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TOPHER PAYNE (Playwright) is an unapologetic eavesdropper and collector of stories who makes his home in Atlanta. His works for the stage include Swell Party, The Only Light in Reno, Above the Fold (Metro Atlanta Theatre Award, Best Original Work & Best Play of the Year), Angry Fags (Gene-Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award), Evelyn in Purgatory (Essential Theatre Playwriting Award), and Perfect Arrangement (American Theatre Critics Association Osborn Award). He has been named Atlanta’s Best Playwright by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Creative Loafing, and The Sunday Paper, and was featured as one of “Ten Playwrights You Should Know” by Southern Theatre Magazine. His column for The Georgia Voice, Domestically Disturbed, won the 2012 National Newspaper Association award for Best Humor Column. He is an artistic associate with Flying Carpet Theatre in New York, and The Process Theatre in Atlanta. His audiobook, Funny Story: The Incomplete Works of Topher Payne, is available on iTunes, Audible, and Amazon. Topher and his beagle, Daisy, were both born in Mississippi, but they didn’t fit in there.
MICHAEL BARAKIVA (Director) is an Armenian/Israeli theater director and writer based in New York City. His first novel, One Man Guy, published by Macmillan (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), was named to the Rainbow List and will be released in Brazil by LeYa. Michael also serves as the Artistic Director of The Upstart Creatures (www.upstartcreatures.com), a theater company dedicated to creating unique artistic events combining theater and food. New York: White People by Neil Cuthbert, They Float Up by Jacquelyn Reingold (both at Ensemble Studio Theater), The Usher’s Ball by Fengar Gael (CAP 21), as well as workshops/readings at the Roundabout Theater Company, ARS Nova, New Dramatists, NY Stage & Film and New York Theater Workshop. Regionally, he was directed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Syracuse Stage, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Theater J, the Hangar Theater, Eugene O’Neill Theater Conference, Premiere Stages and the Nevada Conservatory Theater. Michael is a recipient of the David Merrick Prize in Drama, a Drama League Summer Fellowship, a Granada Fellowship at UC Davis and the Phil Killian Fellowship in Directing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He is an avid board-game player, and a proud member of the New York Ramblers, the world’s first openly-gay soccer club. He is a graduate of Vassar College and the Juilliard School, where he studied as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Directing. www.michaelbarakiva.com
JULIA COFFEY (Norma Baxter) Off-Broadway: London Wall (Drama Desk Nomination) and The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (Drama League Nomination) at The Mint Theater. Regional: Arcadia, Maple & Vine, Once in a Lifetime (A.C.T.); Tales from Hollywood (The Guthrie); The Merchant of Venice, The Beaux Stratagem (The Shakespeare Theatre, DC); As You Like It, (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); Romeo & Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). TV: “Law & Order: SVU,” “Yes, Dear.” juliacoffey.com. For Mark.
ROBERT ELI's (Bob Martindale). television credits include “Blindspot,” “House of Cards,” “Elementary,” “Odd Mom Out,” “Hostages” and “Fringe.” Stage credits include Tartuffe (Roundabout), Saturn Returns (Lincoln Center), the World Premiere of The Pretty Trap, as well as Williamstown, Westport, The Alley, Long Wharf, The Old Globe, Hartford Stage and Bay Street. Juilliard graduate, Group 37. roberteli.com.
MIKAELA FEELY-LEHMANN (Millie Martindale). Broadway: Cyrano de Bergerac (Roundabout Theatre Company). Off-Broadway/other: Stay (Rattlestick); 10x25, The New York Idea (Atlantic Theater Company); The Cloud (HERE Arts); L(y)re (ArsNova ANTfest); West Lethargy (59E59/Edinburgh Fringe/FringeNYC); Unrequited (Public Theater Shakespeare Lab). Regional: The Children’s Hour (Rep Stage) Training: B.F.A NYU Tisch (Atlantic/Stonestreet), Public Theater Shakespeare Lab Alum.
CHRISTOPHER J. HANKE (Jim Baxter) has starred in several Broadway shows: How To Succeed..., Cry-Baby, Rent, In My Life. His favorite role is either Claude in Hair at The Public’s Delacorte Theater in Central Park or Alex in Buyer & Cellar in NYC/Toronto. He plays Devon on the hit comedy “Odd Mom Out” on Bravo and sometimes gets recognized from his short-lived CBS TV series, “Three Rivers.” Improv nerd – UCB.
KELLY McANDREW (Barbara Grant). Recent New York credits: Men On Boats (Clubbed Thumb), Abundance (TACT), Almost, Maine (Transport Group), Good Television (Atlantic). Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Off-Broadway: Still Life (MCC), The Cataract (Women’s Project), Book of Days (Signature Theatre). TV: “Orange is the New Black,” “Smash,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU.” Film: When the Moon Was Twice as Big, Appropriate Behavior, In the Family, Everybody’s Fine. Member: TACT. kellymcandrew.com.
KEVIN O'ROURKE (Theodore Sunderson). Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Spoils of War, Alone Together. New York/Regional: MTC, The Public, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, Primary Stages, Arena, Centerstage, Long Wharf, Yale Rep, Williamstown and Lincoln Center. Film: The Aviator, Vice Versa, Turbulence, Freeheld (upcoming). TV: “Remember Wenn” (SAG nom.), “Law & Order,” “The Good Wife,” “Blue Bloods,” “Elementary,” “Veep,” “The Sopranos,” “Boardwalk Empire” (SAG Award, Ensemble), “Outsiders” (upcoming).
JENNIFER VAN DYCK (Kitty Sunderson). Recent collaborations: playwrights Sarah Schulman, Sinan Unel, Charles Busch; directors Melia Bensussen, Melinda Lopez, Carl Andress. Broadway: Hedda Gabler, Dancing at Lughnasa, Two Shakespearean Actors, The Secret Rapture. Off Broadway: The Castle, Judith of Bethulia, The Divine Sister, The Third Story. Film/TV: “The Blacklist,” “Royal Pains,” “Elementary,” “Person of Interest,” Michael Clayton, Across the Universe.
Perfect Arrangement
by Topher Payne
directed by Michael Barakiva
DATES
Limited engagement
September 29- November 6, 2015
SCHEDULE
Tue-Thu 7; Fri 8; Sat 2&8; Sun 3
Added 2pm matinee Wed October 28
No performances: October 21 & 31
RUN TIME
2 hours
SHOW LOCATION
The Duke on 42nd Street
a NEW 42ND STREET® project
229 West 42nd Street
(between 7th and 8th Avenues)