ME, MY GUITAR AND DON HENLEY
NEW SCHEDULE: October 5 - 27 at The 14th Street Y
** Directed by Queer as Folk’s Peter Paige **

"a gem of a play... crisp, stylish and brutally honest writing" -- Flavorpill LA

Crooked Neck Productions will present the New York Premiere of ME, MY GUITAR AND DON HENLEY by 2006 Emmy Award nominee Krista Vernoff (Grey’s Anatomy). The West Coast Premiere was nominated for a 2005 Ovation Award for Best World Premiere Play. This limited engagement will be directed by Peter Paige (Queer as Folk). Previews begin October 5th with opening scheduled for Saturday, October 7th.

Three mothers. Three daughters. One father. And a family crisis that brings them all together for the first time ever. ME, MY GUITAR AND DON HENLEY offers an intimate and hilarious look at the complex nature of relationships in the modern family.

ME, MY GUITAR AND DON HENLEY stars Tara Franklin, Kaili Vernoff, Stephanie Nasteff, Jennifer Dorr White, Mary Elaine Monti, and SuEllen Estey with set design by John McDermott, lighting by John Pinckard, costumes by Beth Goldenberg and sound design by James Evan Pilato.

Krista Vernoff is an Executive Producer and the Head Writer on the ABC drama Grey's Anatomy and was recently nominated for a 2006 Emmy Award. Previously, she wrote for Fox's Wonderfalls and for three seasons of Charmed on the WB. Other credits include Fox's Time of Your Life and NBC's Law and Order. In 2005, she wrote and produced her first pilot, Introducing Lennie Rose for Touchstone and ABC with director Ken Olin. Along with the entire writing staff of Grey's Anatomy, she recently took home a Writer's Guild Award for Best New Show. Krista holds a BFA from Boston University.

Peter Paige is best known for his five-year run as Emmett on the Showtime series Queer as Folk. In addition to his television work, Paige is an accomplished regional theatre actor who has performed nearly every genre of play from the Greeks to Shakespeare to contemporary work at major theatres across the country. As a director, notable credits include, The Skin of Our Teeth, Twelfth Night, The Actor’s Nightmare and Flora, The Red Menace. Paige's directorial debut feature film Say Uncle was called, "an engaging and insightful entertainment with considerably more substance than most small-budget, independent films," by The LA Times.

In 2001 Rachel Jackson & Stephanie Nasteff, along with fellow William Esper Studio graduate Ed Swidey, founded Crooked Neck Productions. Past works include Unspoken: 3 Plays by Edward Allan Baker, Dolores, Lady of Fadima, and Specter in New York and the Los Angeles premiere of Bash.

ME, MY GUITAR AND DON HENLEY runs October 5 - 27; Friday, Saturday and Monday at 8:00pm & Sunday at 7pm, with an added show Thurs. Oct. 26 at 8pm. The 14th Street Y is located at is located at 344 East 14th Street (between 1st & 2nd Aves., accessible from the L train at 1st Avenue). Tickets are $18, available at 212-352-3101 or TheaterMania.com.