NeverCracked
The Midtown International Theater Festival presents
The Intentional Theatre Group & Carissa Baker’s production of NeverCracked
An off-kilter cooking show, followed by a desperate contest between men in neckties.
Never Swim Alone by Daniel MacIvor
Cracked by Gwydion Suilebhan
Directed By Emerie Snyder
July 13 – August 2, 2009 @ The WorkShop Theater’s Main Stage
312 W. 36th St., 4th Floor, Between 8th & 9th Aves. (A/C/E to 34th St.)
The Intentional Theatre Group and Carissa Baker present NeverCracked, two short plays
directed by The It Group’s Founding Artistic Director, Emerie Snyder. The production is
presented by the Midtown International Theater Festival (http://www.midtownfestival.org/)
and will open at The WorkShop Theater’s Main Stage (312 West 36th Street, 4th Floor,
between 8th & 9th Aves.) on Monday, July 13 at 8:30 p.m.
NeverCracked is a comedic double bill including Daniel MacIvor's award-winning NEVER
SWIM ALONE in which old buddies compete in fast-paced absurdist battles of wits, one-ups,
and manliness. The evening also features the world premiere of CRACKED (newly
commissioned by The Intentional Theatre Group) by acclaimed DC playwright Gwydion
Suilebhan, a solo play starring a woman, an audience, and an egg.
NeverCracked features Daniel Dugan, Candice Holdorf*, Grace Kiley* and Nick Lewis.
*AEA Members - Equity Approved Showcase
The design team for NeverCracked includes Stacey Berman, Duncan Cutler, Emerie Snyder
& Keith Truax.
Performance Schedule: NeverCracked
July 13 – August 2, 2009 @ The WorkShop Theater’s Main Stage
312 W. 36th St., 4th Floor, Between 8th & 9th Aves. (A/C/E to 34th St.)
Monday, July 13th - 8:30 pm -- Wednesday, July 15th - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, July 21st - 8:30 pm -- Saturday, July 25th - 5:00 pm
Friday, July 31st - 9:00 pm -- Sunday, August 2nd - 8:00 pm
Tickets are available online at www.ovationtix.com or by calling 866-811-4111
www.intentionaltheatregroup.net
Daniel MacIvor was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in 1962. He is a stalwart of the
Canadian theatre scene, having written and directed numerous award-winning productions
including “See Bob Run”, “Wild Abandon”, “2-2-Tango”, “This Is A Play”, “The Soldier Dreams”,
“You Are Here”, “How It Works” and “A Beautiful View”. With long time collaborator Daniel
Brooks, he created the solo performances “House”, “Here Lies Henry”, “Monster” and “Culde-
sac”. Daniel’s play “Never Swim Alone” won the award for overall excellence at the New
York Fringe in 1998 and in 2002, he won a GLAAD Award and a Village Voice Obie Award for
his play “In On It”, which was presented at PS 122. His play “Marion Bridge” received its off-
Broadway premiere in New York in October of 2005. From 1987-2007, with producing partner
Sherrie Johnson, he ran da da kamera, a respected international theatre touring company
that has brought his work to Australia, Israel, Europe, the UK, and extensively throughout
Canada and the US.
Gwydion Suilebhan (pronounced “Gwid-eon Sull-ivan”) is the author of Let X, Abstract Nude,
The Great Dismal, The Faithkiller, The Treehouse, and the prologue to Cardenio Found. His
plays have been produced, workshopped, and read at the Kennedy Center, National
Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Taffety Punk Theatre Company, Mead Theatre Lab,
Theater of the First Amendment, Rorschach Theatre, and the Capitol Fringe Festival. He has
received both an Individual Artist Fellowship and a Larry Neal Award from the DC
Commission on the Arts and Humanities and has twice been accepted into the Cultural
Development Corporation’s Mead Theatre Lab program.
The Intentional Theatre Group is a collaborative company of artists who share the belief that
vital theatre happens in the space between the audience and the stage. The It Group works
to highlight the tensions that fill this space by staging productions with a passionate
commitment to clarity of intention.