DAVID ADJMI'S MARIE ANTOINETTE TO KICKOFF WOOLLY'S SEASON 35
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For Immediate Release
August 20, 2014
Press Contact: Justin McCarthy
Communications Coordinator
202-312-5276
justin.mccarthy@woollymammoth.net
DAVID ADJMI’S MARIE ANTOINETTE
TO KICKOFF WOOLLY’S SEASON 35
FEATURING WOOLLY COMPANY MEMBER
KIMBERLY GILBERT IN THE TITLE ROLE,
DIRECTED BY YURY URNOV
(Washington, DC) Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announces the first offering of its 35th
season: David Adjmi’s Marie Antoinette, a highly contemporary look at the famously iconic
and controversial queen of France, from her growing celebrity to her ultimate demise at the
hands of those who had once extolled her. Woolly Company Member Kimberly Gilbert will take
on the role of Marie in a production directed by new Woolly Company Member Yury Urnov,
who last directed at Woolly in 2012, with the World Premiere production of You For Me For You.
Marie Antoinette will run from Monday, September 15 to Sunday, October 12, 2014.
In a world of empty celebrity and economic crisis, how’s a teen queen to keep her head? Marie
Antoinette tells the story of the cake enthusiast and infamous one-percenter who realizes too
late that there’s an unstoppable revolution brewing outside her window. Through the play’s
incisive contemporary lens, history’s most notorious teenager becomes a full-blooded, complex,
and tragic heroine. The production shines a light on a society—not unlike ours—that might just
be consuming itself to death.
“I am thrilled to welcome one of America’s most brilliant young playwrights back to Woolly, along
with visionary director Yury Urnov,” says Woolly Artistic Director Howard Shalwitz. “David
Adjmi’s crisp and sometimes hilarious script makes this a Marie Antoinette for America today,
a potent symbol of all the things that keep us from seeing the real forces bearing down on us—
our cult of celebrity, our fatuous politics, the insane pressures and scant tools we give to our
children, the pace of change we can hardly fathom.”
Marie Antoinette’s extraordinary cast includes Woolly Company Members Sarah Marshall*
(Civilization (all you can eat), Full Circle) and Dawn Ursula* (The Totalitarians, recipient of the
2013 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play for her role in The
Convert). The production will also feature veteran Woolly performers Joe Isenberg* (We Are
Proud To Present…) and Cole Edelstein (Appropriate).
More information about Marie Antoinette and Woolly’s 35th Anniversary Season can be found
at woollymammoth.net.
ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
1 of 5David Adjmi (Playwright) was called "virtuosic" by the New York Times and he was listed as
one of the Top Ten in Culture for 2011 by The New Yorker magazine. His play Marie
Antoinette received a critically acclaimed world premiere co-production with A.R.T. and Yale
Rep. The play won 3 Connecticut Critics Circle Awards including Best Play. Marie Antoinette
received a New York premiere with a sold out run at Soho Rep in fall 2013. Other plays include
Stunning (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), The Evildoers
(Sundance, Yale Repertory Theatre), Caligula (Soho Rep Studio Series), and Strange Attractors
(Empty Space). David was awarded a Mellon Foundation Playwrights Residency, the
Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Kesselring Prize for Drama, the
Steinberg Playwright Award (the “Mimi”), and the Bush Artists Fellowship, among others. He is
the recipient of multiple MacDowell Colony fellowships, Sundance/Ucross residency and others.
He currently holds commissions from Lincoln Center Theater, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep and the
Royal Court, and he is the recipient of the 2012 Fadiman Award from Center Theatre Group.
David has served on panels for the Luminato Festival, National Endowment for the Arts, the
McKnight Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council and others. He has taught workshops
and seminars at the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Harvard University, Yale School of Drama,
Primary Stages, NYU, Mark Taper Forum, CalArts, Southampton Writers Conference, and the
University of Rochester. He is a member of New Dramatists, the Dramatists Guild, MCC
Theater Playwrights’ Coalition, and Soho Theatre’s “The Hub.” A collection of David’s work,
Stunning and Other Plays, is published by TCG, and his work is included in The Methuen
Drama Book of New American Plays. David's memoir is forthcoming from HarperCollins, and a
second play collection from TCG will be published in spring 2014.
Yury Urnov (Director) Born in Moscow, Russia, Yury graduated from the Russian Academy of
Theater Art (GITIS) in 2000, and has directed over 40 productions in his home country, Europe,
and Africa. He was one of the first to discover and direct plays by the generation of post-Soviet
playwrights, who are now internationally recognized as the leaders of the New Russian Drama
movement. Yury translated plays of Martin McDonagh, Sarah Ruhl, and Edward Albee into
Russian, as well as a number of contemporary Russian plays into English. Since 2002, he has
worked closely with the Center for International Theater Development (dir. Philip Arnoult) on a
number of Russia – US cultural projects. In 2009-2011 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Residence
at Towson University, MD. His recent directing credits in the US include Ubu Roi at Cutting Ball
Theater in San Francisco, and You for Me for You at Woolly Mammoth.
Woolly Company Member and Helen Hayes Award winner Misha Kachman (Stupid Fucking
Bird, The Convert, The Totalitarians) will design the set. The creative team also features Light
Designer Jen Schriever, Sound Designer Eric Shimelonis, Costume Designer Helen Huang
(The Convert, In the Next Room or the vibrator play), Dramaturg Kirsten Bowen (Woolly’s
Literary Manager), and Production Stage Manager Kristy Matero*.
*Member, Actor’s Equity Association
SCHEDULE
Marie Antoinette runs September 15, 2014 to October 12, 2014, with performances
Wednesday-Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 3pm and 8pm, (Saturday, June 7 at 8pm only), and
Sunday at 2pm and 7pm (Sunday, September 21 at 7pm only). Monday, September 15 and
Tuesday, September 16 will be Pay What You Can performances and will begin at 8pm.
PERFORMANCE CALENDAR
September 15, 2014: Pay What You Can performance at 8pm
September 16, 2014: Pay What You Can performance at 8pm
2 of 5September 17, 2014: Preview performance at 8pm
September 18, 2014: Preview performance at 8pm
September 19, 2014: Opening and Press Night performance at 8pm
September 20, 2014: Performance at 8pm
September 21, 2014: Performance at 7pm
September 24, 2014: Performance at 8pm
September 25, 2014: Performance at 8pm
September 26, 2014: Performance at 8pm
September 27, 2014: Performances at 3pm and 8pm
September 28, 2014: Performances at 2pm and 7pm
October 1, 2014: Performance at 8pm
October 2, 2014: Performance at 8pm
October 3, 2014: Performance at 8pm
October 4, 2014: Performances at 3pm and 8pm
October 5, 2014: Performances at 2pm and 7pm
October 8, 2014: Performances at 8pm and 11pm
October 9, 2014: Performance at 8pm
October 10, 2014: Performance at 8pm
October 11, 2014: Performances at 3pm and 8pm
October 12, 2014: Performances at 2pm and 7pm
PRESS NIGHT
Friday, September 19, 2014 will be Opening and Press Night and the performance that
evening will begin at 8pm. Please contact Communications Coordinator Justin McCarthy at
justin.mccarthy@woollymammoth.net to RSVP.
TICKETS
Tickets to Marie Antoinette start at $35 and can be purchased online at woollymammoth.net,
by phone at (202) 393-3939, via email at tickets@woollymammoth.net, or in person at the Box
Office, located at 641 D Street NW.
Patrons who are 30-years-old and younger may, at any time, purchase Section B tickets for $20
to any performance. There are also discounts available for first responder men and women and
active US military personnel, spouses, and veterans. More information is available at
woollymammoth.net.
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WELCOME TO THE COMPANY
Woolly is thrilled to announce the addition of three new members to the Woolly Mammoth
Company of Artists. Their work will be appearing on stage at Woolly as early as this season.
Jared Mezzocchi is thrilled to be welcomed into the Woolly Mammoth family after designing
projections for The Totalitarians (2014) and The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (2012). In
2013, he received a Princess Grace Award as the first projections designer to receive the honor.
He designed productions in New York City with 3-Legged Dog (Downtown Loop, SpyGarbo),
HereArts (You Are Dead. You Are Here.), Builders Association (Jet Lag), Rob Roth (Screen
Test), Baryshnikov Arts Center (Robert Wilson’s On The Beach), and has toured nationally and
internationally with Big Art Group (SOS, The Sleep, The People). Regionally, he has designed
3 of 5for Center Stage (Stones in his Pockets), Cleveland Playhouse (Breath and Imagination),
Milwaukee Rep (History of Invulnerability, The Mountaintop), and in DC with Theater J
(Yellowface, Race), and Studio (Astroboy and The God Of Comics). As a multimedia director,
Jared has spent the last six years creating original work at Andy’s Summer Playhouse in Wilton
NH (Donkey Xote, Dick Tracy, The Lost World, The BFG, Little Prince, The Block). He will be
remounting The Lost World at The University of Maryland’s Theater, Dance, and Performance
Studies program in February 2015. Outside of theater, Jared co-designed with Guilio Cappellini
for Design Week in Milan Italy, for Connect4Climate and Alcantara, and this year will design the
entrance and immersive experience for a Surf Museum in Montauk, NY. Jared continues to
teach Projection Design at the University of Maryland's Theater, Dance, and Performance
Studios program for graduate and undergraduate students.
Yury Urnov was born in Moscow, Russia. Yury graduated from the Russian Academy of
Theater Art (GITIS) in 2000, and has directed over 40 productions in his home country, Europe,
and Africa. He was one of the first to discover and direct plays by the generation of post-Soviet
playwrights, who are now internationally recognized as the leaders of the New Russian Drama
movement. Yury translated plays of Martin McDonagh, Sarah Ruhl, and Edward Albee into
Russian, as well as a number of contemporary Russian plays into English. Since 2002, he has
worked closely with the Center for International Theater Development (dir. Philip Arnoult) on a
number of Russia – US cultural projects. In 2009-2011 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Residence
at Towson University, MD. His recent directing credits in the US include Ubu Roi at Cutting Ball
Theater in San Francisco, and You for Me for You at Woolly Mammoth.
Ivania Stack previously designed Bright New Boise, Full Circle and Boom for Woolly Mammoth
Theatre Company, and was the associate designer for Oedipus El Rey and The Elaborate
Entrance of Chad Deity. Her other design credits include: Theater J:The Whipping Man, After
the Fall, The Odd Couple, Photograph 51, The Four of Us, and In Darfur ; Studio Theatre: Time
Stands Still and Adding Machine: A Musical; Studio Theatre 2nd Stage : Bloody Bloody Andrew
Jackson, Pop! and F***ing A; Everyman Theatre in Baltimore: 50 Words; Forum Theatre:
bobrauschenbergamerica and Angels in America; Gala Hispanic Theatre: Ana en el Tropico,
Lucido and True History of Coca Cola in Mexico; Rorschach Theatre: 1001 and Lord of the
Flies; MetroStage: Savage in Limbo, Lonely Planet, The Real Inspector Hound and Heroes; The
Contemporary American Theater Festival: Lidless and Breadcrumbs; and dog & pony dc:
Beertown and Mother Courage and Her Children. She received her MFA in Design from the
University of Maryland.
ABOUT WOOLLY
Now in its 35th Season, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company continues to hold its place at the
leading edge of American theatre. Acknowledged as “one of the most influential outposts for the
best new American plays” (The Washington Post), and “known for its productions of innovative
new plays” (The New York Times), Woolly Mammoth is a national leader in the development of
new works, and one of the best known and most influential mid-sized theatres in America.
Woolly Mammoth’s Season 35 is one in which we skewer our leaders and walk the widening
divide between the haves and the have-nots. The cast of characters include queens and
presidents, boomers and hustlers, the living and the living dead, and all of the works explore
societies and individuals under attack from outside and inside forces, breaking down, breaking
out, and groping toward new solutions The season includes David Adjmi’s Marie Antoinette
(September 15–October 12, 2014), The Old Trout Puppet Workshop’s Famous Puppet Death
Scenes (December 9–January 4, 2014), Lisa D’Amour’s Cherokee (February 9–March 8, 2014),
4 of 5Chad Beckim’s Lights Rise On Grace (March 30–April 26, 2014), and Robert O’Hara’s Zombie:
The American (May 25–June 1, 2014).
www.woollymammoth.net
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