| The Acting Company Announces Casting for THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:04 pm EDT 10/21/24 | |
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| The Acting Company (Kent Gash, Artistic Director, Erik Schroeder, Managing Director, Devin Brain, Producing Director) is proud to announce the casting for their reading of The Shadow of a Gunman, written by Seán O’Casey (Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars). Ian Belknap (Off-Broadway’s X: or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation at The New Victory) will direct. Set against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, this is a tale of a young poet who lets the rumor that he is an IRA assassin run wild as he enjoys the mysterious allure this lends him in the eyes of his neighbors, including a young woman. Moving from the comedic to the tragic, this is one of O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, exploring conflict, national identity, and the human cost of revolution. Artistic Director Kent Gash said “I’m delighted to welcome home our former Artistic Director Ian Belknap, back to The Acting Company. This was Ian’s artistic home for more than a decade, and he returns to us bearing the gift of an all too timely masterwork by Sean O’Casey. He has assembled an exceptional cast and we couldn’t be more proud to bring Ian’s hallmark excellence to The Public Theater for the second reading in our annual series.” The cast for The Shadow of a Gunman features Hannah Cabell (Broadway’s The Father, A Man for All Seasons, Off-Broadway’s The Moors, Grounded), Eddie Cahill (Disney’s “Miracle,” CBS’s CSI:NY), Owen Campbell (Broadway’s Hangmen), John Glover (Broadway’s Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony Award), The Importance of Being Earnest, Saint Joan, The WB’s “Smallville”), John Keating (Off-Broadway’s Molly Sweeney, The Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock , HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”), Patrick Kerr (Broadway’s Travesties, You Can’t Take it With You, NBC’s “Frasier”), Lauren Lee (Off-Off-Broadway’s The Blue Jay), David Manis (Broadway’s Days of Wine and Roses, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), Peter McNally (Off-Broadway’s Sally & Tom, Sincerity Forever), and Kathryn Meisle (Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , Tartuffe, Off-Broadway’s, As You Like It (Drama Desk Award)). Additional casting will be announced soon. Each season, The Acting Company hosts a series of staged readings. A mixture of new texts, classics of the canon, and forgotten favorites, these readings are a showcase of The Acting Company's alumni and a chance to explore other works by playwrights and directors featured in the company’s National Tours. The Acting Company gratefully recognizes the generous supporters of The Louanna O. Carlin and John McDonald Reading Series, including Ann C. James (Underwriter, Spell #7), Ro Spaziani, (Underwriter, Orlando and Virginia) and Richard J. Reilly, Jr. (Series Producing Sponsor).? The Acting Company’s Louanna O. Carlin & John McDonald 2024-2025 Reading Series includes: Spell #7 By Ntozake Shange Directed by Ann C. James Produced in association with Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre as part of Expand the Canon’s 4th Season Monday, October 21, 2024 7:00 pm The Public Theater 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), New York A striking choreopoem by the playwright of for colored girls... , this bold play examines the irony of Black performers in a white-led entertainment industry. Written in the 1960s, its language, rhetoric, and intent are blisteringly relevant to this day. The Shadow of a Gunman By Seán O’Casey Directed by Ian Belknap Monday, November 4, 2024 7:00 pm The Public Theater 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), New York Set against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, this is a tale of a young poet who lets the rumor that he is an IRA assassin run wild as he enjoys the mysterious allure this lends him in the eyes of his neighbors, including a young woman. Moving from the comedic to the tragic, this is one of O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, exploring conflict, national identity, and the human cost of revolution. The Tragedy of Hoffman, or Revenge for a Father By Henry Chettle Directed by Nathan Winkelstein Produced in association with Red Bull Theater Monday, January 27, 2025 7:30pm Symphony Space’s Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre 2537 Broadway (at 95th St), New York The captivating story of a young man seeking to avenge the murder of his father with the help of a diabolical servant. He joins the household of his enemies, enacting convoluted plots of deceit, betrayal, poisoning and violence to pursue his ends. But unchecked vengeance has a way of catching up with you. This is a gripping tale of revenge, and betrayal that sweeps an audience along to a conclusion not to be missed. Orlando and Virginia Adapted and Directed by Kevin Kuhlke Music is by Heather Christian Monday, February 17, 2025 7:00pm The Public Theater 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), New York This music infused, open hearted play interfaces aspects of the novel Orlando with the life of Virginia Woolf. While staging an open rehearsal, Virginia’s characters from Orlando take over and lead her on a wild, joyous and loving adventure. Fact and fiction collide in a play that celebrates theater’s ability to embrace the fluidity of identity, location and time and the ways in which an artist both creates and is created by her art. A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess Directed by Artistic Director Kent Gash Monday, March 17, 2025 7:00pm The Public Theater 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), New York A theatrical adaptation of the controversial and provocative book by the author, Anthony Burgess, himself, this authoritative theatrical text is filled with "ultra-violence," capturing the chaotic tone of the novella in a dramatic experience both dystopian and satirical. Series ticket packages and single tickets for The Shadow of a Gunman are now available. Seating is subject to availability. Visit theactingcompany.org/reading-series or call 212-258-3111 to learn more and reserve tickets. For more information, visit www.theactingcompany.org. CREATIVE BIOS Ian Belknap (Director): Ian Belknap has directed new work by Marcus Gardley, Jeffrey Hatcher, and Betty Shamieh; and revivals by Noel Coward, Seán O’Casey, Bernard Shaw, John Steinbeck Lanford Wilson, and 14 productions of William Shakespeare’s plays. His productions have been seen at many of the US’s leading theatres and extensively off-Broadway. He was Artistic Director of The Acting Company from 2012-2022. Seán O'Casey (Playwright): Seán O'Casey was an Irish dramatist renowned for his innovative playwriting style, which balances deeply comic and tragic elements in an atmosphere of stark realism, with emphasis on characterization of working and lower class Dubliners. O’Casey began to write plays in 1916. His first four submissions to The Abbey Theatre were rejected, but O’Casey persisted, and in 1923, The Abbey produced The Shadow of a Gunman, beginning O’Casey’s career as a playwright at age 43. Juno and the Paycock (1924) and The Plough and the Stars (1926) completed O’Casey’s famed Dublin Trilogy and established his career as a full-time writer. O’Casey’s relationship with The Abbey Theatre soured after they refused to stage his play The Silver Tassie, but he continued to write and produce play with other theatres, including Within the Gates (1934), The Star Turns Red (1940), and Purple Dust (1943), and several of his plays were staged in the United States and adapted into films during his lifetime. O’Casey died of a heart attack on September 18, 1964, at 84. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Kent Gash, Producing Director Devin Brain, and Managing Director Erik Schroeder, The Acting Company brings professional productions and education programs, in-school residencies, and teacher training workshops to thousands of audience members in diverse communities throughout the United States each year. Annually, over 20,000 audience members see a Company production and nearly 2,000 students in New York City benefit from the Company’s award-winning arts-in-education curriculum. Founded by John Houseman and Margot Harley in 1972, The Acting Company has helped launch the careers of nearly 500 actors, including Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Rainn Wilson, Lorraine Toussaint, Frances Conroy, Harriet Harris, Lisa Banes, Jeffrey Wright, Hamish Linklater, Jesse L. Martin, Roslyn Ruff, Jimonn Cole, and Kelley Curran. The Company has performed for over four million people in 48 States, 10 foreign countries, on and Off-Broadway, and at leading resident theaters including The Guthrie and The Kennedy Center. New works commissioned by the Company include plays by Lisa Peterson, Kirsten Childs, William Finn, Marcus Gardley, Rebecca Gilman, John Guare, Beth Henley, Tony Kushner, Lynn Nottage, Meg Miroshnik, Ntozake Shange, Maria Irene Fornés, Spalding Gray, Marsha Norman, Charles Smith, Samm-Art Williams, and Wendy Wasserstein. Among many accolades, The Acting Company received the 2003 Tony Award for Excellence in the Theater, and won the 2019 Audelco Award for Best Play for its production of Nambi E. Kelley’s Native Son directed by Seret Scott. Among many accolades, The Acting Company received the 2003 Tony Award for Excellence in the Theater, and recently won the 2019 Audelco Award for Best Play for its production of Nambi E. Kelley’s Native Son directed by Seret Scott. Since 1972, The Acting Company has performed for over four million people in 48 states, 10 foreign countries, on and Off-Broadway, and at leading resident theaters including The Guthrie and The Kennedy Center. New works commissioned by the company include plays by William Finn, Marcus Gardley, Rebecca Gilman, John Guare, Beth Henley, Tony Kushner, Lynn Nottage, Meg Miroshnik, Ntozake Shange, Maria Irene Fornés, Spalding Gray, Marsha Norman, Charles Smith, Samm-Art Williams, and Wendy Wasserstein. |
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