Rider University Presents 'Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake)' April 4-7

Rider University will present Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), directed by Ivan Fuller, Thursday April 4, through Sunday, April 7, in The Spitz Studio Theater on Rider's campus in Lawrence Township.

Presented by a cast of Rider University Musical Theatre and Theatre Performance majors, Shelia Callaghan's Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) follows the life of Janice, who is struggling to cope with the untimely death of her father.

Janice holds spiteful conversations with her dolls while her Mother is suffering from panic attacks, with only her baking skills to keep her busy.

In their deteriorating Apartment, which has a role in the play and incessantly begs for repairs, their only comforts are visitations from their respective celebrity crushes - Justin Timberlake and Harrison Ford. With the support of Justin's affection, Janice begins to craft a plan that will mend the chasm in their lives. Meanwhile, the Apartment is developing murderous plans of its own.

Ivan Fuller serves Rider University as professor of theatre, chair of the Theatre and Dance Department and Associate Dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts. Before joining the Rider faculty, he was professor of theatre at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D., where he served as chair of the Performing and Visual Arts Department.

He was the founder and artistic director of the Bare Bodkins Theatre Company. His play Eating into the Fabric was awarded a Holland New Voices Award for Outstanding Play, and it was a semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference.

In July 2009, he served as playwright-in-residence for the Summer Literary Seminars in Lithuania, where he wrote his play Awake in Me. In 2012, he returned to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he completed the final chapter of his Siege Cycle, In Every Note, which was recently named a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Conference.

Tickets for Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) are $20 for adults and $10 for students/seniors. To order tickets call (609) 896-775 or order online at www.rider.edu/arts.