The Flea Theatre
41 White Street, NYC
Tickets $15/ $12
RSVP: 212. 414. 7773

NEW YORK- The Wanderer, a new play by Dmitry Lipkin, author of Off-Broadway's acclaimed Cranes and a member of New Dramatists will be given its World-Premiere production by the LITE Company (Laboratory for International Theatre Exchange) in association with The Flea Theatre this July, 2004. Featuring Amelia Campbell (most recently seen as Janis Joplin in Love Janis, Tony nominee for Our Country’s Good), Larry Block (Don’t Say a Word, Isn’t She Great), Brian Gottesman, Irma St. Paule (The Rose Tattoo), Matthew Dellapina, Seth Kanor, Stan Lachow (The Sisters Rosensweig, On Golden Pond) and Chris Kipiniak (Metamorphoses). The Wanderer will begin previews 5 July 2004 prior to the official press opening on 11 July 2004 at The Flea Theater located at 41 White Street between Broadway and Church street, three blocks south of Canal Street in Tribeca. Scheduled through July 27, The Wanderer will perform Sundays through Tuesdays at 7pm, and Sunday matinees at 3pm. Tickets are $15. Press who wish to obtain credentials must send a request on media outlet letterhead. Requests should be faxed to Workhouse Publicity at (212) 645-1950 or sent via email to Devon Mack at mack@workhousepr.com. If you have additional questions please contact us directly at Workhouse Publicity at 212. 645. 8006.

A comedy The Wanderer is directed by Adam Melnick and written in Mr. Lipkin's celebrated fable-like style concerning an otherworldly being who falls from the sky and lands in Brighton Beach. The being takes on the identities of several existing individuals including a house painter, a baker down on his luck, a son of a prominent Mafia boss, etc. In the course of these incarnations he meets the Eisenstein’s, a family of struggling Russian immigrants, and changes the course of their lives. Mr. Melnick is the Artistic Director of LITE, a company best-known for the creation and producing of downtown's popular Chekhov Now Festival which celebrates it’s six season this year. For more information call 212-414-7773 or visit www.thewanderer-play.com.

About Dimitry Lipkin
When Mr. Lipkin's Cranes directed by Scott Elliot for The New Group opened Off-Broadway in 1999, The New York Times called the play "disturbingly amusing" and The Village Voice said "Lipkin's pinpoint character observations never fail to amuse." Mr. Lipkin - whose other plays include The Elephant Play and Baton Rogue, presented at E.S.T. in 1994 was born in Moscow, Russia and immigrated to Louisiana at the age of 11. He holds an MFA in dramatic writing from NYU. He has been a fellow at Manhattan Theatre Club, a member of HB Playwriting Unit and The Playwrights' Collective.

About the LITE Company
In addition to the annual Chekhov Now Festival - an enormously popular 3-week festival of new works inspired by and adaptations of works by Anton Chekhov - the Laboratory for International Theatre Exchange (The LITE Company) is dedicated to the creation and performance of original works, as well as the exploration of contemporary perspectives on the classics. The LITE Company has performed both new and classic work at numerous international festivals in France, Scotland, Poland and for the past two springs in Russia. In more than a decade of writing, performing, directing and producing, the LITE Company continues to develop new works that challenge and engage audiences, while going far beyond the mere act of story telling.