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New York Theatre Workshop Announces Complete 2015/2016 Season

Posted by:	Official_Press_Release 01:30 pm EDT 05/07/15

ANNOUNCES COMPLETE 2015/2016 SEASON: THE NEW YORK PREMIERE OF RED SPEEDO BY LUCAS HNATH DIRECTED BY LILEANA BLAIN-CRUZ AND THE WORLD PREMIERE OF HADESTOWN BY ANAÏS MITCHELL DEVELOPED WITH AND DIRECTED BY RACHEL CHAVKIN JOIN THE PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTIONS OF LAZARUS BY DAVID BOWIE AND ENDA WALSH DIRECTED BY IVO VAN HOVE INSPIRED BY THE NOVEL THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH BY WALTER TEVIS AND FONDLY, COLLETTE RICHLAND BY SIBYL KEMPSON DIRECTED BY JOHN COLLINS A co-production with NYTW Company-in-Residence ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) (Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director Jeremy Blocker) is proud to announce the final two productions of its 2015/16 Season. The New York premiere of RED SPEEDO, written by Lucas Hnath (The Christians) and directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz (Hollow Roots), will begin performances in February. The 2015/16 Season will conclude with the world premiere of a new folk opera, HADESTOWN, by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell. HADESTOWN was developed with and is directed by Rachel Chavkin (Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812), and will begin performances in May 2016. Hailed as "one of the brightest new voices of his generation" by The New York Times, Lucas Hnath (The Christians, A Public Reading…) makes his NYTW debut with RED SPEEDO, a muscular new play directed by NYTW Usual Suspect Lileana Blain-Cruz. Set on the eve of the Olympic swim trials, pressure builds as front-runner Ray confronts the lure of endorsements, the perils of mixing the personal and professional, and the unforgiving weight of success. Through Hnath’s signature dark wit and exacting language, RED SPEEDO is a captivating exploration of America's obsession with winning at all costs. With HADESTOWN, celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and inventive two-time OBIE award-winning director Rachel Chavkin (Three Pianos, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812) transform Mitchell's “phenomenal concept album” (Rolling Stone) into a bold new work for the stage. This folk opera follows Orpheus’ mythical quest to overcome Hades and regain the favor of his one true love, Eurydice. Together we travel from wide open plains where love and music are not enough nourishment to survive the winter, down to HADESTOWN, an industrialized world of mindless labor and full stomachs. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell’s beguiling melodies and poetic imagination pit nature against industry, faith against doubt, and love against death. HADESTOWN was originally developed with funding from the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center under the supervision of Dale Franzen and Mara Isaacs/Octopus Theatricals. The project was further developed in collaboration with The Broad Stage through NYTW’s Artist Workshop programming, including the annual Usual Suspects Summer Residency at Dartmouth College and the Larson Lab Studio. RED SPEEDO andHADESTOWN join the previously announced world premiere of FONDLY, COLLETTE RICHLAND, a new play from NYTW’s acclaimed Company-in-Residence Elevator Repair Service (The Sound and the Fury, The Select, Gatz) in September of 2015, and the world premiere of LAZARUS, by David Bowie and Enda Walsh (ONCE, Tony Award) inspired by the novel The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis, and directed by Ivo van Hove (Hedda Gabler, More Stately Mansions, Obie Awards) in November of 2015. A variety of membership packages are now available for the 2015/16 season at NYTW.org or by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 (12-8pm daily). Select packages include tickets to FOREVER, the fourth and final production of the 2014/15 season (April 22 – May 31, 2015), created and performed by Pulitzer Prize finalist Dael Orlandersmith and directed by Neel Keller. FOREVER began previews on Wednesday, April 22nd and officially opened on Monday, May 4, 2015 at New York Theatre Workshop (79 E. 4th Street New York, NY 10003). FOREVER runs through Sunday, May 31, 2015. New York Theatre Workshop, now in its 31st season of incubating important new works of theatre, continues to honor its mission to explore perspectives on our collective history and respond to the events and institutions that shape all our lives. Each season, from its home in New York's East Village, NYTW presents four new productions, over 80 readings and numerous workshop productions for over 45,000 audience members. NYTW supports artists in all stages of their careers by maintaining a series of workshop programs, including work-in-progress readings, summer residencies and artist fellowships. Over the last three decades, NYTW has developed and produced over 100 new, fully staged works, including Jonathan Larson's Rent, Tony Kushner's Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul, Doug Wright's Quills, Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde, Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla, Martha Clarke’s Vienna: Lusthaus, Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Far Away, and A Number, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen’s Aftermath, Rick Elice’s Peter and the Starcatcher, and Enda Walsh’s Once. Last season, the Workshop received critical acclaim for Caryl Churchill’s newest play, Love and Information, as well as What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined, which garnered Drama Desk, Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations. NYTW’s productions have received a Pulitzer Prize, seventeen Tony Awards and assorted Obie, Drama Desk, and Lucille Lortel Awards. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT NYTW: www.nytw.org # # # RED SPEEDO BIOS LUCAS HNATH’s The Christians was produced at the Actors Theatre of Louisville for the 2014 Humana Festival. It will premiere in New York at Playwrights Horizons in 2015. A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney was produced by Soho Rep in 2013. Other plays include Red Speedo (Studio Theatre, 2013); nightnight (Humana Festival, 2013); Isaac’s Eye (Ensemble Studio Theatre, 2013); Death Tax (Humana Festival 2012; Royal Court Theatre, 2013). Hnath’s work is published by Dramatists Play Service and Oberon. He has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2011, and is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. He is the recipient of the 2015 Whiting Award, a Whitfield Cook Award and a Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Citation. He is also a recipient of commissions from the EST/Sloan Project, Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, Playwrights Horizons, New York University’s Graduate Acting Program, and the Royal Court Theatre. In 2016, his play, Hillary and Clinton, will premiere in Chicago. LILEANA BLAIN-CRUZ. Recent projects include the world premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play War at Yale Repertory Theater; Much Ado About Nothing at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Christina Anderson’s Hollow Roots at the Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater; a new translation of The Bakkhai at the Fisher Center of Performing Arts at Bard College; and A Guide to Kinship and Maybe Magic, a collaboration with Jacobs-Jenkins and choreographer Isabel Lewis at Dance New Amsterdam. She is the co-founder and director of the ensemble company Overhead Projector, which devises new work. She was an Artistic Associate of The Exchange and The Orchard Project, a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, and an Allen Lee Hughes Directing Fellow at Arena Stage. She received her MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama. Upcoming projects include Arabian Nights at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and SALOME at JACK. HADESTOWN BIOS ANAÏS MITCHELL is a Vermont & Brooklyn-based songwriter who recorded for Ani Difranco’s Righteous Babe Records for several years before founding her own Wilderland label in 2012. Recent albums include Hadestown (a folk opera based on the Orpheus myth), Young Man in America (described by the UK’s Independent as ‘an epic tale of American becoming’) and Child Ballads (a BBC award-winning collection of traditional English and Scottish folksongs). Collectively, these records have appeared on ‘Year End Best Of’ lists including NPR, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian and Sunday Times. Mitchell headlines concerts worldwide as well as supporting tours for artists like Bon Iver and Ani Difranco (who appear as guest singers on the Hadestown album), Richard Thompson, Patty Griffin and the Punch Brothers. Mitchell comes from the world of narrative folksong, poetry and balladry; Hadestown is her first foray into the theater. RACHEL CHAVKIN is an NYTW Usual Suspect, and a director, writer, and Artistic Director of award-winning Brooklyn-based ensemble, the TEAM, now celebrating its 10th anniversary (www.theteamplays.org). The TEAM's work was ranked Best of 2013 on three continents, and been produced all over NYC, including at the Public Theater and PS122, nationally, including the A.R.T. and Walker Art Center, and internationally, including London's National Theatre, the National Theatre of Scotland, and festivals in Australia, Hong Kong, and across the U.K and Europe. Select Freelance: Dave Malloy's critically acclaimed Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Ars Nova, Kazino); Bess Wohl's Small Mouth Sounds (Ars Nova); repeat collaborations with Taylor Mac, including his extravaganza The Lily’s Revenge (Act II, HERE); Marco Ramirez's The Royale (Old Globe); Meg Miroshnik's The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (Yale Rep); Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (Northern Stage, Newcastle and English National Tour); Dave Malloy’s Preludes (LCT). Nominations: 2013 Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards, 2014 and 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award. Recipient: 2010 and 2013 Obie Awards.

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