| Tommy Dorfman will Star in BECOMING EVE at New York Theatre Workshop | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 11:42 am EST 01/21/25 | |
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| NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP TOMMY DORFMAN WILL STAR IN BECOMING EVE BY EMIL WEINSTEIN BASED ON THE MEMOIR BY ABBY CHAVA STEIN DIRECTED BY TYNE RAFAELI AT ABRONS ARTS CENTER PREVIEWS BEGIN MARCH 19, 2025 OPENING NIGHT SET FOR APRIL 7, 2025 LIMITED RUN THROUGH APRIL 27, 2025 (January 21, 2025 – New York, New York) New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) (Artistic Director Patricia McGregor) announced today that screen and stage actress Tommy Dorfman (Broadway's Romeo + Juliet, "13 Reasons Why") will star as "Chava" in Becoming Eve, the fourth production of its 2024/25 Season. Written by Emil Weinstein ("A League of Their Own"), based on the memoir by Abby Chava Stein (Sources of Pride), and directed by Tyne Rafaeli (Spain), Becoming Eve will begin performances at Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand St, New York, NY 10002) on March 19, 2025, with opening night set for April 7, for a limited run through April 27, 2025. A week before the High Holidays, three rabbis find themselves in a room fighting to save a family by building a bridge between orthodoxy and modernity. One of these rabbis is Chava, the child of a dynastic Hasidic rabbinical family and destined to become a leader of the next generation before the revelation of her trans identity clashed explosively with the strictly gendered world in which she was raised. As we jump through memory—and wrestle with theology—truths and secrets emerge that ensure no one will read the old stories the same way again. Based on the critically acclaimed memoir by Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve is a remarkable playwriting debut from Emil Weinstein with direction by Tyne Rafaeli and puppetry by Amanda Villalobos. Tommy Dorfman (Romeo + Juliet, "13 Reasons Why") will star as Chava. Becoming Eve will feature scenic design by Arnulfo Maldonado (Yellow Face), costume design by Enver Chakartash (Romeo + Juliet), lighting design by Ben Stanton (Maybe Happy Ending), sound design by UptownWorks - Daniela Hart, Noel Nichols & Bailey Trieweiler (Blood of the Lamb), puppet design by Amanda Villalobos (Wolf Play) and music by Daniel Kluger (Oh, Mary!). Claire Yenson is the Casting Director, and Jason Kaiser (Monsoon Wedding) will serve as Stage Manager. Becoming Eve will begin previews on March 19 ahead of an April 7 opening night. The production will play a strictly limited engagement through April 27. A detailed performance schedule and additional casting will be announced at a later date. Currently in performances at NYTW is A Knock on the Roof, a new play written by and starring Khawla Ibraheem (London-Jenin) and directed and developed by Obie Award winner and NYTW Usual Suspect Oliver Butler (What the Constitution Means to Me), running through February 16, 2025. The season will conclude in Spring 2025 with Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole, written by Tony and Academy Award nominee Colman Domingo (Rustin) and NYTW Artistic Director and Usual Suspect Patricia McGregor (The Refuge Plays). Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole will feature direction by McGregor and star Emmy Award nominee Dulé Hill (After Midnight) and Tony Award nominee Daniel J. Watts (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical). The season began with We Live in Cairo, featuring a book, music & lyrics by NYTW Usual Suspects The Lazours (Night Side Songs), choreography and movement direction by Ann Yee (Next to Normal), and direction by Obie Award winner and NYTW Usual Suspect Taibi Magar (The Half-God of Rainfall). A variety of 2024/25 Season membership packages are now on sale at NYTW.org or by calling 212-460-5475 (Monday 1-6PM, Tuesday-Friday 1PM-curtain, Saturday-Sunday 12pm-curtain). NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP empowers visionary theatre-makers and brings their work to adventurous audiences through productions, artist workshops and education and community engagement programs. We nurture pioneering new writers alongside powerhouse playwrights, engage inimitable genre-shaping directors, and support emerging artists in the earliest days of their careers. We've mounted over 150 productions from artists whose work has shaped our very idea of what theatre can be, including Jonathan Larson's Rent; Tony Kushner's Slavs! And Homebody/Kabul; Doug Wright's Quills; Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde; Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla; Martha Clarke's Vienna: Lusthaus; Will Power's The Seven and Fetch Clay, Make Man; Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Far Away, A Number and Love and Information; Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's Aftermath; Rick Elice's Peter and the Starcatcher; Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová and Enda Walsh's Once; David Bowie and Enda Walsh's Lazarus; Dael Orlandersmith's The Gimmick and Forever; Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me; Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play; Kristina Wong's Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord; Aleshea Harris's On Sugarland; Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Maria Friedman and choreographed by Tim Jackson; Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich's Here There Are Blueberries; and eight acclaimed productions directed by Ivo van Hove. NYTW's productions have received a Pulitzer Prize, 29 Tony Awards, 2 Grammy Awards and numerous Obie, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards. NYTW is represented on Broadway with Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown, developed with and directed by Rachel Chavkin. Alongside its artistic and community engagement activities, NYTW is engaged in the essential, sustained commitment of becoming an anti-racist organization in support and affirmation of Black people, Indigenous people and People of Color in its community. In June of 2020, NYTW published its Core Values statement and initial action and accountability steps. In an effort to provide greater transparency, NYTW shares progress updates, further commitments and next steps at nytw.org/accountability. ABRONS ARTS CENTER is a home for contemporary interdisciplinary arts in Manhattan's Lower East Side neighborhood. A core program of the Henry Street Settlement, Abrons believes that access to the arts is essential for a thriving city. Through performance presentations, exhibitions, education programs, and residencies, Abrons mobilizes communities with the transformative power of art. www.abronsartscenter.org FOR MORE INFORMATION: NYTW.org # # # BIOS EMIL WEINSTEIN (Playwright) is a writer and director whose work spans theater, television, and filmmaking. He graduated from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he directed the first workshop production of Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris. His productions as a theater director include Twelfth Night and Romeo & Juliet at Two River Theater, Comedy of Errors and As You Like It (upcoming) at the Old Globe, and developmental work with EnGarde Arts, Rattlestick Theater, Shakespeare and Company, and New York Theatre Workshop. For television, Emil worked as a staff writer on Amazon's "A League of Their Own" and directed four episodes for the final season of "The L Word Generation Q" for Showtime. His short films "Candace" and "In France Michelle is a Man's Name" played at festivals around the world, winning multiple awards including two Academy Award Qualifying Grand Jury Prizes. Becoming Eve is Emil's Off-Broadway playwriting debut. Emil is a transgender man and uses he/him pronouns. TYNE RAFAELI (Director) directs for stage, screen and audio. Recent stage productions include Brian Watkins' Weather Girl (Edinburgh Festival, Fringe First Award, the Lustrum Award, and The List's Best International Production); Jen Silverman's Spain (Second Stage); Keith Bunin's The Coast Starlight (Lincoln Center Theatre, NY Times Critics' Pick); Brian Watkins' Epiphany (Lincoln Center Theatre, NY Times Critics' Pick); Sylvia Khoury's Selling Kabul (Playwright's Horizons, NY Times Critics' Pick); Ming Peiffer's Usual Girls (Roundabout, NY Times Critics' Pick); Craig Lucas' I Was Most Alive With You (Playwright's Horizons, NY Times Critics' Pick); and Lauren Yee's In a Word (Cherry Lane, NY Times Critics' Pick). Recent TV directing includes "The Beast In Me" (Netflix); "Tell Me Lies" (Hulu); "Elsbeth" (CBS); "The Good Fight" (Paramount+); "Single Drunk Female" (Hulu); and "Evil" (Paramount+). Tyne has directed multiple audio series including most recently The Miranda Obsession written by Jen Silverman and starring Rachel Brosnahan and Madam Ram starring Toni Collette. Upcoming theatre productions include Weather Girl at Soho Theatre, London. TOMMY DORFMAN (Chava) is an accomplished actress, writer, director, and producer whose work spans film, television, and theater. Best known for her breakout role in the hit Netflix series "13 Reasons Why," Dorfman has since gone on to build a dynamic career, while consistently shining a light on her experiences as a trans woman in Hollywood. Most recently, Dorfman made her Broadway debut in Sam Gold's adaptation of Romeo + Juliet, starring alongside Kit Conner and Rachel Zegler. Opening on October 24 for a 20-week run, this production marks Dorfman's return to the New York stage and her first acting role since publicly coming out as transgender. In this fresh take on the classic, Dorfman takes on dual roles as the "Nurse" and "Tybalt." Dorfman directed her first feature film, I Wish You All the Best, starring Corey Fogelmanis, Alexandra Daddario, Cole Sprouse, and Lena Dunham. The highly anticipated debut feature premiered at SXSW in March 2024 to positive reviews. Up next, Dorfman's memoir Maybe This Will Save Me will be published by HarperCollins on May 27, 2025. |
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