<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><blockquote style="padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;display:inline"><div style="text-align:right"><br></div></div><p style="text-align:right"></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;text-align:right"></p><div style="text-align:right"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;display:inline">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</div></div><p style="text-align:right"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;display:inline">                                                                                                                                                       Contact: Patrick White, Director and Teacher</div><p style="font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:visible;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%"></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><p style="text-align:right"></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;text-align:right"></p><div style="text-align:right"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;display:inline"><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="mailto:white.patrick1963@gmail.com" target="_blank">white.patrick1963@gmail.com</a>; 518-779-2803</div></div><p style="text-align:right"></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;text-align:right"></p><div style="text-align:right"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;display:inline">Press Photos by Adam Wilson-Hwang with costumed photo shoot  can be found at:</div></div><p style="font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:visible;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%"></p><p style="margin:0px;text-align:right"></p><div style="text-align:right"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;display:inline"><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/160240685@N03/" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/160240685@N03/</a></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;display:inline"><div style="text-align:center"><br></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial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rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah well! We may conjecture many things." The play is an epic adventure of courage in taking on a momentous journey that had never been attempted before against great odds to benefit unseen generations to come.</div><br></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;display:inline"><br></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;display:inline"><i>MEN ON BOATS</i> is the first fully staged production by Acting Class with Patrick White. The class frequently stages scene and song showcase nights at the Albany Barn to present students work free to the public but Patrick White felt that there needed to be more theater opportunities for women in the Capital Region and he's always wanted to produce plays of his choosing. <i>MEN ON BOATS</i> fits his criteria, looking for plays that hit their audiences on a civic, spiritual and emotional level. </div></div><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;display:inline"><br></div></div><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;display:inline">Although the area is dominated by women in positions of power running theaters and they far outnumber the number of men participating in the theater as auditioners, students, backstage and even as audience members the number of roles offered to women is always lagging far behind the men. Patrick says "I was directing a production of a popular play at a local theater recently and the play called for 5 men and 2 women and I got a pretty good turnout of 30 actors showing up to audition. 10 men and 20 women. So, if you were a man your chances of getting cast were 50/50 and if you were a woman, it was 1 in 10. I know all my students knew this and I'm late to the game but I had never seen an example presented so starkly before of the need to offer more opportunities for women in the Capital Region. I saw the Clubbed Thumb production of <i>MEN ON BOATS </i>at Playwright's Horizons and thought it was hysterical while offering a galvanizing piece of physical theater of a story I had never heard before."</div></div><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;display:inline"><br></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;display:inline"><i>MEN ON BOATS</i>: Cori Irwin as John Wesley Powell, Debra Bercier as William Dunn, Iris Singer as John Colton Sumner, Susan Katz as Old Shady, Maghen Ryan as Bradley, Sara Paupini As O.G. Howland, Victioria Vine as Seneca Howland, Susan Dantz as Frank Goodman, Jeanette Horowitz as Hall, Laura Darling as Hawkins, Myrna Bernstein as Tsauwiat and Mary Williams as The Bishop.</div></div><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;display:inline">Directed by Patrick White. Assistant Directed by Dennis Skiba, Stage Managed by Lisa Bryk, Lighting design by Barry Streifert, Sound design and execution by Chad Reid and Costumes by Laura Darling</div></div>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ormal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px"><b>directed by Patrick White</b></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px"><b>At the Sand Lake Center for the Arts, 2880 NY Route 43, Averill Park, NY 12018</b></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px"><b>Admission $15.</b></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent" dir="ltr"><blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px"><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://www.slca-ctp.org/" target="_blank">http://www.slca-ctp.org</a></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><b></b><i></i><u></u><strike></strike><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>About the Playwright:</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>Jaclyn Backhaus</b> is a playwright of Punjabi, German, and desert botanical descent. Select plays: <i>MEN ON BOATS</i> (NYT Critics' Pick, Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights Horizons, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Playwrighting Award Finalist, published by Dramatists Play Service); <i>India Pale Ale</i> (Manhattan Theatre Club, Fall 2018); <i>Folk Wandering</i> (Pipeline Theatre Company); <i>You Across From Me</i> (Humana Festival of New Plays);<i> People Doing Math Live!</i> (Under the Radar Festival); and <i>You on the Moors Now</i> (Theatre Reconstruction Ensemble, The Hypocrites in Chicago). She is under commission with Playwrights Horizons, MTC, EST and Ars Nova, and was the 2016 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Clubbed Thumb. She is currently a playwright-in-residence at Lincoln Center. BFA: NYU, where she now teaches. She is co-founder of Fresh Ground Pepper, a New York-based arts incubator. She lives in Queens with her husband, theater director Andrew Scoville, and their son Ernie.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>About the Director:</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>Patrick White</b> is an actor/director/teacher in New York's Capital Region with over 35 years professional experience in theater. Select plays as director:<span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">Albany Civic Theater-<i>The Pope and the Witch</i>, <i>Suddenly, Last Summer</i>, <i>Grand Concourse</i> (10 Bestof 2017-The Daily Gazette), <i>Appropriate</i>, Curtain Call Theatre<span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">-<i>Clever Little Lies</i>, <i>Living on Love</i>, <i>The Importance of Being Earnest</i>,</span></span><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">Home Made Theatre-<i>The Foreigner</i>, </span><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">Local Actors Guild of Saratoga-<i>Welcome Home Jimmy</i>, </span><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent"><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent"></span></span><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">Our Own Productions-<i>The Glass Menagerie </i>(TANYS Award-Excellence in Direction, Outstanding in Ensemble Acting), </span><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent"> Schenectady Civic Players-<i>Rapture, Blister, Burn </i>(10 Best of 2016-The Daily Gazette, <i>An Inspector Calls</i>, Sand Lake Center for the Arts/Circle Theatre Players</span><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">-<i>John Ball's In the Heat of the Night (</i>TANYS<i> </i>Award-Excellence in Direction; 10 Best of 2017-Berkshire On Stage). and </span><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">TGP-<i>True West</i>. He recently returned from Cortland Repertory Theatre playing Editor Webb in<i> Our Town</i> and is directing<i> Gloria</i> at ACT running 11/2-11/18. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b></b><i></i><u></u><strike></strike><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>About Acting Class with Patrick White:</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent"><b>Acting Class with Patrick White</b><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent"> is entering it's 5th year of offering an adult acting class to all levels on Saturday mornings 10:30 am-1:30 pm in the Albany Masonic Lodge (67 Corning Place) from October through May. This year's session starts October 13th, 8 classes for $240. and reservations can be e-mailed to </span><a style="text-align:left;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent" href="mailto:white.patrick1963@gmail.com" target="_blank">white.patrick1963@gmail.com</a><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">. The goal of class is to introduce and nourish those interested in the dramatic arts with the greatest playwriting going on today and develop every student's skills individually, preparing them to confidently contribute and shape the burgeoning Capital Region theater community. Class consists of warm-ups, exercises, improv games, audition prep and scene study. Dozens of students have taken Patrick's class and showcased their work in one of his six Scene Nights offered free and open to the public at the Albany Barn biannually.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><strike></strike><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b><i></i><u></u><strike></strike><b></b><i></i><u></u><strike></strike><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>