InProximity Theatre Company (Jolie Curtsinger, Laurie Schaefer Fenton, Co-Artistic Directors) has to announced the cast for this year’s second annual PROJECT W Theatre Festival which includes work by Darcy Parker Bruce, Mathilde Dratwa, Christina Gorman, Donna Hoke, Kara Emily Krantz and recently added Ann Marie Shea. PROJECT W Theatre Festival will take place June 4-9 with readings starting June 5, and will kick-off with an opening night, invite-only party on June 4, 2018 at Town Stages  (5 White St).  More information can be found at www.inproximitytheatre.org. The festival is a celebration of women in theatre from both the creative and business aspects. This muliti-day play reading festival features new plays, written, directed, produced and mananged exclusively by professional women in theatre. The lineup is Darcy Parker Bruce’s SOLDIER POET, directed by Maureen Monterubio – June 5 at 8PM, Set in Aleppo, the play follows two American Army Rangers rescue an injured Syrian woman about to give birth. At a nearby hospital, a neonatal nurse with an unwavering sense of duty struggles to save the lives of infants as her hospital is bombed. The cast includes Keivon Akbari, Sulekha Ebelle, Jo Mei, Sean McIntyre & Sade Namei; Donna Hoke’s ELEVATOR GIRL directed by Bryn Boice - June 6 at 8 PM, Elevator Girl was never meant to be more than an urban legend, a sexual revenge fantasy created by Vanessa and her graphic illustrator boyfriend. But when the comic superhero unleashes her boyfriend’s darkest fantasies, as well as a flesh-and-blood copycat, Vanessa must stop EG in her tracks—with the truth. The cast includes Harrison Bryan, Zachary Clark, Jenna Krasowski & Kim Wong; Mathilde Dratwa’s MILK AND GALL, directed by Jen Wineman – June 7 at 8:00 PM. Raising a magnifying glass to the experience of being a new mother under Trump, Milk and Gall​ opens as Vera gives birth to a shape-shifting baby on election night. Over the course of one seemingly unending year, tensions mount between Vera and her second-wave feminist mother, she struggles to connect physically with her husband, and her friendship with her Syrian-American best friend Amira falters.  The cast includes Rutanya Alda, Julie Asriyan, Brian D. Coats, Carrie Heitman, Irene Sofia Lucio & Aaron Roman Weiner;  Christina Gorman’s ROAN AT THE GATES, directed by Michelle Tattenbaum – June 8 at 8:00 PM; Would you buy a sofa without consulting your partner? How about a car? Change your job? Could you commit a crime and say nothing? And could you still love your partner if she followed her conscience but kept you in the dark? Nat is an outspoken civil rights attorney. Roan, the quiet one, is an NSA Analyst who isn’t even allowed to tell her wife the location of her next business trip. The cast includes Billy Griffin Jr, Katie Flahive & Lynnette R. Freeman; and Ann Marie Shea’s THE MUSE IN AUTUMN directed by Terry Berliner - June 9th at 2pm.  Is there a difference between sexual predation and a “May-December” romance? In her youth, Gwyneth was a prolific writer, but now her life is confined to a remote country retreat caring for her aged husband, famous poet Marshall Rivers, as he struggles with paralysis and aphasia.   The unexpected arrival of two strangers –an ambitious young scholar, Larry, and a mysterious girl, Maggie – lead to revelation of Rivers’ life-long sexual predation, and subsequent plagiarism.  Cast includes: Zach Clark, Emilee Dupré , Ana Isabel, Joel Rooks & Eliza Ventura;  Kara Emily Krantz’s YOU, ME, AND ENNUI, directed by Diana Canterbury - June 9 at 8:00 PM. When 28-year-old Samantha wakes up with a hangover on 75-year-old Theodore's couch, the only logical way to navigate the situation is to pose as his new caretaker. Through the process of discovering why she is in his house, Sam and Teddy form a quirky yet wonderful bond. Cast includes Ben Bartolone, Samantha Debicki, Yvette Ganier, Kasey McNulty MacDonald & Joel Rooks. Press contact: JT PR (646/481-6583)...