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A NEW TELEVISION ARRIVES, FINALLY Watch This Space For Upcoming Reading! This play has been developed since it's workshop production. Please contact us if you are interested in seeing the script of this play. Email Victor: vvillarhauser@nyc.rr.com Reviews "Taking an absurd premise to stratospheric heights of excess, it is also the sort of work that defies standard critical rhetoric. That won't stop me from wholeheartedly recommending this powerful, innovative play. ...It's funny, a little dangerous, and blessed with glorious language." Blogcritics.org "If Neil Postman is in hell, he's probably reliving the events of A New Television Arrives, Finally. Kevin Mandel's enjoyable... new play['s] appalling central image of an abusive TV set mistreating its hypnotized viewers is compelling enough to nicely fill out this funny, upsetting piece's trim 90-minute running time." Variety Magazine "A New Television Arrives, Finally is clever, funny, and unique." New Theater Corps "A New Television Arrives, Finally... is an entertaining, thunderous and energetic play. ...an emotional roller-coaster ride!" The Knight News "Kevin Mandel weaves words wonderfully... 'Television' pulls out all the stops!" TheaterScene.Net Kevin Mandel (playwright) Prior to the Studio 54 workshop production, A New Television Arrives, Finally received staged readings at HERE Performing Arts Center and Brooklyn College. His play MANAGERS was produced off-off Broadway at New York’s Kraine Theater (“A great funny/sad play” Greenwich Village Gazette), and had previous staged readings at Perry Street Playhouse and Juilliard School. His most recent play, Spinoza Rides Again received a workshop and reading produced by Boston’s Tribe Theater. Kevin sits on Red Bull Theater’s Development Committee and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. KEVIN KITTLE (Director/Dramaturge) Kevin Kittle has worked as Joseph Chaikin’s assistant director and with Arthur Miller and Sam Shepard for the Signature Theater Company. He has directed numerous productions in such New York City theaters as The Joseph Papp Public Theater, The John Houseman, The Neighborhood Playhouse, The Harold Clurman, Ensemble Studio Theater, Arclight, Chashama, HERE, Sullivan Street Playhouse, The Zipper, The Vital, Expanded Arts, and Access Studio Theater, as well as regionally. His most recent productions include the world premiere of Jamie Linley’s Dirty Works (critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) and Philip Ridley’s The Pitchfork Disney with Stiff Upper Lip and Joe Penhall’s Some Voices with The Villar- Hauser Development Fund, all at The Greenwich Street Theatre; And Mirasaki Danced (starring Michael Warren Powell) for Circle East; Burnt, which he co-developed with Rhett Rossi at The Present Company Theatorium; The Woolgatherer at The Flatiron Playhouse; the NYC premiere of Carter Lewis’ Soft Click of a Switch; and The House of Yes at The Currican, Watching and Waiting at The Judith Anderson, and Life During Wartime with Aaron Stanford (2001 Off-Off Broadway Review Award for Outstanding Production) all with Inertia Productions, with whom he is resident director. As co-developer and dramaturge/director, Kevin has worked on David Dannenfelser’s When Words Fail… at the NY International Fringe Festival, the script of which is published in Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium, Vol. One and Peter Handy’s East of the Sun and West of the Moon, which was a finalist in the Samuel French One Act Festival and is published by Samuel French. His Los Angeles production of Chet Whell’s Economic Subterfuge, starring Jason Huber, was nominated for an LA Weekly Award. Kevin is an assistant professor of Acting in the BFA program at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, and is an associate director of the Youth Theater of New Jersey, where he teaches in their Summer Theatre Institute in residence at Columbia University and Julliard. Bryan Fenkart (Man) Bryan recently starred in The Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 2007, as well as understudying for Second Stage's production of SubUrbia and in the NYC Fringe Festival's production of The Unusual Suspects. He can also be seen in leading roles in the independent feature films You Tell Me and the upcoming Red Hook. His vocal talents are heard everywhere, including last season's E! Television claymation series, Starveillance. He is also a singer/songwriter, and his debut CD Imperfect Man is currently available on iTunes and www.awarestore.com. The single "I Miss You" can currently be heard on radio stations everywhere. He received his BFA in Acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Kate Russell (Woman) Kate returns from the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem where she recently reprised the role of Janie from New Federal Theatre's production of The Taking of Miss Janie in New York. She holds a BFA in Acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she also studied abroad at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. She has performed roles in Tartuffe, Quills, Troilus and Cressida, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Venus, This is Our Youth, Eleemosynary, and the world premiere of Baby Boom by Lia Romeo. Other credits include "Law & Order: SVU", "All My Children", and the role of Wendy in an independent short entitled Wendy & Earl.
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