| Roundabout Announces Casting for the World Premiere Play LIBERATION | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 03:03 pm EST 01/06/25 | |
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| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY Announces Casting for World-Premiere Production Of LIBERATION By BESS WOHL Directed by WHITNEY WHITE Will Feature BETSY AIDEM, AUDREY CORSA, KAYLA DAVION, SUSANNAH FLOOD, KRISTOLYN LLOYD, IRENE SOFIA LUCIO, CHARLIE THURSTON, ADINA VERSON Performances begin January 31, 2025 Official Opening February 20, 2025 Limited engagement through March 30, 2025 Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre, Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, President/CEO, in memoriam; Scott Ellis, Interim Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the complete cast for the world-premiere of Liberation by Bess Wohl, directed by Whitney White. The cast of Liberation includes: Betsy Aidem as "Margie," Audrey Corsa as "Dora," Kayla Davion as "Joanne," Susannah Flood as "Lizzie," Kristolyn Lloyd as "Celeste," Irene Sofia Lucio as "Isidora," Charlie Thurston as "Bill," and Adina Verson as "Susan." Liberation begins preview performances on Friday, January 31, 2025, and opens officially on Thursday, February 20, 2025, at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street). This is a limited engagement through Sunday, March 30, 2025. 1970, Ohio. Lizzie gathers a small group of women to talk. But talking quickly becomes a necessary and bracingly funny attempt to change their own lives and the world. Fifty years later, her daughter is shocked to find herself asking the very same questions her mother did, and goes on a search through the past for answers. From Tony Award® nominees Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons) and Whitney White (Jaja's African Hair Braiding) comes a provocative, revealing, and irreverent jolt of a play about what really goes on when women meet behind closed doors. The creative team for Liberation includes David Zinn (Sets), Qween Jean (Costumes), Cha See (Lighting), and Palmer Hefferan (Sound). Liberation is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Major support for Liberation is provided by the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater. 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, Laurents/Hatcher Foundation, Angelina Lippert, Iva Mills, K. Myers, Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater, Mary Solomon, and The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. TICKET INFORMATION Tickets for Liberation 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: Liberation will play 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. BIOGRAPHIES: BETSY AIDEM (Margie). Broadway: Prayer For The French Republic (Tony Nom), Leopoldstadt (Tony Best Play), All The Way (Tony Best Play), Beautiful. Off-Bway: The Ask, Prayer For The French Republic, Nikolai And The Others, The Metal Children, Mary Rose, Celebration, Final Follies, Crooked, Etc. Film And TV: Triumph Of The Will, Margaret, Irrational Man, Savant, Bull, Inside Amy Schumer, Law And Order SVU, The Americans, Etc. Obie Sustained Excellence Of Performance, Lucille Lortell Nom, Drama League Nom, Outer Critics Circle Nom. Richard Seff Award. AUDREY CORSA (Dora). Audrey Corsa is an actress and writer from California. Notable TV includes "Poker Face" "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" "Dear Edward" "Elsbeth" and "All Rise". She's very pleased to be back on the New York stage where she has previously appeared in "Mary Page Marlowe" for 2nd Stage, "Appropriate", "Othello" and "As Five Years Pass" at alma mater Juilliard. KAYLA DAVION (Joanne). Kayla Davion is making her NYC Play Debut! Broadway: TINA: The Tina Turner Musical (Tina), ELF (Jovie), Waitress, King Kong. Off-Broadway: White Girl in Danger (Florence). Regional: The Hippest Trip: Soul Train the Musical (Jody Watley), The Color Purple (Celie). TV: "The Good Fight", "Power Book III: Raising Kanan". Film: Better Nate Than Ever. She sends love to God, Mike, Mom, Ball State University, Nicolosi & Co, and Untitled Entertainment. "This one is for you Nana". "Lead with Love!" @Kayladavion SUSANNAH FLOOD (Lizzie). Broadway: Birthday Candles, The Cherry Orchard. Select Off-Broadway: The Counter, The Comeuppance (Obie Award, Lortel nomination), Staff Meal, Make Believe, Plano, The Effect, Tribes, Scenes From A Marriage, Love & Information, Mr. Burns, The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise, Fulfillment, As You Like It, Baby Screams Miracle. Select Film & TV: Kristen Stewart's forthcoming The Chronology of Water; Ann on "Life & Beth" (Hulu) and Kate Littlejohn on "For The People" (Shondaland/ABC). BA: UC Berkeley. MFA: Brown/Trinity. KRISTOLYN LLOYD (Celeste) (she/her). Grammy and Emmy Award Winning Actress. Acting credits include Broadway: 1776, Dear Evan Hansen. Off-Broadway: Blue Ridge (Atlantic), Paradise Blue, Confederates (The Signature Theatre), Sally and Tom, Hamlet (The Public Theatre), Invisible Thread (Second Stage Theatre), Heathers: The Musical (New World Stages), Cabin In The Sky (Encores City Center), Little Women (Primary Stages). Selected Regional: Paradise Blue (Williamstown). Film Credits: Mr. Crocket (Hulu). TV includes: "Random Acts of Flyness" (HBO), "Elementary", "Madam Secretary", "Kevin Can Wait" (CBS), "ER", "Chicago Med" (NBC), "Lie to Me" (FOX). @kristolynlloyd IRENE SOFIA LUCIO (Isidora) West End and Broadway: Slave Play, Wit. Off-Broadway: Sex Variants (Skirball), Wolf Play (MCC), Romeo y Julieta (Public Theater), Slave Play, Love & Information (NYTW), Orange Julius (Rattlestick), Undertaking (BAM), King Liz (Second Stage), We Play for the Gods (WP). Regional credits include Yale Rep, Studio Theater of DC, California Shakespeare, Williamstown and Chautauqua. TV: "The Americans," "Bartlett," "Casi Casi." Co-creator of "BUTS Webseries" (NBCU Short Film Festival winner, Imagen Award Nom.). Education: Princeton & Yale School of Drama. Native of San Juan, Puerto Rico. CHARLIE THURSTON (Bill) is an actor and playwright. CREDITS—RTC: Debut. Off-Broadway: Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW), Wedge Horse (Fault Line). Selected Regional: Macbeth in Stride (Shakespeare DC, Yale Rep, PTC, A.R.T.), Here There are Blueberries (La Jolla, Shakespeare DC), Prince of Providence, Song of Summer (Trinity Rep), Three Sisters (Arden). Selected Film/TV: Finestkind, Boston Strangler, Life Itself, "Julia," "Dexter," "SVU." He has narrated a bunch of audiobooks, including the Pulitzer Prize winner Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Training: Brown/Trinity. ADINA VERSON (Susan) (they/she). TV credits include Poppy White on Only Murders in the Building; New Amsterdam; And Just Like That; Mozart in the Jungle; The Strain. Theatre credits include the original casts of Indecent (Broadway, Ahmanson); A Transparent Musical (Mark Taper Forum); Wives (Playwrights Horizons); Collective Rage (MCC); Eddie and Dave (ATC); and The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova). Adina holds a BFA from The Boston Conservatory and a MFA from the Yale School of Drama. This one is for Zelda. BESS WOHL (Playwright) Wohl's many plays have been produced on and off Broadway, regionally, and internationally. They include Grand Horizons (Broadway, Tony Nomination for Best Play), Camp Siegfried, Make Believe, Continuity, Small Mouth Sounds, American Hero, Barcelona, Touched, In, Cats Talk Back and the musical Pretty Filthy. She recently made her feature film debut, Baby Ruby, starring Noémie Merlant and Kit Harington. The film premiered at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival and was released by Magnolia Pictures in early 2023. She also wrote for the Apple TV+ series, "Extrapolations." WHITNEY WHITE (Director) is an Obie and Lily award winning director, writer and musician based in New York. Recent directing: Jaja's African Hair Braiding (Broadway), The Secret Life of Bees (The Almeida), Soft (Lucille Lortel nomination for Outstanding Direction), On Sugarland (Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding Direction), What to Send Up When it Goes Down (The Public, Playwrights Horizons, BAM, Woolly Mammoth, America Repertory Theatre), The Amen Corner (Shakespeare DC), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Second Stage/WP Theater), For All The Women Who Thought They Were Mad (Soho Rep). Original works include: Semblance (NYTW), Definition (Bushwick Starr), and Macbeth in Stride, for which she won an Eliot Norton Award for Best Musical Performance (American Repertory Theatre, Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company). Fellowships include: Sundance Theatre Lab, NYTW 2050 Fellowship, Drama League Next Wave, Jerome Fellowship, Colt Coeur, Roundabout Directing Fellowship. Whitney is a Rolex Arts Initiative Protegee, an Associate Artist at the Roundabout, and an Associate Director at Shakespeare DC. Recently she was also a writer on Boots Riley's upcoming show "I'm A Virgo" (Amazon / Media Res). MFA Brown Trinity Rep, BA Northwestern. 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 recent and 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 and Liberation by Bess Wohl, directed by Whitney White and Pirates! The Penzance Musical by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, adapted by Rupert Holmes, orchestrations by Joseph Joubert and Daryl Waters, music direction by Joseph Joubert, 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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