WHITE HOT by Tommy Smith

WHITE HOT - Opening Postponed to January 27th

2012-01-19T00:20:00.000-08:00

Announcing - Due to an emergency situation, the premiere of WHITE HOT by Tommy Smith will be postponed by one week, and will officially open on Friday January 27th.

Realizing that this is a very late notification, the production team would like to thank you for your patience. If you have any further question, please direct any questions and inquiries to producer Mark Siano marxiano@gmail.com 206-898-3644.

WHITE HOT
January 27 - February 11th
Thursday - Saturday 8pm - $18
Industry night: Monday, February 6th

West of Lenin
Fremont - 203 North 36th St.
Seattle, WA 98103

Brown Paper Tickets 1-800-838-3006
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/215023
Note: WHITE HOT contains graphic situations. Not recommended for viewers 18 and under.

After the 2010 smash hit success of Tommy Smith's SEXTET, Marxiano Productions has brought together Seattle's top talent to make this production of WHITE HOT a must see. At the helm is director Braden Abraham of the Seattle Rep (Betrayal, My Name is Rachel Corrie) and featuring award winning actors Ray Tagavilla and Hannah Franklin who are joined by up-and-comer Kimberley Sustad who will be debuting in J.J. Abrams Alcatraz this January. Add to that a top notch design team with Jen Zeyl (Stranger Genius Award), Jessica Trundy, and Andrea Bush, WHITE HOT will plunge Seattle's most proven young talent to new depths.

"[Tommy Smith] is writing in the shadow of our most daring and politically incendiary of martyred playwright saints, Sarah Kane and Edward Bond ... WHITE HOT is bleak terrain, a buried cesspool of self-loathing and unseemly, sadistic yearnings in love. The play can be read as a critique of the deadening fallout of our reactionary, materialistic, exploitative and soulless era. It can be read as a bad dream or a soap opera about the banality of evil. However you read it, it doesn't go down easy." - Craig Lucas, New York Theatre Review

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For further information and artist biographies contact:
Press Liaison and Producer: Mark Siano marxiano@gmail.com 206-898-3644

WHITE HOT by Tommy Smith - pre-production images - Photoshoot with John Cornicello

2012-01-07T15:04:00.000-08:00

A crazy day of creating images for WHITE HOT, there was drugs, sex, violence, and a lot of knife wielding to get into a single day's work, but who better to have behind the lens than our old friend John Cornicello.

WHITE HOT - press release

2012-01-07T13:33:00.000-08:00

A Pitch Black Psychodrama... just in time for winter
Tommy Smith's WHITE HOT directed by Braden Abraham

Seattle, WA - January 3, 2012 - Announcing the West Coast premiere of Tommy Smith's WHITE HOT, a searing domestic tragedy about the failure of marriage and hopelessness of love. Tempted by flaming desire, a young family systematically obliterates all faith in each other and themselves, causing terrible acts of injustice, madness and death.

WHITE HOT
January 20 - February 11th
Thursday - Saturday 8pm - $18
Industry night: Tuesday February 7th

West of Lenin
Fremont - 203 North 36th St.
Seattle, WA 98103

Brown Paper Tickets 1-800-838-3006
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/215023
Note: WHITE HOT contains graphic situations. Not recommended for viewers 18 and under.

After the 2010 smash hit success of Tommy Smith's SEXTET, Marxiano Productions has brought together Seattle's top talent to make this production of WHITE HOT a must see. At the helm is director Braden Abraham of the Seattle Rep (Betrayal, My Name is Rachel Corrie) and featuring the acting of Tommy Smith who returns to Seattle for this production. Award winning actors Ray Tagavilla and Hannah Franklin are joined by up-and-comer Kimberley Sustad who will be debuting in J.J. Abrams Alcatraz this January. Add to that a top notch design team with Jen Zeyl (Stranger Genius Award), Jessica Trundy, and Andrea Bush, WHITE HOT will plunge Seattle's most proven young talent to new depths.

"[Tommy Smith] is writing in the shadow of our most daring and politically incendiary of martyred playwright saints, Sarah Kane and Edward Bond ... WHITE HOT is bleak terrain, a buried cesspool of self-loathing and unseemly, sadistic yearnings in love. The play can be read as a critique of the deadening fallout of our reactionary, materialistic, exploitative and soulless era. It can be read as a bad dream or a soap opera about the banality of evil. However you read it, it doesn't go down easy." - Craig Lucas, New York Theatre Review

Cast:
Hannah Franklin
Kimberley Sustad
Tommy Smith
Ray Tagavilla

Director: Braden Abraham
Stage Manager: Kyna Grace Shilling
Producer: Mark Siano
Set Design: Andrea Bush
Light Design: Jessica Trundy
Costume Design: Jen Zeyl
Sound Design: Emily Fassler
Props: Megan Tuschhoff
Photography: John Cornicello

Credit all photos to John Cornicello
Hi Resolution images available at http://johncornicello.com/whitehot/ or contact Mark Siano
http://www.facebook.com/events/330887713595483/

Marxiano Productions is powered by Shunpike
For further information and artist biographies contact:
Press Liaison and Producer: Mark Siano marxiano@gmail.com 206-898-3644

WHITE HOT by Tommy Smith

2011-12-15T20:05:00.000-08:00

WHITE HOT Opens January 20th

Tickets available here ---> http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/215023

2011-11-30T22:16:00.000-08:00

WHITE HOT opens January 20th at Seattle's West of Lenin Theatre.

AUDITIONS FOR WHITE HOT

2011-11-02T16:21:00.000-07:00

Project Description:
WHITE HOT by Tommy Smith, Directed by Braden Abraham, and produced by Mark Siano. The west coast premiere of this drama will have a 4 week run at West of Lenin in Fremont.

Audition Information

Audition/Interview Dates:
Saturday Nov 19 1:30pm - 3pm; Sunday Nov 20 1:30 - 3pm; Monday Nov. 21 6:30pm - 8pm

Audition Requirements:
Email for an appt. You will be sent a scene from the script. You'll be given a 10 minute slot.

Sides/Script download:
smithsmith.wordpress.com/white-hot-full-text/

Describe any monetary compensation:
This is a paid gig. Actors will receive a guaranteed stipend at the end of the show. Extra compensation if the show is a fiscal success.

Character Breakdown / Project Needs
LIL, early thirties, pregnant (age can vary)
SIS*, mid thirties, Lil’s sister
BRI, mid thirties, Lil’s husband (age can vary)
GRIG**, thirties

WHITE HOT contains profanity, violence, and sexual explicit material, no nudity.

*Already Cast - Hannah Franklin
**Already Cast - Ray Tagavilla

APPOINTMENT REQUIRED
Email mark@marxiano.com

Auditions: Saturday Nov 19 1:30pm - 3pm: TPS ROOM I
Sunday Nov 20 1:30 - 3pm: TPS ROOM B
Monday Nov. 21 6:30pm - 8pm: TPS ROOM B

(TPS is Theatre Puget Sound, located on the 4th floor of the Seattle Center near the Space Needle)

Specific submission instructions:
Headshot and resume encouraged but not required - please give date available

Other details you need to know about these auditions:
Email mark@marxiano.com to RSVP, please give dates you're available. You will be sent a side to study before the audition. Rehearsals begin January 3rd (day time rehearsals), performances Jan. 20-Feb. 11th

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