Diving Normal

THE SOLD-OUT SMASH-HIT OF FRINGE NYC 2006 & FRINGE NYC ENCORES

Plunge into the intricate world of a most unlikely love triangle.

Electric Pear Productions is thrilled to present the world premiere of Diving Normal, named as one of the shows that has “Raised Eyebrows” by The New York Times.

The highly anticipated new play by Fulbright Award Winner Ashlin Halfnight is being directed by Mary Catherine Burke. Diving Normal reunites the Playwright and Producer of last year’s FringeNYC winner for “Outstanding Play” as they return to the 10th annual New York International Fringe Festival.

Three twenty-somethings combat histories of abandonment, accident, and sexual deviation as they struggle, injured and unsure, toward the comforting uniformity of traditional relationships. This edgy and explosive comedic drama explores friendship and love between modern urbanites as they swim from stability to recklessness, and back again, in a time ruled by temptation and indifference.

Diving Normal’s premiere brings together some of the most talented and talked-about emerging theatre artists in New York. The New York Times has called Halfnight’s work, “briskly well written and highly entertaining.” Mary Catherine Burke, winner of a Drama League Fall Fellowship, has directed Michael John Garces’s Sandlot ball and has recently worked on and off Broadway with Jonathan Lynn, Arthur Penn and Olympia Dukakis. A trio of NYC’s finest young actors, Eliza Baldi (The Liddy Plays, Williamstown), Josh Heine (“Benjamin” the National Tour of The Graduate), and Jayd McCarty (The

Seagull, Second Stage) has signed on, and the play’s design will be crafted by Jesse Poleshuck, Scenic Designer on the Broadway production of Sly Fox, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Eric Stoltz.

Diving Normal marks the inaugural presentation of Electric Pear Productions, a new non-profit company started by producer Melanie Sylvan and writer Ashlin Halfnight after their successful collaboration on the highly lauded God’s Waiting Room at the 2005 FringeNYC and the Merlin International Theatre in Budapest, Hungary.