Adam Rapp to Direct Julian Sheppard's Los Angeles at The Flea

Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner Adam Rapp Red Light Winter will direct the New York premiere of Julian Sheppard's Los Angeles at The Flea Theater, beginning February 14. Opening night is set for February 22, and the production will run at The Flea's downtown theater through March 17.

The Flea describes the play as follows: Sex. Drugs. Swimming Pools. Traffic. Smog. Carjackings. The search for next big thing. This is Los Angeles, where one damaged young woman needs more than a map to find her way through the pitfalls of Tinseltown. Los Angeles stars Katherine Waterston daughter of actor Sam Waterston and Jonathan Walker with The Bats, the resident acting company at The Flea. The production features set by David Korins, lighting by Miranda Hardy, sound by Eric Shim and costumes by Erika Munro.

Julian Sheppard's play Buicks received two 2003 Drama Desk nominations, including Outstanding Play, and was recently optioned by Paramount Studios as a sitcom for CBS. His other plays include Love and Happiness, Whatever, After America, A Hole in the Earth and From Now On. A head writer on ESPN's 2-Minute Drill, Julian is a graduate of the playwrighting program at Juilliard. He is currently working on a stage adaptation of Stephen King's Misery.

Rapp is a novelist, filmmaker, playwright and director. He was named a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for his play Red Light Winter. His other plays include Nocturne, Blackbird, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Finer Noble Gases and Faster. As a director, his production of Blackbird received two Drama Desk nominations. His production of Red Light Winter won the Joseph Jefferson Award in Chicago and a Lucille Lortel Nomination for Best New Play and two Obie Awards in New York. Rapp's first feature film, Winter Passing received its world premiere at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in February. He is currently in post-production with his second feature, Blackbird.