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"Bang You're Dead" to be Performed at Stuart

Bang, Bang, You’re Dead, a provocative, one-act play written by William Mastrosimone to raise awareness of school violence and its causes, will be performed at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart on November 5 and 6, 2010. Mr. Mastrosimone will attend a talk back following each performance.

Performances are November 5^th and 6^th at 7:15pm in Stuart’s Cor Unum. Tickets are $10 each at the door.

Mr. Mastrosimone wrote this play in the aftermath of multiple highly publicized school shootings and following an incident in his own son’s high school. “With the rising concern about bullying and school violence, Stuart chose to bring this timely and relevant production to Princeton,” said Dr. Patty Fagin, Head of School at Stuart. Under the direction of guest director Dan Prather, the performances will feature young women from Stuart and four male students from Rider University. The evening will be balanced by short scenes from the David Ives play entitled All In The Timing. The short pieces include Words, Words, Words, Philadelphia and Sure Thing.

William Mastrosimone is an American playwright and screenwriter from Trenton, New Jersey. He attended high school at The Pennington School and received a graduate degree in playwrighting from Mason Gross School of the Arts, a part of Rutgers University.

His plays include The Woolgatherer, Extremities, Shivaree, and Cat's Paw, The Afghan Women and Nanawatai, upon which the film The Beast is based. Two recent plays are Sleepwalk, a story again focusing on the traumas of modern teenage life, and "Dirty Business", a play about a party girl caught between the mafia and the newly elected President of the United States. Mr. Mastrosimone’s screenwriting credits include Into the West and the adaptation of his play Extremities. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for Bang, Bang You're Dead and was nominated for a Prime Time Emmy for Into the West and The Burning Season.

About Stuart: Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart is an independent Roman Catholic school for girls in Junior Kindergarten through Grade 12, as well as a co-ed Pre-School. Now celebrating its 47th year, Stuart is a member of the National and International Network of Sacred Heart Schools. Stuart offers an education deeply rooted in the goals and criteria of the Sacred Heart that enriches, inspires and empowers its students. While academic rigor is emphasized at Stuart, values are also placed on physical, social and moral growth.