| MTC Announces Initial Casting for THE NAP | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 06:20 pm EDT 07/11/18 | |
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| Manhattan Theatre Club Announces Initial Casting For The Nap American Premiere Written by Richard Bean (One Man, Two Guvnors) Directed by Daniel Sullivan Previews Now Begin Wednesday, September 5 Opening Night is Thursday, September 27 At The Samuel J. Friedman Theatre On Broadway American Express® Card Member Presale Begins Monday, July 30 Audience Rewards Presale Begins Monday, August 6 Single Tickets On Sale Beginning Wednesday, August 8 Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce initial casting for the American premiere of The Nap, written by Olivier Award nominee Richard Bean, the author of the rollicking, award-winning Broadway comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, and directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan (Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes; Rabbit Hole; Proof). The cast of The Nap will feature Alexandra Billings (“Transparent,” “Goliath,” recipient of the HRC Visibility Award), Tony Award nominee John Ellison Conlee (Murder Ballad, The Full Monty, “Boardwalk Empire”), two-time Tony Award nominee Johanna Day (Proof, Sweat, “Madam Secretary”), four-time and current 2018 United States National Snooker Champion Ahmed Aly Elsayed, Heather Lind (Incognito, Othello, “Turn”), Max Gordon Moore (Saint Joan, Indecent), Bhavesh Patel (Present Laughter, War Horse), Thomas Jay Ryan (The Crucible, In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), and Ben Schnetzer (Sticks and Bones, Pride, The Death and Life of John F. Donovan), with additional cast members to be announced. Opening MTC’s 2018-2019 Broadway season at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street), The Nap will now begin previews Wednesday, September 5, 2018 ahead of a Thursday, September 27, 2018 opening night. American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public beginning Monday, July 30 at 10:00am EST through Monday, August 6 at 9:59am EST. Audience Rewards members can purchase tickets from Monday, August 6 at 10:00am EST through Wednesday, August 8 at 9:59am EST. Tickets are on sale to the general public beginning Wednesday, August 8 at 10:00am EST. The Nap is a very funny look at the world of snooker – the British version of pool. Dylan Spokes (Ben Schnetzer), a fast-rising young star arrives for a championship tournament only to be confronted by the authorities warning him of the repercussions of match fixing. Before he knows it, Dylan’s forced into underhanded dealings with a cast of wildly colorful characters that include his ex-convict dad (John Ellison Conlee), saucy mum (Johanna Day), quick-tongued manager (Max Gordon Moore) and a renowned gangster (Alexandra Billings), to boot. It’s a fast-paced comedy thriller where, in an exciting twist, the tournament unfolds live on stage. In its British premiere, The Guardian raved, “Ingenious,” The Observer cheered, “Outrageously funny,” and The Daily Mail called The Nap “brilliant and terrifically inventive.” Directing is Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan. The Nap’s creative team includes David Rockwell (scenic design), Kaye Voyce (costume design), Justin Townsend (lighting design), Lindsay Jones (sound design), Anne Ford-Coates (hair and make-up design), Ben Furey (dialect coach), and Thomas Schall (fight director). Manhattan Theatre Club, under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, has become one of the country’s most prominent and prestigious theatre companies. Over the past four and a half decades, MTC productions have earned numerous awards including 7 Pulitzer Prizes and 23 Tony Awards. MTC has a Broadway home at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) and two Off-Broadway theatres at New York City Center (131 West 55th Street). Renowned MTC productions include the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner Cost of Living by Martyna Majok; Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes; August Wilson’s Jitney and The Piano Lesson; Heisenberg by Simon Stephens; The Father by Florian Zeller with translation by Christopher Hampton; Fool For Love by Sam Shepard; Airline Highway by Lisa D’Amour; Casa Valentina by Harvey Fierstein; Outside Mullingar and Doubt by John Patrick Shanley; The Commons of Pensacola by Amanda Peet; Murder Ballad by Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash; The Assembled Parties by Richard Greenberg; Wit by Margaret Edson; Venus in Fur by David Ives; Good People and Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire; The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez; Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies; Ruined by Lynn Nottage; Proof by David Auburn; The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife by Charles Busch; Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terrence McNally; Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley; and Ain’t Misbehavin’, the Fats Waller musical. For more information on MTC, please visit www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com. TICKETING INFORMATION Joining MTC’s season of plays is easy! Just call the MTC Clubline at 212-399-3050. Single tickets for The Nap will be available beginning Wednesday, August 8 at Telecharge.com, by calling 212-239-6200, or by visiting The Samuel J. Friedman Theatre Box Office at 261 West 47th Street. American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets to The Nap before the general public beginning Monday, July 30 at 10:00am EST through Monday, August 6 at 9:59am EST. Audience Rewards members can purchase tickets from Monday, August 6 at 10:00am EST through Wednesday, August 8 at 9:59am EST. For more information and to sign up for MTC’s “30 Under 30” program for theatregoers age 30 and under, visit www.manhattantheatreclub.com/30under30/. BIOGRAPHIES RICHARD BEAN (Playwright) was born in Hull in 1956. After school, he worked in a bread plant before leaving to study Social Psychology at Loughborough University. Richard has worked as a psychologist and a stand-up comedian. His work for the stage includes: Young Marx (which has just opened London’s brand new Bridge Theatre); The Hypocrite (which completed runs at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Hull Truck Theatre); Kiss Me (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs); The Nap (Sheffield Crucible); The Mentalists (Wyndham’s Theatre); Made In Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre); Toast (Park Theatre); Pitcairn (Out of Joint /Chichester Festival Theatre/Shakespeare’s Globe); Great Britain (National Theatre); Under The Whaleback (The Wilma Theater); One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre (Lyttelton)/Adelphi Theatre/Theatre Royal Haymarket/Music Box Theatre, New York/World Tour) (2011 Evening Standard Award for Best Play, 2011 Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, 2012 Whatsonstage.com Award for Best New Comedy); a stage version of David Mamet’s House of Games (Almeida); The Big Fellah (produced by Out of Joint); Pub Quiz is Life (Hull Truck); England People Very Nice (National Theatre) (Olivier Award Nomination for Best New Play); The English Game (produced by Headlong); Up On Roof (Hull Truck) (nominated for TMA Play of the Year); In The Club (Hampstead Theatre); a version of Moliere’s The Hypochondriac (Almeida); The Heretic (Royal Court) (2011 Evening Standard Award for Best Play); Harvest (Royal Court) (nominated for Evening Standard and Olivier Best New Play Awards, Winner Critics’ Circle Best New Play); Honeymoon Suite (Royal Court) (Pearson Play of the Year); Under The Whaleback (Royal Court) (George Devine Award; Toast (Royal Court); The God Botherers (Bush Theatre); Smack Family Robinson (Newcastle Live!); The Mentalists (Lyttelton Loft, National Theatre); Mr England (Sheffield Crucible Theatre). His radio plays include Of Rats and Men, Yesterday, Unsinkable, and Robin Hood’s Revenge. DANIEL SULLIVAN (Director). MTC directorial credits include Saint Joan, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, The Country House, The Snow Geese, The Columnist, Lost Lake, Accent on Youth, Good People, Time Stands Still, Rabbit Hole, After the Night and the Music, Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, Psycopathia Sexualis, and Proof. He has directed over 30 Broadway productions and at least as many Off-Broadway, including ten for The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. He served as Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre from 1981 – 97. He is the Swanlund Professor of Theatre at University of Illinois, Champaign –Urbana. ALEXANDRA BILLINGS (Waxy Bush). Actress, singer, author, teacher, activist. Television: Amazon’s “Transparent,” “Goliath,” “How to Get Away with Murder,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “E.R.,” PBS Television Emmy nominated Best Documentary “From Schoolboy to Showgirl: The Alexandra Billings Story.” Film: Paddleton, Valley of Bones, Freelancers Anonymous. Theater: S/He & Me, Seussical, Berlin Circle, A Doll’s House, Trojan Women, Gypsy, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Time to Burn, Hamlet! The Musical!, Before I Disappear. Awards: HRC Visibility Award, TPA Award, the Rainbow Spirit Award, Chicago Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame, five After Dark Awards, Joseph Jefferson Award. 2016: Moderator, Transgender Awareness Month panel, the White House, Washington D.C. (during the Obama presidency). Professor of Theater Arts, MFA program, USC. Former Professor of Theater Arts, CSULB. Viewpoints Associate, Steppenwolf Theatre. Regular contributor to The Huffington Post. Married to high school sweetheart Chrisanne Blankenship-Billings. JOHN ELLISON CONLEE (Bobby Spokes). Previously with MTC: Murder Ballad, The Madrid, The Green Heart. Recent theater credits include Venus, Tumacho, and Watson(s) in The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence (2014 Obie Award). Recent film and TV work includes LBJ (Dir. Rob Reiner), Hal Hartley’s films My America and Ned Rifle, “House of Cards” (Netflix), “Billions” (recur-Showtime), “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (recur-Netflix), “Parks And Recreation” (recur-NBC) and “Boardwalk Empire” (SAG Award nomination) (recur-HBO). Broadway: The Full Monty (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics nominations), The Constant Wife, and 1776. Off-Broadway includes Pig Farm (Roundabout), Ethan Lipton’s Luther (Clubbed Thumb), The Butter and Egg Man, Once in a Lifetime, and The Bald Soprano (Atlantic), and Encores! versions of Assassins, Anyone Can Whistle and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Other work includes TV: “Nurse Jackie” (Showtime), “Brotherhood” (recur-Showtime), “NCIS:LA,” “Common Law”, “Medium;” and film: Serendipity, The Rebound, and Kinsey. He received his MFA from NYU. JOHANNA DAY (Stella). Broadway: Sweat (Tony Nomination), Proof (Tony Nomination), You Can’t Take it with You, Lombardi, and August Osage County. Theatre: Peace For Mary Frances (New Group), How I Learned to Drive (Vineyard Theatre), Appropriate (Signature Theatre), Oblivion (Westport Country Playhouse); The Realistic Joneses (Yale Repertory Theatre), Choice (The Huntington Theatre), Poor Behavior (Mark Taper Forum). Ms. Day currently recurs on the CBS drama “Madam Secretary” as Ellen Hill. Other television: “The Blacklist,” “Escape from Dannemora,” “The Knick,” “The Americans,” “Masters of Sex,” “Royal Pains” and “Fringe.” Feature Films: The Post, How Far She Went, Great Gilley Hopkins, The Breatharian. Awards: The Helen Hayes Award and The Obie Award. AHMED ALY ELSAYED (Duncan Ferryman/Danny Carr) was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, where his parents encouraged him to pursue a career in engineering, in which his mother worked. Ahmed was educated as a civil engineer but instead gravitated toward entrepreneurial ventures and also discovered he had both an interest and an aptitude in Billiards games. While still in Egypt, El-Sayed taught himself the game of Snooker and went on to win the Egyptian Championship in three consecutive years. In 2005, a vacation trip to New York City and a serious romance with a young American lady were the catalysts for a major transformation to U.S. residence and citizenship. While holding jobs in the fashion industry and in automobile sales, El-Sayed continued his pursuit of Snooker and succeeded in winning his first of four U.S. National Snooker Championships in 2009. Having won again earlier this year, he is the reigning U.S. Champion. El-Sayed is currently the Billiards Manager at the prestigious New York Athletic Club, where he continues to hone his skills and teaches new players. HEATHER LIND (Eleanor). Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club: Incognito and Of Good Stock. The Public: Othello (Desdemona), The Merchant of Venice, The Winter’s Tale. Broadway: The Merchant of Venice (Theatre World Award. Williamstown Theatre Festival: Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion. Film: Demolition, Mistress America. TV: “TURN: Washington’s Spies,” “Boardwalk Empire” (SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series). MFA: NYU Grad Acting. MAX GORDON MOORE (Tony Danlino / MC / Commentator) is pleased to return to MTC where he last appeared in Saint Joan. Other Broadway credits: Indecent, Relatively Speaking. Off-Broadway: Describe the Night (Atlantic Theater); Man From Nebraska (Second Stage); Indecent (Vineyard); Man and Superman, It’s A Wonderful Life (Irish Rep). Recent: The Master Builder (BAM); Arcadia, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Yale Rep); Time and the Conways (Old Globe); Constellations (Seattle Rep); Tragedy: A Tragedy (Berkeley Rep); As You Like It, Merchant of Venice, Merry Wives of Windsor, Richard III (California Shakespeare); Pleasure and Pain (Magic Theatre); Bach at Leipzig (ACT Theatre). Film/TV: “Instinct,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Good Wife.” BA Sarah Lawrence, MFA, Yale School of Drama, Hershel Williams Prize in Acting. BHAVESH PATEL(Mohammad Butt). Broadway: Present Laughter, War Horse. Off-Broadway: Indian Ink (Roundabout), RadioLoveFest (BAM). Other: Second Stage, CSC, Red Bull, NY Shakespeare Festival, Guthrie, St. Louis Rep. TV: “Madam Secretary,” “The Mysteries of Laura,” “The Good Wife,” “Elementary,” “Blue Bloods,” “White Collar”, “John Glaser Loves Fear” (premiering this Fall). Film: Gold, Wildling, James White, 2 Days in New York. MFA: NYU Grad Acting. Thanks to my team and incredible wife! THOMAS JAY RYAN (Danny Killeen). MTC debut. Broadway: The Crucible, In The Next Room or The Vibratory Play. Off-Broadway: Dance Nation (Playwright’s Horizons), The Amateurs (Vineyard), Measure For Measure (TFANA), 10 Out of 12 (Soho Rep, Drama League nomination), Travels with My Aunt (Keen Company), A Month in the Country (CSC, Callaway Award), The Lady From DuBuque (Signature), The Correspondent (Rattlestick), The Tempermentals (New World Stages, ensemble Drama Desk Award), Juno and the Paycock (Roundabout), Venus (Public Theatre). Film: Cryptozoo, Daddy, Burn Country, The Missing Girl, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Teknolust, The Legend of Bagger Vance, the title role in Hal Hartley’s Henry Fool trilogy. Television: guest-starring roles on many network series, the title role in HBO’s “Degas and the Dancer” (Gemini Award nomination). BEN SCHNETZER (Dylan Spokes) is thrilled to be making his Broadway debut in The Nap. He will soon be seen in Xavier Dolan’s feature film The Death And Life of John F. Donovan opposite Natalie Portman. Recent film credits include Jose Padilha’s 7 Days in Entebbe, Andrew Neel’s Goat, Lone Scherfig’s The Riot Club, Brian Percival’s The Book Thief, and Matthew Warchus’ Pride which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Picture, Musical or Comedy, in 2015. Schnetzer made his New York Stage debut in the play Stick and Bones by David Rabe at The New Group. www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com |
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