| MTC's world premiere of Joshua Harmon's We Had a World features Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason and Drama Desk nominee Jeanine Serralles | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 08:54 pm EDT 10/10/24 | |
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| MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB'S WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION OF WE HAD A WORLD WRITTEN BY TONY AWARD NOMINEE JOSHUA HARMON WILL FEATURE TONY AWARD WINNER JOANNA GLEASON AND DRAMA DESK NOMINEE JEANINE SERRALLES DIRECTED BY THREE-TIME TONY AWARD NOMINEE TRIP CULLMAN, PERFORMANCES BEGIN FEBRUARY 25 AS MTC'S FIRST PRODUCTION AT NY CITY CENTER STAGE II SINCE THE COVID SHUTDOWN OPENING NIGHT IS MARCH 19, 2025 (New York, NY – October 10, 2024) – Manhattan Theatre Club—Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director and Chris Jennings, Executive Director—is pleased to announce initial casting and the venue for the world premiere of We Had A World, written by Tony Award nominee Joshua Harmon (Prayer for the French Republic, Bad Jews, Significant Other) and directed by Tony Award nominee Trip Cullman (Choir Boy, Lobby Hero, Murder Ballad, Six Degrees of Separation). We Had A World will feature Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason (Into the Woods, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, It's Only A Play) and Jeanine Serralles ("Apples Never Fall," "Hightown," Inside Llewyn Davis, Hot Summer Nights), with additional casting to be announced soon. We Had A World is MTC's first production at NY City Center Stage II (131 West 55th Street) since the pandemic shutdown began. The play will begin performances on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, with opening night scheduled for Wednesday, March 19, 2025. A dying woman (Gleason) calls her grandson and asks him to write a play about their family. "But I want you to promise me something," she says. "Make it as bitter and vitriolic as possible." In this searing, funny and deeply personal play, the author of last season's Tony Award-nominated Prayer for the French Republic recreates thirty years of family fights, monstrous behavior, enormous cruelty, and enduring love. Major support for Stage II is provided by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. Additional support is provided by The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater. Subscriptions for MTC's 2024-25 season are available by visiting www.manhattantheatreclub.com/join, or by calling the MTC Clubline at 212-399-3050. MTC's 2024-25 Season MTC's 2024-25 Broadway season features the premieres of The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth, directed by Sam Mendes at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street); Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector, directed by Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street); and Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, starring Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga, devised by Cameron Mackintosh, with musical staging and direction by Matthew Bourne, also at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. MTC's Off-Broadway season includes the world premiere of Vladimir by Erika Sheffer, directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan; the world premiere of Bad Kreyòl by two-time Tony Award nominee Dominique Morisseau, directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene in a co-production with Signature Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street); and the world premiere of Dakar 2000 by Rajiv Joseph, directed by May Adrales at New York City Center Stage I. BIOGRAPHIES JOANNA GLEASON (Renee) has appeared in fifteen Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-off Broadway shows, winning the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical for Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods. She has three Drama Desks, and two Outer Critics nominations and wins. Additional Broadway credits include Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels, Joe Egg, The Real Thing, I Love My Wife, and Nick And Nora. Joanna has performed Off-Broadway at The Public Theater in The Normal Heart, at The Roundabout in Sons Of The Prophet, and at Manhattan Theatre Club in It's Only A Play and Eleemosynary . Her film work includes Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors and Hannah and Her Sisters; as well as in Boogie Nights, Last Vegas, and The Skeleton Twins. Television credits include "The Affair," "West Wing," "The Newsroom," "Friends," "Bette," "Murphy Brown," "Blue Bloods," "The Girls On The Bus," and many more. Joanna has written and directed two films—Morning Into Night (a short), and the recently completed The Grotto (feature), which won Best Narrative Feature at the Heartland International Film Festival, along with 4 more prizes in festivals around the U.S. JEANINE SERRALLES (Ellen). For her work on stage in New York, Jeanine Serralles has been nominated on several occasions for Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel Awards, performing in productions at Lincoln Center, The Atlantic, BAM, Labyrinth, The Vineyard, Williamstown, Red Bull, Playwrights Horizons, and New York Theater Workshop, to name a few. On screen, Jeanine can currently be seen as Detective Camacho in the Peacock Limited Series "Apples Never Fall" and as Rachel in Season 3 of the Starz series "Hightown". Other screen credits include opposite Timothée Chalamet in Hot Summer Nights, Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis, Gabriel Byrne in No Pay, Nudity, and Amy Adams and Gary Oldman in The Woman in the Window. She was also a series regular on Amazon's "Utopia" created by Gillian Flynn. Jeanine is a graduate of Yale School of Drama. JOSHUA HARMON (Playwright). Joshua Harmon's plays include Bad Jews, Significant Other, Admissions, Skintight , and Prayer for the French Republic (MTC). He and Sarah Silverman co-wrote the libretto for The Bedwetter based on her memoir. 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. TRIP CULLMAN (Director). Broadway: The Rose Tattoo; Choir Boy; Lobby Hero; Six Degrees of Separation; Significant Other. Select Off-Broadway: Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow; Yen; Punk Rock (Obie Award); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City (MCC Theater). Days of Rage; The Layover; The Substance of Fire; Lonely, I'm Not; Bachelorette; Some Men; Swimming in the Shallows (Second Stage Theater). Unknown Soldier; The Pain of My Belligerence; Assistance; A Small Fire (Drama Desk nomination); The Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons). Choir Boy (Manhattan Theatre Club). Murder Ballad (Manhattan Theatre Club and Union Square Theatre). The Mother; I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard (Atlantic Theater Company). Roulette (Ensemble Studio Theatre). The Hallway Trilogy: Nursing (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater). The Last Sunday in June (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Century Center). Dog Sees God (Century Center). U.S. Drag (stageFARM), and several productions with The Play Company. London: The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania (Tricycle Theatre). Select regional: Alliance Theatre, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Bay Street Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival. ABOUT MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Director Chris Jennings, Manhattan Theatre Club produces seasons of new work for the theatre both on and Off-Broadway, and in the 2023-24 season, all three of its Broadway shows were nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play, representing three of the five nominees in the category. MTC's not-for-profit mission, which Meadow created in 1972 and has implemented over five decades of award-winning productions, is to develop and present new work in a dynamic, supportive environment; to identify and collaborate with the most promising new as well as accomplished artists; and to produce a diverse repertoire of innovative, entertaining, and thought-provoking plays and musicals by American and international playwrights. Since 1989, MTC Learning and Community Engagement, which uses the power of live theatre and playwriting to awaken minds, ignite imaginations, open hearts, and change lives, has also been an important corollary to MTC's work. MTC's over 600 world, American, New York and Broadway premieres have earned 7 Pulitzer Prizes, 30 Tony Awards, 51 Drama Desk Awards and 49 Obie Awards amongst many other honors. MTC has homes on Broadway at its Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and Off-Broadway at New York City Center. MTC is an anti-racist organization that respects and honors all voices, and upholds the values of community and equity. For more information, please visit https://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/. WEBSITE & SOCIAL MEDIA Website: www.manhattantheatreclub.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/MTC_NYC Facebook: www.facebook.com/ManhattanTheatreClub X: x.com/mtc_NYC YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/mtcbroadway |
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