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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: E-Merging Writers Publicity (212) 289-5643
Southern Gothic Novel Shall Rise
-- From Fringe, NY to Atlanta and Back -- Again
(July 1, 2004 - New York City, NY) – E-Merging Writers announces the return of Southern Gothic Novel to New York City's Fifth Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival. Please see attached Fact Sheet for performance schedules and box office information.
First presented at the New York International Fringe Festival (a production of The Present Company), and fresh from it's Southern premiere at Atlanta's Whole World Theatre, Southern Gothic Novel will continue its tour in September at the Columbus Theatre Festival. Written and performed by Frank Blocker – off-Broadway star and co-author of Eula Mae’s Beauty, Bait & Tackle, Southern Gothic Novel finds Blocker portraying eighteen citizens of the tiny burg of Aberdeen, Mississippi. Young girls are disappearing mysteriously in Aberdeen, but when the hopelessly romantic Viola Haygood gets kidnapped, it seems that nearly everyone’s got a motive. Equal parts David Lynch and Fried Green Tomatoes, Southern Gothic Novel had standing-room-only audiences last summer in New York, where the show has been scouted by Showtime and Bravo television. New Jersey's Gabriel Shanks directs the solo comedy. Shanks, an alumnus of Georgia State University’s theatre department, is currently Artistic Director of Creative Mechanics and The Audience Project Director for The Drama League of New York. Over a decade ago, Shanks first met Blocker in Atlanta when they collaborated on Shanks’ comic musical Saga! The Whitney Bonneville Story at the 14th Street Playhouse.
Blocker and Shanks are available for comments and interviews; photo stills and additional information are available upon request at (212) 289-5643 or at publicity@E-MergingWriters.com. More information can be found at the official websites http://www.E-MergingWriters.com and http://www.SouthernGothicNovel.com.
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