Austin Pendleton Directs The World Premiere Production of LUFT GANGSTER.

NEW YORK - July 22, 2013 - PRLog -- New York, NY – Nylon Fusion Theatre Company (Ivette Dumeng, Producing Artistic Director) announced today that it will present Lowell Byer’s LUFT GANGSTER August 12 – 25, 2013 at the New Dorothy Strelsin Theatre (312 West 36^th Street, betw. 8 and 9 ave). Austin Pendleton, a veteran actor and director who recently directed three Chekhov plays at Classic Stage Company.

Based on a series of interviews between the playwright and his cousin, Louis Fowler, LUFT GANGSTER follows the story of Lou from the time he had to bail out of his B-24 Liberator in March, 1944, through the 13 months he spent as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft VI.

The cast includes Noel Joseph Allain*,Gabe Bettio*,Paul Bomba*, Christopher Burke*, Lowell Byers*, Ralph Byers*, Kyle DeSpiegler, Seth James, Casandera M.J.Lollar*, Eyal Sherf* Directed by Austin Pendleton, LUFT GANGSTER production team includes Tijana Bjelajac (scenic design), Debbi Hobson (costume design), Jeanne Travis (sound design), Greg Kanyiscka (props master), and Montserrat Mendez (assistant director).

LUFT GANGSTER performance schedule is August 13th – 24th, 2013, Tuesday through Saturday at 8:00 pm with additional performances Monday August 19^th at 7:00pm;Wednesday August 21^st through August 24^th at 8:00 pm and Saturday August 24^th at 3pm. Performances will be held at Dorothy Strelsin Theatre (312 West 36^th Street, between 8 and 9 avenues; Subway: 1 to 34th Street or A/C/E to 34^th Street). Tickets are $18.

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Nylon Fusion was founded in 2007 as a collaboration of like-minded artists from New York (NY) and London (Lon). Nylon Fusion is a company of writers, actors and directors from a broad range of backgrounds, holding onto our community roots here in New York. We are committed to developing and producing original plays that explore political, social and cultural awareness. For more information, visit http://www.nylonfusioncollective.org/.

AUSTIN PENDLETON is currently appearing at the Manhattan Theatre Club in Choir Boy, by Tarell McCraney.   He has recently, in New York, directed three Chekhov plays at Classic Stage Company -- Ivanov, Three Sisters, and Uncle Vanya -- with such actors as Ethan Hawke, Maggie Gylenhall, Peter Sarsgaard, Juliet Rylance, Jessica Hecht, Mamie Gummer, and Denis O'Hare --as well as The Last Will, by Robert Brustein, at the Abingdon Theatre.  He has acted on and off and off-off Broadway, and directed in all those places, and appeared in about 150 movies, as well as in recurring roles on such TV shows as Oz, Homicide, and Law and Order.  He is a member of the Ensemble at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, and began his careers as both actor and directorat the Williamstown Theatre Festival.