| Atlantic Theater Company Announces 2018-19 Season | |
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| ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ANNOUNCES 2018-2019 SEASON PRODUCTIONS WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL FROM LYNN NOTTAGE, DUNCAN SHEIK, & SUSAN BIRKENHEAD DIRECTED BY SAM GOLD WORLD PREMIERE PLAY FROM DONJA R. LOVE WORLD PREMIERE PLAY FROM ABBY ROSEBROCK FEATURING TONY AWARD NOMINEE MARIN IRELAND WORLD PREMIERE PLAY FROM AMY STAATS US PREMIERE PLAY FROM FLORIAN ZELLER FEATURING ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE ISABELLE HUPPERT NEW YORK PREMIERE PLAY FROM CARLA CHING World Premiere Play FIREFLIES By Donja R. Love Directed by Saheem Ali Linda Gross Theater September 26 – November 11, 2018 Opening: Monday, October 15, 2018 World Premiere Play BLUE RIDGE By Abby Rosebrock Directed by Taibi Magar Featuring Tony Award Nominee Marin Ireland Linda Gross Theater December 12 – January 27, 2019 Opening: Monday, January 7, 2019 World Premiere Play EDDIE AND DAVE Written by and Featuring Amy Staats Directed by Margot Bordelon Atlantic Stage 2 January 10 – February 10, 2019 Opening: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 US Premiere Play THE MOTHER By Florian Zeller Translated by Christopher Hampton Directed by Trip Cullman Featuring Academy Award Nominee Isabelle Huppert Linda Gross Theater February 20 – April 7, 2019 Opening: Monday, March 11, 2019 World Premiere Musical THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES Book by Lynn Nottage Music by Duncan Sheik Lyrics by Susan Birkenhead Based on the novel by Sue Monk Kidd Directed by Sam Gold Linda Gross Theater May 10 – June 23, 2019 Opening date to be announced New York Premiere Play NOMAD MOTEL By Carla Ching Atlantic Stage 2 May 22 – June 23, 2019 Opening: Monday, June 3, 2019 Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director, Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce its 2018-2019 season productions. Atlantic’s 2018-2019 season will include the world premiere of Donja R. Love’s play Fireflies, directed by Saheem Ali; the world premiere of Abby Rosebrock’s play Blue Ridge, directed by Taibi Magar; the world premiere of Amy Staats’ play Eddie and Dave, directed by Margot Bordelon; the US premiere of Olivier and Tony Award nominee Florian Zeller’s play The Mother, directed by Trip Cullman; the world premiere musical The Secret Life of Bees, with book by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Tony Award nominee Lynn Nottage, music by Tony and Grammy Award winner Duncan Sheik, lyrics by Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk winner Susan Birkenhead, directed by Tony Award winner Sam Gold; and the New York premiere of Carla Ching’s Nomad Motel. Atlantic members receive exclusive access and up to 42% savings on tickets via Atlantic’s Passport program. Passports begin at $60 and benefits include a 4-week priority booking period, no additional fees, unlimited exchanges, discounted guest tickets and more! Season Passports are now on sale at a discounted Early Bird rate until May 22. For more information or to purchase an Atlantic Passport, visit atlantictheater.org/passport or call OvationTix at 866-811-4111. ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY 2018-2019 SEASON World Premiere Play FIREFLIES By Donja R. Love Directed by Saheem Ali September 26 – November 11, 2018 Opening: Monday, October 15, 2018 Linda Gross Theater Somewhere in the Jim Crow South, the sky is on fire. A pregnant Olivia's fierce speech writing is the sole force behind her charismatic husband Charles and his successful Movement to galvanize people to march towards freedom. When four little girls are bombed in a church, Olivia and Charles' marriage is threatened – as this tragedy and years of civil unrest leave Olivia believing that “this world ain't no place to raise a colored child.” Fireflies is a startling world premiere by Donja R. Love, and the second part of a trilogy beginning with Sugar in Our Wounds (upcoming at MTC’s Studio at Stage II). Saheem Ali (Sugar in Our Wounds) directs. World Premiere Play BLUE RIDGE By Abby Rosebrock Directed by Taibi Magar Featuring Tony Award Nominee Marin Ireland December 12 – January 27, 2019 Opening: Monday, January 7, 2019 Linda Gross Theater A progressive high-school teacher with a rage problem retaliates against her unscrupulous boss and is sentenced to six months at a church-sponsored halfway house, where she attends to everyone's recovery but her own. Set in Southern Appalachia, Blue Ridge is a pitch-dark comedy about heartbreak, hell-raising and healing by Abby Rosebrock (Dido of Idaho, Atlantic Launch commissionee), featuring Tony Award nominee Marin Ireland (reasons to be pretty). Blue Ridge was Developed at Williamstown Theatre Festival as part of the Boris Sagal Directing Fellowship/Drama League Residency. World Premiere Play EDDIE AND DAVE Written by and Featuring Amy Staats Directed by Margot Bordelon January 10 – February 10, 2019 Opening: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 Atlantic Stage 2 A raucous retelling of the rise and fall of Pasadena’s most groundbreaking 80s rockers told through the foggy lens of a lonely, out of work MTV-VJ. Eddie and Dave is a gender-bending new play by Amy Staats (Miles for Mary, Atlantic’s Tow Playwright-in-Residence) about hubris, friendship, family, fame, musical genius and what happens when the person you need is the one you find most irritating. Eddie and Dave is supported by the Venturous Theater Fund of Tides Foundation. US Premiere Play THE MOTHER By Florian Zeller Translated by Christopher Hampton Directed by Trip Cullman Featuring Academy Award Nominee Isabelle Huppert February 20 – April 7, 2019 Opening: Monday, March 11, 2019 Linda Gross Theater Can one love one’s son too much? Anne has given everything to the family she’s built. Now the years have gone by, and her children have grown up and have lives and loves of their own, leaving her alone in a world that is crumbling around her. Starring Academy Award nominee Isabelle Huppert (Elle), The Mother is a captivating and disquieting new play about a woman grasping for stability by acclaimed French writer Florian Zeller (The Father), translated by Christopher Hampton (Atonement) that will leave you questioning the very nature of reality. World Premiere Musical THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES Book by Lynn Nottage Music by Duncan Sheik Lyrics by Susan Birkenhead Based on the novel by Sue Monk Kidd Directed by Sam Gold May 10 – June 23, 2019 Opening date to be announced Linda Gross Theater South Carolina, 1964. Lily Owens, a restless white teenager, struggles with her merciless father and the haunting memory of her mother’s death. When Rosaleen, her black caregiver, is beaten and jailed for asserting her right to vote, Lily’s rebellious spirit is ignited. She and Rosaleen escape on an adventure where they are taken in by a trio of black beekeeping sisters. While Lily tries to unlock the secrets of her past, she and Rosaleen find solace in the mesmerizing world of bees and spirituality in this extraordinary tale of awakening, fellowship and healing. The Secret Life of Bees is a world premiere musical written by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Sweat), with music by Tony and Grammy Award winner Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening), lyrics by two-time Tony nominee and Drama Desk winner Susan Birkenhead (Jelly’s Last Jam), and directed by Tony winner Sam Gold (Fun Home); based on the best-selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd. The Secret Life of Bees is supported in part by the National Fund for New Musicals, a program of National Alliance for Musical Theatre, with funding from The Hollywood Pantages, a Nederlander organization – www.namt.org. New York Premiere Play NOMAD MOTEL By Carla Ching May 22 – June 23, 2019 Opening: Monday, June 3, 2019 Atlantic Stage 2 In the not-so-sunny side of California, Alix bounces between motel rooms, taking care of her brothers for her mostly MIA mother. Her classmate Mason is a budding songwriter trying to keep off the radar of his absent father in Hong Kong. Together, they must learn to scrape by without giving up their dreams. This New York Premiere by Carla Ching (Atlantic/Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation commissionee) is a surprising tale of kids raising themselves and making something out of nothing in the land of plenty. Nomad Motel was presented as part of Atlantic’s 2017 Asian American MixFest. BIOGRAPHIES FIREFLIES Donja R. Love (Playwright) is an Afro-Queer playwright, poet, and filmmaker from Philadelphia. He's the recipient of the 2018 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award, the 2017 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a Eugene O’ Neill 2017/2018 National Playwrights Conference finalist. Donja is also The Lark's 2016 Van Lier New Voices Playwriting Fellow, The Playwrights Realm’s 2016-2017 Writing Fellow, the 2016 Arch and Bruce Brown Playwriting Award recipient, and the 2011 Philadelphia Adult Grand Slam Poetry Champion. His work has been developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Rising Circle Theatre, The Lark, and The Playwrights Realm. He’s the co-founder of The Each-Other Project, an organization that helps build community and provide visibility, through art and advocacy, for LGBTQ People of Color. Select stage plays include: a trilogy which explores Queer Love during pivotal moments in Black History, The Love Plays (Sugar in Our Wounds; Fireflies; In The Middle), and soft. Select film work: “Modern Day Black Gay” (web series), and Once A Star (short film). Training: Juilliard, Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. Saheem Ali (Director) is a proud immigrant from Kenya. Recent credits include Tartuffe (Playmakers Rep), Where Storms Are Born (Williamstown Theater Festival), Henry V (NYU Grad), Twelfth Night (The Public), Kill Move Paradise (National Black Theater), Diaspora (Gym at Judson), Nollywood Dreams (Cherry Lane) and Dot (Detroit Public Theater). He has workshopped new plays at Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater Company, Playwrights Realm, MCC, MTC, The Public, New York Stage & Film, Page 73 and The Lark. He has co-written two musicals with composer Michael Thurber: The Booty Call (Roundabout Underground Reading Series) and Goddess (O’Neill Musical Theater Conference). He is a Usual Suspect and former Directing Fellow at New York Theater Workshop, Sir John Gielgud SDC Fellow and a Shubert Fellow. BLUE RIDGE Abby Rosebrock (Playwright) is a Brooklyn-based writer and performer from South Carolina, and author of the plays Dido of Idaho, Blue Ridge, Singles in Agriculture and Different Animals. Her work has been produced or developed at Cherry Lane, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Williamstown Theater Festival, Rattlestick, New York Stage and Film, Labyrinth Theater Company, Drama League, Dixon Place, INTAR, The Brick, IRT, Naked Angels, The Lark and more, as well as regionally in South Carolina, Georgia, Idaho and Montana. Abby has been a member of The Tank NYC's TV and new media writers’ collective and the Obie Award-winning playwrights' group EST/Youngblood. She is currently a member of the emerging writers' group at Clubbed Thumb and the Orchard Project's NYC Greenhouse, and is thrilled to be working on a Launch Commission for Atlantic. Taibi Magar (Director) is an Egyptian-American director based in New York, and a graduate of the Brown/Trinity MFA program. Most recently she directed the critically acclaimed Is God Is at Soho Rep. (NYT Critics’ Pick). Upcoming productions this season include: Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap (Atlantic Theater Company), and Underground Railroad Game (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Soho Theatre). Other recent credits: Master (Foundry Theatre, NYT Critics’ Pick), Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova, NYT Critics’ Pick, Obie Award for Best New American Work, Hamburg Festival), Familiar (The Guthrie and Seattle Repertory Theatre), Dry Powder (The Alley), We Are Proud to Present (The Guthrie). She is currently developing Patrick and Daniel Lazour’s We Live in Cairo (2016 Richard Rodgers Award) with New York Theatre Workshop and American Repertory Theatre. In New York, Taibi has directed and developed work for The Foundry, New York Theater Workshop, Ars Nova, TFANA, WP Theater, Rising Phoenix Rep and INTAR Theatre. She is the recipient of a Stephen Sondheim Fellowship, an Oregon Shakespeare Festival Fellowship, a Public Theater Shakespeare Fellowship, the TFANA Actors and Director Project Fellowship, a Usual Suspect at New York Theater Workshop, and is an alumna of Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Most recently, she received the Kaplan Fellowship for young artists. Taibi has directed and taught at many academic institutions, including Juilliard, Fordham University, Brown University and New York University. Marin Ireland (Alison). Theatre credits include reasons to be pretty, for which she won a Theatre World Award and was nominated for a Tony Award. Her other New York credits include Summer And Smoke at Classic Stage, Ironbound at The Geffen, The Big Knife on Broadway (opposite Bobby Cannavale), Ironbound at Rattlestick, Kill Floor at LCT3, Blasted and Marie Antoinette, both at Soho Rep, Three Sisters at Classic Stage, Cyclone at Studio Dante (Obie Award), and In the Wake at The Public Theater. Some of her TV and film work includes “Girls,” “Homeland,” “Masters of Sex,” “The Divide,” “The Slap,” Glass Chin (Independent Spirit nomination 2016), Sparrows Dance, The Family Fang, 28 Hotel Rooms, In the Radiant City, and Hell or High Water. Most recently she was seen in the Lifetime movie “Flint,” about the Flint water crisis, playing activist Melissa Mays. She currently appears on the Amazon series “Sneaky Pete.” EDDIE AND DAVE Amy Staats (Playwright/Performer) is an actor, writer and the 2017-2018 Tow Playwright-in-Residence at Atlantic Theater Company. Her plays include: Eddie and Dave (Developed at Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor and SPACE at Ryder Farm with Margot Bordelon and Megan Hill); Hands (Developed at Naked Angel’s First Mondays and Space On Ryder Farm with The Ensemble Studio Theater); I Hope She’ll Be Okay (Developed at Williamstown Theater Festival with Jess Chayes) and Throws of Love (Samuel French Festival, winner, directed by Jess Chayes). Her television and film scripts include: “Nice and Easy,” “Farm to Table,” and “Mary and Louise.” Select awards include: 2017 Launch Commission with Atlantic Theater Company; 2015 Samuel French Shorts Festival winner; BVEW Screenplay Fellowship and Best Script at LA Comedy Shorts Festival for “Mary and Louise.” Productions of her plays include: Throws of Love (Samuel French OOBW Short Play Festival, Twisted Shorts with Core Ensemble); It Shocks Me How Well I Can Lie, Been Caught Stealing, Cat House (Dodo Theater Collective’s Triptych Series) and The Changing of the Guard (The Ensemble Studio Theater). As an actor, Amy most recently performed the role of Brenda in The Mad Ones’ critically acclaimed hit play Miles for Mary, directed by Lila Neugebauer and produced at The Bushwick Starr and Playwrights Horizons. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Jeff (musician) and Orlando and James Carlos (cats). Margot Bordelon (Director) is a Brooklyn-based director who specializes in new work. Recent projects: Do You Feel Anger? by Mara Nelson-Greenberg at ATL’s Humana Festival, The Last Class: A Jazzercize Play by Megan Hill at ATC in Seattle, Too Heavy For Your Pocket by Jireh Breon Holder at the Roundabout Underground and the Alliance, The Pen by Julianne Wick Davis and Dan Collins for Premieres NYC (New York Times Critic's Pick), peerless by Jiehae Park at Marin Theatre Company and Yale Rep, A Delicate Ship by Anna Ziegler for Playwrights Realm (New York Times Critic's Pick), and Okay, Bye by Joshua Conkel at Steppenwolf Theater. Her work has been seen at Ars Nova, American Theater Co., Berkeley Rep, Cherry Lane, Clubbed Thumb, Dodo, Juilliard, The Lark, NYTW, P73, Perry Mansfield, Play Penn, Portland Center Stage, Primary Stages, The Public, PWC, Rattlestick, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Steppenwolf, the Wilma, and Woolly Mammoth, among others. Margot moved east after spending six years in Chicago working as a director, writer and performer. She is a founding member of Theatre Seven of Chicago, and spent four seasons working on the artistic staff of Lookingglass Theatre. BFA: Cornish College of the Arts. MFA: Yale School of Drama. www.margotbordelon.com THE MOTHER Florian Zeller (Playwright) is a French novelist and playwright. Zeller won the prestigious Prix Interallié in 2004 (Fascination of Evil) and several Molière Awards for his plays La Mère (The Mother) and Le Père (The Father). L'Autre, Le Manège, Si tu mourais, Elle t'attend, La Vérité (The Truth) and Une heure de Tranquillité were successfully produced in France and internationally. L’Envers du décor, starring Daniel Auteuil was produced in Paris in 2016. Avant de s'envoler played the same season. It will open at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre in October 2018 (The Height of the Storm) starring Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins directed by Jonathan Kent. His play Le Père (The Father) was nominated for Best New Play at the 2016 Olivier Awards. Kenneth Cranham won as Best Actor. It received two nominations for the 2016 Tony Awards: Best Play and Best Performance by an Actor (winner, Frank Langella). Le Fils has been performed in over 35 countries. His last play, Le Fils (The Son), finishing his Family Trilogy has been produced in Paris in 2018 and will have its London premiere in Spring 2019. Christopher Hampton has translated most of Florian’s plays. His plays have received multiple international awards. Florian Zeller lives in Paris and is married to actress and sculptor Marine Delterme. Christopher Hampton (Translation)’s many screenplays include Dangerous Liaisons, Total Eclipse, The Quiet American, Atonement, Chéri and A Dangerous Method. He both wrote and directed Carrington, The Secret Agent and Imagining Argentina. His television work includes adaptations of “The History Man,” “Hôtel Du Lac” and “The Thirteenth Tale.” Prizes for his film and television work include an Oscar, two BAFTAs, a Writer's Guild of America Award, the Prix Italia and a Special Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Hampton wrote his first play, When Did You Last See My Mother? at the age of eighteen. Since then, his plays have included The Philanthropist, Savages, Tales From Hollywood, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, White Chameleon, The Talking Cure, Appomattox and All About Eve. He has written the libretti for three Philip Glass operas and co-written three musicals including Sunset Boulevard. He has translated plays by Ibsen, Molière, von Horváth, Chekhov, Yasmina Reza (including Art And God of Carnage), Daniel Kehlmann (The Mentor, Christmas Eve) and Florian Zeller (The Father, The Mother, The Truth, The Lie and The Height Of The Storm). His plays, musicals and translations have garnered four Tony Awards, three Olivier Awards, four Evening Standard Awards and the New York Theatre Critics’ Circle Award. Isabelle Huppert (Anne) is a multi-award winning screen and stage actress. Throughout her career Isabelle Huppert has worked with many French and international directors including Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Haneke, Maurice Pialat, Patrice Chéreau, Olivier Assayas, Claire Denis, the Taviani brothers, David O’Russell, Marco Ferreri, Michael Cimino, Harl Hartley, Neil Jordan, Hong Sang Soo and more. Awards won include: a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Feature Films for her work in The Lacemaker, two Venice Film Festival Best Actress Awards for Claude Chabrol’s Story of Women and The Ceremony, Venice Film Festival’s Special Jury Lion d’Or for her performance in Patrice Chéreau’s Gabrielle and for her entire body of work; two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards for Claude Chabrol’s Violette and for Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher; in France she received the César (Best Actress Award) for Claude Chabrol’s The Ceremony and Paul Verhoeven’s Elle – a film for which she also received a Gotham Award, a Golden Globe and a Spirit Award in addition to being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She received a Molière Award for her career (honoring achievements in French theater; equivalent to the Tony Awards); and the prestigious “XVI Prix Europe pour le Théâtre” in Rome. Isabelle Huppert has also pursued her theatrical career in France and internationally, including BAM (4:48 Psychosis, Quartet and Phaedra). She has acted under the direction of Bob Wilson (Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Heiner Müller’s Quartet), Peter Zadek (Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure), Claude Régy (Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis), and Howard Davies (Friedrich von Schiller’s Mary Stuart). Noteworthy productions include: Euripide’s Medea (directed by Jacques Lassalle), Hedda Gabler; A Streetcar (director Krzysztof Warlikowski’s spin on Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, at the Odéon Theater and on tour throughout Europe and internationally); The Maids (directed by Benedict Andrews with Cate Blanchett at the Sydney Theatre Company and at New York’s City Center in conjunction with the Lincoln Center Festival); Phaedra directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski; Les Fausses Confidences (by Marivaux, directed by Luc Bondy at the Odéon Theater and on tour throughout Europe); Mary Stuart (Howard Davies) at the National Theater in London. Upcoming films include: Eva, directed by Benoit Jacquot; Claire’s Camera by Hong Sang Soo; and Mrs. Hyde, directed by Serge Bozon (Best Actress Award at Locarno Film Festival). Isabelle Huppert is an Officer of the National Order of Merit of the Legion of Honor, and an Officer of the National Order of Merit and Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters. She was the President of the Jury for the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. Trip Cullman (Director). Broadway: Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero (Second Stage at the Hayes), John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation (Barrymore), Joshua Harmon's Significant Other (Booth). Select Off Broadway: Anna Jordan's Yen, Simon Stephens' Punk Rock (Obie Award), Halley Feiffer's A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Gynecologic Oncology Unit At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Of New York City (MCC); Leslye Headland's The Layover, Jon Robin Baitz's The Substance of Fire, Paul Weitz's Lonely I'm Not, Headland's Bachelorette, Terrence McNally's Some Men, Adam Bock's Swimming In The Shallows (Second Stage); Headland's Assistance, Bock's A Small Fire (Drama Desk nomination), Bock's The Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons); Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy (MTC); Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash's Murder Ballad (MTC and Union Square Theatre); Feiffer's I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Atlantic); Weitz' Roulette (EST); Adam Rapp's The Hallway Trilogy: Nursing (Rattlestick); Bert V. Royal's Dog Sees God (Century Center); Jonathan Tolins' The Last Sunday In June (Rattlestick and Century Center); Gina Gionfriddo’s US Drag (stageFARM); and several productions with The Play Company. London: Bock's The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh, PA (Tricycle). Select regional: McCraney's Choir Boy (Ovation nomination), Bess Wohl's Barcelona (Ovation nomination), Feiffer's A Funny Thing Happened... (Geffen Playhouse); McCraney's Choir Boy (NAACP and Suzi Bass awards; Alliance); Guare's Six Degrees of Separation (Old Globe); Richard Greenberg's The Injured Party (South Coast Rep); McNally's Unusual Acts of Devotion (La Jolla Playhouse); Christopher Durang's Betty's Summer Vacation (Bay Street); Wohl's Touched, Michael Friedman and Daniel Goldstein's Unknown Soldier, Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo, Feiffer's Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow (Williamstown Theater Festival). THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES Lynn Nottage (Book) is a playwright and a screenwriter, and the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Her play Sweat (Pulitzer Prize, Obie Award) moved to Broadway after a sold out run at The Public Theater. Other plays include By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lilly Award, Drama Desk Nomination), Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, Obie Award), Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Play), Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (Obie Award), Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Las Meninas, Mud, River, Stone, Por’knockers and POOF!. In addition, she is working with composer Ricky Ian Gordon on adapting her play Intimate Apparel into an opera. She has also developed This is Reading, a performance installation at the Franklin Street, Reading Railroad Station in Reading, PA. She was writer/producer on the Netflix series “She's Gotta Have It” directed by Spike Lee. Nottage is a member of the Dramatists Guild, an Associate Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts, and the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship, Steinberg "Mimi" Distinguished Playwright Award, and PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award among others. Duncan Sheik (Music). Performer/Composer. Theatre credits include: Spring Awakening (2006) Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations, 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album; Because of Winn-Dixie (Alabama Shakespeare Festival 2017, Delaware Theatre Company 2015); Whisper House (London 2017, Old Globe Theater 2011), American Psycho (2016), Alice by Heart (upcoming 2018), Nero (Another Golden Rome) (currently in development), The Nightingale (currently in development) Noir (currently in development). Recordings include; American Psycho (Original London Cast Recording) (2016), Legerdemain (2015), Covers 80s (Sneaky Records 2011), Whisper House (Sony 2009), Spring Awakening (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (2006), White Limousine (Rounder 2006), Daylight (Atlantic Records 2002), Phantom Moon (Nonesuch 2001), Humming (Atlantic Records 1998), Duncan Sheik (Grammy Nomination “Best Male Vocal”, RIAA Certified Gold) (Atlantic Records 1996). Susan Birkenhead (Lyrics) received a Tony Nomination and a Drama Desk Award for her lyrics for Jelly's Last Jam. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Triumph of Love, was nominated for a Tony Award for Working, and won an Outer Critics Circle Award for What About Luv? She won an L.A. Drama Critics Award for Minsky’s. In addition to The Secret Life of Bees, she is currently working on Betty Boop, with David Foster and Sally Robinson, and Jerry Mitchell. Sam Gold (Director) is a Tony Award-winning director based in Brooklyn, NY. His Broadway credits include: A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Tony Award nomination); The Glass Menagerie; Fun Home (Tony Award); The Real Thing; The Realistic Joneses; Picnic; Seminar. Recent productions include: Hamlet (The Public Theater); Othello (New York Theatre Workshop); The Flick (Barrow Street Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, National Theatre; Lortel Award nomination); The Glass Menagerie (Toneelgroep Amsterdam); John (Signature Theatre; Obie Award, Lortel and Drama Desk Award nominations); The Village Bike (MCC); Uncle Vanya (Soho Repertory Theatre; Drama Desk nomination); The Realistic Joneses (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Cradle Will Rock (Encores! Off-Center); Kin (Playwrights Horizons); The Big Meal (Playwrights Horizons; Lortel); Look Back in Anger (Roundabout Theatre Company; Lortel nomination); Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons; Obie, Drama Desk nomination); The Aliens (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre; Obie Award). Training: The Juilliard School. NOMAD MOTEL Carla Ching (Playwright) An LA native, Carla stumbled upon pan-Asian performance collective Peeling at the Asian American Writers Workshop and wrote and performed with them for three years, which she still considers her first theater training. Her plays include Nomad Motel (commissioned by South Coast Repertory; developed by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference and Asian American MixFest at Atlantic Theater Company; National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere: currently City Theatre Company, upcoming Horizon Theatre Company and Unicorn Theatre), Fast Company (South Coast Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Lyric Stage and Pork Filled Productions; winner of the Edgerton New American Play Award), The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up (Artists at Play and Mu Performing Arts), TBA (2g) and The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness (Ma-Yi Theater Company). She’s an alumna of The Women’s Project Lab, the Lark Play Development Center's Writers Workshop and Meeting of the Minds, the CTG Writers’ Workshop and the Ma-Yi Writers Lab. Former Artistic Director of Asian American Theater Company, 2g. TBA is published in Out of Time and Place. Fast Company is published by Samuel French. Toulmin Commission from the Atlantic Theater Company. BA, Vassar College. MFA, New School for Drama. Proud member of New Dramatists and The Kilroys. On television, Carla has written on Fear the Walking Dead, I Love Dick, the forthcoming Hulu drama The First from Beau Willimon and AMC’s Preacher. www.carlaching.com @carlaching ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is an award-winning Off-Broadway theater dedicated to producing great plays simply and truthfully while utilizing an artistic ensemble. At Atlantic, we believe that the story of a play and the intent of its playwright are at the core of the creative process. The plays in our repertory, from both new and established playwrights, are boldly interpreted by today’s finest theater artists and resonate with contemporary audiences. Since its inception, Atlantic has produced more than 150 plays including Tony Award-winning productions of Spring Awakening (Steven Sater, Duncan Sheik) and The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Martin McDonagh); Pulitzer Prize recipient Between Riverside and Crazy (Stephen Adly Guirgis); New York Drama Critics’ Circle winner for Best New Play The Night Alive (Conor McPherson); New York Drama Critics’ Circle winner for Best Foreign Play Hangmen (Martin McDonagh); and multi-award-winning and 11-time Tony Award nominee The Band’s Visit (David Yazbek, Itamar Moses), now playing on Broadway; among many others! Atlantic has garnered 12 Tony Awards, 24 Obie Awards, 21 Lucille Lortel Awards, 10 Drama Desk Awards, 8 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 5 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards, 4 Theater World Awards, 3 Drama League Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Alongside being an award-winning producing organization, we’ve also been teaching theater since our inception. The internationally-acclaimed Atlantic Acting School has the only conservatory program in the world that offers in-depth training in co-Founders David Mamet and William H. Macy’s unique and influential approach to acting: Practical Aesthetics, the Atlantic Technique. Our school’s mission is to ensure that each graduate masters the essential analytical and physical disciplines of acting and to empower every student with skills necessary for success in the profession. We also bring theater into the classroom through robust arts education initiatives that serve 4,000 public school students each year. ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY’S LINDA GROSS THEATER is located at 336 West 20th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues). ATLANTIC STAGE 2 is located at 330 West 16th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues). Atlantic Passports start at $60. To lock in savings of up to 42% and exclusive access including a four week priority-booking period and unlimited exchanges, join Atlantic’s Passport program at the early bird rate by visiting www.atlantictheater.org/passport/, calling OvationTix at 866-811-4111 or in person at the Linda Gross Theater Box Office (336 West 20th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues) Tuesday through Saturday from 12:00 – 6:00pm. The Early Bird period expires on May 22, 2018. For information on Atlantic Theater Company Passports, visit www.atlantictheater.org/passport/ or email membership@atlantictheater.org. atlantictheater.org |
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