*nominated for the 2005 New York Innovative Theatre Awards Outstanding Actress in a Featured Role for
Danielle Quisenberry!

Opening the 2006 woken’glacier season, locomotive explores consequences of the broken home. Through this story of a mother, father, and daughter dealing with the disintegration of their family, the play deals with themes of alcoholism and parenthood. In locomotive, woken’glacier puts its methods of physicality and hyper-realistic mark on new territory.

locomotive marks the company’s fifth collaboration with actress and Actor’s Studio member, Beth Manspeizer and playwright, Matthew Paul Olmos. Manspeizer was nominated for a
2005 New York IT Award for her role as Jewish Broad in woken’glacier’s seal sings its song, also written by Matthew Paul Olmos. Obie Award winning playwright Neal Bell describes Olmos’s writing as possessing “a fascinatingly original voice: street-gritty and boldly poetic, brutally raw but often very funny, and always intensely theatrical.”

woken’glacier is comprised of international theatre artists dedicated to creating new art by introducing unfamiliar theater pieces and exposing abuse, both social and political. Of the company, NYTheatre.com says ”Intriguing. Compelling. There's clearly talent and intellect at work from woken'glacier.” Using a collaborative process between actor, director, and writer and synthesizing the methods of Stanislavsky with the techniques of Viewpoints, Martial Arts, and Suzuki, woken’glacier presents work that is experimental, challenging, and fresh.

MAY 5-20, 2006:
Wednesday- Saturday at 8pm
The Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street
Tickets: $18, www.smarttix.com

Featuring: Tim Douglas, Beth Manspeizer, and Danielle Quisenberry.

With design by Dash Barrett, Chantel Cherisse Lucier, and Oscar Mendoza.

*For more information, please contact Michael Billingsley at (718) 791-5889 or wokenglacier@wokenglacier.org