After an inaugural micro-season in November, UglyRhino is returning to the Brooklyn Lyceum with an expanded three weeks of theater, music and parties. UglyRhino centers on two mainstage plays which are the heart of a larger artistic celebration that provides audiences with a variety of events on any given evening. This summer we are proud to present a season of entirely new work. Grief by David Kantounas was workshopped in London as part of the Old Vic Coming Up Festival, and we are producing its New York City premiere. After featuring his work in our previous micro-season, UglyRhino has commissioned playwright Kyle Warren to create an original world premiere entitled #nyc.

UglyRhino Originals will host Lagunitas Happy Hours, free food nights of Nathan's Hot Dogs, Baluchi's Indian Food, and more! We are proud to welcome back select bands from our last micro-season including Bird Love, Brian Rady and Friends, and Grace McLean joining such new bands as The Hot Press, Kara Suzanne.  Speciality acts will include Gentrify Brooklyn and Looking for Love: A craigslist Comedy. 

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UglyRhino is a new way to experience theater. Expanding on our high quality productions, we integrate dynamic arts programming ranging from emerging musicians to warehouse parties.  UglyRhino curates affordable evenings with a social atmosphere that captures the inimitable spirit of Brooklyn. Our inaugural micro-season at The Brooklyn Lyceum in November 2010 was featured in Time Out New York’s Best of the Fests and Your Perfect Weekend, the New York Post, Metro Magazine, and NY Press.

The Brooklyn Lyceum is a producing arts venue and cultural center on the edge of Gowanus. Originally opened in 1910 as an indoor bathing facility, it now plays host to a range of theatre, music, dance, markets and community activities. With a new Artistic Director leading the way, the Lyceum is programming an ambitious season throughout the year. This co-production of UglyRhino Originals is part of a full theatrical line-up including Circle Theater of New York's new interpretation of Woyzeck, Brave New World Repertory's production of The American Clock, Three Sisters from MBCT, and a visual dreamscape of The Little Prince. The Lyceum Café serves exquisite coffee and fresh-baked goods and is open to the public daily.   

Nicole Rosner, a native Floridian, arrived in New York at the end of 2008 from London where she spent three years working at the Royal Court and Arcola Theatres.  New York highlights include Directing Pinter's Celebration and the premiere of David Kantounas'Grief at The Brooklyn Lyceum,  the premiere of Itamar Moses’ short play Bottom of the Ninth, an Observership of Shakespeare in the Park with Daniel Sullivan and Michael Grief and Assistant Directing at The Flea Theatre.  Nicole has recently worked as a Programmer/Producer for the Brooklyn Lyceum and Assembly Theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

 Danny Sharron is thrilled to be back at the Lyceum after directing Ionesco's Rhinoceros for UglyRhino's inaugural micro-season. Directing credits include Hard to Kill (Horse Trade), Dammit, Office Girl! (Subjective), Tape (Medicine Show), Sunday in the Park with George and Proof. He Assistant Directed Jeanine Tesori's American Songbook concert and was the Directing Assistant on the first US National Tour of Frost/Nixon. Other theater work includes Lincoln Center Theater and the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab. Currently, Danny is the Assistant to the Associate Producer at The Public Theater. He is a graduate of the University of Florida with degrees in Theater and Marketing.

Bryce Norbitz is a producer, director, writer, and graduate of Northwestern University. Producing credits include Heart Sutra and Anchor Women (The Cell Theatre), Consume: A Grotesque Burlesque (Gorilla Tango Theatre), and the New York International Fringe Festival Best Musical winner Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical, which she also co-wrote. Bryce was most recently the proud Exeuctive Producer for UglyRhino's inaugural micro-season. After stints at Chicago Shakespeare, The Second City and The Public Theater, she currently works at Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment and on a myriad of Off-Broadway productions developing social media marketing strategies.

Andrew is a multidisciplinary theater creator - he has appeared onstage at Theatre Row & 59E59 in New York, directed a handful of things here and there, written a few short plays, runs his own theater company (Think Tank Theater Company), parties with art.party.theater.company as Associate Producer, and works at The Public Theater.  UglyRhino has somewhat lessened his irrational and overwhelming fear of Brooklyn.

Sam is the Literary Manager for UglyRhino Productions and producer of TinyRhino. Thanks to Danny, Nicole, Bryce, and everyone on the UglyRhino team! And thanks to the TinyRhinos for being so damn talented! Playwriting credits include Crying Jack, A Substitute for Margo, The 700 Club(Out of the Ashes Theatre Co., Chicago, IL), The Rock and the Bird (NoBucks Theater, Ithaca, NY), Debt  (Horse Trade Theater, NYC, and Dillingham Center for Performing Arts, Ithaca, NY), Brooklyn Vacancies (finalist, New Works Program at T. Schreiber Studio, NYC), Static (semi-finalist, HotCity Greenhouse Festival, St. Louis), and Animals (Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Atlantic Studios, NYC).

Erin is an actor and a director in addition to being a dialect coach. She recently performed in Up to Date at the Times Square Arts Center and is currently directing the short playScreen for the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Festival. She dialect coached forCelebration last fall and is thrilled to be working with the UglyRhino team again! Thanks to Nicole for her vision, the cast for their dedication, and Sam for introducing me to the Rhino.

Carolina Cuervo is thrilled to once again be a part of the UglyRhino team. Thanks to all who worked so hard to make these productions possible.

Nic DePierro solves problems. He walks fast, talks fast, drives fast.

JoAn is the Front of House Manager for UglyRhino Originals and is thrilled to be part of the team!  She plans on spending the duration of the festival inventing clever titles for Rhino cocktails, seeing some plays, and hanging out with NYC’s finest.  Thanks to Danny, Nicole, and Bryce for being rock stars!

David has been writing plays full time since completing the Royal Court Advance writing course in 2007. His involvement with the Old Vic New began inn 2010 when he was selected as one of seven writers to part of the UK/US TS Eliot exchange. Since then he has been involved in a number of Old Vic New Voices projects including the Arden Project, where he was commission to write a short piece that was simultaneously performed for a live audience in London, and shown via a live online feed to a New York audience. David's other play, GUTTER JUNKY, is set to be performed at the edinburgh festival this year. 

Jessica is thrilled to be managing her second show in New York after moving here from Phoenix six months ago.  She is a Junior studying stage management at Adelphi University.  Previous work includesGuys & Dolls with Genesis Repertory andMan of La Mancha at Scottsdale Desert Stages Theatre.  Thanks to Nicole and Bryce, but most of all to Dominic who loves and supports me.

John enjoys risking his life in the pursuit of art. The most common threats to his continued existence dismemberment by prop, falling from extreme heights and reality television. Fun Fact: John McMahon is actually a being of pure light.

This is Kate's second micro-season with UglyRhino.  She's so happy to be back at The Lyceum, working on these exciting projects with such a talented group of artists and individuals.   Casting credits include last micro-season's productions ofRhinoceros  and Celebration at The Lyceum, film: NYU MFA Short Films, Pick Something (dir. Bella Wing-Davey) and Two Ladies And A Gentleman (dir. Brooke Goldfinch).   Previously, she has worked with Susan Shopmaker Casting, where she assisted in casting the  MTV series Skins USA and The Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition of Tino Seghal’s This Progress.  Kate is currently the Casting Assistant at The Public Theater.

Saul is excited to be working with UglyRhino as an Assistant Producer. Saul’s past producing experience includes: GORMANZEE and Other Stories (The Flea Theater, 2010), WHORE (Summer Play Festival, 2009) and Ether Steeds (New York International Fringe Festival, 2009). He has also worked as a PA on Father Joy (Summer Play Festival, 2006) and as a sound operator on Red Herring (New York International Fringe Festival, 2006). Saul has spent time interning at The Public Theater, The Summer Play Festival, Second Stage Theater, and Richards/Climan, Inc. He graduated from Kenyon College this past spring and is currently working for Sardine Boat Pictures, a documentary film production company.

Anna just graduated collegio and moved to Brooklyn from North Carolina. Needing to add a little spice to her corporate 9-5 life, she started volunteering with UglyRhino and helping out with development. When not working by day, volunteering by night, Anna enjoys dancing to any beat, yodeling, and making pop-up cards (packed with glitter, of course).

Daniel has been working at the television show Inside The Actors Studio for five years now. Currently he holds numerous positions for the show including Production Associate, Audience Coordinator and Personal Assistant to the Host, James Lipton. Daniel has also been the Associate Producer for five episodes including the 200th Episode Special. In addition to his duties at Inside The Actors Studio, Daniel has stayed busy as a writer and producer. In the last year alone he has produced the silent film The Language of the Fox (Brooklyn Short Film Festival), co-wrote the feature film Spencer, co-wrote and co-executive produced the web series Caleb and Renee, is currently an executive producer for the new interview show Undiscovered, writing and producing the animated series Zoo, writing and producing the concept album Six Girls Gone and producing the animated web series Two Crabs on a Bench. Daniel is very proud to be a part of the UglyRhino team!

Becca was a cherub. Ask her about it! She is so excited to be working with UglyRhino this summer, and feels the experience has upped her knowledge of Brooklyn from  "minimal" to "passing". Native New Yorker. Previously worked at Second Stage Theatre and Gallery Players. Upcoming: her sophomore year at Carnegie Mellon University!

Stephanie is thrilled to be working on #NYC with UglyRhino.  She has composed music for 20+ productions in Chicago and New York, including the 2009 Fringe Festival production Cephalopod: A Play Below Sea Levelby Kyle Warren.  A graduate of Northwestern University and current the production coordinator for Aurora Productions.

Kyle Warren has had his work performed in all four of the country's major cities, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Warwick, Rhode Island. Plays include: Cephalopod (NY Fringe Festival 2009), But For His Scythe to Mow (UglyRhino Reading), In the Static (or Listening with Rabbit Ears) (Mixtape Theatre LA), and Divine Intervention (Chicago Dramatists). B.A. Northwestern University.