New works by Neil LaBute and John Guare headline “Seven Card Draw” Featuring Piper Perabo at Dixon Place March 16, 2010

On Tuesday, March 16, Dixon Place proudly presents a night of dark comic tales of risk and reward in Seven Card Draw. A sequel to the 2007 hit show Five Story Walkup, Seven Card Draw includes brand new works by prolific and controversial writer/director Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men, Nurse Betty, The Shape of Things and Reasons to be Pretty) and legendary playwright John Guare (House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation). Other contributing authors are gothic monologist Clay McLeod Chapman, playwrights Quincy Long, Laura Shaine, Daniel F. Levin and the show’s producer/director, Daniel Gallant. The night will also include performances by film and television actress Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly, The Prestige, House, Law and Order: Criminal Intent), five-time winner of the Manhattan Monologue Slam Katie Northlich and Clay McLeod Chapman, who will be performing his own monologue. Seven Card Draw will run for only three performances at Dixon Place.