Zena Group is presenting a free reading of Emily Adler’s play, FACE, featuring Florencia Lozano and Nicholas Michael McGovern. Josh Liveright is directing.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/face-play-reading-tickets-746193895027?aff=erelexpmlt
Sometimes you can be lost just at the moment you think you know exactly where you are.
A younger man and his older lover blur the lines of fact and fiction is this emotionally and sexually charged play about love and power.
Synopsis: Josh prepares himself for a night with his lover, Valerie. When she arrives, he initiates a psychologically complex mother/son role-play in which she gradually gains the upper hand. As Josh struggles to regain his power, they continue to engage in the erotically charged role-play as the lines between fact and fiction become more and more blurred. In her final move, Valerie becomes both mother and lover as she unearths his incestuous past, pushing past the parameters of their taboo relationship in an attempt to heal old wounds and propel them both forward into a hopeful unknown.
Emily Adler is a playwright, screenwriter and published author from New York City, whose plays include The Frog in the Flipper, Trumpet of the Swan, Supernatural Playboy, Face, Love Story in 3 Phases, and Andromeda Speaks. Her work has been seen at The Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis, MN; Hartford Children’s Theater in Hartford, CT; The Overtime Theater in San Antonio, TX; The NJ Rep in Long Branch, NJ; The Danny Kaye Playhouse, the cell, Urban Stages, The New York New Works Theater Festival, and The Actors Studio in NYC. In 2015, Emily was nominated by industry professionals for The Kilroy’s List for Notable Female Playwrights and in 2021, she was a quarterfinalist in the Screencraft Horror Competition with her screenplay, Anything for You.
Josh Liveright is the artistic director of Zena Group and provides service to the Inwood community by programming live music and theater events at Buunni Coffee. He’s directed plays for UP Theater, Uban Stages, Interart and Zena Group and won the Excellence in Directing Award at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival for Patricia Davis’s play, Alternative Methods. He’s also directed several short films including the What If? anti-violence series and Matt Higgins’s The Improvisor.
Florencia Lozano THEATRE: Playwrights’ Horizons (WET BRAIN, PLACEBO), NYTW, Public, Shakespeare in the Park, LAByrinth, MTC, MCC, Clubbed Thumb, Movement Theatre Co., Second Stage, EST, Teatro IATI, Repertorio Español NETFLIX: Keep Breathing, Narcos TV: Bull, The Baker and The Beauty, Kevin Can Wait, Blacklist, Mysteries of Laura, Blue Bloods, Lipstick Jungle, Ugly Betty, Royal Pains, Law & Order (CI&SVU), Gossip Girl, One Life To Live. FILM: Life After You (she also co-wrote &produced), Faraway Eyes, The Ministers, Veronika Decides To Die. Upcoming: Crybaby Bridge. Her play underneathmybed was produced at Rattlestick and won HOLA’s Best New Play Award. BA Brown, MFA NYU
Nicholas Michael McGovern (SAG/AEA) Recent Theatre: Icarus Tries to Catch the Sun (one man show, New Ohio Theater), High Noon (Axis Theatre Company), Welcome to the Fall (Samuel French OOB Festival). Recent Film/TV: “Fallout” (Amazon), “Liberty” AppleTV release Nov. 21, “Snakeeater”. Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio.
