boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb FEBRUARY 12 - MARCH 13, 2010 At Kitchen Dog Theater.

Directed by: Christina Vela Texas Premiere

"Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's play flips from pants-around-the-ankles comedy to hipster Twilight Zone takeoff... boom is imaginative and easy to like." -The New Yorker

The Play:A marine biologist hosts a journalism student in his subterranean biology lab for an erotic "casual encounter." As disaster looms upon the planet, the fate of their "date" takes on monumental importance. boom is an epic and intimate comedy of evolution, loneliness, and how to survive.

The Playwright: Peter Sinn Nachtrieb is a San Francisco-based playwright whose works include boom, Hunter Gatherers and Colorado. Hunter Gatherers received both the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award and the Will Glickman Prize (2007). In 2008, boom was produced at Ars Nova, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Seattle Repertory Theatre. His newest play, T.I.C., premiered with Encore Theatre Company in 2009.

Find out more: http://www.kitchendogtheater.org