The Hangar Theatre's Pilot Reading Series in NYC continues with In a Little Room , a new play by Pete McElligott. The reading is Monday, October 24th at 7:00pm at One-on-One Studios, 34 W 27th St. 11th Floor (between Broadway & 6th Avenue) and will be directed by Stephanie Yankwitt, the Hangar's Co- Associate Artistic Director in charge of new works.
In a Little Room is the story of two strangers trapped in the cold comforts of a hospital waiting room while feebly attempting to restart their lives and failing fantastically. The cast includes are Dashiell Eaves (A Behanding in Spokane, Coram Boy, The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Trevor Long (LAByrinth Theater Company member, Unconditional at The Public) and Ted K?ch (Elling, The Pillowman)
The Hangar Pilot Reading Series, held every month in Manhattan, offers new and established playwrights a chance to work on their new plays with Hangar alumni, directors, and actors. Notable artists who have participated in the Reading Series include Kristoffer Diaz (Pulitzer finalist, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity), director & Hangar alum Lisa Peterson, & Rebecca Naomi Jones (Passing Strange & American Idiot).
Admission to In a Little Room is free and open to the public. Seating is limited. RSVP to: hangarpilotreadingsnyc@gmail.com.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Pete McElligott is an actor, writer, and teacher. A Chicago native, he started writing full shows in his sophomore year of high school, performing them in the St. Mary's of Mokena Auditorium with proceeds going to the Catholic Charities' Orphanage. While not entirely appropriate for their setting or purpose, these benefit shows were well received and helped raise almost a thousand dollars per show. These shows included: Beware: Sleeping Raccoon (2003), Hijacking Pies (2002), and 7 Tons of Harold and a Breakfast Buffett (2001). During college, Pete would return to Chicago as a performer and head writer of the comedy group The Back of The Line The group performed in the Chicago Sketch Fest in 2006 earning them a glowing review in the Chicago Tribune ("Best group to watch in the future. Terrific writers."). While in New York, attending NYU, Pete's show Wake(2005) was chosen for a GAP production and was produced at the Shop Theater in the Tisch Building. Post college, Pete spent most of his time in New Orleans where his two ten-
?minute plays saw production (Not to Be at Le Chat Noir and Double Hockey Sticks at The Alamo Underground). In 2009, Pete's full-?length comedy With A Bang was chosen to be a part of the Cross-town Reading Series in New Orleans. It was then chosen by the National New Play Network to be given a reading at their conference in Atlanta in the winter of that same year. With A Bang received production in March of 2010 by the Southern Repertory Theater and that production received a National Endowment of the Arts grant. The Phoenix Theater in Indianapolis produced the show again in July of 2011 and announced their plan to produce the rest of the shows in that trilogy (With A Whimper and With A Smile).
Dashiell Eaves Broadway: A Behanding In Spokane (u/s); Coram Boy; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; James Joyce's The Dead; 1776; The Sound of Music. Off-B'way/Regional: The Wild Duck (Summerscape); Snow Falling on Cedars (Hartford Stage); Judgement Day (Summerscape); Killers and Other Family (Rattlestick); Becky Shaw (2nd Stage); Not Waving, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Street Scene (Williamstown); The Seven (La Jolla Playhouse); Brendan (Huntington); The Dead, People Be Heard (Playwrights Horizons); Observe The Sons of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme (Lincoln Center/Huntington); Hans Christian Andersen (A.C.T.); 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Barrington Stage); STOMP (Original US cast). Film/TV: Arthur & The War of Two Worlds (dir. Luc Besson); Beloved (dir. Jonathan Demme); Stomp Out Loud (HBO); Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Third Watch. Training: NYU, Experimental Theater Wing, Wynn Handman Studio.
