Exposed!, Directed by Tony Winner Dan Fogler, Set for NY Bow

Tony Award winner Dan Fogler will direct the New York premiere of Exposed! The Curious Case of Shiloh and Zahara for during the Midtown International Theatre Festival. The comedy, written by and starring Kate Gersten, will play six performances between July 15 and July 30 at the Main Stage Theater, presented by Stage 13, the off-Broadway company run by Fogler, Sarah Saltzberg and Bjorn Thorstad.

In addition to Gersten (The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall, the cast of Exposed! will include Kelly McCreary (Passing Strange), Nancy McNulty (Future Me; I Knock at the Door/Pictures), Kelly Hutchinson (Desire Under the Elms; Catch Me If You Can), Bjorn Thorstad (Elephant in the Room), Yang Miller (The People's Improv Theatre) and Dennis Staroselsky (Mambo Kings).

In this new comedy, we are asked, “What becomes of celebrity children who grow up in the spotlight?” Twenty years into the future, we find one housebound, a second unable to date, and a third...the spawn of the devil. This is an outlandish and stylish play about the next generation of Hollywood royalty.

A Tony winner for playing William Barfee in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Fogler is featured in Ang Lee’s soon-to-be-released feature film Taking Woodstock. He has appeared onstage in Joe Fearless, Bridges and Harmonies, Bobby Gould in Hell, The Voyage of The Carcass, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Detective Sketches. He wrote and directed Elephant in the Room, inspired by Ionesco, which was accepted into the NY Fringe Festival in 2007. His film credits include School for Scoundrels, The Marconi Bros, Balls of Fury, Good Luck Chuck, Horton Hears a Who, Kung Fu Panda, Fanboys, Young Americans and Traveling. Hysterical Psycho, a film conceived and directed by Fogler, premiered this year in the Tribeca Film Festival.