Theater for the New City

HOAXOCAUST!

Written & Performed by BARRY LEVEY

SHOW SYNOPSIS

Hoaxocaust! written and performed by Barry Levey with the generous assistance of The Institute for Political
and International Studies, Tehran

HOAXOCAUST! is a shocking, irreverent examination of how "victims" are defined, how "truth" gets disseminated, and why, for all of us, politics are so stubbornly personal. Please join us as noted monologist Barry Levey asks daring questions about ethnic identity, anti-Semitism and the reinterpretation of history. Is there such a thing as a contemporary Jewish identity independent of “The Holocaust”? Should there be? What if the Holocaust had never happened?

In search of answers, Barry relates his recent interviews with Holocaust deniers from Illinois to Iran. He learns that Hitler’s speeches were just badly translated; that gas chambers were an engineering impossibility; and that most of the alleged victims are alive and well and living in Brooklyn.

"The way to prevent anti-Semitism isn’t to hide it. There’s nothing to make a bad idea look silly like putting it out in the cold, hard light of Day"
- Karen G. Schneider, The New York Times

"It is impossible to reason someone out of something that he did not reason himself into"
-Jonathan Swift

"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world….Lies will pass into history."
George Orwell

WHAT THEY ARE SAYING:
"If the purpose of art is to provoke, I have never seen anything that did it more successfully than Hoaxocaust!"
-Peter Alkalay, Chairman of The New Group (Avenue Q)

"A tremendous experience!"
-Ed Katz, Marketing Consultant and Writer/Producer

"Not only does Barry Levey know how to move the audience emotionally, he also gets them to think deeply."
-A.D. Penedo, Lawyer and Playwright

HOAXOCAUST! IS PRODUCED BY DAVID MILCH AND JONATHAN PILLOT.

BARRY LEVEY - PLAYWRIGHT
Barry Levey’s plays have been developed at Arena Stage, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, the Lark, Ars Nova, the New Group, the Cleveland Play House, PlayLabs and the Baldwin New Play Festival at the University of California, San Diego, where Barry received his MFA.

New York productions include All the Way From China for Mad Dog at the Gene Frankel; Critical Darling at the New Group; Downeaster Alexa and Yale Law School, both at Ars Nova; and Hoaxocaust!, previously produced by Prospect Theater Company. Barry’s plays have been finalists for the Heideman Award (Yale Law School), the O’Neill (Citizens of Rome) and Hangar Lab (Lunchmeat).

He is a graduate of Yale College, a New Group Artist, an Ars Nova Playgroup alumnus, and a member of the Dramatists Guild.

JEREMY GOLD KRONENBERG - DIRECTOR
Jeremy Gold Kronenberg is a freelance director whose recent production of Caroline, or Change was nominated for a 2010 New York Innovative Theatre award as outstanding production of a musical. Additionally, Playbill.com’s Matt Blank chose that production as one of the “unforgettable experiences of 2010.” Jeremy holds an MFA in Directing (Musical Theatre Focus) from The University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. At CCM, his production of Side Show was nominated for a Cincinnati Entertainment Award as Outstanding Musical of the 2004-2005 season.

Recent directing credits include: Side Show (Post Theatre Company/Long Island University), Caroline, or Change (Gallery Players), HOAXOCAUST! (The Cell), Is There Life After High School? and Drat! The Cat! (Opening Doors Theatre Company), Wicked Moon (4th Wall Theatre), The Fantasticks and Scrooge, The Musical! (Ozark Actors Theatre), My Life As A Bald Soprano (Ted Bardy Studio), My Salvation Has A First Name; A Wienermobile Journey (NYC Fringe), and Disappeared, which was part of Prospect Theater Company's Dark Nights Series and workshopped as part of the 2009 Lincoln Center Directors Lab.

Jeremy has served as an assistant director at Prospect Theater Company, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, The MUNY, and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (where he did an observership of John Doyle’s production of Company).

Abroad, Jeremy worked at the Bridewell Theatre in London as an assistant stage manager, conducted youth theater seminars, and assisted in the casting of the European premier of Floyd Collins. Following his tenure in London, Jeremy spent three years as the associate to the director of Stagecrafters Theatre where he taught and directed students in second grade through college. Jeremy holds a BFA in Acting from The Ohio University School of Theatre and did post-graduate work at Sarah Lawrence College.
www.jeremygoldkronenberg.com <http://www.jeremygoldkronenberg.com/>

ADAM GREEN - SPECIAL APPEARANCE
Adam Green: New York: The Witch of Edmonton (Red Bull), Election Day, All this Intimacy (Second Stage), Dov and Ali (Playwrights Realm/Cherry Lane), None of the Above (Lion Theatre), The Last Word (Theater at St. Clement's), The Mines of Sulphur (New York City Opera), Bone Portraits (Walkerspace/SoHo Rep).

Regional: Two Gentlemen of Verona, All’s Well that Ends Well, The Liar (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Helen Hayes Award nomination, Emery Battis Award - The Liar), My Name is Asher Lev (Barrington Stage Company), Peter and the Starcatchers (La Jolla Playhouse/Disney), Monster at the Door (Alley Theatre), Pride and Prejudice (Geva Theatre), The Chosen (Actors' Theatre of Louisville), Awake and Sing (Arena Stage), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Alliance Theatre), The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare on the Sound). Affiliated Artist with DC's Shakespeare Theatre. MFA (Acting): NYU; BA (English): Harvard University.

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May 29 - June 17

Tuesday - Saturday at 8pm
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