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Horse Trade presents

THE MANAGEMENT’S PRODUCTION OF

By Kristen Kosmas

Directed by Courtney Sale


The Scandal

DECEMBER 4-20
Thursday through Saturday at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm.

the Red Room
(85 E. 4th Street, 3rd Floor)

Tickets $18
$15 students/seniors


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New York IT Awards

Talk back with playwright Kristen Kosmas following the performance on Sunday December 7th.

THE SCANDAL is a one-woman show about a small town gal, Pink, who has devised the perfect, poetic suicide plan. Her journey is complicated by a distant mother, a judgmental entourage, the ghost of her father and a mysterious new comer. In a world so small, everyone is hungry for a scandal.

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The Management creates a haven for a community of artists and patrons to experience relevant, moving, unpretentious, aesthetically and financially accessible theater. We are known for our dark whimsy and critical exposés on American culture, while building rock-solid, visceral entertainment. Welcome to the building. Formed in 2004 as part of New York’s UnConvention Festival, their first production was the Brecht-inspired This Jungle of Cities penned by founding member Berrian Eno-Van Fleet. In 2005 the company enjoyed an 8-month residency at Victory Hall in Jersey City where it produced the East Coast premiere of Naomi Izuka’s Aloha Say the Pretty Girls and Thornton Wilder’s The Long Christmas Dinner.  The Mgmt took part in the inaugural Capital Fringe Festival in Washington D.C. in ’06 with the grotesquely humorous, existential play Self-Obsession in Blue (and again in ’08 with The Chalk Boy) and is currently showcasing new playwriting through their 2008 Salon Series in NYC.  The Management also produced bi-coastal productions of The Chalk Boy, written by Co-Artistic Director Joshua Conkel in both LA and NYC last September.

The Cast and Crew

Amy Patrice Golden (Pink) is an Atlantic trained actor, a founding member of The Management and serves as Executive Director. She is also an ensemble member of The Company of Angels, the oldest theater company in LA, and is a Who’s Who in American Women honoree. A downtown theater and indie film artist, she moved to LA in early April of 2007. She aspires to work in beautiful, challenging films and continues to hone her stage-craft in her most recent show, The Chalk Boy and in the upcoming one-woman show The Scandal, written and gifted to her by the astonishingly talented Kristen Kosmas. The shows will have a home both in LA and NYC and will be directed by Courtney Sale. For more about her work: www.amypatricegolden.com
“Golden is like a young, (and equally talented) Shirley MacLaine” - Peter Filicia, The Star Ledger

Courtney Sale (Director) Seattle directing credits include Bright Room Called Day (Strike Anywhere Productions), Henry VI Part 1 (Babes with the Bard), and Singer Stories (Seattle Children's Museum). As an actor, Courtney has worked with San Francisco-based Crowded Fire and Expression Theatre Ensemble, Seattle-based ARTSWest and Greenstage, Elden St. Players in Washington D.C., and Jewish Theater of New York.  She assistant- directed Pulitzer Prize finalist Dael Orlandersmith's Seattle premiere of Monster at A Contemporary Theater. She was also selected as one of fourteen emerging directors to participate in Peter Brook’s workshop in conjunction with his tour of Hamlet. Most recently she directed The Management’s LA production of The Chalk Boy, which Variety had this to say about "...the play is helmed with admirable fluidity and pacing by Courtney Sale..." – Julio Martinez, Variety. She holds a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts.

Kristen Kosmas (Playwright) has had plays commissioned by PS 122, Dixon Place, New City Theater, and Seattle University’s SITE Specific. Her plays include Hello Failure (Dixon Place, PRELUDE, PS 122), H-O-R-S-E (SITE Specific), The Mayor Of Baltimore (Dixon Place, Little Theater, Barbès), Anthem (Dixon Place), Chapter of Accidents (The Adaptation Project at CSC), and Palomino (Little Theater). Kristen’s solo plays include The Scandal!, The Slip, Again, and Blah Blah Fuckin Blah.  She has performed her solo work in theaters in Seattle, Austin, Boston, Chicago, and New York City.  Slip was named ‘Best Solo Play of the Year’ (1996) by Misha Berson of The Seattle Times. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, The Seattle Times, The Stranger, and The Austin Chronicle among others. She co-founded the OBIE award winning performance series Little Theater @ TONIC. She was also an Artist in Residence at the New City Theater in Seattle for five years.
"Kosmas is one of the most exciting...new voices in the American theatre"- Culturebot

“(Kosmas is) a rare sort of poet who can bring you along on rhapsodic flights of storytelling, like an expert rafter running the rapids of a wild and unruly word river.” -The Seattle Times