Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce casting and dates for the world premiere production of Academy Award® winning film maker Ethan Coen's OFFICES, directed by Neil Pepe (Speed-the-Plow).
Previews will begin Wednesday, April 15 toward an official opening Thursday, May 7, and a limited engagement through Sunday, May 31, 2009 Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company at the Linda Gross Theater (336 West 20 Street).
The ensemble cast will feature Academy Award® winner F. Murray Abraham (Coen's Almost an Evening), Daniel Abeles (Behold, the Bowery!), Brennan Brown (Atlantic's Celebration), Aya Cash (From Up Here), John Bedford Lloyd (Some Americans Abroad), Daniel London (Patch Adams), Mary McCann (Atlantic's Spring Awakening), Joey Slotnick (Almost an Evening), Greg Stuhr (November), C.J. Wilson (Atlantic's The Voysey Inheritance) and Daniel Yelsky (upcoming film Meet Monica Velour).
Hiring and firing are antisocial acts. Workplace pressures make for nasty competition. And the work itself can be meaningless and alienating. Accordingly, the three short plays that make up OFFICES are comedies.
Academy Award® winner Ethan Coen returns to Atlantic with another world premiere production of one-act comedies. He made his Off-Broadway debut last season with the hit world premiere of Almost an Evening, which transferred Off-Broadway following a sold out extended Atlantic Stage 2 run. Coen has made fourteen movies with his brother Joel, including the Academy Award® winning films No Country for Old Men and Fargo; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Raising Arizona; Barton Fink; The Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski and Burn After Reading.
Atlantic artistic director Neil Pepe made his acclaimed Broadway debut this season with the hit revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, and staged David Pittu's world premiere comedy What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, which transferred Off-Broadway following a sold out engagement at Stage 2. He recently staged Harold Pinter's first and most recent plays, The Room and Celebration at Atlantic, and the world premiere of Mamet's Romance at Atlantic and at the Mark Taper Forum.
The design team for OFFICES will feature scenic design by Riccardo Hernandez, costume design by Laura Bauer, lighting design by David Weiner and sound design by Obadiah Eaves.
Atlantic and Druid's critically acclaimed production of Martin McDonagh's dark comedy The Cripple of Inishmaan, directed by Garry Hynes, concluded an extended engagement on March 14.
Ethan Coen (Playwright) returns to Atlantic following the hit world premiere production of Almost An Evening, which transferred to The Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street after a sold out extended engagement. He has written a collection of stories, Gates of Eden and a collection of poems, The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way. With his brother, Joel, Ethan Coen has made fourteen movies including Blood Simple; Raising Arizona; Miller's Crossing; Barton Fink; The Hudsucker Proxy; Fargo; The Big Lebowski; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; The Man Who Wasn't There; Intolerable Cruelty; The Ladykillers; No Country for Old Men and Burn after Reading.
Neil Pepe made his acclaimed Broadway debut this season with the hit revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, and staged David Pittu's world premiere comedy What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, which transferred Off-Broadway following an extended engagement at Atlantic Stage 2. He has been the artistic director of Atlantic Theater Company since 1992. There he directed Ethan Coen's Almost an Evening; Jez Butterworth's Parlour Song; David Mamet's American Buffalo starring William H. Macy (also Donmar Warehouse, London); Harold Pinter's The Room and Celebration; David Mamet's Romance (also Mark Taper Forum, L.A.); Milos by John Guare; Tom Donaghy's The Beginning of August (also South Coast Rep.); Howard Korder's Sea of Tranquility; Jez Butterworth's Mojo and The Night Heron; Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange; Wolf Lullaby by Hilary Bell; Clean by Edwin Sanchez; and Shaker Heights by Quincy Long. Other credits include the world premiere of David Mamet's Keep Your Pantheon as well as The Duck Variations (Center Theatre Group), Further Than the Furthest Thing by Zinnie Harris (Manhattan Theatre Club), Eric Bogosian's Red Angel (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and Jessica Goldberg's Refuge (Playwrights Horizons).
