| JESSICA CHASTAIN TO STAR IN JAMIE LLOYD’S NEW PRODUCTION OF IBSEN’S “A DOLL’S HOUSE” IN A NEW VERSION BY AMY HERZOG | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 09:17 am EST 11/16/22 | |
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| ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER JESSICA CHASTAIN COMES TO BROADWAY THIS SPRING IN JAMIE LLOYD'S NEW PRODUCTION OF HENRIK IBSEN'S LANDMARK DRAMA "A DOLL'S HOUSE" IN A NEW VERSION BY AMY HERZOG New York, NY (November 16, 2022) – Today, The Jamie Lloyd Company, the successful partnership between Ambassador Theatre Group and Artistic Director Jamie Lloyd, announced that Academy Award® winner Jessica Chastain will come to Broadway this spring as Nora Helmer in director Jamie Lloyd's radical new production of Henrik Ibsen's landmark drama A Doll's House, in a new version by Amy Herzog. A Doll's House thrust drama firmly into the modern age when it premiered in 1879. Now, nearly a century-and-a-half later, Tony Award nominee Jamie Lloyd and acclaimed playwright Amy Herzog will make freshly relevant a story that shocked audiences and brought forth a new era of theater. One of the most acclaimed actors of her generation, Jessica Chastain will inhabit one of the theater's most iconic roles, re-energizing the play for a whole new generation. Production dates, theater, ticketing information, creative team, and additional casting for A Doll's House will be announced shortly. To sign up to receive the latest news about A Doll's House on Broadway, please visit www.adollshousebway.com Jessica Chastain said, "When I sat down with the brilliant Jamie Lloyd five years ago to discuss a possible collaboration, I was over the moon when we decided on A Doll's House. We were set to start rehearsals in London in April 2020, but little did we know what the world (and a pandemic) had in store for us. While home in New York, walking around the empty theater district made my heart hurt. New York has been my home for over 20 years and it's immensely important to me to take care of this city and support my artist neighbors. So, I couldn't be happier to play Nora in A Doll's House on Broadway! I'm very excited to work with Jamie and the incredible Amy Herzog in this city that formed me. I hope in the future to work in the West End but for now I can't wait to be together with all of the wonderful people of New York and my artistic community on Broadway." Next spring, The Jamie Lloyd Company will celebrate its 10th anniversary. The company has created some of the most thrilling theater of the last decade including 2013's Olivier Award-winning revival of Macbeth starring James McAvoy and Claire Foy and the landmark 2018 "Pinter at the Pinter" season, a celebration of the Nobel Prize-winning writer's work, which culminated in the critically lauded production of Betrayal starring Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox. The production transferred to Broadway and received four Tony Award nominations including Best Revival of a Play and Best Director of a Play for Lloyd. Most recently, the company created their Olivier Award-winning production of Cyrano de Bergerac, which had a sold-out run last spring at BAM, and this summer's acclaimed production of The Seagull starring Emilia Clarke, which just ended a run at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End. The Jamie Lloyd Company production of A Doll's House is produced on Broadway by Ambassador Theatre Group, Gavin Kalin Productions, and Wessex Grove. BIOGRAPHIES Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain has received numerous nominations and accolades for her work. She can currently be seen in the critically acclaimed The Good Nurse for Netflix and will next be seen on screen as country music legend Tammy Wynette in Showtime's limited series, "George & Tammy," opposite Michael Shannon as George Jones. This limited series will chronicle the country music power couple and their complicated relationship, based on the book The Three of Us: Growing Up with Tammy and George, written by the couple's daughter, Georgette Jones. Chastain recently wrapped production on the psychological thriller Mothers' Instinct, in which she stars opposite Anne Hathaway and on the Michel Franco directed, Memory, opposite Peter Sarsgaard. Chastain's starring role in 2021 as the incomparable Tammy Faye in The Eyes of Tammy Faye earned her the award for Best Actress at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Critics Choice Awards, and the Academy Awards. She also received a TIFF Tribute Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, Best Actress at the 2021 Women's Image Network Awards, and the Desert Palm Achievement Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Produced by Freckle Films, the film also won the 2022 Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Her recent work includes HBO's much buzzed about limited series, "Scenes From A Marriage," alongside Oscar Isaac; Universal's The 355, an international spy thriller based on an original idea by Chastain for Freckle Films, which she starred opposite Penelope Cruz, Lupita Nyong'o, Fan Bing Bing, and Diane Kruger; and Roadside Pictures' The Forgiven, opposite Ralph Fiennes, based on the acclaimed novel by Lawrence Osborne. Previously, she could be seen in the onstage theater production of Salome with Al Pacino; the highly successful horror film, It Chapter 2; Aaron Sorkin's film adaptation of Molly's Game opposite Idris Elba, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama; Christopher Nolan's Interstellar with Matthew McConaughey; the Academy Award nominated drama Tree of Life opposite Brad Pitt and Sean Penn; and Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, which earned her the 2013 Critics' Choice Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and an Academy Award nomination. In addition to her acclaimed work as an actor, Chastain launched Freckle Films, a New York based film and television production company, in 2016. In addition to The 355, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Mothers' Instinct, and the upcoming limited series, "George & Tammy," Freckle Films is currently developing a series adaptation of the novel His & Hers written by Alice Feeney alongside Endeavor Content as well as The School For Good Mothers written by Jessamine Chan. Jamie Lloyd (Director). For The Jamie Lloyd Company: Cyrano de Bergerac (Playhouse, Harold Pinter, Theatre Royal Glasgow, and Brooklyn Academy of Music; Drama League Award nominations for Outstanding Revival of a Play and Outstanding Direction of a Play; Olivier Award for Best Revival; Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Director; Evening Standard Award nomination for Best Director; WhatsOnStage Award nomination for Best Director); The Seagull (Playhouse and Harold Pinter; Evening Standard Award nomination for Best Director); Betrayal (Harold Pinter and Bernard B. Jacobs, Broadway; Tony Award nominations for Best Revival and Best Director; Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Director; Evening Standard Award nomination for Best Director; Drama League Award nomination for Outstanding Revival of a Play; Outer Critics' Circle Award nominations for Best Director and Best Revival of a Play; WhatsOnStage Award for Best Play Revival); One for the Road, The New World Order, Mountain Language, The Lover and The Collection, Landscape, A Kind of Alaska, Monologue, Party Time, Celebration, A Slight Ache, The Dumb Waiter (Pinter at the Pinter); The Maids, The Homecoming, The Ruling Class, Richard III, The Pride, The Hothouse, Macbeth (Trafalgar Studios). Other theatre credits include: Evita (Regent's Park Open Air; Evening Standard Award for Best Musical Revival; Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Director; Olivier Award nomination for Best Revival of a Musical; WhatsOnStage Award for Best Direction; WhatsOnStage Award nomination for Best Musical Revival); Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory; Evening Standard Award nomination for Best Director). Amy Herzog (New Version). Herzog's plays include Mary Jane (New York Drama Critics Circle Award), 4000 Miles (Obie Award for Best New American Play), After the Revolution (New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award) and Belleville (Drama Desk Nominee). She received the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Amy teaches playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama. Henrik Ibsen (Playwright, 1828-1906) is one of the most influential dramatists in Western culture. In addition to A Doll's House, his other works include Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, and The Master Builder. The Jamie Lloyd Company (Producer) is the hugely successful partnership between Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) and Artistic Director Jamie Lloyd. Since 2013, the company has created ground-breaking productions with the very best acting talent in the world. The company's productions include radical reappraisals of The Seagull, Cyrano de Bergerac, Betrayal, The Maids, The Ruling Class, Macbeth, and the landmark "Pinter at the Pinter" Season. @jamielloydco. ATG Productions (Producer) is the award-winning producing and general management arm of the Ambassador Theatre Group. Current and upcoming West End productions include: the seven-time Olivier Award-winning Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club starring Callum Scott Howells and Madeline Brewer; Mother Goose starring Ian McKellen and John Bishop; Pretty Woman The Musical starring Aimie Atkinson and Danny Mac; and The Doctor starring Juliet Stevenson. Recent Broadway credits include: Plaza Suite starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick; Tony Award-winning David Byrne's American Utopia; Some Like It Hot; Caroline, Or Change starring Sharon D. Clarke (Roundabout); American Buffalo starring Sam Rockwell; The Lehman Trilogy (Tony Award); Betrayal starring Tom Hiddleston; Sea Wall/A Life starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge; Burn This starring Adam Driver; Pretty Woman; the Tony award-winning Oslo; Dear Evan Hansen (Tony Award); A Doll's House, Part 2; and Sunday in the Park with George starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford. Recent productions and co-productions include: Mad House starring David Harbour and Bill Pullman (West End); the Olivier Award-winning Cyrano de Bergerac starring James McAvoy (West End, Glasgow, and Brooklyn) and The Seagull starring Emilia Clarke (West End) via The Jamie Lloyd Company; Dear Evan Hansen (West End); Fatal Attraction (UK Tour); 9 to 5 the Musical (West End and Australia); Ian McKellen On Stage (West End and UK tour); Betrayal starring Tom Hiddleston (West End); Touching The Void (West End); Ghost Stories (West End); "Pinter at the Pinter" Season (West End); King Lear starring Ian McKellen (West End); the Olivier Award-winning Caroline, or Change starring Sharon D. Clarke (West End); the Tony Award-winning Oslo (West End); Glengarry Glen Ross starring Christian Slater (West End and UK tour); Baskerville (Beijing and Nanjing, China); Abigail's Party (UK tour), Strangers on a Train (UK tour), Gaslight (UK tour), Buried Child starring Ed Harris (West End); Big Fish starring Kelsie Grammar (West End); Hamlet starring Andrew Scott (West End); The Maids (West End); The Homecoming (West End); Doctor Faustus starring Kit Harington (West End); Oresteia (West End); and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (West End and UK tour). Gavin Kalin Productions (Producer) is an award-winning theatrical production company that specialize in producing theatre in the West End, on Broadway, and internationally. Recent West End credits include Cabaret, Back to the Future, Cyrano, Betrayal, 9 to 5 The Musical, Pretty Woman The Musical, Come From Away, "Pinter at the Pinter" Season, Sweat, King Lear, Oslo, and The Ferryman. UK Tour credits include Shrek The Musical, An Officer and Gentleman The Musical, and Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Recent Broadway credits include Plaza Suite, Betrayal, Leopoldstadt, Funny Girl, Sea Wall/ A Life, Hadestown, and The Ferryman. Other entertainment: Monopoly Lifesized; Peaky Blinders: The Rise. For more www.gavinkalinproductions.com Gavin is also the founder of Totally Theatre Productions Ltd, a TV/Video production company that specializes in producing Broadcast and online content for theatre and live entertainment. Clients are worldwide with many in the West End and on Broadway. For more www.totallytheatreproductions.com Wessex Grove (Producer) is a theatrical production company set up by Benjamin Lowy and Emily Vaughan-Barratt in 2020. Current and upcoming productions include: Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons at the Harold Pinter Theatre; One Woman Show at the Ambassadors Theatre; Best of Enemies at the Noel Coward Theatre; Mother Goose at the Duke of York's Theatre and UK Tour; Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Playhouse Theatre; and The Doctor at the Duke of York's Theatre. Recent productions include: Constellations at the Vaudeville Theatre, winner of the Olivier Award for Best Revival; Mad House at the Ambassadors Theatre; The Seagull at the Harold Pinter Theatre; Cyrano de Bergerac at the Harold Pinter Theatre, Glasgow Theatre Royal and Brooklyn Academy of Music; and The New Tomorrow Festival at the Young Vic. Producers: Benjamin Lowy & Emily Vaughan-Barratt # # # # www.adollshousebroadway.com www.instagram.com/adollshousebway www.facebook.com/adollshousebway www.twitter.com/adollshousebway |
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