The Attic Theater Company is proud to present a limited run of Erica Lipez’s play The Tutors.  The show will be directed by Drama League Fellow and Artistic Director of The Attic Theater Company Laura Braza, and performances are May 18th-26th at The Access Theater.   

In Erica Lipez’s play The Tutors, Joe and Toby, along with the many other residents of New York City who work a job in order to do something else, tutor high school students. Heidi anonymously helps write college admissions’ essays online. Together, they run a friendship-finding website from their apartment, except that their work with students starts to invade their lives and, in Heidi’s case, her subconscious. The Tutors by Erica Lipez tests what people who are so plugged into the digital world and online friendship do when confronted by the real thing.

Featuring: Dana Berger, Ted Caine, Tommy Heleringer, Ruy Iskandar* and Michael Shantz* 

Production Team: Laura Braza (Director), Lexie Pregosin (Resident Casting Director), Julia Noulin-Merat (Resident Set Design), John Jalandoni (Assistant Set Design), Forrest Leo (Technical Director), Colleen Toole (Sound), Lauren Genutis (Props), Dave Upton (Lighting), Travis Chinick (Costumes), Monica Hammond (Press Rep), Sam Gooley (Producer)

Erica Lipez is a playwright based in New York City.  She attended Harvard University and received her MFA from the Tisch School of the Arts Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU (2009).  Recent New York/Regional stage credits include readings/workshops of her full-length plays, Bottled Up (The Public Theatre, Kennedy Center, Furious Theatre Company/Naked Angels), The Tutors (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Theater Row), and Fingers (Babel Theatre Project).  Productions include Recess (Yale Summer Cabaret), Aquifer (Theater Masters at Rattlestick), Bully To You (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Art.Party.Theatre.Company, INTAR), and a musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol (Foothills Theatre). She is a recipient of a 2009/2010 Dramatist Guild Fellowship, a 2009 Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights’ Workshop, and is a member of the 2009 Theater Masters National MFA Playwrights’ Festival. Erica recently served as a staff writer on the Fox series Lone Star and is currently a story editor on the hit USA show Suits.

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