Prayer for the French Republic
by Joshua Harmon
directed by David Cromer
ON BROADWAY AT THE
SAMUEL J. FRIEDMAN THEATRE
THROUGH MARCH 3
On-demand closed captioning (iCaption) and audio description (D-scriptive) devices will be available approximately three weeks after opening night. Please email [email protected] to confirm availability.
Winner of the 2022 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best New Off-Broadway Play, Joshua Harmon’s Prayer for the French Republic bursts onto Broadway after MTC’s highly acclaimed extended, sold-out Off-Broadway run. A celebrated work by the author of Bad Jews and Significant Other, which The Wall Street Journal calls "easily the finest play of the Broadway season." The Chicago Tribune calls Prayer for the French Republic "gripping and epic," and New York Stage Review gives it five stars, stating "Prayer packs a wallop." Directing is David Cromer, a Tony Award® winner for The Band's Visit.
Prayer for the French Republic is made possible in part by a generous grant from The Roy Cockrum Foundation. The mission of the Foundation is to award grants to support world-class performing arts projects in not-for-profit professional theaters throughout the United States.
Additional support provided by Jayne Baron Sherman and by Rebecca Gold.
Prayer for the French Republic was commissioned by MTC through the Bank of America New Play Program.
“Gripping and Epic!”
The Chicago Tribune
“5 STARS! PRAYER PACKS A WALLOP!”
New York Stage Review
“Blistering, funny and heartbreaking!”
Deadline
“easily the finest play of the broadway season!”
The Wall Street Journal
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Cast
Betsy Aidem
Marcelle
Prayer for the French Republic at MTC. Broadway: Leopoldstadt (Tony, Best Play), All The Way and Beautiful. Nikolai And The Others and Road (Lincoln Center Theater), The Metal Children and Mary Rose at Vineyard, Celebration at Atlantic, Crooked at WP, Final Follies at Primary Stages. Stone Cold Dead Serious at Edge, Doubt and Appropriate at Westport, Romeo and Juliet at Chicago Shakes, Circle Mirror Transformation at Huntington, All The Way at ART, Mama’s Boy at George Street. TV: “Inside Amy Schumer,” “SVU” (recurring), “Bull,” “Madame Secretary,” “The Americans,” “Orange Is The New Black,” etc. Film: Margaret, Irrational Man, A Vigilante, The Greatest Showman. Awards: Richard Seff 2022, Lucille Lortel nom., Outer Critics Circle nom., Irne nom., BWW Award, Drama Desk Ensemble, Obie Sustained Excellence of Performance. Directing: A Doll’s House Part 2 at George Street.
Francis Benhamou
Elodie
Francis is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut after originating the role Off-Broadway. She won the Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Awards for Best Featured Actress and was also nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award. Her Off-Broadway credits include: Selling Kabul (Pulitzer Prize Finalist); The Profane (Playwrights Horizons); the Obie award winning Invasion!; I Call My Brothers (The Play Co.); Motel Cherry (Clubbed Thumb/New Georges). Film/TV credits include Arranged, Neal Cassady, Breaking Upwards, Listen up Phillip, “Inside Amy Schumer,” “Daredevil,” “Life & Beth” and “Dear Edward.” Francis is a graduate of the Maggie Flanigan Studio. @francisbenhamou
Ari Brand
Lucien
NYC theater credits include: Prayer For the French Republic (MTC); My Name is Asher Lev (Off-Broadway); The Neil Simon Plays (Broadway); The Lucky One (Mint); Black Tie (Primary Stages); Romeo and Juliet (NYSF); Much Ado About Nothing (NYCT); Scenes From Childhood (written by Ari Brand, 14th St Y). Other theater: Bad Jews (Geffen Playhouse); Arabian Nights (Berkeley, KC Reps); Last Night of Ballyhoo (Bay Street); Diary of Anne Frank (Westport); Diner (DTC); My Name Is Asher Lev (Long Wharf). Upcoming TV/Film: Beautiful and Neat Room (feature). Past TV/Film: “Blue Bloods,” “FBI: International,” “Fosse/Verdon,” “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “The Other Two,” “FBI; White Collar,” To The Flame, Listen. B.A. Wesleyan University; BADA; LABA Fellow. For Savta.
Anthony Edwards
Patrick
Anthony Edwards is probably best known as Dr. Mark Greene on the series “ER.” Edwards has received four Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Edwards has won three Screen Actors Guild Awards (Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series in 1996 and Best Ensemble Cast in 1998 and 1999). He won the Golden Globe Award in 1998. In the theater Edwards was seen on Broadway in Children of a Lesser God, Month in the Country (Classic Stage Company), Shem Bitterman’s Frozen (WPA), Harvey and Joyce Carol Oates’s Black (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Edwards has starred in more than twenty features, including his memorable turn as “Goose” in the blockbuster feature Top Gun. Other feature film credits include: Consumed, Experimenter, Big Sur, Motherhood with Uma Thurman, Flipped directed by Rob Reiner, and Zodiac directed by David Fincher. Thunderbirds, Forgotten, Playing by Heart, The Client, Miracle Mile, Mr. North, Hawks, Pet Semetary II, Delta Heat, Landslide, The Sure Thing, Gotcha, Revenge of the Nerds, Heart Like a Wheel, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Edwards recently starred in both the Apple series “We Crashed” and the Netflix mini-series “Inventing Anna,” created by Shonda Rhimes. Other television credits include “Law and Order True Crimes: the Menendez Murders,” “Zero Hour,” “Girls,” “Blue Bloods,” “Billions,” “Northern Exposure” and “It Takes Two” as well as the telefilms In Cold Blood, El Diablo, Hometown Boy Makes Good, Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story, High School USA and The Killing of Randy Webster. Edwards made his feature directing debut with My Dead Boyfriend in 2016. He also directed several episodes of “ER.” Edwards was an Executive Producer of the HBO biopic Temple Grandin, which won multiple Emmys and Golden Globes.
Ethan Haberfield
Young Pierre
Ethan is excited to return to Broadway after making his debut at the age of 10 in Mary Poppins. Regional Theatre: Oliver (Paper Mill Playhouse); Wrinkle in Time (Playmakers Repertory Company); To Kill a Mockingbird (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ). Film/TV: Saturday Night Live (NBC); We Have A Ghost (Netflix); The Other Two (HBO); Sinister (Blumhouse). Ethan grew up in NYC and attended High School at Professional Children’s School, then went on to get his BFA in Acting from The University of Michigan. Thank you, MTC, Kelly Gillespie and David Caparelliotis Casting, Stewart Talent & Bohemia Group. For my family, with love. @ethan.haberfield
Richard Masur
Pierre
A sampling of his 51 year career: Over 60 feature films, including The Thing, Heartburn, Risky Business, Heaven’s Gate, My Girl, License to Drive, Another Year Together, Before, During and After and Hudson. TV series (partial) – Kaleidoscope, Bull, The Equalizer, Transparent, Girls, Younger, The Good Wife, Orange Is the New Black, Red Oaks, One Day at a Time and Rhoda. Over 40 TV movies including Fallen Angel, Adam, The Burning Bed (Emmy Nomination), Stephen King’s It, Hiroshima, 61*, And The Band Played On. Broadway: Lucky Guy, Democracy, and The Changing Room; Off-Broadway (partial): Two Jews, Talking; Relevance; The Net Will Appear; Fetch Clay, Make Man; Sarah, Sarah; The Ruby Sunrise. His directorial debut, Love Struck, was nominated for a live-action short subject Academy Award. He is a former National President, VP and Board Member of Screen Actors Guild & National Board Member of SAG-AFTRA.
Nael Nacer
Charles
Nael Nacer is thrilled to be making his Broadway and MTC debut. NYC credits: The Orchard (Baryshnikov Arts Center/Arlekin Players). Regional credits: Prayer for the French Republic, A Doll’s House, Bedroom Farce, Come Back, Little Sheba, Awake and Sing!, The Seagull, Our Town (The Huntington); Angels in America (Bedlam/CST); Macbeth, The Tempest (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); The Merchant of Venice (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); People, Places & Things, Small Mouth Sounds, (SpeakEasy Stage); The Ding Dongs, Tiny Beautiful Things, True West, The Flick (Gloucester Stage); The Return (Israeli Stage); Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, Intimate Apparel (Lyric Stage); The Kite Runner, A Number, Lungs, Pattern of Life (New Repertory Theatre); Rhinoceros, Windowmen (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre). Awards: Elliot Norton, IRNE. Nael is a resident acting company member of Actors’ Shakespeare Project, as well as a monologue coach with My College Audition. @naelnacer
Daniel Oreskes
Adolphe
Broadway credits include the Tony winning OSLO at Lincoln Center as well as WEST SIDE STORY, BILLY ELLIOT, THE MIRACLE WORKER, AIDA, CYMBELINE, ELECTRA, and THE SONG OF JACOB ZULU. Off-Broadway: SEAGULL/WOODSTOCK, RUSSIAN TRANSPORT (New Group), Taylor Mac’s HIR (Playwrights Horizons), Jesse Eisenberg’s THE REVISIONIST (Rattlestick), TWENTY-SEVENTH MAN (Public) Doug Wright’s QUILLS (NYTW) and John Patrick Shanley’s CELLINI (Second Stage) as well as his MISSING MARISA (Primary Stages). Film and Television: THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, DEVILS ADVOCATE, ABE and the upcoming A REAL PAIN (written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg). For two seasons he played the role of Superfan Marv on the hit show ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING and has had recurring roles on LAW AND ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME, THE SOPRANOS, RAY DONOVAN, SHOW ME A HERO as well as guest starring appearances on MARVELOUS MRS MAISEL, AND JUST LIKE THAT, THE DEUCE, BLUE BLOODS and others.
Molly Ranson
Molly
Molly Ranson most recently starred in the Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite, opposite Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker. Prior to, she starred in Manhattan Theatre Club’s Prayer for the French Republic, written by Joshua Harmon and directed by David Cromer. She was also featured in MTC’s production of Linda, Larry David’s Broadway comedy Fish in the Dark, and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for her critically acclaimed performance in Roundabout Theater Company’s play, Bad Jews. Scott Brown of New York Magazine called her “pitch-perfect and marvelously restrained.” Charles Isherwood of The New York Times also praised her performance: “Melody [is] played with terrific delicacy and good humor by Ms. Ranson.” Molly starred in the title role in MCC’s musical adaptation of the cult film, Carrie, and can also be heard on the production’s cast album. Molly has also appeared on Broadway in Jerusalem, opposite Mark Rylance, and in Tracy Letts’ Tony-winning play August: Osage County, which she also performed on the West End and in Australia. Her on-screen credits include: “New Amsterdam,” “Horace & Pete,” and the feature film Love on the Run. Molly is a graduate of LaGuardia Arts High School, where she was the recipient of a Drama Desk Scholarship Award.
Nancy Robinette
Irma
Nancy Robinette has worked in the DC area most of her career, as an early company member of Woolly Mammoth, and as an Associate Artist at Arena Stage and at Shakespeare Theatre, where she also teaches. Recent performances include Carrie in Ford Theatre’s Trip to Bountiful, and Nan in Jennifer Who Is Leaving at Round House. She has worked regionally at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Everyman Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Old Globe, Gulfshore Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and in New York at Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, the Roundabout, and in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time on Broadway. Film and TV credits include Serial Mom, The Three Christs, Soldier Jack, Homicide, “Louie,” and “Up Here!” She received the Helen Hayes lifetime tribute in 2019.
Aria Shahghasemi
Daniel
Aria Shahghasemi is best known as “Landon Kirby” in four seasons of the CW series “Legacies.” He made his debut as the character recurring on “The Originals.” Most recently he joined the cast of the limited series “Penguin” on HBO Max. The oldest of two children born to Iranian immigrants in suburban Minneapolis, Aria Shahghasemi studied at the BFA theater program at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Aria then transferred to the celebrated Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. Shortly after graduating, Aria booked episodes of “Unforgettable,” “Law and Order: SVU,” and “Instinct,” and an Off-Broadway play called Connected at 59E59. He has also appeared as “Laertes” in Hamlet and in the independent feature No Alternative, before beginning as a CW series regular later that year.
Betsy Aidem
Marcelle
Francis Benhamou
Elodie
Ari Brand
Lucien
Anthony Edwards
Patrick
Ethan Haberfield
Young Pierre
Richard Masur
Pierre
Nael Nacer
Charles
Daniel Oreskes
Adolphe
Molly Ranson
Molly
Nancy Robinette
Irma
Aria Shahghasemi
Daniel
Joshua Chessin-Yudin
u/s Daniel & Lucien
Broadway: The Sound Inside. Off Broadway: Prayer for the French Republic. Regional: Prayer for the French Republic (Huntington Theatre), The Happiest Song Plays Last (Theatre 22), Really, Really; My Mañana Comes (Arts West), Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet (Seattle Shakespeare Company) Thank you, DGRW! joshuacy.com @joshuazev
Lauriel Friedman
u/s Elodie & Molly
Broadway debut! OBW: Prayer for the French Republic (MTC), Vanity Fair, The Dingdong, Winter’s Tale (Pearl Theater Company) and Tech Support(59E59), Regional: The Immigrant (George Street), The Diary of Anne Frank (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ), and Pride and Prejudice (Guthrie). Film & TV: “American Horror Story,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Inside Amy Schumer,” “Mishpucha.” Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Gratitude to CLA, her family, and the Jewish community.
Zachary Lindberg
u/s Young Pierre
Broadway debut. Education: BA Philosophy, Columbia University. Zach is also currently a Software Engineer at Google. Theater: Lost in Yonkers (Walnut St. Theater); Phantom! (Walnut St. Theater); Film/TV: “Law & Order” (NBC); “Saturday Night Live” (NBC); “One Life to Live” (ABC); “The Onion SportsDome” (Comedy Central), Breathe In, Good Intentions. Proud YoungArts and Interlochen alum. Much thanks to MTC, Kelly Gillespie and David Caparelliotis Casting, CPM Talent, and Mom, Dad, and Kate!
Dale Place
u/s Adolphe & Pierre
Broadway: Heisenberg (MTC). National Tour: The Humans (U/S). NYC/Off-Broadway: Prayer for the French Republic (U/S) – MTC, King Lear – New York Shakespeare Festival, Nikolai and the Others, Epiphany (U/S) – Lincoln Center Theatre. Regional: Huntington Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Seattle Repertory Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage, Lyric Stage, The Barnstormers. Film: The Fighter, The Proposal, Joy, Gone Baby Gone, and What’s Your Number?. TV: Law&Order-Organized Crime, WeCrashed, Julia
Stephen Schnetzer
u/s Charles & Patrick
Broadway: The Waverly Gallery, Oslo, Wit, The Goat, Filumena. Theatre: MTC, NYSF, Roundabout Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, American Shakespeare Theatre, Mint Theatre, Barrow Street Theatre, ACT, Huntington Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Arena Stage, Florida Stage, McCarter Theatre, Mark Taper Forum. Television: The Endgame, Blue Bloods, Billions, The Path, Blacklist, The Affair, Flesh & Bone, Forever, Homeland, Rubicon, Good Wife, Damages, Fringe, The Wire, New Amsterdam, Law & Order(s) and Another World.
Lori Wilner
u/s Marcelle & Irma
Bwy: Pictures from Home, Fiddler on the Roof (2005 & 2015), The Assembled Parties, A Catered Affair, On a Clear Day…, The Diary of Anne Frank, Domesticated, Beautiful, Awake and Sing!, People in the Picture, Those Were the Days, Everett Beekin. Drama desk nom -Hannah Senesh. Off Bwy/Reg: lots and lots… TV/Film: “Succession,” “New Amsterdam,” “Second Guessing Grandma,” “Gebirtig,” “Wagners Jews,” “Do Nothings,” “The Eighth Day”
Joshua Chessin-Yudin
u/s Daniel & Lucien
Lauriel Friedman
u/s Elodie & Molly
Zachary Lindberg
u/s Young Pierre
Dale Place
u/s Adolphe & Pierre
Stephen Schnetzer
u/s Charles & Patrick
Lori Wilner
u/s Marcelle & Irma
Creative
Joshua Harmon
Playwright
Joshua Harmon’s plays include Bad Jews, Significant Other, Admissions, Skintight, and Prayer for the French Republic. Musicals: The Bedwetter. His plays have been produced on Broadway and the West End; Off-Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Atlantic Theater Company; across the country at Geffen Playhouse, Speakeasy, Studio Theatre, Theater Wit, About Face, Actor’s Express, and The Magic, among others; and internationally in a dozen countries. He is a two-time MacDowell fellow and an Associate Artist at Roundabout. Graduate of Juilliard.
David Cromer
Director
David Cromer is a director and actor originally from Chicago, currently based in New York. As a director, his New York credits include A Case for the Existence of God (Signature); The Sound Inside (Broadway); The Band’s Visit (Atlantic Theater Company, Broadway & National Tour); the Broadway revivals of Brighton Beach Memoirs and The House of Blue Leaves; The Treasurer (Playwrights Horizons); Man from Nebraska (Second Stage Theater); The Effect, Orson’s Shadow, and Tribes (Barrow Street Theatre); Women or Nothing (Atlantic Theater Company); Really Really (MCC Theater); When the Rain Stops Falling and Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center Theater); and Adding Machine (Minetta Lane Theatre). Other directing credits include BUG (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Next to Normal (Writers Theatre); Come Back, Little Sheba (Huntington Theatre Company); The Sound Inside (Williamstown Theatre Festival); and Our Town in London, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Kansas City. As an actor, he recently appeared on Broadway as Howard Fine in the 2018 production of The Waverly Gallery. Prior to that, he appeared on Broadway as Karl Lindner in the 2014 revival of A Raisin in the Sun, and Off-Broadway as the Stage Manager in Our Town, which he also directed, at the Barrow Street Theatre. He appeared in the HBO series “The Newsroom,” the Showtime series “Billions,” and in the motion picture The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected). Cromer has received a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, three Obie Awards, three Lucille Lortel Awards, a Joe A. Callaway Award, four Jeff Awards, and in 2010 was made a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
Takeshi Kata
Scenic Design
Broadway: Clyde’s (Helen Hayes), Derren Brown’s Secret (Cort). Recent Off-Broadway: Man From Nebraska (Second Stage), Cambodian Rock Band (Signature), Office Hour (The Public), Until the Flood (Rattlestick), Forever (NYTW), Gloria (Vineyard), Through a Glass Darkly (Atlantic). Regional: Alley, Berkeley Rep, Geffen, Goodman, Hartford Stage, La Jolla, Taper, The Old Globe, Steppenwolf and more. Obie and Jeff Awards. Drama Desk, Ovation, San Francisco Critics Circle, TBA and Barrymore Award nominations. Kata is an associate professor at University of Southern California, School of Dramatic Arts.
Sarah Laux
Costume Design
Broadway: The Band’s Visit, Fully Committed, The Humans. Selected Off-Broadway: Blue Ridge, This Ain’t No Disco, On the Shore of the Wide World, The Band’s Visit (Atlantic Theater Company); The Humans (Roundabout Theatre Company); Superhero, Man From Nebraska (Second Stage Theater); Downstairs (Primary Stages); Jerry Springer: The Opera (The New Group, Obie Award); Ultimate Beauty Bible (Pg 73); The Effect (Barrow Street Theatre); The Half Life of Marie Curie (Audible). Regional: A Play Is a Poem (Taper Theater); Before The Meeting (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Bad Dates, Come Back, Little Sheba (Huntington Theatre Company); Bad Jews (George Street Playhouse); Thresh/Hold (Pilobolus Dance Theater). Film: Freakshow, The Sixth Reel, Not Okay. Television: “High Fidelity,” “Godfather of Harlem” season two. Sarahlauxdesign.com. IG: @lauxy123
Amith Chandrashaker
Lighting Design
The Public, Second Stage, TFANA,Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre, Williamstown, Ars Nova, Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, The Atlantic, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Omaha, Opera Colorado, The Atlanta Opera. Dance works by Alexander Ekman, Liz Gerring, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Rennie Harris. Recipient of the Drama Desk and Henry Hewes awards. Assistant professor of lighting at The University of Maryland.
Daniel Kluger
Original Music & Sound Design
Broadway: Oklahoma! (new arrangements and orchestrations), The Sound Inside, Seawall/A Life, revival of Marvin’s Room, world premiere of Significant Other. Off-Broadway: premieres of I Was Most Alive With You, Animal, The Village Bike, Man From Nebraska, Tribes and Women or Nothing. Film scores: A Christmas Carol (2021), The Courtroom (2021), Duolo (2017), Health to the King (2020), Hello Again (2017, Orchestrations). In 2021, Kluger launched the music label Archie & Fox Records. danielkluger.com
J. Jared Janas
Hair & Makeup Design
Broadway: Purlie Victorious; Good Night, Oscar; Sweeney Todd; Ohio State Murders; & Juliet; Kimberly Akimbo; Topdog/Underdog; How I Learned to Drive; American Buffalo; Jagged Little Pill; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Gettin’ the Band Back Together; Bandstand; Indecent; Sunset Boulevard; The Visit; The Real Thing; Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill; Motown; Peter and the Starcatcher; The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; All about Me. Recent Off-Broadway: Buena Vista Social Club, Pal Joey, Sabbath’s Theater.
Gigi Buffington
Vocal Coach
Broadway: Grey House, Between Riverside and Crazy, Cost of Living, The Minutes, Clyde’s, Slave Play, Pass Over, Linda Vista, Straight White Men. Off-Broadway: Jonah, Stereophonic, King James, Downstate, Evanston Salt Coasts Climbing, Camp Siegfried, Catch As Catch Can, Corsicana, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Prayer for the French Republic, On Sugarland, Dying City, Mary Page Marlowe. Eight seasons at Steppenwolf; one season at Royal Shakespeare Company; arts professor, Tisch Drama, NYU.
Caparelliotis Casting
Casting
Select MTC: Cost of Living; Summer, 1976; Skeleton Crew; Ink. Select Broadway/Off-Broadway: 2:22—A Ghost Story (upcoming), Grey House, The Comeuppance, Ohio State Murders, Macbeth, The Minutes, Letters From Max, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Waverly Gallery, Boys in the Band. Select theatres: Signature NYC, Atlantic, Ars Nova, The Old Globe, CTG. TV: “New Amsterdam” (NBC, series casting), “The Boys in the Band” (Netflix, original casting).
Richard A. Hodge
Production Stage Manager
MTC credits: Prayer for the French Republic, King James (MTC City Center). The Band’s Visit (The Barrymore); The Sound Inside (Studio 54); Sweeney Todd, The Effect, Tribes, Our Town, Adding Machine: A Musical, Bug, Orson’s Shadow, Red Light Winter (Barrow Street Theatre); The Band’s Visit, Women or Nothing (Atlantic Theatre Company); When the Rain Stops Falling, Nicholai and the Others (Lincoln Center); Killer Joe, Underneath the Lintel (Soho Playhouse); Kindness, Iowa (Playwrights Horizons); Stop the Virgens (St. Ann’s Warehouse). TYKAC.
Ashley-Rose Galligan
Stage Manager
MTC: Prayer for the French Republic. Broadway: The Band’s Visit, The Sound Inside, Death of a Salesman, Pictures From Home. Select Off-Broadway: LCT, ATC, Playwrights Horizons, NYTW, MCC, Clubbed Thumb, Signature, Roundabout, LAByrinth, Cherry Lane, Barrow Street Theatre and more. Opera: Kayne West’s Mary at Lincoln Center, Mastervoice’s Iolanthe at Carnegie Hall. Select television: “Peter Pan Live!,” “VaxLive: The Concert to Reunite the World,” “MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett Lady Gaga.” @ashleyrosegal
Joshua Harmon
Playwright
David Cromer
Director
Takeshi Kata
Scenic Design
Sarah Laux
Costume Design
Amith Chandrashaker
Lighting Design
Daniel Kluger
Original Music & Sound Design
J. Jared Janas
Hair & Makeup Design
Gigi Buffington
Vocal Coach
Caparelliotis Casting
Casting
Richard A. Hodge
Production Stage Manager
Ashley-Rose Galligan
Stage Manager
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Nancy Robinette, Ari Brand in
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Aria Shaghasemi, Molly Ranson in
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Betsy Aidem, Nael Nacer in
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Molly Ranson, Nael Nacer, Aria Shaghasemi in
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Aria Shaghasemi in
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Anthony Edwards in
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Nancy Robinette, Daniel Oreskes, Ari Brand, Ethan Haberfield in
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Richard Masur, Aria Shaghasemi in
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Molly Ranson, Francis Benhamou in
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