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ONS: BABY NO MORE TIMES
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 8:00PM

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511 West 54th Street
New York, NY 10019
United States


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BABY NO MORE TIMES
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Created by MARY BIRNBAUM, MELISSA LUSK & CAROLINE V. McGRAW
Directed by MARY BIRNBAUM
Story Edited by CAROLINE V. McGRAW
Music by MELISSA LUSK, DIANA OH
Written by MARY BIRNBAUM, RACHEL FLYNN, LAUREN LIM JACKSON, MELISSA LUSK, CAROLINE V. McGRAW & DIANA OH
Choreography by LAUREN LIM JACKSON, ILANA WEBBER

Featuring:
Melissa MELISSA LUSK
Diana DIANA OH
Lauren LAUREN LIM JACKSON
Rachel RACHEL FLYNN

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ABOUT
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Imagine if the Spice Girls were translated by bell hooks. Now stop imagining and open your sparkly eyes because BABY NO MORE TIMES is the feminist extravaganza you’ve been waiting for. Aggressive, raw and hysterically funny, BABY NO MORE TIMES is what happens when you give a group of female musicians too much glitter and advanced degrees in gender theory. Come and sing with Melissa, Lauren, Rachel and Diana to original pop songs on subjects from pay equity to catcalling, from the male body to the systemic destruction of the patriarchy. We’ll have you dancing hard, laughing hard and getting pumped to march through the streets proclaiming your feminism to a sick, sick beat.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
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MARY BIRNBAUM is a NYC-based director of opera and theater. Recent credits include: Aida in a Sandbox (Pacific Symphony), The Classical Style (World Premiere, Ojai Festival/Carnegie Hall) and The Rape of Lucretia (Juilliard) which the New York Times called “viscerally overwhelming.” Internationally, she has directed in Taipei, Costa Rica, Melbourne and Tel Aviv. Mary is on faculty at Juilliard and is a co-author of the feminist pop concert Baby No More Times (babynomoretimes.nyc). Upcoming: Giulio Cesare (Boston Baroque) and Kept (World Premiere, VA Arts Festival.) For more marybirnbaum.com.

RACHEL FLYNN Originated the role of Stoner Chick in Heathers, the Musical (New World Stages), once vomited fake blood onto the guitars of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Stop the Virgins, St. Ann's Warehouse) and championed feminism through the art of glitter and hair jewels (Baby No More Times, Knitting Factory). Rachel studied directing at the A.R.T. under Robert Woodruff and Marcus Stern. She directed the Boston debut of Martin Sherman's Bent starring TV’s Jack Cutmore‐Scott and is the artistic director of At The Table, a Play Reading podcast, available on iTunes, Stitchr and other podcast places. Proud AEA and Harvard grad.

Originally from Orange County California, LAUREN LIM JACKSON graduated from the Orange County School of the Arts where she was the Academic Valedictorian as well as Valedictorian of her Commercial Dance Department. She later attended Harvard University where she received her B. A. in Sociology with a Secondary in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Broadway credits include Motown, Memphis, Wonderland and Finian’s Rainbow. Off Bway/Regional/Tour include The Wiz (Encores), Chicago (Velma Kelly), Big Fish (Josephine), Ring of Fire (Alpine Theater Project), Rocky Horror Show (Old Globe) and West Side Story (Anita). Film/TV credits include Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Deadbeat, Bikini Moon, Strange Past, Smash, The Smurfs, Mrs. Santa Claus and Kidsongs. Ms. Jackson is a proud member of the Actors Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA. Follow on Instagram: @limmyjack or Twitter @LimJack

MELISSA LUSK is a Brooklyn-based composer, mother, legal secretary and member of the band Teen Girl Scientist Monthly. She plays Panglo the puppet, Clown Doctor, a fearmongering reporter and a bored receptionist in The Fall of the House of Sunshine podcast, which you can and should be listening to (podmusical.com). Proud graduate of NYU Tisch's ETW and the Classical Studio, we can hang at @melissajlusk. The moon for Agnes.

DIANA OH actor/singer-songwriter/performing artist/theatremaker. A Refinery29's Top 14 LGBTQ Influencer, First Queer Korean-American interviewed on Korean Broadcast Radio, 2016 Van Lier Fellow in Acting and Finalist in Writing, Creator of {my lingerie play} (Going up at Rattlestick in September 2017). She will be in concert in April 2017 at The Center (gaycenter.org). Wall Street Journal and Upworthy call her "bad-ass."

CAROLINE V. McGRAW's plays include Ultimate Beauty Bible, Believeland, Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys, The Bachelors, The Vaults and The King is Dead. Her work has been produced and developed all around the country, at companies such as Page 73, Lesser America, New Georges, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Theater Ninjas, Naked Angels, Washington National Opera/The Kennedy Center, Second Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Studio 42, the Lark, IAMA Theater Company and Ars Nova's ANT Fest, among others. She has been in residence at Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival, Wordbridge Playwrights’ Lab and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Four of her full-length plays have been nominated to the Kilroys' List. She is an alum of the New Georges Jam, the Civilians' R&D Group and Interstate 73, and a member of the Primary Stages Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group. Caroline was the 2013 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow, and was Page 73's 2016/17 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence. She is working on a new play commission from Yale Rep. Caroline is a graduate of the Playwriting program at the Yale School of Drama, where she studied under Paula Vogel.

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