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| THERESA REBECK TO MAKE NYC DIRECTORIAL DEBUT WITH “DROPPING GUMBALLS ON LUKE WILSON” BY ROB ACKERMAN | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 06:30 pm EST 11/28/18 | |
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| THERESA REBECK TO MAKE NYC DIRECTORIAL DEBUT WITH “DROPPING GUMBALLS ON LUKE WILSON” A WORLD PREMIERE PLAY BY ROB ACKERMAN WORKING THEATER ANNOUNCES AS PART OF ITS 34TH SEASON THERESA REBECK, best known as an award-winning playwright, will make her NYC directorial debut, when WORKING THEATER debuts DROPPING GUMBALLS ON LUKE WILSON, the world premiere play by ROB ACKERMAN (TABLETOP), Off Broadway at the A.R.T./ New York Theater’s Mezzanine Theater (502 W. 53rd Street), this spring, June 11 – July 6 2019. DROPPING GUMBALLS ON LUKE WILSON is inspired by a true, little-known story about the making of an iconic TV commercial in which a legendary film director puts a movie star's life in the hands of a very jittery props guy. Featured in the cast are JEREMY WEBB (THE VISIT, TABLETOP, THE GLORIOUS ONES), DEAN NOLEN (MAMMA MIA!, OMNIUM GATHERUM, TABLETOP), and DAVID WOHL (FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, DINNER AT EIGHT, THE MAN WHO HAD ALL THE LUCK). Additional casting to be announced. GUMBALLS design team includes CHRISTOPHER & JUSTIN SWADER (Scenic Designers) and MARY ELLEN STEBBINS (Lighting Design). Additional design credits to be announced. Additionally, in it’s upcoming 34th season, WORKING THEATER will continue its Five Boroughs/One City initiative, creating theater in collaboration with communities across New York City. Activities include the development of their newest commissioned play, in which director Dina Vovsi and playwright Liba Vaynberg explore the fractious intersection of the Russian and Pakistani immigrant communities in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Public readings in Brighton Beach are scheduled for January 2019. In the spring, WORKING THEATER will present new performances of their Five Borough’s collaboration with The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in upper Manhattan created by Michael Premo and Rachel Falcone, SANCTUARY. -- 2018/19 also features 3 sessions of its TheaterWorks! playwriting and performance classes – a not to be missed final 2 performances from 1180 Retirees and PSC/CUNY coming in December. DROPPING GUMBALLS ON LUKE WILSON performance schedule and ticket availability is as follows: Mondays through Thursdays at 7pm; Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm; Saturday matinees at 2pm. -- Special retiree matinee Weds 6/19 2pm. No matinee Sat 6/22. – GUMBALLS will not perform on Sundays. General Admission $30; Reserved Tickets $40 Student/Senior/Union Members $25 Please visit the website; www.theworkingtheater.org/tix, or call the Box Office (Ovationtix) at 866.811.4111 to purchase tickets. Group discounts available for groups of 10+ by e-mail: tricia@theworkingtheater.org for group sales info. ROB ACKERMAN’s work includes Tabletop, directed by Connie Grappo for Working Theater, Drama Desk Award winner for Best Ensemble Performance; Origin of the Species, a play which became an indie film featuring Amanda Peet, directed by Andrés Heinz; book of Volleygirls, winner of three awards at the 2013 New York Musical Theater Festival, including Most Promising New Musical and Best in Fest, music by Eli Bolin, lyrics by Sam Forman, directed by Neil Patrick Stewart; Teach for America, commissioned and produced by American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco; Call Me Waldo and Disconnect, both for Working Theater. Rob’s work has been anthologized by Vintage Books, Dramatists Play Service, Smith and Kraus, and Playscripts, and nurtured at Yaddo, Flux, Lark, and Dorset Theatre Festival. Upcoming plays include: Loyalty, the story of an honest man in a corrupt White House, which premieres in October at the NY Theater Festival under the direction of Katie Young; and Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson, a documentary play about a documentarian, which Theresa Rebeck will direct for Working Theater at A.R.T./New York in the spring of 2019. For years, Rob has worked as Prop Master for the SNL Film Unit. He was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, majored in theater and Spanish at Middlebury College, and earned an M.F.A. in stage directing at Northwestern University. Rob and his wife, author Carol Weston, live in Manhattan, and he's a longtime member of Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. THERESA REBECK’s many plays have been widely produced on and off Broadway, regionally and internationally. This fall, her fourth Broadway play, Bernhardt/Hamlet, premiered on Broadway and her play Downstairs opened at Primary Stages starring Tim Daly and Tyne Daly. Other Broadway works include Dead Accounts; Seminar and Mauritius. Other notable NY and regional plays include: Seared, The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann and Spike Heels (Second Stage), Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection and Our House (Playwrights Horizons), The Understudy (Roundabout), View of the Dome (NYTW), What We’re Up Against (Women’s Project), Omnium Gatherum (Pulitzer Prize finalist). As a director, her work has been seen at The Alley Theater of Houston, Dorset Theater Festival, the Orchard Project and the Folger Shakespeare Theater. She recently wrote and directed the independent feature Trouble, starring Anjelica Huston, Bill Pullman and David Morse. In television, she is best known for her work on “NYPD Blue” and for creating the NBC series “Smash.” As a novelist, Rebeck’s books include Three Girls and Their Brother and I'm Glad About You. Rebeck is the recipient of the William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award, a Lilly Award and more. ABOUT WORKING THEATER: Working Theater believes the transformative experience of live theater should not be a privilege or a luxury, but a staple. We recognize that we live in a society that is often polarized by economic, cultural and class differences and that these differences can be divisive. However, what makes us different is sometimes the most interesting thing about us. We want working people, Americans working in the industrial and service economies, who may be unable to afford commercial theater prices or feel that it does not resonate with their lives and experience, to make play-going a regular part of their cultural lives. Toward that goal, we offer low ticket prices and tell stories that reflect a diverse population of the working majority, that acknowledge their complexity and oft-denied power in an increasingly complex world, which we hope will unite us in our common humanity Working Theater is under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Mark Plesent and Managing Director, Laura Carbonell Monarque. |
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