ERIN MARKEY TO LEAD INDUSTRY READING OF “KAREN DALTON” A PLAY WITH MUSIC

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ERIN MARKEY
TO LEAD INDUSTRY READING OF
“KAREN DALTON”

NOVEMBER 4 AT THE FLEA

ALSO STARRING
ERIK LOCHTEFELD, EVANGELINE YOUNG,
WILL CONNOLLY, AND BRYCE MICHAEL WOOD

WRITTEN BY EVAN ENDERLE
DIRECTED BY PORTIA KRIEGER

ARTWORK AVAILABLE HERE

New York, NY (November 2, 2021) – Megan Doyle and Creston Whittington announced today that Karen Dalton, a play with music written by Evan Enderle, will receive an industry reading on Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 3:00pm at The Flea’s Siggy Theater (20 Thomas Street), directed by Portia Krieger (Fun Home) with live guitar and banjo accompaniment.

Leading the cast of Karen Dalton is Erin Markey in the titular role, who is also joined by Erik Lochtefeld, Evangeline Young, Drama Desk Award nominee Will Connolly, and Bryce Michael Wood.

Bob Dylan's "favorite singer" was a hero on the folk music scene who died thinking she was a failure... only to become a sensation after her passing. From the Village revolution of the ‘60s to her deathbed in the ‘90s (and through a collection of iconic tunes from the American folk songbook), we unravel the fascinating mystery of Karen Dalton. 

“We had our original reading on March 12, 2020, in what was possibly one of the last pieces of live theater performed before the shutdown. I am so excited to be bringing this back, this time with beloved New York performer Erin Markey leading us as Karen,” said producer Megan Doyle. Creston Whittington continued “Karen Dalton is having a resurgence of sorts, with a critically acclaimed documentary on her life having just been released. Our hope is that this play will help solidify her legacy for a new generation.”

Karen Dalton is produced by Megan Doyle and Creston Whittington, and general managed by Fourth Wall Theatricals.

For more information, please email rsvp@fwtheatricals.com.

BIOGRAPHIES

EVAN ENDERLE (Playwright) has worked as an actor and writer at Playwrights Horizons, the O'Neill Festival, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Flea Theater, Joe's Pub, 52nd Street Project, ART, Comedy Central, Woodshed Collective and Williamstown Theater Festival, among many others. He is the recipient of a 2017 Rough Draft Residency with The Drama League in New York and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in 2018. His plays and musicals include Discouraging Stories for Lonely People, Beast, A Great Flood, and Karen Dalton. 

PORTIA KRIEGER (Director) is a New York-based theater director who mostly works on new plays and musicals. She has directed and developed new plays and musicals with Clubbed Thumb, 2ST, the O'Neill, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout Underground, New York Stage & Film, Rattlestick, Page 73, Ars Nova, the Lark, the Juilliard School, NYMF, and many others. She was an inaugural O'Neill/NNPN National Director Fellow, a member of the Civilians R&D group, a two-time New Georges Audrey Resident, a member of the Drama League Directors Project and the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and an Ars Nova Director-in Residence. Associate Director of Broadway's Fun Home and Seminar, and the upcoming Almost Famous. Portia is a Clubbed Thumb Affiliated Artist, a member of ColtCoeur, and a co-founder of the New Georges Jam. Recently, she won a City Artist Corps grant to create and present Jackson Heights Creatures in Concert: Mitos y Verdades, a site-specific musical bestiary for and about her neighborhood in Queens.

ERIN MARKEY (Karen Dalton) is a “hilariously sociopathic” (NYT) Brooklyn based performer, musician and writer/creator of live performance works. Catch Erin on HBO’s “High Maintenance” Season 3 and TruTV’s “At Home with Amy Sedaris” Season 2. Erin is currently developing a new performance project, Little Surfer, which is a New York Voices Commission at the Public Theater. Markey frequently plays Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater. Their shows have toured nationally and internationally to ART (Cambridge, MA), The Yard Theater (London, UK), FringeArts (Philadelphia, PA), Luminato Festival (Toronto, ON), PICA’s TBA Festival (Portland, OR), Fierce Festival (Birmingham, UK), Fusebox Festival (Austin, TX), San Francisco Film Society and more. Markey’s most recent music/theater works include Boner Killer (2017), A Ride On The Irish Cream (2016), and Singlet (2018).

ERIK LOCHTEFELD (Peter Walker) was an original cast member of Mary Zimmerman’s Tony Award winning Metamorphoses on and off-Broadway. He originated the role of Lumpy in the Broadway premiere of the musical King Kong and understudied Bruce Willis in Misery. Other New York credits include Unknown Soldier at Playwright’s Horizons, Macbeth at CSC, A Walk with Mr Heifitz at Primary Stages, Napoli, Brooklyn at the Roundabout, The Light Years at Playwright’s, A Funny Thing…of New York City at MCC, Stupid F***ing Bird at The Pearl, the original cast of Small Mouth Sounds at Ars Nova, Powerhouse at the New Ohio, Row After Row at The Women’s Project, Tamar of the River with Prospect Theatre Co., Sarah Ruhl’s Melancholy Play with 13P, W.H. Auden in February House at The Pubic, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci at Second Stage, and But I’m a Cheerleader at NYMF. Recent regional credits include Unknown Soldier at Williamstown, Hamlet starring Paul Giamatti at Yale Rep, Candide at the Goodman, Shakespeare and Huntington Theatre, Ethan Frome at Lookingglass Theatre, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at Hartford Stage, the title role in Abe Lincoln in Illinois at the Intiman, the world premiere of Richard Nelson’s How Shakespeare Won the West at the Huntington, These Shining Lives at Baltimore Centerstage, Katurian in The Pillowman at Berkeley Rep, directed by Les Waters and Tom in The Glass Menagerie opposite Rita Moreno (Bay Area Critics Nom. Best Actor), also at Berkeley Rep. He has had the pleasure of working at Long Wharf, The O’Neill, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cal Shakes, Two River Theatre, McCarter, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep, Court Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare and among others. Television credits include HBO’s “The Plot Against America”, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, “All My Children”, “Third Watch”, and “Law & Order”. He can also be seen in the award winning indie film In a New York Minute. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and is married to Theatre/TV/Screenwriter Laura Eason.

EVANGELINE YOUNG (Jilly Byrem) is an actor and singer-songwriter originally from outside of Philadelphia, now based in Brooklyn. Growing up acting and playing music in a family of artists, Evangeline discovered her profound love for telling stories when she was a young kid. Beginning her training early at age 14, she studied acting with Tony Savant at Playhouse West-Philadelphia for 5 years before moving to Brooklyn to continue to pursue acting as well as music. In August of 2018, she released her first solo EP Splinters, and you can now find her on ABC’s new hit series “Emergence” playing Daphne.

WILL CONNOLLY (Johnny Lee/Daniel) is an actor, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Originally from Montclair, NJ, Will made his Broadway debut in the Tony-winning musical Once, and is a featured vocalist & musician on the Grammy-winning soundtrack. Other stage credits include This Ain’t No Disco (Atlantic Theater Company), After The Blast (LCT3), Clueless: The Musical (The New Group), and Be More Chill (Two River Theater), among others. He is a co-writer/composer of the musical Fly By Night, which premiered at Playwrights Horizons and received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Musical. His original albums Caterpillars of the Commonwealth and Freddie Won the Toss are available on all streaming platforms.

BRYCE MICHAEL WOOD (Harlan Buckner) graduated from the University of Notre Dame with his Bachelors and was a Division–I Athlete for the Fighting Irish. Most recently he received his MFA in Acting from UCONN under the direction of Dale AJ Rose. His recent credits include, but aren’t limited to: King Lear at Shakespeare & Co, TopDog/Underdog at Shakespeare & Co., Glory at the New School, Othello at the Brick Theater, Gloria at Asolo Repertory Theater, The Royale at The Hippodrome Theater, Smart People at both The Geva & Kitchen Theatre, Welcome to Fear City at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, and Row, where he starred as Muhammed Ali at Goodspeed Opera House. While attending UCONN he was in a multitude of Connecticut Rep. Productions.

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