| Full Casting Announced for MTC's INK | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 06:25 pm EST 02/21/19 | |
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| Manhattan Theatre Club Announces Full Casting for the American Premiere of INK Starring Olivier Award Winners Bertie Carvel and Jonny Lee Miller Written by Olivier Award Winner James Graham Directed by Two-Time Olivier Award Winner Rupert Goold Previews Begin Tuesday, April 2 Opening Wednesday, April 24 At MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce full casting for the American premiere of INK, written by Olivier Award winner James Graham (Labour of Love, Privacy, Finding Neverland) and directed by two-time Olivier Award winner, Tony and BAFTA Award nominee Almeida Theatre Artistic Director Rupert Goold (King Charles III). Joining the previously announced Olivier Award winners Bertie Carvel and Jonny Lee Miller are David Wilson Barnes (The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Bill Buell (The History Boys), Andrew Durand (Head Over Heels), Eden Marryshow (Broadway Debut), Colin McPhillamy (The Ferryman), Erin Neufer (Broadway Debut), Kevin Pariseau (Legally Blonde), Rana Roy (Broadway Debut), Michael Siberry (Junk), Robert Stanton (Saint Joan), and Tara Summers (The Hard Problem). Two-time Olivier Award winner Bertie Carvel (Matilda) will reprise his Olivier Award-winning performance as Rupert Murdoch and Olivier Award winner Jonny Lee Miller (“Elementary,” Frankenstein) will play the editor of The Sun, Larry Lamb. The creative team for INK includes Bunny Christie (scenic & costume design), Neil Austin (lighting design), Adam Cork (original music & sound design), Jon Driscoll (projection design), Lynne Page (choreographer & movement director), Ben Furey (dialect coach) and Julie McBride (music director). INK will begin previews Tuesday, April 2 prior to a Wednesday, April 24 opening night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). Rehearsals begin Tuesday, February 26. INK earned unanimous raves from London’s top theatre critics, including The Times, Evening Standard, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, The Independent, Mail on Sunday, The Guardian, Time Out, Daily Express, Daily Mail, City A.M. and The Stage. It’s 1969 London. The brash young Rupert Murdoch purchases a struggling paper, The Sun, and sets out to make it a must-read smash which will destroy - and ultimately horrify - the competition. He brings on rogue editor Larry Lamb who in turn recruits an unlikely team of underdog reporters. Together, they will go to any lengths for success and the race for the most ink is on! Inspired by real events and a recent hit in London’s West End, James Graham’s electrifying new play comes to Broadway in the exhilarating Almeida Theatre production, directed by Rupert Goold. In its London run, The Guardian called it “riveting,” and Time Out hailed it as “an incredibly brilliant stunner.” INK is produced with the Almeida Theatre and Sonia Friedman Productions. Lead production support for INK is made possible by a generous grant from The Roy Cockrum Foundation. Additional support provided by Gary L. Churgin, a Producing Fund Partner. TICKETING INFORMATION Tickets for INK are available at Telecharge.com, by calling 212-239-6200, or by visiting The Samuel J. Friedman Theatre Box Office at 261 West 47th Street. Joining MTC’s season of plays is easy! Just visit manhattantheatreclub.com/join, or call the MTC Clubline at 212-399-3050. For more information and to sign up for MTC’s “30 under 35” program for theatregoers age 35 and under visit https://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/season-tickets/30-under-35/. 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; 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. BIOGRAPHIES BERTIE CARVEL (Rupert Murdoch) Bertie will be recreating the role of Rupert Murdoch, for which he won the 2018 Olivier Award in the West End production of INK. He made his Broadway debut in Matilda: The Musical (Tony Nom, Drama Desk Award, Drama League Nom, OCC Nom, Theatre World Award). His work in theatre includes the original production of Matilda: The Musical at Stratford-Upon-Avon and London (Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical); Damned By Despair, The Man of Mode, The Life of Galileo and Coram Boy (all at The National Theatre); The Hairy Ape (Old Vic); Bakkhai, Rope (both at The Almeida); The Pride (Royal Court) and Parade (Donmar Warehouse/Olivier Award nomination). TV: upcoming "Baghdad Central," "Doctor Foster," "Coalition," "The Wrong Mans," "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell," "Babylon," "Sherlock," and "John Adams" (HBO). Film: Les Misérables. Carvel trained at RADA. JONNY LEE MILLER (Larry Lamb) first gained international attention with his performance as the drug-addicted punk, Sick Boy, in Danny Boyle’s drama, Trainspotting, with Ewan McGregor. Twenty years later, Miller reprised his role as Sick Boy in T2: Trainspotting 2, Danny Boyle’s sequel to the cult classic. Also, he starred in the true-life drama The Flying Scotsman, receiving a Scottish BAFTA Award and London Film Critics’ Circle Award nominations for his portrayal of the innovative but troubled racing cyclist Graeme Obree. His additional film credits include Alan Rudolph’s Afterglow, Gillies MacKinnon’s Behind the Lines, Plunkett & Macleane, Mansfield Park, Woody Allen’s Melinda and Melinda, and Aeon Flux. In 2012, Miller appeared in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows opposite Johnny Depp, and starred in Neil Jordan’s vampire thriller Byzantium, with Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan. On television, Miller has the lead role of Sherlock Holmes in CBS's “Elementary,” now in its 7th Season. He had a memorable multi-episode arc on “Dexter,” and shared a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination as a member of the show’s 2010 cast. Also, he starred for two seasons in the title role “Eli Stone.” His other television work includes the miniseries “Dead Man’s Walk,” based on the Larry McMurtry novel, such BBC projects as the four-part adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma,” the miniseries “Canterbury Tales,” the telefilm “Byron,” and the Emmy Award-nominated “Endgame.” Miller made his Broadway debut in 2009 in After Miss Julie, opposite Sienna Miller. His additional theater work includes the West End productions of Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Festen and The Play What I Wrote. In 2011, Miller starred in the world premiere of Frankenstein, a new play based on Mary Shelley’s classic story, presented at London’s National Theatre under the direction of Danny Boyle. Miller won an Olivier and Evening Standard Award for his performance, shared with Benedict Cumberbatch with whom he alternated in the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature. DAVID WILSON BARNES (Brian McConnell) is making his MTC debut with INK. Other theater credits include The Lieutenant of Inishmore on Broadway, Othello (New York Theatre Workshop), and Becky Shaw, which premiered at Actor's Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival. From there, he took it to New York's 2nd Stage, where he received a Drama Desk & Lortel nomination, then to London's Almeida Theatre where he was nominated for an Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer. His film credits include Trial By Fire (Edward Zwick, dir), Miss Sloane (John Madden, dir), Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg, dir), and Universal's The Bourne Legacy, among others. Currently, David is staring as Phineas McCullough in the AMC western “The Son.” Most recent television includes “Madam Secretary,” “The Blacklist,” the upcoming “Fosse/Verdon,” and re-occurring in the roles of Martin Delaney in “Hell On Wheels” and Dale Butler in “Halt & Catch Fire" also for AMC. BILL BUELL (Frank Nicklin/Hetherington/Percy Roberts) has appeared on Broadway in Cyrano, The History Boys, Inherit the Wind, Urinetown, 42nd Street, Titanic, Tommy, Taking Steps, Big River, Annie, Once a Catholic, The First, and The Miser. His Off-Broadway credits include The Fourth Sister, Eight Days Backwards (Vineyard Theatre), Andorra, Waste (Theatre for a New Audience), Bad Habits, Aristocrats (Manhattan Theatre Club), Queens Boulevard (Signature Theatre), Rancho Viejo, Kin, On the Bum, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, The Common Pursuit, The Mysteries, and The False Servant (Classic Stage Company). With The Public’s Shakespeare in the Park: Tartuffe, The Winter’s Tale, and Twelfth Night. Film and television credits include God's Pocket, Across the Universe, Spy Game, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Love Letter, Requiem for a Dream, Quiz Show, Kinsey, Dark Water, “7 Seconds,” “Sneaky Pete,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “30 Rock,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Bronx Is Burning,” “John Adams,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” and “Law & Order.” ANDREW DURAND (Beverly/Christopher Timothy). Broadway: Head Over Heels, War Horse, Spring Awakening. West End: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Off-Broadway: The Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout), Gigantic (Vineyard), Love's Labour's Lost (The Public), The Wild Bride (St. Ann's Warehouse), The Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons). Tour: Kneehigh Theater Company. US: Berkeley Rep, Guthrie, Chicago Shakespeare. UK: Bristol Old Vic, Liverpool Everyman, The Asylum. TV: CBS’ "Madam Secretary" (Guest Star). EDEN MARRYSHOW (Ray Mills/Lee Howard) is an award-winning Actor/Writer/Director from Flatbush, Brooklyn. He recently co-wrote, produced and starred in the Feature Film BRUCE!!!! which garnered Marryshow the Grand Jury Prize: Best Director at the American Black Film Festival, the HBO Award for Best Film and the Audience Award at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival. There will be a theatrical release of the film this year through AMC. Theatre credits include Pipeline (Actors Theatre), Game On (Kennedy Center), Sty of the Blind Pig (Theater Works Hartford). Marryshow has played lead/supporting roles in Farewell, Bodega, White Girl, and The Normal Heart. He recently recurred on Netflix’s “Jessica Jones” and will recur on “It’s Bruno.” A huge thanks to my parents, Cesa, Maggie Flanigan Studio, Headline Talent Agency, and The Boothe Group. I wouldn’t be here without you. To my beloved Latina “Peanut” Bilbro. We did it. We are on Broadway! This one’s for you. COLIN McPHILLAMY (Sir Alick/Rees-Mogg/Chapel Father) was born in London and trained at Central. UK credits include West End, National, regional and TV. Broadway: The Ferryman, The Importance of Being Earnest, Waiting in the Wings. Off-Broadway: The Seafarer, The Woman in Black, House, and Garden (MTC). US Regional: Seasons at The Guthrie, The Alley, Westport, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Florida Stage, Promethean, The Maltz, ATL, Actors Playhouse, NJ Shakespeare Festival, The Rep, The Mark Taper, The Old Globe, The Wilma, Bagaduce. He appeared in Democracy at The Sydney Theatre Company, A Midsummer Night’s Dream in New Zealand, and King Lear in Beijing. US TV: “Law and Order C.I.,” “Pan-Am,” “Zero Hour,” “Blacklist: Redemption.” Colin has taught and guest directed in London, San Diego and Beijing. He has published three books of short stories and theatrical travel writing. He blogs at McPhillamy.com ERIN NEUFER (Anna Murdoch/Diana/Chrissie/Apprentice). Broadway debut. Off-Broadway: Nathan the Wise (CSC). Regional: Bay Street Theater, CenterStage, The Guthrie Theater, Pioneer Theater, Indiana Repertory Theater, The Kennedy Center. NYU: Plenty, The Three Sisters, Describe the Night (Rajiv Joseph world premiere), Mrs. Warrens Profession, Landscape of the Body. TV: “Gypsy” (Netflix). 2007 Irene Ryan Award Winner. MFA: NYU Graduate Acting KEVIN PARISEAU (Bench Hand/TV Host/Croiset). Broadway/Off-Broadway: Show Boat (with the NY Phil), The Explorers Club (MTC), Grand Hotel (Encores!), Legally Blonde (OBC), Popcorn Falls, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Regional: Beatsville (Asolo Rep), Chicago (Riverside Theatre), The Producers, Annie, and 1776 (Paper Mill Playhouse), The Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Nashville), Vanya, Sonya,… (Engeman), It’s a Wonderful Life (Bucks County Playhouse), All in the Timing (DTC). Film/Television: “Boardwalk Empire” (series finale), Tower Heist, Morning Glory. Audiobooks: Over 130 recordings including Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War (Audie nomination) and War and Remembrance. RANA ROY (Stephanie Rahn) is currently starring in Facebook Watch’s “Queen America” opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones. With season long arcs on NBC’s “The Night Shift,” CW’s “Life Sentence,” WGN’s acclaimed series “Underground” and upcoming on Lifetime’s “American Princess.” Rana began her career as a dancer -- prominently on the BBC (UK) show “Dance X,” leading her to open Rihanna’s (UK) Umbrella Tour. She was later cast as a series regular on the UK series “Britannia High,” where she also had a record deal with Universal Records. MICHAEL SIBERRY (Hugh Cudlipp). Theater: Junk (Lincoln Center), Six Degrees of Separation (Broadway), Enemy of the People (Manhattan Theater Club), Man and Boy, Death Takes a Holiday, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Roundabout), Uncle Vanya, Proof, Antony and Cleopatra (McCarter Theater Center Princeton), When the Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center), Spamalot (Tour & Broadway), The Frogs (Lincoln Center), The Sound of Music (Broadway), Nicholas Nickleby (Royal Shakespeare Company, Broadway), The Merchant of Venice (Broadway). Film and television include Birdman, Experimenter, Coming Through The Rye, “House of Cards,” “Elementary,” “The Good Wife,” "Boardwalk Empire," "Jessica Jones,” and “The Last Tycoon.” ROBERT STANTON (Bernard Shrimsley/Brittenden). MTC: Saint Joan, Fuddy Meers, Overtime. Broadway: A Free Man of Color, Mary Stuart, The Coast of Utopia, A Small Family Business. Off-Broadway: two-dozen credits include All in the Timing (Obie Award) and Love Child, performed with co-writer Daniel Jenkins. Recent theater includes Mr. Puff in The Critic and Moon in The Real Inspector Hound (Emery Battis Award, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Guthrie), Charles Marsden in Strange Interlude (STC); Dying for It (Atlantic); The Killer (Theatre for a New Audience); What the Butler Saw (Westport); The Forgotten Woman (Bay Street); Rear Window (Hartford Stage); Arnolphe in The School for Wives (Two River). Films: over 20, from A League of Their Own to Jason Bourne, including Rupert Goold’s True Story. Recent television: “Mr. Mercedes.” MFA, NYU. Founding member, Fair Wage OnStage. TARA SUMMERS (Joyce Hopkirk/Muriel McKay) is a British-American actress and playwright. She starred this past season in Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem at Lincoln Center and in Jonathan Lynn's Yes, Prime Minister at the Geffen in Los Angeles. She is soon to be seen in Driven, the story of disgraced entrepreneur John DeLorean which opened at last year’s Venice Film Festival. Film credits include Wanderland, Major Arcana, Factory Girl, The Lake Effect, Alfie, and What a Girl Wants. She was a series regular on PBS' “Mercy Street,” ABC’s “Boston Legal,” Fox’s “Rake,” and CBS’ “Ringer” and had memorable recurring roles on “Strangers,” “Stalker,” “Madam Secretary,” “Damages,” “Sons of Anarchy” and AMC's “Dietland.” Summers wrote, produced and starred in the one-woman autobiography Gypsy of Chelsea at Studio 54 in New York City, The Hudson in Los Angeles, and the Royal Court in London, where she was a member of the Young Writers’ Program. JAMES GRAHAM (Playwright). Theatre work includes Labour of Love which won Best New Comedy at the Olivier Awards 2018, INK which was nominated for Best Play at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards and The Culture – A Farce in Two Acts performed as part of the Hull UK City of Culture 2017. Previous plays include This House at the National, Privacy which transferred from the Donmar to Broadway and The Vote which was broadcast live on election night. James’ television writing includes political drama Coalition (Channel 4), Prisoner’s Wives (BBC1) and Caught in a Trap (ITV1). His first feature film X+Y was released in 2015 after being selected at the Toronto International Film Festival and London Film Festival and won the Writer’s Guild Award for Best Debut Screenplay. His “Brexit: The Uncivil War” is currently playing in the US on HBO. RUPERT GOOLD (Director) is Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, where his productions include Albion, INK (also West End in 2017, Olivier-nominated Best Director), Richard III (broadcast live to cinemas around the world in July 2016), Medea, The Merchant of Venice, King Charles III (also West End, Broadway and UK/Australia tour) and American Psycho (also Broadway in 2016). He will direct two new productions at the Almeida in 2019 – the world premiere of Anne Washburn’s Shipwreck and a new adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg’s film The Hunt. He was Artistic Director of Headlong from 2005 until 2013 where his work included The Effect, ENRON, Earthquakes in London and Decade. Other theatre credits include Made in Dagenham (West End), Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre, West End and Broadway) and No Man’s Land at The Gate, Dublin and West End. He has twice been the recipient of the Laurence Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard Awards for Best Director. On film, he directed BAFTA-nominated Richard II, Macbeth and Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III for the BBC, and the feature True Story starring James Franco and Jonah Hill. He is currently in production on Judy, starring Renée Zellweger. Rupert was awarded a CBE for services to drama in 2017. ALMEIDA THEATRE. The Almeida makes brave new work that asks big questions: of plays, of theatre and of the world around us. It brings together the most exciting artists to take risks; to provoke, inspire and surprise audiences; to interrogate the present, dig up the past and imagine the future. The Almeida makes argument for theatre as an essential force in an increasingly fragmented society. Founded by Pierre Audi in 1980, his successors were Jonathan Kent and Ian McDiarmid in 1990, and Michael Attenborough in 2002. In summer 2013, Rupert Goold joined the Almeida as Artistic Director. Under his leadership, notable productions have included American Psycho: a new musical thriller (transferred to Broadway); Ghosts (transferred to the West End and won three Olivier Awards); Chimerica (transferred to the West End and won five Olivier Awards); 1984 (transferred to West End, Broadway and Australia); King Charles III (transferred to the West End, won the Olivier Award for Best New Play, transferred to Broadway, toured the UK and Sydney, and was adapted for BBC television) and Oresteia (transferred to the West End and won the Olivier Award for Best Director). Recently, there have been West End transfers for Robert Icke’s productions of Hamlet (also screened on the BBC) and Mary Stuart, INK, directed by Goold, and Rebecca Frecknall’s production of Summer & Smoke transfers to the West End in November 2018. The Almeida was named London Theatre of the Year at the 2018 Stage Awards. almeida.co.uk. SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODUCTIONS (SFP) is a West End and Broadway production company responsible for some of the most successful theatre productions in London and New York including most recently in New York: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Ferryman, Travesties and Mean Girls. Since 1990, SFP has developed, initiated and produced over 160 new productions and together they have won a staggering 48 Olivier Awards including a record-breaking 14 at the 2014 Awards. In 2017, SFP won 9 Olivier Awards for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the most awards ever received by a single production in Oliviers’ history. The company has also won 24 Tonys and 2 BAFTAs. In 2019, Sonia Friedman OBE was awarded ‘Producer of the Year’ at the Stage Awards for the fourth time. In 2018, Friedman was awarded the Equity Services to Theatre Award at the 18th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards and was also featured in TIME100, a list of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2017 she took the number one spot in 'The Stage 100', becoming the first number one in the history of the compilation not to own or operate West End theatres and the first solo woman for almost 20 years. West End and Broadway productions include: the UK premiere of The Book of Mormon, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in London, New York and Melbourne, Mean Girls at the August Wilson Theatre, New York, The Ferryman at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, New York, All About Eve at the Noël Coward Theatre, London, The Jungle at St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, The Inheritance, Summer and Smoke, Dreamgirls, The Jungle at the Playhouse Theatre, London, Consent, The Birthday Party, INK, Hamlet starring Andrew Scott, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, The Ferryman Royal Court and Gielgud Theatre, London, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Travesties, The Glass Menagerie, Nice Fish, A Christmas Carol, Funny Girl, Farinelli and The King, Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch, 1984, Sunny Afternoon, Bend It Like Beckham, The Nether, The River, Electra, King Charles III, Shakespeare in Love, Ghosts, Mojo, Chimerica, Merrily We Roll Along, Old Times, Twelfth Night and Richard III, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Sunshine Boys, Hay Fever, Absent Friends, Top Girls, Betrayal, Much Ado About Nothing, Clybourne Park, The Children’s Hour, A Flea in Her Ear, La Bête, All My Sons, Private Lives, Jerusalem, A Little Night Music, Legally Blonde, Othello, Arcadia, The Mountaintop, The Norman Conquests, A View From the Bridge, Dancing at Lughnasa, Maria Friedman: Re-Arranged, La Cage aux Folles, No Man’s Land, The Seagull, Under the Blue Sky, That Face, Dealer’s Choice, Hergés Adventures of Tintin, In Celebration, Boeing-Boeing, The Dumb Waiter, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Love Song, Faith Healer, Bent, Eh Joe, Donkeys’ Years, Otherwise Engaged, Celebration, Shoot the Crow, As You Like It, The Home Place, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, By the Bog of Cats, The Woman in White, Guantanamo: ‘Honor Bound to Defend Freedom’, Endgame, Jumpers, See You Next Tuesday, Hitchcock Blonde, Absolutely! {Perhaps}, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Ragtime, Macbeth, What the Night Is For, Afterplay, Up for Grabs, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Noises Off, On an Average Day, A Servant to Two Masters, Port Authority, Spoonface Steinberg and Speed-The-Plow. Forthcoming productions include: Fiddler on the Roof at the Playhouse Theatre, London, The Jungle at the Curran, San Francisco, Rosmersholm at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Curran, San Francisco, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at Mehr! Theatre am Großmarkt, Hamburg. For a full list of SFP’s theatre credits, please visit soniafriedman.com. THE ROY COCKRUM FOUNDATION. Founded in 2014 by Roy Cockrum and Benita Hofstetter Koman with winnings from Mr. Cockrum’s Powerball lottery jackpot, the foundation’s mission is to award grants to support world-class performing arts projects in not-for-profit professional theatres throughout America. Since 2014, fifteen flagship American theatres have received major grants from the foundation. Inspiration for its mission derives from a Camus quote: “Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.” ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays. GARY L. CHURGIN (Producing Fund Partner). An MTC Board member since 2015 and long-time Patron, Gary is excited to be a Producing Fund Partner on his first MTC production. |
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