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Palmy Inn Productions is proud to present the World Premiere of Names of the Dead as part of the 16th annual New York International Fringe Festival

Names of the Dead by Vanessa Lenz Neithardt and directed by Robert Greene

Synopsis: Names of the Dead explores the heartbreaking reality of PTSD and suicide amongst our veterans. The story takes place on the night Jared, a psychologically tortured Iraq War veteran, has decided to take his own life.  Before pulling the trigger, he makes one final call for help to a VA crisis hotline reaching Hope, the only person who may be able to save him.  Jared finds solace in her voice and can finally confront the demons that have been haunting him since the war.  Through the course of their conversation, interspersed with flashbacks and hallucinations, Jared’s story unfolds. Names of the Dead examines fragility versus strength in the human mind and reminds us that the casualties of war are not only those left on the battlefield.

Where: Connelly Theater - 220 East 4th Street, NYC (btwn. Avenues A & B)

When: Saturday 8/11 at 4:15PM, Monday 8/13 at 9:15PM, Wednesday 8/15 at 2PM, Wednesday 8/22 at 5PM, Thursday 8/23 at 7:45PM

ADVANCE TICKETS CLICK HERE, CALL 866-468-7619 or IN PERSON AT fringeCentral 1 E 8th St.

Kendall Cornell is an actor, clown and leader of the all-women clown troupe Clowns Ex Machina. Some favorite theatre credits: He’s Calling You, Neat and Deeply (Waterline Theater); Miss Julie, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Moxie Productions); Julius Caesar, Road, Ailanthus Grove.   Recent Clown creations: Clowns Full-Tilt:  A Musing on Aesthetics, Clown Axioms, Clowns By Dead Reckoning  (LaMaMa); and Not Just for Shock Value (Six Figures Theatre) as well as many solo clown works.   Kendall and her all-women clown troupe Clowns Ex Machina have been profiled in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Backstage, Spectacle Journal for the Circus Arts, Attitude Dance Magazine and elsewhere.  See www.ClownsExMachina.com for more info on performances and teaching.

Robert Greene is an actor, director and playwright. He has a MFA in Performance from the University of Louisville. He has also studied at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York. He has performed and premiered new works at The National Black Theatre Festival, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, The August Wilson Center in Pittsburg and The International Theatre Festival of Russia. Robert is a theatre educator and a member of The East Harlem Repertory Company. His past credits include: A Raisin in the Sun, Angels in America, Christmas Carol, King Hedley II, In the Blood, The Winter's Tale, Blues for an Alabama Sky, To Kill a Mockingbird and others. Film: Juwanna Mann and Kentucky: An American Story. Outside of theatre he enjoys producing music and performin improv.

Michael Neithardt Theater: John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Sean Pomposello's B*tch, Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, Stephen Belber’s Tape, Howard Korder’s A Boy’s Life, Jonathan Marc Sherman’s Veins and Thumbtacks, Stephen Belber’s The Death of Frank, among others. Film/TV: I'm Happy (official selection Tropfest NY); Husband for Hire (Oxygen Network); The Tested; Harwood; jeffrey (winner, Best Short Film/Big Apple Film Festival 2008) and Late Night with Conan O’Brian. Michael earned his BA in film at Binghamton University and has studied acting at HB Studios, Stella Adler Conservatory, Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater, and The Circle in the Square Theater School. He lives in New York City with his wife Vanessa and their son Beckett. www.michaelneithardt.com

Jo Anne Sellers began acting in South Carolina where she played numerous roles.  Favorites are True West, Orpheus Descending and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.  Since moving to New York City five years ago, she has played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mrs. Oxenham in Hot L Baltimore, Abigail in The Awakening and most recently the wife of James Joyce in Cafe le Monde.  She is a member of the HB Studio Ensemble.

Emily Stokes NYC Credits: Visiting Day (Honey "Bunny Magnum" Johnson) West Village Musical Theatre Festival, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hippolyta), Regional:  The Music Man (Marian) at the Atlanta Lyric Theatre, Grease (Sandy), The Sound of Music (Maria), Educational: West Side Story (Maria) with dir. Josh Bergasse & music dir. Rob Fisher, A Little Night Music (Frederika), Wizard of Oz (Glenda), She Loves Me.  MM: Indiana University. www.emilystokes.net