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IKE HOLTER (Playwright). Ike Holter’s work has been produced at The Steppenwolf Garage, LiveWire Chicago, Theater 7, The Greenhouse Theater, Theater on The Lake and The Inconvenience, where he is a founding member and resident writer. He's received fellowships and commissions from The Goodman Theater, The Kennedy Center, Writers Theater and Teatro Vista. His show Hit The Wall played at Steppenwolf Garage and Off-Broadway at The Barrow Street Theater in New York. Jackalope Theater produced his new play Exit Strategy, which played to sold-out houses and transferred to Michigan. He was recently named Playwright of the Year by the Chicago Reader and Chicagoan of the Year for Theater by The Chicago Tribune. His monologues have been published in The New Yorker and several editions of Applause Books.
KIP FAGAN (Director) mostly recently directed Erin Courtney’s I Will Be Gone at the Humana Festival in Louisville and Heidi Schreck’s Grand Concourse at Playwrights Horizons in NYC. At Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre: Jesse Eisenberg’s The Revisionist (starring Eisenberg and Vanessa Redgrave), Halley Feiffer’s How to Make Friends and Then Kill Them, Eisenberg’s Asuncion, Heidi Schreck’s There Are No More Big Secrets, and Sheila Callaghan’s That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play. Other NYC credits include: Carlos Murillo's A Thick Description of Harry Smith and Samuel D. Hunter's Jack’s Precious Moment (Page 73); Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith's Radio Play (P.S. 122); Ariel Stess's I'm Pretty Fucked Up, Sheila Callaghan's Roadkill Confidential, and Rachel Hoeffel's Quail (Clubbed Thumb); Zayd Dohrn's Reborning and Cory Hinkle's Cipher (SPF); Sheila Callaghan's Recess and Christopher Durang’s Not a Creature Was Stirring (The Flea); Greg Keller's The Young Left (Cherry Lane); Sam Marks's Nelson (Partial Comfort). Regional credits include: Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Humana Festival, George Street Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Marin Theatre Company, and City Theatre, among others. Taught and/or directed at Juilliard, NYU, SUNY Purchase, Strasberg Institute. Upcoming: Susan Soon He Stanton’s Today Is My Birthday at Sundance Theatre Lab and Sheila Callaghan’s Women Laughing Alone With Salad at Woolly Mammoth. Co-founder of Printer’s Devil in Seattle; affiliated artist at Clubbed Thumb.
MICHAEL CULLEN (Arnold). NY Stage: King Liz (Second Stage); Finks (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Bug (Barrow Street Theater- Obie Award); Len, Asleep in Vinyl (Second Stage); Cobb (Lucille Lortel Theater- Drama Desk Award, Best Ensemble); Dark Matters (Rattlestick); One Shot, One Kill (Primary Stages); The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Atlantic); Bus Stop (Circle in the Square). Regional: Actors Theater of Louisville-Humana Festival, Denver Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Penguin Theater, Buffalo Studio Arena, The English Theater of Frankfurt, Germany. TV: “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Life on Mars,” “A Gifted Man,” “Third Watch,” “NY Undercover,” “Flesh and Bone,” “The Blacklist.” Film: The Place Beyond the Pines, Margot at the Wedding, Dead Man Walking, Clockers, Malcolm X.
AIMÉ DONNA KELLY (Sadie). Off-Broadway: Witch in Macbeth (Epic Theatre Ensemble). Regional: Jory in Disgraced (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Lady Macduff/Weird Sister in Macbeth (Arden Theatre Company); Petrushka in Moon Man Walk (Orbiter 3); Noxolo in The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane (Barrymore Award nominee- Best Actress); Black Woman in We Are Proud to Present… (InterAct Theatre Company); This Is the Week That Is (1812 Productions); Cleopatra in Unsex Me Here (Theatre 4the People); Sharon in We Are Bandits (Applied Mechanics); Georgia in The Exonerated (Delaware Theatre Company). BFA: University of the Arts.
REY LUCAS (Luce). Theatre: Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public, Playwrights Horizons, INTAR Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens, Arena Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Yale Repertory, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Alliance Theatre and the Denver Center Theatre Company. TV: “The Path” (upcoming), “Orange is the New Black” (upcoming), “Blue Bloods,” “Believe,” “American Odyssey,” “The Mysteries of Laura,” “The Blacklist,” “The Following,” “Golden Boy,” “Elementary,” “Person of Interest,” “Weeds,” “Army Wives,” “Law & Order,” “100 Centre Street.” Film: Keep in Touch (upcoming), About Alex, Allegiance, On the Job Training, The Doghouse. BA: Wesleyan University, CT. MFA: Yale School of Drama. reylucas.com
DEIRDRE MADIGAN (Pam). Broadway: A Delicate Balance, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, After the Night and the Music. Off-Broadway: Barbra’s Wedding and Major Crimes. Regional Theatre: Philadelphia Theatre Company (Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, Barrymore nominated), Bucks County Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, Two River Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Denver Center, Intiman, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, George Street Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Virginia Stage, Pioneer Theatre. TV: “Elementary,” “The Good Wife,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”
CHRISTINA NIEVES (Jania). Theatrical credits include: The House on Mango Street (Steppenwolf Theatre); El Nogalar, The Sins of Sor Juana (Goodman Theatre); West Side Story, Les Misérables (Drury Lane); In the Heights (Paramount Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Dee Snider’s Rock & Roll Christmas Tale (Broadway Playhouse); Song for the Disappeared (Passage Theatre); Depraved New World (Second City); Welcome to Arroyo’s (American Theatre Company); Romeo & Juliet (Apollo Theater); All My Sons (Cardinal Stage); Lunatic as & S-E-X-OH! (Teatro Luna.) Christina is an ensemble member with Teatro Vista and a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University. christina-nieves.com.
BRANDON J. PIERCE (Donnie). Regional: Metamorphoses, Charlotte’s Web (Arden Theatre Company); Hands Up (Flashpoint Theatre Company); Dutch Masters (Azuka Theatre); Mike Like Sugar (Simpatico Theatre Project); iSunjata Kamalenya (Experimental Theatre Company); Fair Maid of the West (Philadelphia Artists’ Collective); Romeo & Juliet, Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ); The Winter’s Tale, Henry IV (Shakespeare in Clark Park); Macbeth (Revolution Shakespeare). BFA: University of the Arts.
RYAN SPAHN (Ricky) recently graduated from the acting program at The Juilliard School where he wrote, produced and starred in He’s Way More Famous Than You, Grantham & Rose, and Woven. Ryan co-created and starred in the digital comedy series What’s Your Emergency (Stage17.tv). Off-Broadway: Gloria (Vineyard Theatre.) Regional: Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, Berkshire Theatre Group. Ryan was an LA Weekly Award winner for his performance in Stupid Kids (Celebration Theatre.) TV/Film: “Ugly Betty,” “Star Trek: Voyager,” “Tanner on Tanner,” “Late Show with David Letterman.”
Exit Strategy
by Ike Holter
directed by Kip Fagan
DATES
Limited engagement
March 30- May 6, 2016
SCHEDULE
Tue-Fri 8; Sat 2&8; Sun 3
Added 2pm matinee Wednesday, May 4
No performances available: April 12, 13, 20
RUN TIME
95 minutes
SHOW LOCATION
Cherry Lane Theatre
38 Commerce Street
(3 blocks south of Christopher Street, just west of 7th Avenue)