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Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis (The Singing Forest) is glad to celebrate the Public’s annual festival of experimental theater.
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Pals Josh Hamilton (Dead Accounts) and Sam Rockwell (A Behanding in Spokane) give us a smile after the opening night performance.
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Tony nominee Raul Esparza (Company) has appeared in the Public’s productions of Twelfth Night and The Normal Heart.
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Tony Award winner Denis O’Hare (Take Me Out) most recently starred in the Public’s Shakespeare in the Park presentation of Into the Woods.
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Tony nominee Marin Ireland (Reasons to be Pretty) has appeared in Public Theater productions of In the Wake and The Ruby Sunrise.
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The Under the Radar family: Public Theater Executive Director Patrick Wallingham, Under the Radar Associate Artistic Producer Meiyin Wang, Under the Radar director Mark Russell, Russell’s wife, Jennifer, and Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis.
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Hamish Linklater is a frequent Public family member, having appeared in Shakespeare in the Park’s productions of The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, and The Winter’s Tale.
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Tony nominee Linda Emond (Death of a Salesman) gets close to her main squeeze, actor Matte Osian (Compulsion).
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Theater couple Jo Bonney (Emotional Creature) and Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio) get close at the first night of the Under the Radar festival.
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Tony nominee Colman Domingo (The Scottsboro Boys) and his pal Sharon Washington recently appeared together at the Public in his play, Wild With Happy.
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Arian Moayed, Tony nominee for Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, is a frequent participant in the Under the Radar festival, last year directing the punk musical Goodbar.
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Tony-nominated director Alex Timbers (Peter and the Starcatcher) is no stranger to the Public Theater, having directed and co-created its acclaimed musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.
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Songwriter Heidi Rodewald received Tony Award nominations for her contributions to the musical Passing Strange, which made its debut at the Public Theater.
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Playwright Rinne Groff most recently had her play Compulsion produced at the Public Theater.
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The Public Theater celebrated the first night of its ninth annual Under the Radar Festival on Wednesday, January 9 with a post-performance shindig at their Lafayette Street home.

Running through January 20, the Under the Radar Festival brings new and experimental theater from around the world to New York City for brief engagements. Among the companies presenting shows this year are Australia's Back to Back Theatre, Belarus Free Theatre, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, The Debate Society, Elevator Repair Service, and Iran's Leev Theatre Group, among others. The festival is directed by Mark Russell.

Guests at the first night party included Public Theater staffers Oskar Eustis and Patrick Wallingham, Under the Radar director Mark Russell and his wife, Jennifer, Under the Radar Associate Artistic Producer Meiyin Wang, Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck), Tony Award winner Denis O'Hare (Take Me Out), Tony Award nominees Colman Domingo (The Scottsboro Boys), Linda Emond (Death of a Salesman), Raul Esparza (Company), Marin Ireland (In the Wake) Arian Moayed (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo), Heidi Rodewald (Passing Strange), and Alex Timbers (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio), Jo Bonney (Emotional Creature), Josh Hamilton (Dead Accounts), Hamish Linklater (Seminar), Rinne Groff (Compulsion), Matte Osian (Compulsion), and Sam Rockwell (A Behanding in Spokane).

Click here to read TheaterMania's preview of the 2013 Under the Radar Festival.