Rabbit Summer
By
​Tracey Conyer Lee

Rabbit Summer, a world premier tragicomedy, examines the fracture point of a marriage and a friendship. There’s Ruby and her husband Wilson, who idealizes his manhood, his marriage, and his job as a cop. He smiles through pain Ruby wishes he would share. Ruby’s childhood friend, Claire, joins the household after her husband is shot by a white officer, pitting black against blue, gun rights against police brutality, manhood against fatherhood, and love against need. The trio battle individually to live their personal truths in an America built on lies. ​​
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TRACEY CONYER LEE is a full time actor-playwright living in New York City. Her plays Standing Up: Bathroom Talk & Other Stuff We Learn From Dad, Poor Posturing, and The First Time appeared in the New York International Fringe Festival, The Fire This Time festival of short plays, or in readings and development through Urban Stages, National Black Theatre and The Fire This Time festival. Poor Posturing received a Boston run of a selected 6 of the 25+ plays from TFTT's first four seasons. With The First Time Ms. Lee was nominated for New York Innovative Theatre's 2016 Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award (NYITA) and was selected for Congo Square's 2015 August Wilson New Play Initiative. Ms. Lee was the 2010-2011 resident playwright for Don't Miss A Beat, Inc., an arts and education program in Jacksonville, FL which introduces marginalized youth to the world of theater, music and dance. She has written for Boomerang Theatre's Rock-N-Roles series, LDTG and was invited to guest blog for the Huffington Post on “Gratitude”, of which she is in abundance. Ms. Lee is a 2018 MFA merit scholar candidate in Writing For the Stage & Screen at New Hampshire Institute of Art, for which she has written a full length musical, a tv pilot, and the play you are about to see thanks to Buzz McLaughlin, who mentored the birth of Rabbit Summer.
Acting highlights include Off-Broadway casts of Sistas; The Musical (filmed by BET/available on Netflix) and the critically raved (and Late Night with Conan O'Brien spoofed) Bedbugs!!! It's a Musical. Regional work at Yale Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Denver Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, St. Louis Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Detroit Public Theatre, Bucks County Playhouse, Portland Stage Company, Laguna Playhouse, TheatreWorks, Delaware Theatre, Westport Playhouse, Weston Playhouse, Merrimack Rep, Virginia Stage, Ogunquit Playhouse, Capital City Theatre, Great Lakes, Cleveland Playhouse, Cape Playhouse, WHAT, Forum Theatre Company, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Pittsburgh CLO, Syracuse Stage, InterAct and 30+ others has yielded Carbonell, NAACP, and Barrymore Award winning roles. Independent film garnered audience awards for Best Lead Actress. TV credits include SMASH, Ed, recurring roles on L&O: Criminal Intent, All My Children & Guiding Light and most recently a guest spot on Hulu's The Path, season 2. Ms. Lee is a proud Broadway Inspirational Voices member. She is thrilled to be part of the Women's Voices Festival and thanks KenYatta Rogers for his vision and Ally Theatre Company for its unyielding support. For what's next: www.traceyconyerlee.com

IT Takes A Village .... 

So many groups and individuals make this production possible.  We are immensely grateful to:

Robb Hunter and Preferred Arms
Brian Dettling and Stage Armament Solutions
Richard Henrich and Spooky Action Theatre
Montgomery College Theatre Department
Mount Rainier Police Department
Brooke Kidd, Neena Narayanan, and Joe's Movement Emporium
Signature Theatre
Ryan Bodanyi
Jason Aufdem-Brinke
Valerie Fenton
Wyckham Avery
Angelisa Gillyard
John Essay
The Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival
Matt Ripa
Ryan Maxwell
Nan Barnett, Amy Austin, and the Women's Voices Theater Festival
theatreWashington
Natalie Graves Tucker
Jennifer Mendenhall
Ellen Houseknecht
Jason Schlafstein, Jon Rubin, and Flying V Theatre
​Jon Jon Johnson

THANK YOU!!!!!

January 12-28 2018
Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 8PM
Matinees at 2PM on Saturday and 4PM on Sunday

SPECIAL PERFORMANCES:
Community Preview Thursday Jan 11th 8PM
Industry Night Monday January 15th at 8PM

Tickets $25 General Admission
$15 Students and Veterans
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Recommended for mature audiences. Explicit language/themes including gun violence.
At Joe's Movement Emporium
3309 Bunker Hill Road 
Mt. Rainier, MD 201712

COCKTAILS AND CONVERSATION

Ally Theatre brings audiences into the conversation -- world premiere plays with local playwrights and artists, community discussions around timely issues in our society -- and we are proud of the impact we are already making here.

Please join us after the show!  We'll keep the bar open, serve up our specialty themed cocktails, and create a safe space to navigate these sometimes difficult conversations.

STARRING

CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION TEAM

RABBIT SUMMER IS PRESENTED AS PART OF THE 2018 women's voices theater festival

Rabbit Summer IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE GRACIOUS SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING DONORS:

Evelyn S. Connor, Nicole A. Watson, Judith Damewood, Erick Pinnick, Anonymous, Anonymous, Judith Zocchi, Jill C Nienhiser, Eric Gardner Kidwell, Steven Rosen, Kathleen Renn, Anonymous, Ryan Bodanyi, Kara E. Krantz, Bryan Glover, Sean Eustis, Jordan Friend, Anonymous, Alexandra L. Bradley, Julio Matos, Kevin R. Free, David Rosario, Anonymous, Anonymous, Susan Nelson, Madelyn Porter, Paula Graves, Gayle L. Turner, Kelly Vice Baskerville, Anonymous, Brent Whitehead, Roddy Rasti, Stephen C. Moore, Tanesha M. Gary, Valerie Fenton, John Geoffrion, Anonymous, Anonymous, Hinton Battle, Anonymous, Eva Stapleton, Anonymous, Adrian Wilson, Susan T. Hoffman, Anonymous, Rachel Cooke, KenYatta Rogers, Katherine Karaus, Ty Hallmark
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