Second Stage announce two world premieres

Second Stage Theatre has announced the two world premiere plays which will be presented as part of the company's tenth annual Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series this summer: Alena Smtih's The Bad Guys, director to be announced, and Kenneth Lin's Warrior Class, directed by Evan Cabnet. Both plays will be presented at Second Stage Theatre's uptown home, the McGinn/Cazale Theatre.

The Bad Guys.
World premiere
Written by Alena Smith
Director to be announced
Cast to be announced
22 May - 17 Jun 2012

Five childhood buddies reunite on a late summer afternoon for some beer, grilling and weed, but deep within their friendship lurk ghosts that rock the patio beneath them..

Alena Smith's plays have been seen/developed at the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Joe's Pub, the Summer Play Festival, A.R.T. Institute, the Ohio Theatre, P.S. 122, Chashama, the Foundry, and the Yale Cabaret. Outside of the U.S., her work has been seen at the Southwark Playhouse in London, and at Theater Bielefeld in Bielefeld, Germany. She was a member of the Public's 2009 Emerging Writers Group, and was a 2008-09 Artist Fellow in Playwriting with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). MFA, Yale School of Drama; ASCAP Cole Porter Prize in Playwriting.

Warrior Class
World premiere
Written by Kenneth Lin
Directed by Evan Cabnet
Cast to be announced
12 Jul - 11 Aug 2012

When Assemblyman Julius Lee makes a bid for Congress, the ghosts of his college days come back to haunt him. Nothing reveals true colors like a sprint to the finish, when friends become enemies and allies can turn on a dime. A political battle of race, romance, forgiveness and debt.

Kenneth Lin's plays 'Fallow,' 'Intelligence-Slave,' 'Po Boy Tango,' 'said Saïd,' 'Life On Paper,' 'Agency' and 'Genius in Love' have been seen at theaters throughout the country, including the Alliance Theatre, Northlight Theatre Company, Alley Theatre, People's Light and Theatre Company, South Coast Rep, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Marin Theater Company and East West Players.

Evan Cabnet (Director). World Premieres include: 'Outside People' (Vineyard/Naked Angels), 'All-American' (Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3), 'The Dream Of The Burning Boy' (Roundabout Underground), 'Oohrah!' (Atlantic Theater Co.), Elizabeth Meriwether's' Oliver Parker!' (stageFARM), 'The Mistakes Madeline Made' (Naked Angels), 'Map Of Heaven' (Denver Center), Donald Margulies' 'Shipwrecked!' (Long Wharf, East Coast premiere), 'The Gingerbread House' (stageFARM/Rattlestick), and his own adaptations of 'Ubu Roi' and Salman Rushdie's 'Haroun And The Sea Of Stories' (Williamstown). He is the recipient of the 2008 Claire Tow Award for Emerging Artists, the 2003 Bill Foeller Fellowship, and the 2002 Boris Sagal Fellowship.