| MTC Announces Casting for INDIA PALE ALE and THE NICETIES; On Sale Dates Announced for Off-Broadway Productions at New York City Center | |
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| Manhattan Theatre Club Announces Casting for India Pale Ale and The Niceties Upcoming at New York City Center This Fall On Sale Dates Now Available for Manhattan Theatre Club’s Five 2018-2019 City Center Productions Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce casting for the first two Manhattan Theatre Club 2018-2019 New York City Center productions: India Pale Ale, the world premiere by Jaclyn Backhaus, and The Niceties, the New York premiere by Eleanor Burgess, in association with Huntington Theatre Company and McCarter Theatre Center. Beginning today, single tickets for The Niceties are available online only at https://www.nycitycenter.org/pdps/the-niceties. Beginning Tuesday, September 4 at noon, tickets for India Pale Ale, The Niceties, The Cake and Long Lost can be purchased online, by phone, and at the City Center box office. The final Off-Broadway production of the season, Continuity, will go on sale in April 2019. Support for Long Lost is provided by the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation. Continuity was commissioned by MTC with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as part of the MTC/Sloan Initiative. Continuity is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Additional support provided by the Frederic R. Coudert Foundation. MTC AT NEW YORK CITY CENTER – STAGE I India Pale Ale World Premiere by Jaclyn Backhaus Directed by Will Davis Previews Begin: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 Opening Night: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 India Pale Ale will star Purva Bedi (MTC’s East is East), Angel Desai (An Ordinary Muslim), Sophia Mahmud (“The Blacklist”), Nate Miller (MTC’s Ripcord), Shazi Raja (“High Maintenance”), Nik Sadhnani (The Invisible Hand), Lipica Shah (Bunty Berman Presents… ), Sathya Sridharan (An Ordinary Muslim) and Alok Tewari (The Band’s Visit). Previews begin October 2 ahead of an October 23 opening at New York City Center – Stage I. The design team includes Neil Patel (Scenic Design), Arnulfo Maldonado (Costume Design), Ben Stanton (Lighting Design), Elisheba Ittoop (Sound Design), Dave Bova (Hair & Makeup Design) and Will Davis (Choreography). In a small Wisconsin town, a tight-knit Punjabi community gathers to celebrate the wedding of a traditional family’s only son, just as their strong-willed daughter announces her plans to move away and open a bar. As they come together for feasts filled with singing and dancing, one generation’s cherished customs clash with another’s modern-day aspirations, and ghosts and pirates from the family's past linger in everyone's thoughts - until one sudden event changes everything. This poignant and smartly funny new play about legacy, life and longing comes from the fresh voice of Jaclyn Backhaus, who again teams up with her Men on Boats director, Will Davis. Support for India Pale Ale is provided by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. THE STUDIO AT STAGE II - HAROLD AND MIMI STEINBERG NEW PLAY SERIES AT NEW YORK CITY CENTER The Niceties New York Premiere by Eleanor Burgess Directed by Kimberly Senior In Association with Huntington Theatre Company and McCarter Theatre Center Previews Begin: Friday, October 12, 2018 Opening Night: Thursday, October 25, 2018 The Niceties will star Lisa Banes (Present Laughter) and Jordan Boatman (Hulu’s “The Path”). Previews begin October 12 ahead of an October 25 opening at The Studio at Stage II – Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series at New York City Center. The design team includes Cameron Anderson (Scenic Design), Kara Harmon (Costume Design), D.M. Wood (Lighting Design), and Elisheba Ittoop (Sound Design). The Niceties was originally presented as part of MTC’s Ted Snowdon Reading Series in 2017. This production will debut at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, MA from August 31 – September 30, 2018 prior to arriving at Manhattan Theatre Club; it will then play McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ from January 11 – February 10, 2019. At an elite East Coast university, an ambitious young black student and her esteemed white professor meet to discuss a paper the college junior is writing about the American Revolution. They’re both liberal. They’re both women. They’re both brilliant. But very quickly, discussions of grammar and Google turn to race and reputation, and before they know it, they’re in dangerous territory neither of them had foreseen – and facing stunning implications that can’t be undone. Written with powerful truth and humor by Eleanor Burgess, this deeply resonant work is directed by Kimberly Senior (Disgraced). The Washington Post hails it as “a barnstormer of a play,” adding that it’s “one of the best plays I’ve seen about who gets to tell the story of America, and how.” In order to ensure that tickets to The Niceties are affordable to the widest and most diverse audiences possible, MTC will price all tickets during the show’s initial five-week run at $35. ABOUT MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB 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. The Studio at Stage II is Manhattan Theatre Club’s initiative at New York City Center – Stage II (131 West 55th Street). The initiative launched in 2012 with the sold out, critically acclaimed world premiere of Murder Ballad, the rock musical by Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash and has continued with the critically acclaimed premieres of Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Taking Care of Baby by Dennis Kelly, The Lion by Benjamin Scheuer, By The Water by Sharyn Rothstein, Heisenberg by Simon Stephens, Important Hats of the Twentieth Century by Nick Jones, The Ruins of Civilization by Penelope Skinner, Sell/Buy/Date by Sarah Jones, Actually by Anna Ziegler, and Sugar in Our Wounds by Donja R. Love. The Studio at Stage II has been partially underwritten with a major grant from The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. TICKETING INFORMATION Joining MTC’s season of plays is easy! Just call the MTC Clubline at 212-399-3050. For more information and to sign up for MTC’s “30 Under 35” program featuring $30 tickets for theatregoers age 35 and under, visit https://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/season-tickets/30-under-35/. BIOGRAPHIES FOR INDIA PALE ALE JACLYN BACKHAUS (Playwright) is a playwright and co-founder of Fresh Ground Pepper. Her play Men On Boats was a New York Times Critics’ Pick in Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks as well as the Off-Broadway production at Playwrights Horizons. It is published by Dramatists Play Service. Other works: Folk Wandering (Pipeline 2018), People Doing Math Live! (Under The Radar Festival's INCOMING! Series at The Public Theater), The Incredible Fox Sisters (Live Source), and You On The Moors Now (Theater Reconstruction Ensemble, The Hypocrites in Chicago). She received commissions from Playwrights Horizons, MTC, EST and Ars Nova and was the 2016 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Clubbed Thumb. She is currently in residence at Lincoln Center. BFA: NYU. She hails from Phoenix, Arizona. WILL DAVIS (Director) is a trans-identified director and choreographer focused on physically adventurous new work and old plays in new ways. He is also the artistic director of American Theater Company (ATC). Recent and upcoming projects include: Bobbie Clearly by Alex Lubischer for The Roundabout; Charm by Philip Dawkins for MCC; Welcome To Jesus by Janine Nabers for ATC; a queer re-imagining of Picnic by William Inge for ATC; Evita, re-conceived for the Olney Theatre Center, for which he received a Helen Hayes Nomination for Best Direction; Men On Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus for Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks, Playwrights Horizons and ATC, for which he received a Lucille Lortel Nomination for Best Direction; Duat by Daniel Alexander Jones for Soho Rep; Mike Iveson’s Sorry Robot for PS122’s COIL Festival; and two productions of Colossal by Andrew Hinderaker for Mixed Blood Theater and the Olney Theatre Center, for which he won a Helen Hayes award for Outstanding Direction. Davis has developed, directed and performed his work with NYSF, New York Theatre Workshop, Clubbed Thumb, the New Museum, the Olney Theatre Center, the Alliance Theatre, the Playwright’s Realm, the Fusebox Festival, the Orchard Project, the Ground Floor Residency at Berkeley Rep and the Kennedy Center. He is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the NYTW 2050 Directing Fellowship and the BAX (Brooklyn Art Exchange) artist in residence program. He is a member of the TCG board and the Jubilee planning committee. PURVA BEDI (Deepa Batra). MTC: East is East (Co-Production New Group). Off-Broadway: Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons), An Ordinary Muslim (New York Theatre Workshop), Uncommon Sense (Tectonic Theatre Project), IDIOT! (HERE Arts), Veil'd (Women's Project), Rise of Dorothy Hale (St. Luke's); There or Here (Hypothetical). W/Target Margin as Associate Artist: Reread Another, Tempest, Second Language, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real, Old Comedy, 5 Hysterical Girls Theorem. Regional: Rice Boy (Mark Taper), My Wandering Boy (South Coast Rep). Co-Creator Assembled Identity (HERE). Film: Sully, Equity, Kumare, Cosmopolitan, Green Card Fever, American Desi. TV: "She's Gotta Have It", “Person of Interest,” “Madam Secretary,” “Nurse Jackie.” ANGEL DESAI (Simran Rayat). Recent theater: “An Ordinary Muslim” (NYTW), ”Peer Gynt and the Norwegian Hapa Band" (Ma-Yi), "Scenes From Court Life..." (Sarah Ruhl, world premiere, Yale Rep). Broadway: "Company" (2006, Tony Award, Best Revival of a Musical). Off-Broadway includes: CSC, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public/NYSF, Women's Project, MCC, others. Recent TV: “Jessica Jones,” ”Chicago Med," “Minority Report,” “Madam Secretary,” “Major Crimes,” "Elementary,” "Nurse Jackie,” ”Being Mary Jane," "Damages." Film: The Clique, The War Within, Heights, Black Knight, and Robot Stories. Recipient: 2017 New Harmony Lab Grant, 2017 NYU Diversity Faculty Mentorship, 2014 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship. MFA in Acting from NYU. SOPHIA MAHMUD (Dadi Parminder) is delighted to be making her Manhattan Theatre Club debut in this beautiful play. She has appeared on “The Blacklist,” “Slumber Party,” and the web series “Co-Operation.” She has been nominated as best actor in two Festival plays. Conversant in multiple languages, Sophia has been a cardiologist consultant for the last three years while transitioning into the life of an actor. She thanks her agents at SW Artists and casting directors, producers and director Will Smith for this opportunity. “A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.” (Oscar Wilde) NATE MILLER (Tim) is an NYC based Actor/Producer & founding member of Lesser America Theatre Co. A Milwaukee native, he is a graduate of Marquette University & The Juilliard School’s Drama Division (where he worked with ArtReach, ASTEP, The New Juilliard Ensemble and received the Jared Nathan Memorial Scholarship). Broadway: JUNK at LCT. Off Broadway: Ripcord and Of Good Stock at MTC, Love and Information at NYTW, Peter and the Starcatcher at New World Stages. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, La Jolla Playhouse, Playmakers Rep, The Wilma Theatre. Film/TV: “The Goodwife” (CBS), “Us & Them” (FOX), “Another Kind” (Vicart Ent.), www.iamnatemiller.com www.lesseramerica.com SHAZI RAJA (Basminder “Boz” Batra) was born and raised in Houston, Texas. After becoming bored in “regular” school and showing an aptitude for the arts, she enrolled her in the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston. Shazi spent a year in London at Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe and graduated with a BFA in Acting from Rutgers University. Upon graduation Shazi moved to New York City to continue acting. She soon booked the role of “Talisha” in MILK LIKE SUGAR at the Huntington Theatre Company and received Best Actress accolades from the Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE). Her role in the HBO anthology HIGH MAINTENANCE caught the eye of many and she was cast in a major supporting role in BRAD’S STATUS opposite Ben Stiller. Last year she co-starred in the CBS summer series SALVATION. This Halloween she can be seen in the horror film HAUNT. Shazi resides in New York City. NIK SADHNANI (Vishal Singh). MTC Debut. He last appeared in Cleveland Play House's production of The Invisible Hand playing Dar. Off-Broadway: The Trial of The American President (Lion Theatre). Regional: Disgraced (Syracuse Stage); Two Minute Kenneth (Manhattan Rep); Disgraced(Asolo Rep), She Eats Apples (Boston Playwrights’). Film credits include Netflix's The Week Of (with Adam Sandler) and the upcoming We Are Unsatisfied (with Billy Crystal). TV credits include “Law & Order: SVU,” “Big Dogs,” “Surina & Mel,” “Alternatino” and a recurring role on Hulu’s “The Path.” Nik holds his BFA in Acting from Boston University. Twitter/Instagram: @niksadhnani. LIPICA SHAH (Lovi) is a New York City-based actor-singer who thrives on collaborative work; her passion is new script development. She’s THRILLED to be back at MTC with this beautiful story – roti cheers all around! Select New York: Cost of Living (MTC), Bunty Berman Presents… (The New Group), Assembled Identity (HERE Arts Center), Coping (NY Fringe Festival & Encores), Rachel: The Musical (The Wild Project – Fruitie Award “Outstanding Featured Performance”); Select Regional: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Orange, Passing Strange, and simultaneously originating the title roles in The Chronicles of Kalki and Shivas part of “The Displaced Hindu Gods Trilogy” (all at Mixed Blood Theatre Company), The Lake Effect (Geva Theatre), The Who and The What (Gulfshore Playhouse); Select Film: A Silent Voice (English Dub), Admission, Let’s Be Out The Sun is Shining (NYIFF Best Actress Nomination); Select TV: “Time After Time,” “The Following,” “White Collar,” “Pokémon”, “Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin.” www.LipicaShah.com SATHYA SRIDHARAN (Iggy Batra). Off- Broadway: An Ordinary Muslim (NYTW), Two Mile Hollow (WP Theater), The Winter’s Tale (The Public Shakespeare Mobile Unit), Hamlet (Sheen Center), This Is It How It Ends (59E59 Summer Shorts). NY Theater: Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73), Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr), Mechanics of Love (ToByFor Productions). Regional: Our Town (Portland Center Stage), Hapgood (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Philadelphia Story, As You Like It (Chautauqua Theatre Company). Film: All The Little Things We Kill, Bikini Moon, Dastaar (SXSW, IndyFest), Tourists (Nantucket, CAAM, NJFF), Open Roads (Nantucket). Television: “The Tick”, “Blindspot”, “The Blacklist”, “Madam Secretary”, and “Younger”. Sathya was the 2013 Princess Grace Award Winner. MFA: NYU. ALOK TEWARI (Sunny Batra).Theatre: The Band’s Visit (Broadway/Atlantic); Monsoon Wedding (Berkeley); Awake and Sing! (Public / NAATCO); A Fable, Through the Yellow Hour, War (Rattlestick); Bunty Berman Presents, Rafta, Rafta… (New Group) Television: “Looming Tower,” “Iron Fist,” “House of Cards,” “Madam Secretary,” “Homeland,” Film: Pirates of Somalia, Shelter, Brooklyn’s Finest. BIOGRAPHIES FOR THE NICETIES ELEANOR BURGESS (Playwright). Eleanor Burgess's work has been produced at the Alliance Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Portland Stage Company, and Centenary Stage, and developed at The New Group, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Salt Lake Acting Company, the Lark Play Development Center, and the Kennedy Center/NNPN MFA Playwrights Workshop. She’s currently a 2050 Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, a part of The Civilians’ R&D Group, and a member of Page 73’s writers group, Interstate 73. She has been the recipient of a Huntington Playwriting Fellowship, the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award, and an EST/Sloan commission. She grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts and studied history at Yale College and Dramatic Writing at NYU/Tisch. KIMBERLY SENIOR (Director) is a freelance director and the director of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar. Kimberly made her HBO debut with Chris Gethard: Career Suicide, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Kimberly was awarded the prestigious Alan Schneider Award at the 2016 TCG Conference. She is also a 2013 Finalist for the SDCF Joe A. Callaway Award. She is the recipient of the 2016 Special Non-Equity Jeff Award for her Chicago career achievements as a trail blazer, champion and role model for emerging artists. In May 2018, Kimberly will receive The Einhorn Mentorship Award at Primary Stages. New York Credits: Disgraced (Broadway); Chris Gethard: Career Suicide (Judd Apatow presents); Discord (Primary Stages); Engagements (Second Stage Uptown); The Who and The What, and Disgraced (Lincoln Center Theater 3). Regional Credits: Sheltered (Alliance Theatre); Support Group for Men, Disgraced, and Rapture, Blister, Burn (Goodman Theatre); Buried Child, The Scene, Marjorie Prime, Diary of Anne Frank, Hedda Gabler, and The Letters (Writers Theatre); Other Than Honorable (Geva); Sex with Strangers (The Geffen Playhouse); Disgraced (Mark Taper Forum, Berkley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre); The Who and The What (La Jolla Playhouse); Little Gem (City Theatre); among others. Upcoming: The Niceties (Huntington and McCarter Theatres); Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Milwaukee Rep); Photograph 51 (South Coast Rep.) Kimberly is the incredibly proud mother of Noah and Delaney. She is a member of SDC. LISA BANES (Janine) Broadway: Rumors, Arcadia, High Society, Accent on Youth, Present Laughter. Off Broadway includes: Look Back in Anger (Theater World Award), My Sister in this House (Obie Award), Three Sisters, Antigone, Isn't It Romantic (Drama Desk nom), Ten By Tennessee, On the Verge, Emily, Go Back to Where You Are. Film includes: Hotel New Hampshire, Marie, Young Guns , Cocktail, The Jackal, Dragonfly, Freedom Writers, Gone Girl, A Cure for Wellness, 6 Women (short) Acres and acres of TV include series regular on The Trials of Rosie O'Neal, Son of the Beach and Girls Club. TV movies include Hemingway and the immortal Mother May I Sleep with Danger. Recurring roles include Nashville, Masters of Sex, China Beach And Six Feet Under. Lisa is a graduate of the Juilliard School and an alumna of The Acting Company. JORDAN BOATMAN (Zoe) has appeared in Hulu’s “The Path” and is a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Some of her favorite past roles include Berniece in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and Emilia from Shakespeare’s Othello. www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com |
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