Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Andrew D. Hamingson,
Managing Director) is proud to announce the world premiere production
of Annie Baker’s play BODY AWARENESS, directed by Karen Kohlhaas and
featuring Jonathan Clem, Peter Friedman, Mary McCann and JoBeth Williams.
BODY
AWARENESS will begin previews Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 for an official
opening on Wednesday, June 4th, and play a limited engagement through
Sunday, June 22nd Off-Broadway at Atlantic Stage 2 (330 West 16th
Street).
BODY AWARENESS marks the final production of the
2007-2008 Atlantic Stage 2 season at the company’s second stage
theater, where two new plays are staged each year. The hit world
premiere production of Academy Award® winning film maker Ethan Coen’s
Almost an Evening played a sold out run earlier this season before
transferring to The Theaters at 45 Bleecker Street where it plays a
limited engagement through June 1st.
In the world premiere of
Annie Baker’s new comedy, it is “Body Awareness Week” at bucolic
Shirley State College in Vermont, and all must go according to plan.
But when photographer Frank Bonitatibus shows up with his passel of
photographs of naked women, things start to go awry.
Playwright
Annie Baker makes her Off-Broadway debut at Atlantic with the world
premiere of Body Awareness. Her plays have been developed at Atlantic,
SoHo Rep, Playwrights Horizons and the Sundance Playwrights Retreat.
Atlantic founding member Karen Kohlhaas most recently directed comedian
Judy Gold’s
Drama Desk Award nominated one woman play 25 Questions for a Jewish
Mother Off-Broadway following a national tour. She has also staged
Harold Pinter's The Hothouse and Keith Reddin’s Frame 312 at Atlantic, as well as David Mamet’s Boston Marriage at The Public Theater.
BODY
AWARENESS marks Jonathan Clem’s Off-Broadway and professional debut
following graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the
Arts this year, where he studied at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting
School. Tony Award® nominee Peter Friedman
(Ragtime) will make his Atlantic debut. He most recently appeared in
the hit Off-Broadway musical The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island and on
Broadway in the acclaimed revival of Twelve Angry Men. Atlantic
founding member Mary McCann comes direct from the world premiere production of Ethan Coen’s
Almost an Evening, which played at Atlantic Stage 2 prior to its
Off-Broadway transfer. She also appeared in the world premiere of Spring Awakening,
The Cherry Orchard and The Night Heron at Atlantic. Academy Award®,
Golden Globe® and Emmy Award® nominated actress and director JoBeth Williams
is best known for her starring roles in the landmark films Poltergeist,
The Big Chill and Kramer vs. Kramer. On the New York stage, she has
appeared Off-Broadway in Marsha Norman’s Last Dance, John Guare's
Gardenia and The Vagina Monologues. Most recently, she starred in Jane
Anderson's The Quality of Life at The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles,
for which she received a Back Stage West Garland Award.
The
design team for BODY AWARENESS will feature scenic design by Walt
Spangler, costume design by Bobby Frederick Tilley III, lighting design
by Jason Lyons and sound design by Anthony Gabriele.
Atlantic’s New York premiere production of Conor McPherson’s
(The Seafarer) play Port Authority, directed by Henry Wishcamper, is
now in previews for a limited engagement through June 22nd, 2008 at
Atlantic Theater Company at the Linda Gross Theatre (336 West 20th
Street).
Peter Friedman, Jonathan Clem, Annie Baker, Karen Kohlhaas, JoBeth Williams, and Mary McCann
Peter Friedman, Jonathan Clem, JoBeth Williams, and Mary McCann
Peter Friedman, Jonathan Clem, Annie Baker, Karen Kohlhaas, JoBeth Williams, and Mary McCann
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