| Playwrights Horizons announces casting for THIS FLAT EARTH by Lindsey Ferrentino | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 06:10 pm EST 02/05/18 | |
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| PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS ANNOUNCES CASTING FOR THE WORLD PREMIERE OF THIS FLAT EARTH A NEW PLAY BY LINDSEY FERRENTINO DIRECTED BY TONY AWARD WINNER REBECCA TAICHMAN Cast to feature Drama Desk and Theatre World winner CASSIE BECK, ELLA KENNEDY DAVIS, Theatre World winner LYNDA GRAVATT, LUCAS PAPAELIAS and IAN SAINT-GERMAIN Single tickets on sale Tuesday, February 20 Previews begin Friday, March 16 Opening night set for Monday, April 9 Limited run through Sunday, April 29 Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced casting for THIS FLAT EARTH, the world premiere of a new play by Lindsey Ferrentino (Ugly Lies the Bone, the current Amy and the Orphans). Directed by Tony Award winner Rebecca Taichman (Familiar, Stage Kiss, Milk Like Sugar at Playwrights, Indecent), the play will be the fourth production of the theater company’s 2017/2018 Season. The cast of THIS FLAT EARTH will feature Drama Desk and Theatre World awards winner Cassie Beck (The Whale, Prayer for My Enemy, The Drunken City at Playwrights; The Humans), Ella Kennedy Davis (Matilda, Mary Poppins, “Blue Bloods”), Theatre World Award winner Lynda Gravatt (Miss Witherspoon at Playwrights, Skeleton Crew, King Hedley II, The Old Settler), Lucas Papaelias (Essential Self-Defense at Playwrights including Drama Desk nomination for Original Music in a Play, Once, the film School of Rock) and Ian Saint-Germain (Tamburlaine at TFANA, “The Americans”). The production will begin previews Friday, March 16 with an Opening Night set for Monday, April 9 at 7PM at the company’s Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street). The limited engagement is currently scheduled to play through Sunday, April 29. At a middle school in this seaside town, the unthinkable has happened, placing a bewildered community in the national spotlight. Stuck at home in a state of shocked limbo, Julie (Ms. Davis) and Zander (Mr. Saint-Germain), two thirteen-year-olds, try to make sense of the chaos they witnessed, their awkward crushes and an infinitely more complicated future – but the grown-ups are no help at all. An urgent response to our times, THIS FLAT EARTH is a startling and deeply felt story of growing up in our confounding world. The production will feature scenic design by Tony Award winner Dane Laffrey, costume design by Tony Award winner Paloma Young, lighting design by two-time Tony Award and three-time Drama Desk Award winner Christopher Akerlind and sound design by Mikhail Fiksel. Production Stage Manager is Cole P. Bonenberger. The performance schedule for THIS FLAT EARTH will be Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7PM, Thursdays and Fridays at 8PM, Saturdays at 2:30 & 8PM and Sundays at 2:30 & 7:30 PM. Beginning February 20, single tickets, $39-$89, may be purchased online via www.phnyc.org, by phone at (212) 279-4200 (Noon-8pm daily) and in person at the Ticket Central Box Office, 416 West 42nd Street (between Ninth & Tenth Avenues). Currently playing at the Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater as part of the Redux Series is the critically-hailed Off-Broadway premiere of MILES FOR MARY, a new play created by The Mad Ones, directed by Lila Neugebauer (extended through February 25). Following MILES FOR MARY and THIS FLAT EARTH, the Playwrights Horizons 2017/2018 Season will continue with DANCE NATION, the world premiere of a new play by Obie Award winner Clare Barron, directed by Obie Award winner Lee Sunday Evans (April 2018); and conclude with LOG CABIN, the world premiere of a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison, directed by Tony Award and Obie Award winner Pam MacKinnon, featuring Jesse Tyler Ferguson (June 2018). Flex Passes (customizable bundle, $220+) and Memberships ($45 to join, $25 preview tickets) are also now on sale. Packages are available at www.phnyc.org . Patron Program Memberships begin at $1,500 (all but $550 is tax-deductible) and include two reserved house seats and personalized concierge service to all six Playwrights Horizons productions, as well as a variety of exclusive benefits including invitations to attend special events with artists, staff and board members. Complete benefits list at www.phnyc.org. Playwrights Horizons’ season productions are generously supported in part by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Playwrights Horizons is supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. In addition, Playwrights Horizons receives major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and the Time Warner Foundation. www.phnyc.org www.Facebook.com/PlaywrightsHorizons Twitter: @phnyc Instagram: phnyc BIOGRAPHIES Lindsey Ferrentino (Playwright) is a New York-based playwright originally from Florida. Lindsey’s critically-acclaimed Ugly Lies the Bone premiered at Roundabout Underground, played at The National Theatre in London and has been produced at theaters across the country. Her play Amy and the Orphans is now in previews at Roundabout Theatre Company. Lindsey’s other full length plays include Kokomo, Moonlight on the Bayou, Magic Man and Paradise Bar and Grill. They have been developed at The Atlantic, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Premiere Stages, Florida Studio Theater, The Great Plains Theater Conference, 3LD Art and Technology Center, Manhattan Repertory Theater and The Marilyn Monroe Theater in New York. Her work has been seen regionally at The Kennedy Center, The Alliance Theater in Georgia, The Blank Theater in LA and The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Lindsey is a recipient of the Edward Albee Playwriting Fellowship and Residency, as well as Blue Ridge Playwriting Fellowship. Her short stories have been published in New York Magazine and Aaduna Literary Magazine. She is the recipient of the National Art Club’s Kesserling Prize, Laurents/Hatcher Citation of Excellence, ASCAP Cole Porter Playwriting Prize, Holland New Voices Playwriting Award, Paul Newman Drama Award, made the 2015 Kilroys List, finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn, nominated for the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, and is the only two-time finalist for the Kendeda Playwriting Prize. Lindsey is currently under commission for new plays from Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public, The Tricycle, The Geffen, South Coast Repertory, The National Theatre and a television series for Big Beach Films/TV. She holds a BFA from New York University and two MFAs in playwriting from Hunter College and the Yale School of Drama. Rebecca Taichman (Director). Playwrights Horizons: Familiar by Danai Gurira, Milk Like Sugar by Kirsten Greenidge, Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl. New York Theater: Indecent by Paula Vogel (Tony Award, Broadway/Vineyard), Sarah Ruhl’s How to Transcend a Happy Marriage and The Oldest Boy (Lincoln Center Theater); Luck of the Irish (LCT3); Orlando (CSC); Orpheus (NYCO); Dark Sisters (MTG/Gotham); Rappaccini’s Daughter (Gotham); Marie Antoinette (Soho Rep.), The Scene (Second Stage), Menopausal Gentleman (The Ohio). Select regional: Indecent, Familiar, Evildoers, and Marie Antoinette (Yale Rep); Indecent, Sleeping Beauty Wakes (La Jolla); Twelfth Night, Time and the Conways (The Old Globe); Marie Antoinette (A.R.T.); She Loves Me (OSF); The Winter’s Tale (McCarter); Twelfth Night, Winter’s Tale and The Taming of the Shrew(STC); Dead Man’s Cell Phone, The Clean House (Woolly Mammoth). Rebecca is a Henry Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute. www.rebeccataichman.com. Cassie Beck (Lisa). Playwrights Horizons: The Whale, Prayer for My Enemy, The Drunken City (Theatre World Award). Broadway: The Humans (Drama Desk Award, also Off-Broadway and National Tour), Picnic, The Norman Conquests. Off-Broadway: By the Water, Happy Hour, Smudge, Oohrah!. Television: “The Accidental Wolf,” “Shameless,” “Chicago Med,” “The Strange Ones,” “Elementary,” “Almost There.” Ella Kennedy Davis (Julie) is thirteen years old. Playwrights Horizons and Off-Broadway debut. Los Angeles: Matilda, Mary Poppins, Peter Pan. Film: Passion Pain Dance, The Calling. Television: “Blue Bloods,” “The PET Squad Files.” Lynda Gravatt (Cloris). Playwrights Horizons: Miss Witherspoon. Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Doubt, 45 Seconds from Broadway, King Hedley II. Off-Broadway: Skeleton Crew (Drama League nomination), The Hummingbird’s Tour, The Little Foxes, Zooman and the Sign (Audelco Award), Diving the Estate, King Hedley II (Audelco nomination), Intimate Apparel (Audelco Award), Crowns (Audelco Award), If Memory Serves, The Old Settler (Theatre World Award). Television: “Madam Secretary,” “She’s Gotta Have It,” “Person of Interest,” “Elementary.” Lucas Papaelias (Dan). Playwrights Horizons: Essential Self-Defense (Drama Desk nomination for Best Original Music in a Play). Broadway: Once, Cyrano de Bergerac (also Music). Off-Broadway: These Paper Bullets, Jack’s Precious Moments, Father Comes Home From the Wars (also Music), U.S. Drag, Romeo & Juliet, Cyclone, Walk Two Moons (also Music), Smashing, Cellini. Film/Television: School of Rock, “Blue Bloods,” “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” Ian Saint-Germain (Zander) is thirteen years old. Playwrights Horizons and Off-Broadway debut. New York: Tamburlaine (Theatre for a New Audience). Film/Television: The Silent Treatment, “The Americans.” Playwrights Horizons is dedicated to cultivating the most important American playwrights, composers and lyricists, as well as developing and producing their bold new plays and musicals. Under Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, Playwrights builds upon its diverse and renowned body of work, counting 400 writers among its artistic roster. In addition to its onstage work each season, Playwrights’ singular commitment to nurturing American theater artists guides all of the institution’s multifaceted initiatives: our acclaimed New Works Lab, a robust commissioning program, an innovative curriculum at its Theater School and more. Playwrights has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including six Pulitzer Prizes, 13 Tony Awards and 39 Obie Awards. Prior artistic directors include André Bishop and Don Scardino. Robert Moss founded Playwrights Horizons in 1971 and oversaw its first decade, cementing the mission that continues to guide the institution today. Notable productions include six Pulitzer Prize winners – Annie Baker’s The Flick (2013 Obie Award, 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park (2012 Tony Award, Best Play), Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife (2004 Tony Award, Best Play), Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles (1989 Tony Award, Best Play), Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George – as well as Ms. Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation (three 2010 Obie Awards including Best New American Play); Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit (2013 Obie Award, Best New American Play); Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale (2013 Lortel Award, Best Play); Kirsten Greenidge’s Milk Like Sugar (2012 Obie Award); Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime (2015 Pulitzer finalist); Lucas Hnath’s The Christians (2016 Obie Award, 2016 Outer Critics Circle Award, 2015 Kesselring Prize); Robert O’Hara’s Bootycandy (two 2015 Obie Awards); Max Posner’s The Treasurer, Adam Bock’s A Life and A Small Fire; Taylor Mac’s Hir; Danai Gurira’s Familiar; Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, a post-electric play; Sarah Ruhl’s Stage Kiss and Dead Man’s Cell Phone; Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn; Dan LeFranc’s The Big Meal; Amy Herzog’s The Great God Pan and After the Revolution; Bathsheba Doran’s Kin; Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I; Melissa James Gibson’s This (2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist); Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie’s Grey Gardens (three 2007 Tony Awards); Craig Lucas’s Prayer For My Enemy and Small Tragedy (2004 Obie Award, Best American Play); Adam Rapp’s Kindness; Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation (2005 Obie Award for Playwriting); Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero; David Greenspan’s She Stoops to Comedy (2003 Obie Award); Kirsten Childs’s The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (2000 Obie Award); Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey’s James Joyce’s The Dead (2000 Tony Award, Best Book); Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins; William Finn’s March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland; Christopher Durang’s Betty’s Summer Vacation and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You; Richard Nelson’s Goodnight Children Everywhere; Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s Once on This Island; Jon Robin Baitz’s The Substance of Fire; Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room; A.R. Gurney’s Later Life; Adam Guettel and Tina Landau’s Floyd Collins; and Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s Violet. |
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