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SPECIAL PERFORMANCENOW WHAT?created & performed by Josh Lefkowitz World Premiere in the Melton Rehearsal Hall Appropriate for ages 16 & up.      About the Show:Boy gets job. Boy hates job. Boy writes one-man show about hating job. One-man show becomes a huge success, leaving Boy in a panic to figure out what comes next. Following last season’s hit Help Wanted, Josh Lefkowitz returns to juggle politics, poetry and love as he attempts to answer the question “What are you working on now?" “QUIRKY, INTROSPECTIVE…WISE, FUNNY…[the] discipline VIDEO INTERVIEW:
Who's WhoJosh Lefkowitz's first full-length monologue, titled HELP WANTED: A Personal Search for Meaningful Employment at the Start of the 21st Century, has played at CENTERSTAGE (Baltimore), Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Washington, DC), Dixon Place (New York), Access Theater/Blue Coyote (New York), The Tank (New York), Single File Festival (Chicago), and the Inaugural Capital Fringe Festival (Washington, DC), as well as at several universities including Yale University and The University of Michigan. Josh was an Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, where he created work under the mentorship of actor/writer Eric Bogosian. He has also collaborated numerous times with performance artist Holly Hughes, including on After A Fashion, an original piece that was remounted at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in NYC. His short plays have been performed at Madcap Players (Washington, DC) and Illusion Theater (Minneapolis). As an actor, he has worked with Playwrights Horizons, NY Stage & Film, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Woolly Mammoth, CENTERSTAGE, Signature Theatre, Arena Stage, Olney Theatre, and others. His stories and poems have been published in various journals online and in print, and he has recorded personal essays for NPR’s All Things Considered. Josh received a Young Artist grant from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, the Avery Hopwood Award for Poetry at the University of Michigan, and was selected as one of NY’s Best Emerging Jewish Performers. Josh's second monologue — NOW WHAT? — was commissioned by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and has been workshopped at Dixon Place and The Kennedy Center. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan's Department of Theater and Drama. Schedule & Prices
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Directions & ParkingAddress:641 D Street, NW (7th & D)
Nearby landmarks:Woolly Mammoth is located in the bustling Penn Quarter neighborhood on D street between Oyamel and Rasika restaurants, around the corner from TicketPlace and down the street from Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh theatre. We are two blocks north of the National Archives and National Gallery of Art and 2 blocks south of the Verizon Center and the Smithsonian American Art Museum/Portrait Gallery. MetroArchives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter (Yellow & Green lines) — 1 block away MetrobusThe 70, 71, D1, D3, and D6 buses stop at the corner of 7th & E. ParkingInterpark/Liberty Place, directly across from Woolly's entrance, offers a $10 rate if you mention you're going to Woolly Mammoth. There is limited metered street parking in the Penn Quarter near Woolly Mammoth, in addition to the following parking garages:
* Limited facilities for mobility-impaired patrons; please click here for more information on accessibility. Garage prices and hours subject to change without notice Driving Directions
From Virginia via I-395: When crossing the river bear left towards the 14th Street exit. Follow 14th Street, until Constitution Avenue and take a right. Turn left on 6th Street and another left onto D Street NW. (Note, earlier directions indicated the 12th Street Exit, which is currently closed for construction.) From Virginia via I-66: Take I-66 into the District when it becomes US-50. Turn left onto 7th St NW. Turn right onto D St NW. From Bethesda, Rockville, Potomac and points west: Reach Wisconsin Ave., NW via either Interstate 270 and River Road or Rockville Pike (which becomes Wisconsin Ave.) Remain on Wisconsin Ave. until reaching Massachusetts Ave., NW just south of the National Cathedral. Take Massachusetts all the way to 9th St. Turn right on 9th. Turn left on D St. From Rt. 50, Baltimore and points east: Reach New York Ave., NE via either Rt. 50, I95 or the Baltimore Washington Parkway. Remain on New York Ave. all the way downtown to 6th St., NW. Turn left on 6th St. Turn right on D St.
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