| CONVERSATIONS WITH MOTHER Announces Full Creative Team; Rehearsals Begin Monday | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 10:06 am EST 01/11/25 | |
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| Rehearsals Begin this Monday, January 13 for Conversations with Mother Full Creative Team Announced Caroline Aaron and Matt Doyle Star In A New Comedy by Matthew Lombardo Directed by Noah Himmelstein At Theatre 555 Previews begin February 7, Opening Night February 23 Strictly Limited Run Through May 11 New York, NY – Rehearsals for Matthew Lombardo's new off-Broadway comedy, Conversations with Mother, starring Caroline Aaron ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel") and Matt Doyle (Tony Award winner for Company ) begin this Monday, January 13. Producers also announced the full creative team: Wilson Chin (set design), Ryan Park (costume design), Elizabeth Harper (lighting design), John Gromada (sound design), Caite Hevner (projection design), and Tom Watson (hair and wig design), and understudies Antoinette LaVecchia (u/s Maria) and John Jeffrey Martin (u/s Bobby). As previously announced, Noah Himmelstein directs and casting is by Nick Peciaro, CSA. Bios follow at the end of this release. Tickets are now on sale and available through Venuetix.com. Conversations with Mother will play a limited engagement at Theatre 555 (555 West 42nd Street) beginning February 7 with opening night on February 23; it will run through May 11. Lombardo's semi-autobiographical comedy traces the relationship between Italian matriarch Maria Collavechio (Caroline Aaron) and her gay son (Matt Doyle) spanning the course of five decades. As they continue to test their lifelong bond, the play depicts the outrageously funny and sometimes completely infuriating dynamic between a domineering mother and her rudderless son. The show is produced by Bryan McCaffrey, BPM Theatrical, Laura Z. Barket, Theatre Nerd Productions, and David Shapiro. Showtown Productions (Nathan Gehan and Jamison Scott) serve as executive producer with Showtown Theatricals/Jessica Morrow general managing. BIOS: CAROLINE AARON (Maria) recently finished her fifth and final season as Shirley Maisel in Amazon's "The Marvelous Mrs Maisel" and is currently recurring on CBS's, "Ghosts". Select TV: "Transparent", "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Episodes", "The Odd Couple", "Desperate Housewives", "Modern Family", "Code Black", "Law and Order". Select stage: Madwomen of the West (London, LA and NYC), Kennedy Center's Bye Bye Birdie, Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; The Iceman Cometh, Social Security, I Hate Hamlet, The Ritz, Relatively Speaking, Call Waiting, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire De Lune, A Kid Like Jake. Select Film: 21 and 22 Jump Street, Primary Colors, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Beyond the Sea, Edward Scissorhands, Joe Dirt, Theatre Camp and Between the Temples. MATT DOYLE (Bobby) won the 2022 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance as Jamie in Broadway's revival of Company. He recently made his UK stage debut starring as Frank Sinatra in the world premiere of Sinatra: The Musical. Broadway credits include Tony-winning musicals The Book of Mormon and Spring Awakening; Tony Award winning Best Play War Horse; and the revival of Bye Bye Birdie. Off-Broadway credits include Little Shop of Horrors, Sweeney Todd, and Brooklynite. Matt has performed at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops, at symphonies across the country, and continues to headline a sold-out solo show throughout New York City and beyond. ANTOINETTE LaVECCHIA ( u/s Maria) is an award-winning actress and published playwright who has appeared on Broadway, off-Broadway and regionally. Many TV/film credits including a recurring role on the Mad About You reboot (Prime Video). Next she can be seen in the Russo Brothers film, The Electric State (2025 Netflix release). JOHN JEFFREY MARTIN ( u/s Bobby) Broadway: Kinky Boots, Hairspray, Rocky Horror, Good Vibrations. National Tour: Troy Bolton - High School Musical. Making films and parodies @DiffeRantJeff on youtube- subscribe! Grateful to my Family- especially Mom, my beautiful Wife and Son- for their support. Thanks Evolve Talent Management! So happy to be in this play!! NOAH HIMMELSTEIN (Director) Recent work includes his acclaimed age-blind version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Baltimore's Everyman Theatre); Michael John LaChiusa's Los Otros (A.R.T./NY); Deborah Zoe Laufer's Rooted (world premiere, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Andrew Lippa's I Am Harvey Milk & I Am Anne Hutchinson (Lincoln Center, Strathmore, San Francisco, LA, Denver, Princeton); Karen Hartman's The Lucky Star (The Director's Co, 59e59); Chelsea Marcantel's Everything is Wonderful (Philadelphia Theatre Co.); Jonathan Tolins's The Forgotten Woman (world premiere, Bay Street Theatre); Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth (Everyman). Associate Director: LCT, Second Stage, City Center Encores. noahhimmelstein.com MATTHEW LOMBARDO (Playwright) Broadway: High (w/ Kathleen Turner) at the Booth Theatre and Looped (w/ Valerie Harper in a Tony-nominated performance) at the Lyceum Theatre. Off-Broadway: Who's Holiday! at The Westside Theatre (Lucille Lortel Award Nomination for Outstanding Solo Show); Tea at Five (w/ Kate Mulgrew) at the Promenade Theatre (IRNE Award Winner for Best Solo Play); Mother and Child (w/ Ann Wedgeworth) at Second Stage and Guilty Innocence at The Actors' Playhouse. Television: "Another World" (WGA Nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Writing). Regional: Hartford Stage, American Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Seattle Rep, and others. Upcoming: When Playwrights Kill (2025). www.matthew-lombardo.com WILSON CHIN (Set Design) Broadway/national tour: Cost of Living, Pass Over (Drama Desk, Lortel and Henry Hewes Award nominations), Next Fall, Annie (Madison Square Garden starring Whoopi Goldberg). Off-Broadway: Sumo (Ma-Yi/Public); A Bright New Boise, Sunset Baby (Signature); The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons); Jonah (Roundabout); All Nighter, Space Dogs (MCC, Lortel Award nomination). Opera: Turandot (Washington National Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera of Chicago). Film/Television: Pass Over (dir. Spike Lee) and "Game Theory with Bomani Jones" (HBO). @wilsonchindesign RYAN PARK (Costume Design) Children of Eden (MCP, Lincoln Center) Alien/Nation (Williamstown) LatinXoxo (The Public) Dial M for Murder (Old Globe) English with an Accent (Lincoln Center) Operas at The Chicago Lyric, Cincinnati Opera, Juilliard, Curtis Institute, Houston Grand Opera, & Pacific Symphony. Carnegie Mellon Alumnus. USA829 RyanParkDesign.com ELIZABETH HARPER (Lighting Design) Broadway: Uncle Vanya (Lincoln Center, with Lap Chi Chu), Off Broadway: Between Two Knees (The Perelman Center for the Performing Arts); Indecent; Rattlesnake Kate (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (The Geffen Playhouse); Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Blues for an Alabama Sky (The Mark Taper Forum) and world premieres by Lucy Alibar, Kemp Powers, Julia Cho, Michael Mitnick. Assistant professor of lighting design at the University of Southern California. JOHN GROMADA (Sound Design) 40+ Broadway productions including Birthday Candles, All My Sons, Torch Song, The Elephant Man, Trip to Bountiful (Tony nomination), The Best Man (Drama Desk Award), Clybourne Park, Rabbit Hole, Prelude to a Kiss, Proof, A Few Good Men. Off-Bway include Brooklyn Laundry, A Sherlock Carol, Drinking in America, The Cake, Old Hats, Orphans' Home Cycle (Drama Desk & Henry Hewes Awards), Shipwrecked! (Lortel Award), The Skriker (Drama Desk Award), Machinal (OBIE). Film/TV: scores for A Bronx Tale, and Trip to Bountiful, more. johngromada.net CAITE HEVNER (Projection Design) Broadway: Derren Brown: SECRET; In Transit; Harry Connick Jr., ACelebration of Cole Porter. Select New York: Between the Lines (Drama Desk nomination); Sweatshop Overlord, (Lortel nomination); MTC; MCC; Primary Stages; Roundabout; Manhattan Concert Productions/Lincoln Center. Select Regional: Goodman, Seattle's 5th Avenue, Guthrie, Alley, Williamstown, Arena, the Kennedy Center. Video Coordinator for BC/EFA's Broadway Bares since 2018. Local USA 829, IATSE: Eastern Regional Board, Member Representative, and Respectful Workplace co-chair. www.caitedesign.com Instagram: @caitehevner TOM WATSON (Hair and Wig Design) Headed the wig/makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera for 17 years. He has designed more than 100 Broadway productions. Wicked, Rock of Ages, The King & I, Fiddler on the Roof, Oslo, Falsettos, The Little Foxes, My Fair Lady, Plaza Suite, Parade and Spamalot revival. NICK PECIARO, CSA (Casting) Off-Broadway: Jeremy O. Harris' Daddy (Artios Award winner Outstanding Achievement in Casting), Sharr White's The True (Artios nominee), Donja R. Love's one in two (NYT Critic's Pick), Jesse Eisenberg's Happy Talk. TV: "Chicago PD", "FBI", "City on a Hill", "Homeland." Film: Founders Day, Mapplethorpe (Tribeca), Intermedium (SIFF). Love to Mom, Dad and my Matt. SHOWTOWN THEATRICALS ( Executive Producer/General Manager) Broadway/Tour: Oh Mary!, JOB, How To Dance In Ohio, Parade (Broadway/Tour), Just For Us, Into the Woods (Broadway/Tour), A Christmas Carol (2019), The Jimmy Awards, Notre Dame de Paris (Lincoln Center). OB: Mind Mangler, A Sherlock Carol. Upcoming: Galileo, Anne of Green Gables, Romy & Michele. showtown.nyc. |
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