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BEING SEEN
A new play by Richard Gustin
STARRING BROADWAYS WILLIAM YOUMANS
AND DIRECTED BY MINDY COOPER
To be presented at
The 20th Annual New York International Fringe Festival
Performances Begin August 17th
FIVE PERFORMANCES ONLY
Monday, August 17 at 9PM
Tuesday, August 18th at 5PM
Wednesday, August 19th at 7PM
Friday, August 21st at 2:45PM
Saturday, August 22nd at 7PM
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(New York, NY) BEING SEEN, a new play written by Richard Gustin, will make its world
premiere at the 2015 Annual New York International Fringe Festival. Starring William
Youmans and Allison Minick, this quick-witted story revolves around a young actress and
her experience in working with a brilliant and dark-spirited director. BEING SEEN will play
only five performances August 17, 18, 19, 21 and 22 at Venue #12/ The Underground.
Tickets are $18 and can be purchased at www.fringeNYC.org
BEING SEEN tells the story of The Actor and The Director. The Actor is given the
opportunity to work with a highly acclaimed director, and with that comes the whirlwind of
drama and emotional turmoil associated with his artistic process. As she maneuvers through
his web, she only hopes to be seen and understood by a person shes only dreamed of
working with.
BEING SEEN is directed by Mindy Cooper and produced by The Present Company. The
cast features William Youmans as The Director and Allison Minick as The Actor. Costumes
are designed by Tristan Raines and the stage manager is Marc Eardley.
WILLIAM YOUMANS Broadway: Wicked, Pirate Queen, Farnsworh Invention, The Little
Foxes, Titanic, Big River, Baz Luhrmanns La Boheme, Hands On A Hardbody , Finians
Rainbow (2009 revival), and also in Billy Elliott. Off-Broadway: Giant, Flux and Henry V at
the Public; Orphan of the Zhao at Lincoln Center; Tony Kushner's Brundibar/Giraffe at New
Victory; Horton Foote's Widow Claire at Circle in the Square; Miracle Brothers at the
Vineyard; 12345 at Manhattan Theatre Club; Coraline, at Manhattan Class Company, Julie
Taymor's Midsummer Nights Dream, at Theatre for a New Audience. On film, he has had
parts in Birdman, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Mrs. Soffel, Compromising
Positions, Nadine, and Fresh Horses.
ALLISON MINICK NYC theatre: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (Classic Stage Company
Young Company), Iphigenia in Iphigenia at Aulis (Miller Theatre) and Lucille in Brief Hours
& Weeks (Gene Frankel Theatre). Other theatre: Cleopatra in The Fall of Antony (RADA,
London), Nina in 20 Ninas (an adaptation of the Seagull) (Center REP). Select film:
Anonymous (Green Brother Films), Ashes and The Audition
MINDY COOPER has performed (Chicago, Titanic, Beauty And The Beast, Song & Dance,
Tenderloin), choreographed (Dracula, The Musical, 50 Shades, The Musical Parody, Wrong
Mountain, Titanic, Five Course Love) and directed (Soul Doctor, Music In The Night- A
Tribute To Jerome Kern, Broadway By The Year 1937 and 1972) on Broadway, OffBroadway and TV (Law & Order Criminal Intent). She has directed new works American
Monkey, The Thing About Time (Capitol Rep), The Gospel, According to Tammy Faye, Mars/
Venus Live (National Tour), Still Will Be Heard (commissioned by Peak Performances) and
Deployed (NYMF). Her extensive regional work as a Director has won 10 Bay Area Theater
Critics Awards.
RICHARD GUSTIN has written Surviving The Cycle, A Sparrow Falls, Leviathan and
Crucifiction and has performed in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The Dark
Lady of the Sonnets and Blanco! at The Great Lakes Theatre Festival. Translations, What
Every Woman Knows, The Three Sisters, Anthony and Cleopatra, The Royal Family, Loose
Ends, Picnic and Macbeth at Kansas City Repertory Theater.
www.beingseentheplay.com
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