By Jackie Demaline
Enquirer staff writer

Jason Bruffy, of Cincinnati Fringe Festival and Cincinnati Experimental Arts, is new artistic director of Know Theatre Tribe. He is pulling a switch with Matthew Pyle, who has stepped down to the associate artistic director post to get away from paperwork and spend more time on stage.

The 2005 Know season is filled with Cincinnati premieres and edge. The performance schedule has been re-configured, adding an extra weekend at Gabriel's Corner, the company's Over-the-Rhine base.

It will also introduce "The Tribe" - a 10-member resident acting company that includes Pyle, Reggie Willis and Burgess Byrd, three of the best actors on the Cincinnati's alternative theater scene.

The 2005 Know Tribe season:

Jan. 6-29 - Streamers, David Rabe's scorching, Vietnam era military drama examines the effects of combat on soldiers even as differences in race, class and sexual orientation keep the men from feeling safe on the field or in camp.

Feb. 17-March 12 - 4.48 Psychosis introduces Cincinnati to Britain's dangerous playwright Sarah Kane. Kane's hypothesis is that 4:48 is the time most suicides take place. Kane committed suicide, adding an extra shiver.

March 31-April 23 - Iris, an absurdist comedy about artificial insemination - and what happens when your new boyfriend turns out to be your father.

May 5-28 - Good Boys brings black and white strangers together on a park bench to examine the act that links them - a Columbine-style massacre in which one son died by the gun of the other.

July 21-Aug. 13 - Sticks & Stones may... will be a pair of one-act commissioned works by David Tucholski of Alexandria, Va., and new Tribe member Jennifer Spillane, a recent Chicago transplant. Details TBA.

The new performance schedule allows for an entire weekend of $10 preview performances.

For season and subscription information, call (513) 300-5669 (KNOW) or visit www.knowtheatre.com.

Next up for Know Tribe, Burgess Byrd will reprise the sell-out one-woman show Pretty Fire, playing Sept. 9-Oct. 2 at the Greenwich (2440 Gilbert Ave., Walnut Hills)