would like to thank Camilla Ross as well as the cast and crew of "Gray Matters". For more on Ramos visit www.joshualeeramos.webs.com.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.emersontheatercollaborative.org/GrayMatters.
