Mondo Cane Commissions @ Dixon Place

You're Welcome...a new cycle of short plays by THE DEBATE SOCIETY

Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays, May 29, 30, 31 & June 5, 6, 7 at 8:00 p.m.

Dixon Place, 258 Bowery, 2nd Floor, Between Houston & Prince
Gen Admission: $15, $12 students/seniors
For advance tickets and more info
www.dixonplace.org, (212) 219-0736, ext 110

Written & Performed by Hannah Bos & Paul Thureen
Directed & Developed by Oliver Butler

This Dixon Place Mondo Cané! Commission is made possible with generous support from NYSCA, a state agency: The Jerome Foundation: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & the Peg Santvoord Foundation.

Here's what the press has to say about The Debate Society and their work:

"The cast and crew may call themselves The Debate Society, but their talent and inventiveness is never really in question." ~David Cote, Time Out New York

"To the city's theatre scene, The Debate Society is that last, freshest cookie in the jar when you thought they were all gone and were still craving more." ~Stephan Paschalides, Flavorpill

"The Debate Society is one of the most exciting theater companies in town."
-John Del Signore, Gothamist

For their newest piece, You're Welcome, The Debate Society has created a collection of 5 small works about creation & failure. This unified theatrical myth tells the story of an invented band of performers & their catastrophic attempts at connection.

The Debate Society is a Brooklyn, NY based theater company that creates new plays through the collaboration of Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen and Oliver Butler. The company focuses their work around extended phases of development to create intricate worlds and elaborate mythologies. The Debate Society began their work together with A Thought About Raya, developed from the writings of Russian absurdist Daniil Kharms. Next came The Snow Hen, developed with the help of a Chashama Performing Arts Studio Award and The Eaten Heart, presented at the Ontological last May. Their Untitled Auto Project was presented at Dixon Place in the Fall of 07 to prepare for its premiere at PS122 in the Fall of 08.

Hannah Bos (Creator/Performer) Recent performances include Andrei Serban's Lysistrata with Cherry Jones, Janos Szasz's Marat/Sade at the American Repertory Theatre, Labapalooza at St. Ann's Warehouse and The Pumpkin Pie Show at PS 122. Hannah has toured internationally with François Rochaix and participated in the creation of new works at Steppenwolf Theatre. She attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and Vassar College and received her MFA from the graduate acting program at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University/Moscow Art Theater.

Paul Thureen (Creator/Performer) spent a season acting with Minneapolis' Theatre de la Jeune Lune, co-creating and performing in The Description of the World and touring with Jeune Lune and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in performances of Façade and Pulcinella. Recent New York and international performances include One Year Lease's tour of Oresteia in Athens and Milan, Tango 'Til They're Sore at The Flea, and Clay McLeod Chapman's The Pumpkin Pie Show at P.S. 122 . He studied acting at The National Theater Institute, Vassar College, and The Moscow Art Theater.

Oliver Butler (Director) In NYC, Butler directed The Snow Hen, A Thought About Raya, After, Seduced, Christmas with the Flamingos, Sold Out: The Rock Musical, Real Dramatic , and Day of Reckoning . He was the Assistant Artistic Director of The Berkshire Theatre Festival where he directed The Einstein Project and This is our Youth and has assisted directors including Jo Bonney, Pam Mackinnon, and John Rando. In '04 and '05 he was a participating director in Lincoln Center's Directors Lab.