NEW YORK--Diverse City Theater Company ("DCT") announces the 9th play and final presentation of its Green Room Series with Warren Bodow's HARRY THE HUNK ON HIS WAY OUT, directed by The Working Theater's Mark Plesent. The two-act play will be presented on Monday, September 26, 2005, 7PM, at Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 2nd Floor (between 10th & 11th Avenues). The Green Room Series is DCT's summer festival of staged readings featuring original plays that portray social diversity from various cultural perspectives. Suggested donation: $10.

The staged reading features Paul O'Brien* (as Harry), Nelson Adams*, Randy Falcon*, Fulani Hart, Desiree Maumus, Kathryn Rossetter* and Dean Stapleton*.

HARRY THE HUNK ON HIS WAY OUT deals with dreams deferred and denied. The play is set in a workingman's bar in Youngstown, Ohio where amiable Harry, a 64-year old factory foreman, and three friends gather to celebrate his imminent retirement into a life of leisure, comfort and contentment. A sexy, edgy woman sitting nearby insinuates herself into their party, subsequently forcing Harry, a man with unique talents, to come to terms with the consequences of a lifetime of path-of-least-resistance decisions.

HARRY THE HUNK ON HIS WAY OUT is Bodow's third play. In 2003, his first play, "Rx," received a staged reading at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City. In 2004, "Overman on His Way Out," a one-act play, premiered at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Mr. Bodow is a retired radio executive. He was President and General Manager of New York stations WQXR and WQEW from 1983 to 1998.

Director Mark Plesent has been associated with The Working Theater in various capacities since 1989. He has produced numerous plays for the Theater including Michael Henry Brown's "Ascension Day," Ed Belling's "A Drop in the Bucket," which he also directed; Marty Pottenger's "City Water Tunnel #3;" and the Drama Desk Award-winning "Tabletop," among others. In addition, Plesent has produced and/or directed over 15 independent theater and performance art projects including "Populace," a performance on the IRT #1 train from Chambers Street to 125th street involving 22 directors and over 200 actors. He is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in Theater Arts.

Mr. Bodow's piece concludes DCT's Green Room Series which boasts an impressive and diverse roster of full-length and short one-act plays. In addition to "Harry the Hunk …," the series presented Linda Faigao-Hall's NEA-honored play, "Walking Iron;" Australian playwright Michael Gurr's award-winning suspense drama, "Sex Diary of an Infidel;" Susan Tammany's monologue, "Aria I;" Stuart Harris's "Colleen Ireland;" Lee Errickson's "Finding the Mango;" Jorshinelle Taleon-Sonza's "How to Cook Adobo;" Joe Byers's "I Am Joe's Prostate;" and Linda Faigao-Hall's "The A-Word."

The Green Room Series was made possible due, in part, to the generous support of The Irvin Stern Foundation and our partners at The Ensemble Studio Theatre.

* member of Actors Equity Association

ABOUT DIVERSE CITY THEATER CO.:
Diverse City Theater Co. Inc., is an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that focuses on promoting diversity in the theater arts. Its mission is to commission, develop and produce original plays that portray social, cultural, lifestyle and demographic diversity, thereby creating multiculturally fluent theater audiences as well as advocate the non-traditional casting of actors. Formed in 2003, Diverse City Theater Co., Inc. is based in New York City. For more information, visit the organization's website at www.diversecitytheater.org.

Contact:
Liz Casasola
212-309-9018
liz@diversecitytheater.org