With
Kate Walsh (“Private Practice,” “Grey’s Anatomy”)
Paul Sparks (Broadway’s Hedda Gabler)
Molly and Ray unexpectedly meet 25 years after a one-afternoon adolescent fling. She has a successful media career; he owns a small landscaping business. Both begin to romanticize their chance reunion, but a renewed connection is disrupted when Ray reveals the sordid details of a crime that left him incarcerated for ten years. Their encounter reveals two vastly different paths taken and two lonely souls attempting to reclaim a moment of possibility, when they were young and perhaps at their very best.
KATE WALSH makes her Off-Broadway and Atlantic Theater Company debut. She currently stars as “Dr. Addison Montgomery” on the ABC drama “Private Practice” following two seasons on the award-winning hit series “Grey’s Anatomy.” On the big screen, she was most recently seen in the supernatural thriller Legion opposite Dennis Quaid and recently completed production on upcoming independent film Waska. She began her acting career in Chicago studying at the renowned Piven Theatre Workshop before starring in multiple theatre productions at the Shakespeare Repertory including the critically acclaimed Born Guilty, Moon Under Miami and Troilus and Cressida.
PAUL SPARKS recently starred in Roundabout’s revival of Hedda Gabler on Broadway, where he also appeared in Take Me Out. Off-Broadway credits include Lady, Pumpgirl, American Sligo and Blackbird. This fall he will appear in the new HBO series “Boardwalk Empire” as well as the upcoming HBO mini-series Mildred Pierce with Kate Winslet.
Playwright and screenwriter STEPHEN BELBER makes his Atlantic debut with the world premiere of Dusk Rings a Bell. He has been represented on Broadway with the world premiere of his play Match starring Frank Langella. His hit Off-Broadway play Tape has been produced in New York, Australia, Germany, Canada, Greece and Japan and was made into a feature film starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman.
SAM GOLD also makes his Atlantic debut. He most recently directed Annie Baker’s plays Circle Mirror Transformation and will direct The Aliens Off-Broadway this Spring. He is a recipient of a Princess Grace Award, a Theater Hall of Fame Fellowship, and is a Wooster Group Associate Artist, a Drama League Directing Fellow, and a New York Theater Workshop Usual Suspect.
BIOS:
STEPHEN BELBER (Playwright) As a playwright, Belber’s work has been produced on Broadway and in over 25 countries. His plays include Match (Tony nomination for Frank Langella); Tape (Naked Angels NY/LA/London); McReele (Roundabout Theater); A Small, Melodramatic Story (Labyrinth Theater Company); Geometry of Fire, (Rattlestick); Fault Lines (Cherry Lane); One Million Butterflies (Primary Stages), and Carol Mulroney (Huntington Theater Company). He was an Associate Writer on The Laramie Project (Drama Desk and Lortel nominations), and co-writer on the more recent Laramie Project Epilogue. Movies include Tape, directed by Richard Linklater; The Laramie Project (Associate Writer/Emmy Nomination for screenwriting); Drifting Elegant, and Management, which he also directed, starring Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn. Currently developing screen adaptations of both Match and McReele. Television includes Rescue Me and Law and Order SVU (staff writer). He is a member of both Tectonic Theater Project and the Labyrinth Theater Company.
SAM GOLD (Director) Recent credits: Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation(Playwrights Horizons) and The Aliens (Rattlestick), Nick Jones and Raja Azar’s Jollyship the Whizbang (Under the Radar Festival; Ars Nova), Betty Shamieh's The Black Eyed (New York Theater Workshop), Noah Haidle’s Rag and Bone (Rattlestick), Alena Smith’s The Sacrifices (Summer Play Festival), Sam Forman’s The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (Stage 13), Sam Mark’s The Joke(Studio Dante), Colin McKenna’s The Secret Agenda of Trees (Cherry Lane), and Rogelio Martinez’s Fizz (The Ohio Theater). Sam has developed new plays at American Conservatory Theater, Clubbed Thumb, The Lark, Manhattan Class Company, Manhattan Theater Club, The Marin Theater, New York Theater Workshop, The Ojai Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, The Public Theater, The Sundance Theater Lab, The Vineyard Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, and The Yale Repertory Theater. Sam is a teaching artist and guest director at The Juilliard School and has taught and directed at NYU Graduate Acting, ACT, Williams College, and Cornell. He is a recipient of a Princess Grace Award, a Theater Hall of Fame Fellowship, and is a Wooster Group Associate Artist, a Drama League Directing Fellow, and a New York Theater Workshop Usual Suspect.
KATE WALSH (Molly) makes her Off-Broadway and Atlantic Theater Company debut with her starring role in the world premiere of Dusk Rings a Bell. She currently stars as “Dr. Addison Montgomery” on the ABC drama “Private Practice.” “Private Practice” premiered in September of 2007 as the highest-rated new series and debuted as the #1 show on Wednesday evenings. Now in its third season, “Private Practice” is one of ABC’s highest rated scripted dramas in the 9pm hour. Prior to “Private Practice,” Walsh co-starred on ABC’s hit drama “Grey’s Anatomy.” In Walsh’s two seasons on the show, they received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in 2007 and received ensemble nominations from both the Screen Actors Guild and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 2006 and 2008. “Grey’s” won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series Drama in 2007 and was nominated again the following year. The show also received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Drama Series in 2006 and 2007. Walsh was most recently seen in the supernatural thriller Legion opposite Paul Bettany and Dennis Quaid released by Screen Gems earlier this year. She also completed production on Waska, an independent thriller centered on a small town dealing with the tragic death of a young boy starring opposite Thomas Dekker, Mira Sorvino and Jeremy Piven in the film. Walsh began her acting career in Chicago where she studied at the renowned Piven Theatre Workshop before starring in multiple theatre productions at the Shakespeare Repertory, including the critically acclaimed Born Guilty, Moon Under Miami and Troilus and Cressida. Walsh then moved to New York and appeared on various television shows, including series regular roles on ABC’s “The Mike O’Malley Show,” HBO’s “Mind of a Married Man” and ABC’s “The Drew Carey Show.” Other film credits includeUnder the Tuscan Sun, After the Sunset, The Family Man and Kicking and Screaming.
PAUL SPARKS (Ray) recently starred in Roundabout’s revival of Hedda Gabler on Broadway, where he also appeared in Take Me Out. Off-Broadway credits includeLady, Pumpgirl, American Sligo, Essential Self Defense (2007 Drama Desk nomination), Finer Noble Gases (Best Actor 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Landscape of the Body, Orange Flower Water (2005 Drama Desk nomination), Bug, Blackbird (2004 Drama Desk nom), Circumference of a Squirrel, Coyote on a Fence (2000 Drama Desk nomination), The Late Henry Moss, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Man and Superman, MacBeth. TV: “Brotherhood,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Third Watch,” “Trinity,” “Guiding Light.” Film: The Missing Person;Blackbird; Deception; First Person Singular, The Treatment; Headspace; Doris;Afterschool; Synecdoche, New York; Edge of Darkness and Please Give. This fall he will appear in the new HBO series “Boardwalk Empire” as well as the upcoming HBO mini-series Mildred Pierce with Kate Winslet.
TAKESHI KATA (Scenic Designer) Atlantic: Keep Your Pantheon and School,What’s That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, Port Authority, Birth and After Birth,Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. Off-Broadway: Adding Machine, Doris to Darlene…, Orson’s Shadow, Gone Missing, The Attic, Pullman Car Hiawatha.Regional: Elmer Gantry (Nashville Opera/Montclair University), Alley Theatre,American Players Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theater Center, Ford’sTheatre, Geffen Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Long Wharf, The Old Globe, Skylight Opera Theatre, Steppenwolf, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre. Awards: Obie, Drama Desk nom.
THERESA SQUIRE (Costume Designer) designs costumes for theatre, dance and film. She is the resident costume designer for Drama Desk winning Keen Company. Theresa has designed for Playwrights Horizons, The Hourglass Group, including The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, the Atlantic Theater Company, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Barrow Street Theatre, The Flying Machine, iTheatrics (national tours), Chautauqua Theater Company, The Dorset Theatre Festival, Tami Stronach Dance, The New Group including Rafta Rafta, and Soho Rep including Blasted. Her costumes were seen on Broadway in High Fidelity and The Lieutenant of Inishmore.
BEN STANTON (Lighting Designer) New York: Coraline (MCC/True Love Productions), Why Torture Is Wrong And The People Who Love Them, The Poor Itch (The Public Theater), The Metal Children (Vineyard Theater), Oliver Butler! (Cherry Lane), Humor Abuse (Manhattan Theater Club), A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick, Three Changes, A Feminine Ending, Essential Self-Defense (Playwrights Horizons), Light Raise the Roof, Play Yourself, Bexley OH! (New York Theater Workshop), The Dear Boy, The Triple Happiness (Second Stage), Sandra Bernhard: Everything Bad & Beautiful (Daryl Roth Theater), Walmartopia, Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell (Minetta Lane Theater), Bad Jazz (Play Company), Orange Flower Water, Stone Cold Dead Serious (Edge Theater), Die Mommie Die (New World Stages), Hunting and Gathering (Primary Stages), Jollyship the Wizbang (Arsnova), The Thugs (Soho Rep), Finer Noble Gases, American Sligo, Rag and Bone (Rattlestick Theater). Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Dallas Theater Center, South Coast Rep, Huntington Theater, Philadelphia Theatre Co., The McCarter Theater, Intiman Theater, Paper Mill Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Actors Theater of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse, St. Louis Rep. Chautauqua Theater Co, Bay Street Theater, New York Stage and Film, Williamstown Theater Festival. www.benstanton.com
JILL BC DU BOFF (Sound Design) Atlantic: What's That Smell?, Make Me. Broadway includes: The Constant Wife; The Good Body; Bill Maher: Victory…; Three Days of Rain (assoc.); Inherit The Wind (assoc.); Off-Broadway includes: Lincoln Center, Atlantic, MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Public, Vineyard, Second Stage, NYTW, WP, New Georges, Flea, Cherry Lane, Signature, Clubbed Thumb, Culture Project, Actor’s Playhouse, New Group, Promenade, Urban Stages, Houseman, Fairbanks, Soho Rep, Adobe. Regional: Old Globe, Hartford Stage, Minneapolis Children’s Theatre, Bay Street, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Portland Stage, Long Wharf, The Alley, Kennedy Center, NYS&F, South Coast Rep, Humana, Williamstown, Berkshire Theatre, ATF. Television: Comedy Central Presents: Slovin & Allen; NBC Late Fridays Film: We Pedal Uphill Radio: Contributing producer for PRI’s Studio 360; Nominations: Drama Desk (Spatter Pattern, Miss Julie), Henry Hewes (Spatter Pattern, Umbrella). Awards: Ruth Morley Design Award. Faculty: Sarah Lawrence College Website: Jillduboff.com
MELCAP CASTING (Mele Nagler & David Caparelliotis): Also for the Atlantic: Make Me, Oohrah!. Current Broadway: Fences, Lend Me A Tenor, Everyday Rapture, Collected Stories. Other theatre credits include work at: Second Stage, MTC, LCT3, Williamstown Theatre Festival, ARS NOVA, and a number of regional theatres across the country. Select TV & Film credits: RUBICON (upcoming AMC series), GOSSIP GIRL (WB/The CW, 2 seasons), BROTHERHOOD (Showtime, 3 seasons), NY casting-LOVE & OTHER DRUGS (20th Century Fox), and a number of other film projects.
ERIN MAUREEN KOSTER (Production Stage Manager). Most recent productions include: Pen Knife (Caborca/The Pretenders at The Living Theatre), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (3LD), Mahidas Extra Key to Heaven (Epic Theatre Ensemble at Signature Theatre), A More Perfect Union (Epic at CSC), Big Money (Bisno Productions at Ars Nova), The Language of Trees (Roundabout Underground),Beyond Therapy (Bay Street/Williamstown), Democracy in America (Foundry at PS122), Rebel Voices and Tings Dey Happen (Culture Project), Escape from Bellevue (WestBeth at the Village Theatre), Tea & Sympathy (Keen Company at Theatre Row), Dying City (Lincoln Center), A Very Merry Unauthorized Childrens Scientology Pageant (Les Freres Corbusier at NYTW), Hell House (Les Freres at St. Anns). Company member, Caborca Theatre. MFA, Stage Management,Columbia University. Member, AEA.
MOLLY EUSTIS (Assistant Stage Manager)
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When:
May 19 - June 20, 2010
WHERE:
Atlantic Stage 2
330 West 16th Street, NYC
CAST:
Kate Walsh
Paul Sparks
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