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DEBORAH ZOE LAUFER (Playwright). Laufer's plays have been produced at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Cleveland Playhouse, Geva Theatre Center, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Portland Stage, and eighty other theaters around the country, in Germany, Russia and Canada. End Days was awarded The ATCA Steinberg citation and appeared at Ensemble Studio Theatre through an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant. Informed Consent, which was a Sloan commission will be produced in 2015 by Primary Stages and EST at the Duke Theatre in NYC. Other plays include Leveling Up, Sirens, Out of Sterno, The Last Schwartz, Meta, The Three Sisters of Weehawken, Fortune, The Gulf of Westchester, Miniatures, and Random Acts. Deb is a recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award and the Lilly Award and grants and commissions from The Edgerton Foundation, the NEA and NNPN. Her plays have been developed at PlayPenn, The Eugene O’Neill NPC, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ojai, The Missoula Colony, The Cherry Lane Alternative, The Dramatists Guild, New Georges, The Lark, Asolo Rep. and the Baltic Playwrights Conference. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School and a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and The Dramatists Guild. DeborahZoeLaufer.com.
LIESL TOMMY (Director). Off-Broadway: Appropriate (Obie Award; Signature Theatre, Woolly Mammoth), The Good Negro (The Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center), Angela’s Mixtape (Synchronicity Performance Group, New Georges), A Stone’s Throw (Women’s Project). Regional/international: Les Miserables (Dallas Theater Center), Party People (OSF, Berkeley Rep), The White Man – A Complex Declaration of Love (DanskDansk Theatre, Denmark), Peggy Picket Sees the Face of God (Luminato Festival/Canadian Stage), Eclipsed (Yale Rep, Woolly Mammoth), A History of Light (Contemporary American Theatre Festival), Hamlet (California Shakespeare), A Raisin in the Sun, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Huntington), American Buffalo (Baltimore Centre Stage), He is Here He Says I Say (Sundance East Africa), The Piano Lesson (Yale Rep), Ruined (OSF, La Jolla, Huntington, Berkeley Rep), Crimes of the Heart(McCarter), Book of Life (Sundance East Africa), Yankee Tavern, Stick Fly (CATF), A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep). Liesl is an Artist Trustee on the Sundance Institute Board, a Program Associate at Sundance Institute Theatre program and the Associate Director at Berkeley Rep. She was awarded the inaugural Susan Stroman Directing Award from the Vineyard Theater, tthe Alan Schneider Award from TCG, the NEA/TCG Directors Grant and the New York Theatre Workshop Casting/Directing Fellowship. Liesl has guest directed at Juilliard, Trinity Rep/Brown University’s MFA Directing Program, The Strasberg Institute, and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Liesl is a proud alum of Trinity Rep Conservatory. She is a native of Cape Town, South Africa.
PUN BANDHU (Actor). Broadway: Wit (MTC). Off Broadway: PS 122, Target Margin, Soho Rep, The Foundry Theatre among others. Many regional theatre world premieres. Awards: Colorado Theatre Guild’s Best Supporting Actor Henry Award, New Dramatists' Charles Bowden Award. TV: “Allegiance,” “The Good Wife,” “Without a Trace,” “Nurse Jackie.” Film: Money Monster, The Judge, Burn After Reading, Michael Clayton.
TINA BENKO (Actor) recently played Marianne3 in Ivo Van Hove’s production of Scenes From a Marriage at NY Theatre Workshop and Desdemona in Toni Morrison’s Desdemona (UK/Italy/Holland). NY theatre includes Titania in Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TFANA), Jackie (Lortel nom), and Tales From Red Vienna (MTC). TV/Film includes Fair Market Value, That Awkward Moment, “The Good Wife,” “The Mysteries of Laura,” “Person of Interest,” “Rock n’ Roll,” and “Flesh and Bone.”
JESSE J. PEREZ (Actor). New York credits; Triple Happiness (Second Stage), Barrio Grrrl (Summer Play Festival), Recent Tragic Events (Playwrights Horizons), In the Penal Colony (Classic Stage Company), Up Against the Wind (New York Theatre Workshop), and Lucia di Lammermoor, (The Metropolitan Opera). Film & Television; “American Splendor,” “Enter Nowhere,” “Life on Mars,” and “Law & Order.”
DELANNA STUDI (Actor). performed in the first national Broadway tour of August: Osage County and was a member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Film/television credits include Edgeof America, Dreamkeeper, Shameless, and General Hospital. DeLanna has re-traced her family’s footsteps along the Trail of Tears, collecting stories for a live theatrical experience.
MYRA LUCRETIA TAYLOR (Actor). Broadway: Nine (Tony Award, Best Revival), Macbeth, Electra, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, MuleBone, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Off Broadway: Bethany (Women's Project), Love, Loss, and What I Wore (Westside Theatre), National Tour: Wicked (Madame Morrible) Regional: Our Town (Long Wharf), International: The Winter's Tale, Pericles (Royal Shakespeare Company), TV: “Girls”/HBO, "The Bic C" Film: She's Lost Control, Custody, (upcoming). Myra is a Fox Fellow.
Informed Consent
by Deborah Zoe Laufer
directed by Liesl Tommy
DATES
Limited engagement
August 4- September 13, 2015
SCHEDULE
Tue-Thu 7; Fri 8; Sat 2&8; Sun 3
Added 2pm matinee Wed Sept 2
No 8pm performance on Sat Sept 5
RUN TIME
95 minutes
SHOW LOCATION
The Duke on 42nd Street
a NEW 42ND STREET® project
229 West 42nd Street
(between 7th and 8th Avenues)