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DAN O'BRIEN (Playwright). The Body of an American premiered at Portland Center Stage, directed by Bill Rauch, and received the Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play, the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize, the PEN Center USA Award for Drama, and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award. In 2014 The Body of an American received a European premiere at the Gate Theatre in London and Royal & Derngate in Northampton, directed by James Dacre, and was shortlisted for an Evening Standard Drama Award. O’Brien’s debut poetry collection War Reporter was published in 2013 in the US and the UK, where it received the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. O'Brien's most recent collection of poetry, New Life, was published in November 2015 by CB Editions in London. O’Brien lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress and writer Jessica St. Clair, and their daughter, Isobel.
JO BONNEY (Director). Premieres of plays by: Alan Ball, Eric Bogosian, Culture Clash, Eve Ensler, Jessica Goldberg, Danny Hoch, Neil LaBute, Warren Leight, Lynn Nottage, Dael Orlandersmith, Suzan-Lori Parks, Darci Picoult, Will Power, David Rabe, Jose Rivera, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Christopher Shinn, Diana Son, Universes, Naomi Wallace, Michael Weller. Productions of plays by: Caryl Churchill, Nilo Cruz, Anna Deavere Smith, Charles Fuller, Lisa Loomer, John Osborne, John Pollono, Lanford Wilson. Bonney has directed productions at: PS 122; The Public Theater; NYTW; Second Stage; Goodman Theatre; La Jolla Playhouse; MCC; Geffen Playhouse; Williamstown Festival; McCarter Theater; Playwrights Horizons; Arena Stage; CTG, LA; Signature; Long Wharf; The New Group; CSC; Humana Festival; Almeida, London; Edinburgh Festival; The Market Theatre, Johannesburg; The Baxter, Cape Town SA, Cine 13, Paris. Awards: Recipient of 1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Direction, Lucille Lortel Best Musical and Lucille Lortel Best Revival. Drama Desk Nomination for Direction of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, the AUDELCO Award for direction of Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1,2 & 3) and the Lilly Award. Editor of Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century (TCG).
MICHAEL CRANE (Actor). New York Theater: Gloria (Vineyard); Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, King Lear and Richard III (Public Theater), Taking Care Of Baby (MTC), Doris To Darlene (Playwrights Horizons), The MAG-7 (Naked Angels), The Young Left (Cherry Lane), The Tenant (Woodshed Collective), West Moon Street (Prospect Theater Company), Bone Portraits (Stillpoint Prods), Brack’s Last Bachelor Party (59E59), Middlemen (Human Animals). Regional: Father Comes Home From The Wars (A.R.T.), Hamlet (Pioneer Theatre), Pig Iron Theatre Co., Long Wharf, Williamstown, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Weston Playhouse. TV/Film: Winter’s Tale, “Damages,” “White Collar,” “Forever,” “Law & Order,” “Kings.” MFA: NYU.
MICHAEL CUMPSTY (Actor) Broadway: Machinal, The Winslow Boy, End of the Rainbow (Tony nomination), Sunday in the Park with George, The Constant Wife, Democracy, Copenhagen, Enchanted April, 42nd Street, Electra, 1776, Racing Demon, The Heiress, Translations, La Bete, Timon of Athens, Artist Descending a Staircase. Off Broadway: including Hamlet (Obie award), Richard ll, Richard lll, Twelfth Night, Timon of Athens, All’s Well That End’s Well, Cymbeline. Two River Theater: Absurd Person Singular, Present Laughter, Much Ado. TV: including “The Good Wife,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Knick,” “Elementary,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Law and Order,” “LA Law.” Film: including Eat Pray Love, Wall Street 2, The Visitor, Flags of our Fathers, The Ice Storm, Fatal Instinct, The Ex, Starting Out in the Evening.
The Body of an American
by Dan O'Brien
directed by Jo Bonney
DATES
Limited engagement
February 10- March 20, 2016
SCHEDULE
Tue-Fri 8; Sat 2&8; Sun 3
Added 2pm matinee Wednesday, March 9 (no 8pm)
No performances: February 24, March 2, and March 17
RUN TIME
90 minutes
SHOW LOCATION
Cherry Lane Theatre
38 Commerce Street
(3 blocks south of Christopher Street, just west of 7th Avenue)