Ten by Twenty a one-act festival of 20 ten-minute plays

In honor of it�s 20th Anniversary season, Atlantic Theater Company will present Ten By Twenty, a one-act festival of twenty ten-minute plays presented over three weeks from 14 Jun - 1 Jul 2006.

Each act is by playwrights whose work has been produced at the theater over the past two decades. Ten By Twenty will reunite many of Atlantic�s ensemble of actors and directors to inaugurate the company�s brand new state-of-the art Atlantic Stage Two.

The 99-seat Atlantic Stage Two theater at 330 West 16th Street will house two productions of new works each season and serve as a home theater for the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School.

Ten By Twenty will run over three consecutive weeks from 14 Jun through to the 1 Jul 2006:

Ten By Twenty: Week 1

Dates 14 - 17 June 2006

• Three Little Words
  Playwright: Hilary Bell
  Director: Karen Kohlhaas
  cast: Kathryn Erbe and Kate Blumberg.
• Leavings
  Playwright: Jez Butterworth
  Director: Neil Pepe
  cast: Peter Maloney.
• Milos
  Playwright: John Guare
  Director: Neil Pepe
  cast: Patrick Breen.
• Our Favorite Child
  Playwright: Rolin Jones
  Director: Christian Parker
  cast: Linda Gehringer, Jonathan Rossetti and Ray Anthony Thomas.
• Home
  Playwright: David Mamet
  Director: Hilary Hinckle
  cast: Jordan Lage and Kathryn Erbe.
• The Muse
  Playwright: Quincy Long
  Director: Dave Mowers
  cast: Kate Blumberg and Brennan Brown.
• On Story
  Playwright: Bill Wrubel
  Director: Robert Bella
  cast: Patrick Breen, Brennan Brown, Jim Frangione, Peter Maloney, Emily Peck and Patrick Taylor.

Ten By Twenty: Week 2

Dates 21 - 24 June 2006

• Master Disaster
  Playwright: Kia Corthron
  Director: Jackson Gay
  cast: Donna Duplantier and Zabryna Guevara.
• It Takes an Orchard
  Playwright: Tom Donaghy
  Director: Neil Pepe
  cast: Carolyn McCormick.
• Maybe 21
  Playwright: Peter Hedges
  Director: Peter Hedges
  cast: Kristen Johnston and John Benjamin Hickey.
• Quotidian
  Playwright: Howard Korder
  Director: Neil Pepe
  cast: Ted Danson.
• He�s Come to Take the Children Home
  Playwright: Craig Lucas
  Director: Neil Pepe
  cast: Ryan King and Mark Webber.
• The Burning
  Playwright: Joe Penhall
  Director: Karen Kohlhaas
  cast: Alex Draper and Steven Hawley.
• Mutterliebe
  Playwright: Keith Reddin
  Director: Christian Parker
  cast: Jen Albano, Matt Dawson and Jan Maxwell.

Ten By Twenty: Week 3

Dates 28 June - 1 Jul 2006

• The Compassioneer
  Playwright: Kevin Heelan
  Director: Carl Forsman
  cast: Christian Parker and Steven Skybell.
• Through a Glass Darkly
  Playwright: Tina Howe
  Director: Christian Parker
  cast: Kate Blumberg and Peter Jacobson.
• Untitled
  Playwright: David Pittu
  cast: David Pittu and Peter Bartlett.
• Hello. Northwood Mental Health Center
  Playwright: David Rabe
  Director: Robert Bella
  cast: Ronnie Butler, Robert Maxwell and Christa Scott-Reed.
• Jody�s Mother
  Playwright: Edwin Sanchez
  cast: Roberta Maxwell.
• The Intervention
  Playwright: Jeff Whitty
  Director: Dave Mowers
  cast: Susan Pourfar, Christa Scott-Reed, Ronnie Butler, Mike Doyle.

The Atlantic was awarded the 2006 Lucille Lortel Prize for Outstanding Body of Work. The company�s critically acclaimed limited engagement production of Martin McDonagh�sThe Lieutenant Of Inishmore, directed by Wilson Milam, transferred to Broadway�s Lyceum Theatre in April and has been nominated for five 2006 Tony Awards including Best Play.