SARAH RUHL (Playwright)
Sarah Ruhl's plays include In The Next Room or the Vibrator Play (Glickman Prize), The Clean House (Susan Smith Blackburn award, 2004, finalist for Pulitzer Prize, 2005), Dead Man's Cell Phone, (Helen Hayes award for best new play), Demeter in the City (nominated for 9 NAACP awards), Eurydice, Melancholy Play, Orlando, a new version of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, and Passion Play (Kennedy Center Fourth Forum Freedom Award). Her plays have premiered at the Lyceum Theater on Broadway, produced by Lincoln Center Theater; off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights’ Horizons, and Second Stage; and regionally at Berkeley Repertory Theater, Yale Repertory Theater, the Goodman Theater, Cornerstone Theater, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Cincinnati Playhouse, and the Piven Theater Workshop in Chicago, as well being produced at many other theaters across the country. Her plays have also been performed in England, Poland, Germany, Israel, New Zealand, and Australia, and have been translated into Spanish, Polish, Russian, Korean and Arabic. Sarah received her M.F.A. from Brown University where she studied with Paula Vogel, and is originally from Chicago. In 2003, she was the recipient of a Helen Merrill award and a Whiting Writers' award, a PEN/Laura Pels award, and in 2006 was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. Her work is published by TCG and Sam French, and she is a member of New Dramatists and 13P. She lives in New York City with her family.
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MARK WING-DAVEY (Director)
Mark Wing-Davey (Director) first came to prominence in the United States with his highly acclaimed 1992 production of Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest (New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club; OBIE Award, Outstanding Direction). He has worked extensively in New York City, for New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center, Playwright’s Horizons, and the Public Theater - directing Troilus and Cressida and Henry 5 in Central Park. He recently directed Passion Play at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and the world premiere of Unconditional for Off-Broadway’s LAByrinth Theater Company at the Public Theater. Additional US and international credits include productions of new and classic plays at American Conservatory Theater, American Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Mark Taper Forum, McCarter Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Playmaker’s Rep, Seattle Rep; London’s Royal Court Theatre, Royal National Theatre, the Actors Center (where he served as Artistic Director from 1998-2002), and in the West End, the Edinburgh Festival, and Australia. Committing much of his career to developing new plays, he has directed new work by Caryl Churchill, Amy Freed, Naomi Iizuka, Jose Rivera, Sarah Ruhl, Anna Deveare Smith, Tony Kushner, and Craig Lucas, among others. His most recent credits include Craig Lucas's The Singing Forest with Olympia Dukakis and Jonathan Groff - at the Public Theater, directing workshops of a new musical by Brett C. Leonard Harold's Harem, Carson Kreitzer’s new play about the photographer Lee Miller Behind The Eye and Stephen Adly Guirgis’ new work about St Paul and homosexuality: Untitled Ass Play.
As an actor, Mr. Wing-Davey worked primarily in the UK in theatre film and television. A few highlights: The National Theatre, Joint Stock Theatre Company, BBC TV Shakespeare's Warwick in Henry VI, and creating the role of Zaphod Beeblebrox in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Most recently he recorded a radio series for the BBC: Final Demands by Frederic Raphael, with Tom Conti - the conclusion of The Glittering Prizes - reprising a role he first played for BBC TV in the late 70's. Whilst maintaining a freelance acting career he also taught and directed for over 15 years at the Central School of Speech and Drama becoming its first Artistic Director. Mr. Wing-Davey is currently the Chair of Graduate Acting at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
CAST
- Hale Appleman
- Brendan Averett
- Dominic Fumusa
- Polly Noonan
- Daniel Pearce
- Alex Podulke
- Keith Reddin
- Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.
- T. Ryder Smith
- Kate Turnbull
- Nicole Wiesner
DESIGNERS
- Allen Moyer (Scenic Design)
- Warren Karp (Scenic Design)
- Gabriel Berry (Costume Design)
- Antonia Ford-Roberts (Costume Design)
- David Weiner (Lighting Designer)
- David Van Tieghem (Additional Music)
PRODUCTION
- Iris O'Brien (PSM)
- Casey Schmal (ASM)
- Jee S. Han (Production Manager)
- Jim Calder (Movement Director)
- Deborah Hecht (Dialect Coach)
- David Anzuelo (Fight Director)
- Scott Illingworth (Associate Director)
- Marshall Miller (Technical Director)
- Joshua Yocom (Props)
- Calleri Casting (Casting)
- O&MCo. (Publicity)
- ALRDesign (Graphic Design)