Vampire Cowboys Present The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G 3/24

The OBIE Award-winning Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company, will present the world premiere of "THE INEXPLICABLE REDEMPTION OF AGENT G," written by Qui Nguyen and directed by Robert Ross Parker (with fight direction by Nguyen), when it begins performances on March 24 at Incubator Arts Project (incubatorarts.org), St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Avenue). The cast will include: William Jackson Harper, Jon Hoche, Bonnie Sherman, Paco Tolson, and Amy Kim Waschke. "THE INEXPLICABLE REDEMPTION OF AGENT G," will officially open on Sunday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m. (Performances will run through Saturday, April 16).

He lost his country, his family, and his soul. But what he hasn't lost is his taste for revenge! It's been 10 years since Agent G has last been to Vietnam where his family and friends were all viciously slain. He's now come back looking for answers and a good bit of revenge - but mysterious forces, as well as the playwright, are actively trying to stop him from finishing his brutal task. After 8 years of exploding movie genre after movie genre onto the live stage, Vampire Cowboys now takes their irreverent pop-culture aesthetic and applies it to a true story, in their most daring and risk-taking venture yet.

Qui Nguyen is a writer, fight choreographer, and Co-Artistic Director of the OBIE Award-winning Vampire Cowboys. His scripts include the critically acclaimed Vampire Cowboys productions of Soul Samurai (co-produced with Ma-Yi Theater); Alice in Slasherland; Fight Girl Battle World; Men of Steel; Living Dead in Denmark; StaiNed Glass Ugly; A Beginner's Guide to Deicide; and Vampire Cowboy Trilogy. Other scripts include Bike Wreck (Youngblood); Aliens Versus Cheerleaders (Keen Teens); the Off-Broadway production of Trial By Water (Ma-Yi Theater/Queens Theatre in the Park); and the upcoming hip-hop musical Krunk Fu Battle Battle being produced by East West Players, this May in Los Angeles, with lyrics by Beau Sia (Def Poetry Jam) and music by Marc Macalintal. His plays have been published by Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts.com, and can be found in the anthologies, "Savage Stage" and "Plays & Playwrights 2005." Additionally, Qui is an award-winning fight director who has worked extensively as an instructor & choreographer for such places as LAByrinth Theater, Ma-Yi Theater, Long Wharf, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Public, HERE Arts Center, and many others. His honors include a 2009 GLAAD Media Award nominee (Soul Samurai); 2008 & 2006 NY Innovative Theatre Awards nominations for Best Production (Fight Girl Battle World and Living Dead in Denmark); 2007 ComicCritique.com's Best Adaptation of Comics into Other Media (Men of Steel); The New Dramatists Playwriting Fellowship; NYTheatre.com's 2004 People of the Year; he was featured as a "Playwright to Watch" by Time Out New York; a 2008 Innovative Theatre Award for Best Choreographer (Fight Girl Battle World); and additional nominations for the NY IT Best Choreographer Award in 2008 (HERE Arts' production of Rus(h), directed by Kristin Marting), 2007 (Brick Theater's Kung Fu Importance of Being Earnest) & 2005 (A Beginner's Guide to Deicide). Qui is a proud member of New Dramatists, The Ma-Yi Writers Lab, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and an alumnus of Youngblood.

Robert Ross Parker is a Brooklyn based theatre artist. He is the Co-Artistic Director of the OBIE Award winning Vampire Cowboys with Qui Nguyen (Nguyen, he, and the company were listed among NYtheatre.com's 2004 people of the year). For Vampire Cowboys he has co-authored and directed Vampire Cowboy Trilogy (published by New York Theatre Experience), and A Beginner's Guide to Deicide, and directed Soul Samurai, Fight Girl Battle World (nominated IT award for best direction, best production, winner best ensemble), Men of Steel, Living Dead in Denmark, and Alice in Slasherland. Other recent directing credits include Goodbye Cruel World (Roundtable Ensemble), Hamlet{solo} (Edinburgh 07, SoloNOVA 08 at PS 122, Canadian tour) Children's Letters to God (national tour), StaiNed Glass Ugly, Slicing Andre (both by Nguyen) Lady Convoy (NYC Fringe). He also spent a season as young director in residence at Ensemble Studio Theatre. At the Toronto Fringe Robert directed Pseudolus and A Midsummer Night's Dream Project for Cabbagetown Theatre. He was the associate director for Silent Laughter off Broadway, the assistant director for High Fidelity on Broadway, and has assistant directed at many theatres including, EST, People's Light and Theatre Co, Toronto's Soulpepper and Barrington Stage Co. For LAByrinth Theatre he co-produced the Barn Series in 2002 & 2003. He has recently appeared in VCS Radio Monster Theatre for Vampire Cowboys Saturday Night Saloon (which he also wrote.) Robert Is the editor of "The Dramatist," the Journal of the Dramatists Guild of America.

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