LINES to Play Horse Trade Theater Group's The Red Room, Opens August 11

LINES by Terence Patrick Hughes (Finding the Rooster at 13th Street Rep) is a gripping new play about race and humanity set in a fictional yet familiar country where a line has been laid down, separating blacks and whites. The production will be directed by Horse Trade Theater Group Artistic Director Heidi Grumelot (Donnie and the Monsters; PunkRockLoveSong) and presented by Horse Trade Theatre in association with Ice & Fire Theatre of London.

The production will run August 11-27 at The Red Room (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery), Thursday through Saturday at 8pm. Tickets ($18/$15 students & seniors) are available online at www.horseTRADE.info or by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444.

TERENCE PATRICK HUGHES (Writer) Plays include Finding the Rooster and A Muse in Manhattan with 13th Street Rep, and the award-winning Farewell Evenbrook at Theatre Row. He was voted Best Playwright at the 2007 Wonderland Act Festival. His most recent play, The Kiss of Caiaphas, was developed at the Lark Theatre and with Turtle Shell Productions, and is a current Finalist for the 2011 Ashland New Play Festival. Hughes is also currently crafting a ten-play cycle entitled, The Trials of Oscar the Great.

"In the same vein as such dramatic classics as Arthur Miller's ‘All My Sons' and George Bernard Shaw's ‘Major Barbara." Off Off Online (Finding the Rooster)

"Reveals the heart wrenching underbelly of "adult" loss and conflict."
Show Business Weekly (Finding the Rooster)

"Wonderfully absurdist...Hughes' script is clever and fascinating.'" StageBuzz (Finding the Rooster)

HEIDI GRUMELOT (Director) is the Artistic Director of Horse Trade Theater Group. She is the co-creator and producer of the monthly storytelling show TOLD. She is the founding artistic director of The Drafts, an acting ensemble responsible for development of over forty original plays as part of their monthly reading series. New York directing credits include punkrock/lovesong at The Brick Theater, Dido and Aeneas with The New York Collective of Performing Arts at The West End Theater and The Boston Early Music Festival, Donnie and the Monsters at UNDER St Marks Theater, and Accidents Do Happen, Tom's Things, and Turning the Glass Around in The Red Room. Reading and Development credits include The Flower Thief, A River Pure for Healing, An Absolutely Perfect Life, and Lines. She has also directed productions in Michigan, Virginia, and Mexico.

"Director Heidi Grumelot balances Donnie's two worlds with tenderness."
Flavorpill (Donnie and the Monsters)

"The show is equivalent to a masterful children's picture book, one that is dark and fanciful and written by Tim Burton." nytheatre.com (Donnie and the Monsters)

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work, it has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent Theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York - the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

For more information, visit www.horseTRADE.info.