| THE COUNTER by Meghan Kennedy Begins Final Four Weeks at Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:23 pm EDT 10/23/24 | |
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| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY Presents the World Premiere of THE COUNTER By MEGHAN KENNEDY Directed by DAVID CROMER Featuring ANTHONY EDWARDS SUSANNAH FLOOD AMY WARREN Limited engagement through November 17, 2024 Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, President/CEO, in memoriam; Scott Ellis, Interim Artistic Director) is pleased to present the world premiere of The Counter by Meghan Kennedy and directed by David Cromer. The Counter features Anthony Edwards as "Paul," Susannah Flood as "Katie," and Amy Warren as "Peg." The Counter began preview performances on Friday, September 20, 2024 and officially opened on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 W 46th St). Photos from Opening Night can be found here . Interviews with the cast and creative team can be found here. The limited engagement will run through November 17, 2024. Every morning at the local diner in a small town, a waitress refills a regular's coffee. An unlikely friendship develops and keeps him coming back for more. But when he asks for a shocking favor, it brings to light both of their deepest secrets. The Counter is a funny, surprising, and moving meditation on the everyday connections that can change our lives. After the success of Too Much, Too Much, Too Many (Roundabout Underground) and Napoli, Brooklyn (Off-Broadway), playwright Meghan Kennedy debuts her next Roundabout commission, The Counter. Directed by Tony Award® winner David Cromer (The Band's Visit), The Counter marks the Roundabout debuts of Anthony Edwards and Amy Warren. Susannah Flood returns to the Roundabout stage following the Broadway productions of Birthday Candles and The Cherry Orchard. The creative team for The Counter includes Walt Spangler (Sets), Sarah Laux (Costumes), Stacey Derosier (Lights), and Christopher Darbassie (Sound). TICKET INFORMATION: Tickets for The Counter are currently available by calling 212.719.1300, or online at roundabouttheatre.org . For groups of 10 or more please call 212-719-9393 x 365 or email groupsales@roundabouttheatre.org . PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: The Counter plays Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 7:30PM with Wednesday & Saturday matinees at 2:00PM, and Sunday matinees at 3:00PM. Please visit roundabouttheatre.org for the most up-to-date performance schedule. The Counter receives funding from the Laura Pels Play Production Fund, established by a grant from The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater. The Counter is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. This work was supported by a Theatre Commissioning and Production Initiative grant from the Doris Duke Foundation. We gratefully acknowledge the Roundabout Leaders for New Works: Alec Baldwin, James Costa and John Archibald, Linda L. D'Onofrio, Peggy and Mark Ellis, Carson Gleberman, Sylvia Golden, Jeanne Hagerty, Angelina Lippert, Iva Mills, K. Myers, Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater, Mary Solomon, and The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. BIOGRAPHIES: ANTHONY EDWARDS (Paul) 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 Actor's 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 most recently seen in Joshua Harmon's Prayer for the French Republic. He was also on Broadway in Children of a lesser God, Classic Stage Company's Month in the Country, WPA Shem Bitterman's Frozen, Williamstown Theater festival Harvey and Joyce Carol Oates's Black Water. 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, 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 "WeCrashed" 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. SUSANNAH FLOOD (Katie) most recently delighted television audiences as Amy Schumer's sister in two seasons on Hulu's "LIFE & Beth." Prior to that she was best known for playing fan-favorite Kate Littlejohn in two seasons of the Shondaland/ABC series "For the People." Other on-screen credits include "Law & Order: SVU," "Chicago Fire," "Deadbeat," and Mary Laws' "Daylight Daycare." A fixture of the New York theatre scene, Susannah was most recently seen onstage in Staff Meal at Playwright's Horizons, and also received an Obie Award as part of the cast of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' The Comeuppance at Signature Theatre. On Broadway, she starred in Birthday Candles opposite Debra Messing, and in The Cherry Orchard for Roundabout Theatre Company. Other New York credits include Make Believe (Second Stage), Will Arbery's Plano (Clubbed Thumb), The Effect, Tribes (Barrow Street), Ivo Von Hove's Scenes From A Marriage, Love & Information (NYTW) and Mr. Burns (Playwrights Horizons), among others. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from Brown/Trinity. AMY WARREN (Peg) (she/her.) Broadway: August: Osage County (Karen Weston), Act One (Dorothy Parker & others), Sing Street (Penny). Off-Broadway: Adding Machine: A Musical (Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Lortel Nominations for Best Featured Actress in a Musical), Sing Street, Richard Nelson's The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family (The Public Theatre), Schlemiel the First (TFANA), Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical by Sarah Ruhl with music & lyrics by Todd Almond (13P). Regional: The Weir, Mother Courage, and others (Steppenwolf); Rabbit Hole, Trojan Women (The Goodman); and Pulp (About Face). Amy fronted the Chicago pop band Tallulah, sings on several Aluminum Group releases, "Marvin Tate's Family Swim," Tania Bowers' "Via Tania," Amalea Tshilds' "Painted Tiles," and The Fun Hit Wonders kids album "Back to Cool," among others. She wrote and performed the music for the play PULP and wrote the music for Paris by Night at Trinity Rep (both in collaboration with Andre Pluess), and Theater Ooblecks' Baudelaire in a Box. Film and TV: "The Friend," Armageddon Time, Mistress America, Gravity, "The Good Wife," "Law & Order," and "Boardwalk Empire." She has voiced hundreds of commercials for tv and radio and voiced different characters for video games such as "Hail to the Chimp," "Guilty Party," "Leisure Suit Larry," and "Stubbs the Zombie". She can be heard in episodes spanning 2012 to 2023 of the acclaimed podcast "The Truth: Movies for Your Ears," and several BBC radio plays. MEGHAN KENNEDY (Playwright) is a playwright, screenwriter and television writer. Her plays include Napoli, Brooklyn (Roundabout Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theater, Original Theater in London, Outer Critics Circle Award nomination) Too Much, Too Much, Too Many (Roundabout Theater Company) Light (David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize) Lou, Buffalo Bill or How to Be A Good Man. Her work has been developed at The Atlantic Theater Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ars Nova, Page 73, Play Penn and produced around the U.S., U.K., Ireland and Sweden. She is currently developing her play Locker Room Talk with Madison Wells Productions. Kennedy lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter. DAVID CROMER (Director) most recently directed Dead Outlaw. New York credits include Prayer for the French Republic, Camp Siegfried, A Case for the Existence of God, The Sound Inside, The Band's Visit, The Treasurer, The House of Blue Leaves, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Nikolai and the Others, The Effect, When the Rain Stops Falling, Tribes, Adding Machine, Our Town, and Orson's Shadow. For his work he has received a Tony Award, a Drama Desk, three Obies and three Lortels, and in 2010 he was named a MacArthur Foundation fellow. Roundabout Theatre Company celebrates the power of theatre by spotlighting classics from the past, cultivating new works of the present, and educating minds for the future. A not-for-profit company, Roundabout fulfills that mission by producing familiar and lesser-known plays and musicals; discovering and supporting talented playwrights; reducing the barriers that can inhibit theatergoing; collaborating with a diverse team of artists; building educational experiences; and archiving over five decades of production history. Roundabout Theatre Company presents a variety of plays and musicals on its five stages: Broadway's Todd Haimes Theatre, Studio 54 and Stephen Sondheim Theatre, and Off-Broadway's Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, which houses the Laura Pels Theatre and Black Box Theatre. Roundabout Theatre Company has been working to prioritize and actively incorporate anti-racism, equity, diversity, inclusion and accountability throughout the institution. Read more about the company's social justice progress and timeline at edi.roundabouttheatre.org . Roundabout productions are supported, in part, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Hochul and the New York State Legislature. Roundabout's current & upcoming productions include: Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang, directed by Leigh Silverman; The Counter by Meghan Kennedy, directed by David Cromer; English by Sanaz Toossi, directed by Knud Adams; Liberation by Bess Wohl, directed by Whitney White; and The Pirates of Penzance by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, adapted by Rupert Holmes, choreographed by Warren Carlyle, directed by Scott Ellis. www.roundabouttheatre.org Follow ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY on X, Instagram , TikTok, YouTube , and on Facebook . # # # |
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