We are talking new work! A new drama inspired by real life events written by Tom Diriwachter about family, fog, and a road trip gone horribly wrong to be exact!
Following a desperate phone call, Tim arrives by bus at the Hound Dog Motel, a by-the-hour hellhole outside Memphis, Tennessee, with the purpose of rescuing his parents from a 1996 road trip to Graceland gone horribly wrong. As the mystery of how they became stranded unravels, Father tells of hitting a fog bank, leading to his having an emotional breakdown. Stuck in a purgatory overseen by a black velvet painting of Elvis, Fog and Filthy Air is an intense drama that finds humor in the worst of circumstances. Ultimately, it is a love story.
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Tom Diriwachter (playwright) – Fog and Filthy Air is Tom’s eighth full-length play produced in Manhattan, and fourth at Theater for the New City. In addition, he has had numerous one-acts produced at various theaters and festivals in New York and Los Angeles, including the Strawberry Festival, the Turnip Festival, Love Creek, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and West Coast Ensemble. He has been a featured artist in the LES Festival for the past decade. His play Great Kills starred Joe Pantoliano. Asterisk, his play about the baseball steroid crisis, was archived by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Recently, he completed his first novel, Good Money After Bad.
Jonathan Weber (director) – As Director, credits include: Great Kills (featuring Emmy Award-winner Joe Pantoliano), A Healthy House, Age Out, Guaranteed to Never Lose Suction, Shock Therapy, Bear!, The Professor and the Whore, and The Irish Goodbye, all by Tom Diriwachter; Thelonious!, and Two Alone/Too Together by Peter Welch; two plays by Oliver Thrun and six by Walter Corwin. He was Assistant Director for TNC’s award-winning Summer Street Theater tour for 11 years, under the direction of Crystal Field. Jonathan is Managing Director for Theater for the New City. He has held this position since 2018 and previously from 2009 through 2014. His association with Theater for the New City goes back to 2002.
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