| Keen Company announces the cast for SORRY, WRONG NUMBER: Marsha Mason, Heidi Armbruster, Tony winner Chuck Cooper, Jasminn Johnson, and Matt Saldivar | |
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| Drama Desk and Obie Award-Winning Keen Company Announces the Cast for All-Star Benefit Broadcast of SORRY, WRONG NUMBER by Lucille Fletcher Starring Four-Time Academy Award Nominee Marsha Mason, Along with Heidi Armbruster, Tony Award Winner Chuck Cooper, Jasminn Johnson, and Matt Saldivar Directed by Jonathan Silverstein Featuring Live Foley Effects by Nick Abeel Benefit Livestream To Air Monday February 15th at 7pm EST Tickets Now On Sale! Keen Company continues the 2020-'21 Season with all-star benefit broadcast of Sorry, Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher, which Orson Welles called "the greatest single radio script ever written!" Today Keen Company Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein announced the cast for Sorry, Wrong Number: four-time Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason will lead the cast along with Heidi Armbruster, Tony Award winner Chuck Cooper, Jasminn Johnson, and Matt Saldivar. Sorry, Wrong Number will have Live Foley Effects created by Nick Abeel. Sorry, Wrong Number will be directed by Jonathan Silverstein. "Since the early days of the pandemic, I became increasingly fascinated with old time radio and the ways these early pioneers inspired their audience to use their imagination in new ways. One of the most popular of these dramas is Lucille Fletcher's Sorry, Wrong Number, a taut thriller that set the bar for suspense on the radio. I am thrilled to be collaborating with a wonderful group of talented and generous Keen friends to create an all new audio version of this famous story. I look forward to welcoming patrons to this special fundraising event which will make you think twice before making your next phone call," said Mr. Silverstein. This one-night only event will feature a surprise pre-show, a starry cast breathing new life into the classic script, and an exclusive talkback after the show with artists. Benefit tickets are only $25 and are available at www.keencompany.org. Tickets to this and all fundraiser events this season will support Keen Company's Hear/Now audio theater season, as well as Keen's Playwrights Lab for mid-career writers, and Keen Teens which serves students in all five boroughs of NYC. Sorry, Wrong Number begins with a simple phone call, and follows the progression of one frantic night as Mrs. Elbert Stevenson accidentally overhears a murder plot while home alone and confined to her bed. Will anyone believe her, or will time run out to call for help? Listen as the suspense grows and hear why Sorry, Wrong Number is renowned as one of the most thrilling radio scripts ever written. Originally airing on the "Suspense" radio program on May 25th 1943, Agnes Moorehead starred as Mrs. Stevenson. The play was reprised seven times - the final broadcast was February 14th 1960. In 2015, the original broadcast was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for inclusion in the National Recording Registry. It was adapted into the acclaimed 1948 film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster; Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Listen as the suspense grows and time runs out to stop a gruesome murder, then join the artists after the broadcast for an exclusive talkback. Keen Company is an award-winning Off-Broadway theater creating story-driven work that provokes identification, reflection, and emotional connection. In intimate productions of plays and musicals, the company tells stories about the decisive moments that change us. Keen also runs a developmental new work initiative for mid-career playwrights and a unique educational outreach program for teens in all five boroughs of NYC. As part of Keen Company's 21st Season, the company will be producing a year of audio theater. Hear/Nowwelcomes patrons into a theater of their imagination - now through June 2021 - featuring the world premiere of new audio plays by Pearl Cleage, Kate Cortesi, finkle, James Anthony Tyler, and musical team Melissa Li & Kit Yan. All new audio plays will be released completely free for patrons on Keen Company's website as well as through popular podcast platforms. For early access and exclusive perks, support Keen Company by joining as a season member. Membership levels start at just $1 a month and bonus content, including talkbacks with playwrights and artists, panels with experts, behind the scenes interviews, digital programs, opening night premiere parties, and more. Look for Hear/Now on your podcast app and learn more about membership packages at www.keencompany.org. Up next at Keen Company will be the World Premiere of Digging in the Dark by Pearl Cleage (Blues for an Alabama Sky), an audio piece premiering February 26th. Details will be announced soon. You can also join the company every Monday night at 6:30pm for Keen After Hours, a free interview show chatting with stars of stage and screen. Episodes stream live on the Keen Company website, as well as our Facebook and Youtube pages. For more information on Sorry, Wrong Number or any of Keen's programs, visit KeenCompany.org. Heidi Armbruster has extensive New York and regional theater credits, including Time Stands Still on Broadway, Lincoln Center's production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Disgraced, the New York premieres of Sam Hunter's Lewiston/Clarkston at Rattlestick, Anna Ziegler's Boy at Keen Company, Tracy Letts's Man from Nebraska at Second Stage, and Theresa Rebeck's Poor Behavior at Primary Stages. Heidi was awarded a Drama League nomination for her work in the Keen Company's revival of Tea and Sympathy. Heidi's film and TV credits include Poor Behavior, My Man Is A Loser, Michael Clayton, The Northern Kingdom, "Pose," "The Deuce," Daredevil, Divorce, "Louie," "The Blacklist," "Blue Bloods," "30 Rock," "House of Cards," and Michelle on "Younger." Heidi received her Master of Fine Arts in Acting from American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Chuck Cooper has been a working professional actor for 45 years. He has been featured in 16 Broadway shows in every theatrical genre from Shakespeare to musical comedy. His many accolades include winning the 1996 Tony Award for best featured actor in a musical for his performance in Cy Coleman's The Life. His other awards include: Lucille Lortel Award for The Piano Lesson, San Diego Critics' Circle Award for Two Trains Running, Audelco Award for Caroline or Change, two Drama Desk nominations for Choir Boy and The Life. His many guest starring TV appearances include "Little Voice," "New Amsterdam," "City on a Hill," "Bull," "Power," "The Good Wife," "House of Cards," and "Madam Secretary." His many film appearances include Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, Boy Wonder, Find Me Guilty, The Opportunists, The Hurricane, Three Days Of Rain. His favorite role is Eddie, Alex and Lilli's father. He is gratefully married to playwright Deborah Brevoort. Jasminn Johnson recently made her Off-Broadway debut with the Keen Company in Blues for an Alabama Sky. Other recent credits include "The Politician" (Netflix); Viola in Twelfth Night (Shakespeare on the Sound); and Ruby in Seven Guitars (The Juilliard School). She's a graduate of The Juilliard School and currently lives in New York City where she also works as a teaching artist. Marsha Mason has received four Academy Award nominations for her roles in the films The Goodbye Girl, Cinderella Liberty, Only When I Laugh and Chapter Two. She has been the recipient of two Golden Globe Awards for her film roles and an Emmy Award nomination for her role on "Frasier." Her other TV credits include "The Middle," "The Good Wife," "Madam Secretary," and "Grace & Frankie." Broadway roles include Impressionism with Jeremy Irons, Steel Magnolias, The Night of the Iguana, The Good Doctor, King Richard III, and Cactus Flower. Off-Broadway she co-starred in the world premiere of Terrence McNally's Fire and Air at Classic Stage. Regionally she has starred in All's Well That Ends Well at Shakespeare in Washington, DC, A Doll's House at ACT in San Francisco, Arms and the Man at Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and Watch on the Rhine at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. She has directed Chapter Two and Steel Magnolias at the Bucks County Playhouse, the first female An Act of God with Paige Davis at the Arizona Theatre Company and the world premiere of Tennessee Williams's Talisman Roses starring Amanda Plummer at the Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown. Marsha was Associate Director with Jack O'Brien for the Roundabout Theater's production of All My Sons on Broadway. Last year she directed Walter Bobbie and Brooke Shields in The Man Who Came to Dinner for Bucks County Playhouse and starred with Brian Cox in Dear Liar for Bucks County and Richard Dreyfus in The Letters of Noel Coward for Bay Street Theater. Marsha currently lives in Connecticut with her dog Tootsie. As an actor on Broadway, Matthew Saldivar most recently originated the role of Alphonse Mucha in the Roundabout Theater production of Bernhardt/Hamlet starring Janet McTeer. Other principal roles on Broadway include Junk at Lincoln Center, Saint Joan at Manhattan Theater Club, Black Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher, Act One at Lincoln Center and A Streetcar Named Desire. He originated the role of Johnny Sandwich in the Broadway musical Honeymoon in Vegas with Tony Danza, played Kenickie in the most recent Broadway revival of Grease and originated the role of Sammy in the Broadway premiere of the musical The Wedding Singer. He played Luther Billis in the 1st National Tour of the Lincoln Center production of South Pacific directed by Bartlett Sher. Off- Broadway and regional credits include Hermes in Hadestown at New York Theater Workshop directed by Rachel Chavkin, Sam Gold's production of Hamlet at The Public Theater starring Oscar Isaac. Frank in Annie Get Your Gun directed by Sarna Lapine, the premier of Kate Hamill's Dracula at Classic Stage Company, Randy Newman's Harps and Angels directed by Jerry Zaks at the Mark Taper Forum, Quiarra Alegria Hudes' Daphne's Dive at Signature Theater Company (NYC) directed by Thomas Kail, the revival of All In the Timing at Primary Stages, David Bryan and Joe DiPietro's Toxic Avenger: The Musical, as well as principal roles for The Atlantic Theater Company, The Shakespeare Theater Company, Manhattan Theater Club, The Guthrie Theater, The Long Wharf Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, New York Theater Workshop, The New York Shakespeare Festival, LAByrinth Theater Company, Theater for a New Audience and City Center among others. Film and Television include: Gordon in "Rent: Live on Fox," "Live from Lincoln Center," "The Other Two," "The Good Cop," "The Code," "Elementary," "Law and Order," Savages, Tony and Tina's Wedding, Boiler Room, "All My Children." He is a long time member of the theatrical rock band The Petersons. He earned a double BA from Middlebury College in Theater and Spanish and an MA in Spanish from the Middlebury College Summer Language Program. He earned an MFA from the Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program at NYU. He is married to the director Sarna Lapine. During the pandemic he recently directed a production of Sam Shepard's Icarus's Mother at the New Canaan Public High School. |
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