Kids Take The Stage!
Falconworks Artists Group's Off the Hook TM program brings teens together with theater professionals to produce original plays. Six young playwrights, with the support of professional writers, actors, and directors, will take center stage in their own plays for an evening of funny, moving, raw, wonderfully original theater.

Spring 2008 shows will be presented Friday, April 18 at 7:00 pm and Saturday, April 19 at 3:00 pm. Shows are presented at PS 15 - The Patrick Daly School. The address is 71 Sullivan Street (between Van Brunt and Richards)in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Admission is free! Call (718)395-3218 for reservations and information, or reserve online at offthehook.eventbrite.com.

Past artists have included Arthur Aulisi, Michael Bernard, Chris Burns, Tim Cain, Barnett Cohen, Drew Cortese, Megan Cramer, Lore Davis, Genevieve de Gaillande, Melissa Dowty, Michael Early, Heather Gaye, Shawn Hirabayashi, Haruto Imamura, Liisa Juola, Celine Justice, Jessica Krakow, Eliza Langley-Wilbur, Richard Marson, Angie Martin, Brandon McClusky, Judy Palaferro, Nikki Philips, Brandt Reiter, Jessica Rider, Kristen Rozanski, Shirley Rumierk, Eric Saiet, David Simpatico, Jolie Tong, Noah Trepanier, Becky White, and Reg Flowers, director of the company.

Sponsored by DYCD in partnership with Good Shepherd Services' Red Hook Community Center at PS 15. Off the Hook is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. In Kings County, the Decentralization Program is administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC)

Andrew Irons (Program Director, Off The Hook) is a Playwright, and Producing Director and Founding Member of ANDHOW! Theater Company. For Andhow! he has written Little Suckers (The Ohio Theater, 2005), Non-D (The Ontological Theater, 2003, Backstage STIMY Award; Powerful Production 2003-2004), Paschal Full Moon (78th Street Theater Lab, 2000), and has received readings of Yakima Man (Dialogue '02) and his Iris (Garden Plays '05). His play Tunnel was produced at Expanded Arts in 1998. As an actor and playwright, he has work with several New York Theater companies, including adobe theater company, New Dramatists, Gilgamesh Theater Group, Expanded Arts, The Ontological, New Georges, Turnip and 78th Street Theater Lab.

Andrew currently teaches Acting at Westchester Community College. He has as taught theater at Sarah Lawrence College’s Summer High School Writing Intensive, The Hudson River Academy, The Allen Stevenson School, and Penobscot Theater Company. He has studied at the American Conservatory Theater, The National Theater Institute, is a graduate of Skidmore College (BA/BS) and has his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

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