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“An immaculately performed
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“Corey Stoll and
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“A first-class revival
with razor-sharp staging
from director Ian Rickson.” Theatermania
Don’t miss Emmy® nominee Cecily Strong (Saturday Night Live) as you’ve never seen her before, alongside powerhouse performer and Tony® nominee Corey Stoll (Appropriate), in Tom Noonan’s masterpiece. In a Manhattan studio apartment, two colleagues meet for an intimate dinner after work. What begins as small talk quickly unravels into a heartbreaking portrait of attraction, secrets, and the desperate need for connection. Back on a New York stage for the first time in nearly three decades, experience the first major New York revival of the play that inspired the Grand Jury Prize-winning 1994 Sundance film. 30 performances only!
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Cast & Creative Team
Corey Stoll
Michael
COREY STOLL is well known to film and television audiences. Some of his favorite roles include Mike Prince in “Billions,” Darren Cross/M.O.D.O.K in the Ant-Man films, and performances in Midnight in Paris (Independent Spirit Award nomination), West Side Story, The Many Saints of Newark, Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, Ryan Murphy’s “Ratched,” four seasons of Guillermo del Toro’s “The Strain,” and the first season of David Fincher’s “House of Cards” (Golden Globe nomination). Stoll can currently be seen in the Amazon series “The Better Sister,” starring opposite Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks. He recently wrapped shooting the Apple TV limited series “Imperfect Women” opposite Kerry Washington and Elisabeth Moss, the Apple TV film Matchbox opposite John Cena, and the starring role in the independent series “Recap.” Born and raised in New York, Stoll considers theater his first love. He received a Tony Award nomination in 2024 for his role opposite Sarah Paulson in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate. Other stage highlights include playing the title role in Macbeth at CSC, Iago in Othello and Brutus in Julius Caesar at The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, and in Lynn Nottage’s breakthrough play Intimate Apparel opposite Viola Davis (Drama Desk Award nomination). Stoll has an MFA in Acting from NYU’s Tisch School. He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn, NY.
Cecily Strong
Jackie
CECILY STRONG is an actress and author best known for her work as a cast member on “Saturday Night Live” from 2012-22. On “SNL,” Strong received back-to-back Emmy Award nominations in 2020-21 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, and a Critics Choice Award nomination. She earned rave reviews for her notable Judge Jeanine Pirro, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and Melania Trump impressions. Strong starred in Apple TV’s hit musical series, “Schmigadoon!,” on which she also served as a producer. Her memoir, This Will All Be Over Soon, was released in 2021. That same year she made her New York stage debut at The Shed in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, and returned to star in the production at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 2022. Strong voiced Ms. Malkin in the hit Netflix film Leo and co-starred in the animated feature Garfield. She recently starred in the John Patrick Shanley play, Brooklyn Laundry, at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Strong has appeared in the films The Female Brain and Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters, as well as Melissa McCarthy’s The Boss, The Bronze, and The Meddler. Additionally, Strong emceed the 2015 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Atra Asdou
Standby for Jackie
Atra Asdou is a Jeff Award-winning actor and writer commanding traditional stage dramas (Steppenwolf, Goodman, Yale Repertory) and non-traditional written/improvised comedy (The Second City, Brooklyn Comedy Collective). She recently wrote and starred in her award-winning play, Iraq, But Funny (premiered at Lookingglass Theatre in 2025; second production with ACT San Francisco in Spring 2027). TV: MAX’s And Just Like That…, Somebody Somewhere, South Side; Netflix’s Zero Day; NBC’s Chicago Med and Chicago P.D. Film: Atra’s screenplay, Izza, was a finalist at CIFF: Industry Days. Her short films Renee` and Fever have won international festival laurels. Atra lives in NYC and improvises at Brooklyn Comedy Collective with Donna’s Beef. Gratitude to the teams of What Happened Was… and New Born for Atra’s off-Broadway debut! Legit: Gray Talent Group NYC Commercial: Lauren Green Agency, LLC. www.atraasdou.com
R.J. Foster
Standby for Michael
Broadway: Home, Fat Ham, The Lehman Trilogy. Off-Broadway: Classic Stage Company, Billie Holiday Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem. Regional Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Folger Theatre, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company, TheatreSquared. TV: Law and Order, Elsbeth, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Bull, The Good Fight, Power, Homeland, Blacklist, Blue Bloods. Love to B & Z
Scenic Design
Brett J. Banakis
Christine Jones
Brett J. Banakis is thrilled to be a creative member for these inaugural productions of TOGETHER. He is a designer for theater, opera, film, concerts and environments based in Brooklyn. Along with Christine Jones, Brett is a co-founder of AMP Scenography, a design collective created to amplify emerging and underrepresented designers by engaging in equitable collaborations. Broadway: The Outsiders (AMP, Tony nom), John Proctor is the Villain (AMP), The Notebook, The Cher Show. Other credits: All of Me (New Group); Camp Siegfried and Whorl Inside a Loop (2ST); Your Own Personal Exegesis and Ghost Light (LCT3); The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Transport Group); Big Love (Signature); Sunday (Atlantic); Close To You (West End). International Scenic Supervisor for all worldwide productions of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Broadway, West End, Melbourne, San Francisco, Hamburg, Toronto, Tokyo, US Tour). Faculty member at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. www.brettjbanakis.com @brettjbanakis.
Christine Jones is a theatre artist, designer, and director. She is the creator and artistic director of Theater For One, a private portable performance space for one actor and one audience member; co-conceiver/director with Steven Hoggett and Thom Yorke of Hamlet Hail to the Thief (Factory International & RSC); director of Queen of the Night, the Drama Desk-awardwinning sensational immersive nightclub experience; and co-conceiver/director with Steven Hoggett and David Byrne of Social!, a social distance dance club created for the Park Avenue Armory in 2021. As a set designer, Tony and Olivier award-winning projects include The Outsiders, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, American Idiot, and Spring Awakening. Jones founded AMP Scenography with Brett Banakis, a design collective amplifying emerging and underrepresented designers through equitable collaborations. She is currently a professor at New York University and an Artist-in-Residence at the Park Avenue Armory.
Costume Designer
Kaye
Voyce
Broadway: Becky Shaw, Uncle Vanya, Sea Wall/A Life, True West, The Nap, Significant Other, The Real Thing, The Realistic Joneses, and Shining City. Recent Off-Broadway: The Seat of Our Pants (Public), We Had a World (MTC), The Welkin (Atlantic), Staff Meal (Playwrights Horizons), Jonah (Roundabout), The Bedwetter (Atlantic and Arena Stage). West End: Harry Clarke. Recent opera: Lucia di Lammermoor (Tiroler Festspiele), Tosca (Glimmerglass Opera). Recent dance: Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil (zoe and juniper, with live music by the band xiu xiu) and In the Fall (Trisha Brown Dance Company).
Lighting Designer
Japhy
Weideman
Audible: Nobody Cares. Broadway: 20 designs including Shucked!, Dear Evan Hansen, The Piano Lesson, The Heart of Rock and Roll, The Visit, The Nance. Recent Off-Broadway: Bloodlove, Gruesome Playground Injuries. West End: Dear Evan Hansen (Noel Coward), A Nice Fish (Harold Pinter Theatre), and Blackbird (Albery Theatre). Other: Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville (US National Tour) and Hasan Minhaj’s The King’s Jester (Radio City and National Tour). Five Tony nominations for Lighting Design.
Sound Design
Mikaal
Sulaiman
Broadway: Pirates! The Penzance Musical, The Roommate, Enemy of the People, Doubt, Thanksgiving Play, Fat Ham, Death of a Salesman, Cost of Living, Macbeth, Thoughts of a Colored Man. Awards: Tony Award nom, Drama Desk nom, Obie Awards, Creative Capital Award, Henry Hewes Awards, Audelco Award, and CTG Sherwood Award. www.mikaal.com
Production Stage Manager
Alyssa K.
Howard
Recent credits (selected): The Monsters, Poor Yella Rednecks, Golden Shield (MTC); The Gospel at Colonus (Little Island); This Like a Dream…, Glass Guignol (Mabou Mines); Hold Me in the Water, If Pretty Hurts… (Playwrights Horizons); SUMO, Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi + The Public); Safety Not Guaranteed, Word Sound Power 2016-2021(BAM); What Became of Us, The Far Country (Atlantic Theater); The Far Country (Berkeley Rep); Public Obscenities, Wolf Play (Soho Rep); Once Upon A (korean) Time (Ma-Yi); Nollywood Dreams (MCC); for colored girls…, The Fortress of Solitude (The Public); Precipice, Angel Island, The Echo Drift (Prototype Festival); Henry VI (NAATCO); Dog Days (Beth Morrison Projects). MFA Yale School of Drama, BA Williams College. IG: @shiningatthetop.
Casting
Jim
Carnahan, CSA
Alexandre
Bleau, CSA
Jim Carnahan, CSA has cast over 170 Broadway shows, including Sunset Blvd, Stranger Things, Pirates!, Just in Time, Hills of California, Our Town, Swept Away, Cult of Love, Harry Potter, Moulin Rouge!. Off Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors. Nashville: Dolly: An Original Musical. London: The Seagull, Oedipus. Film: Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid.
Press Representation
Boneau /
Bryan-Brown
Advertising
Spotco
Technical Supervisor
Beacon Theatrical
Beacon Theatrical is a multi-faceted live production management firm specializing in Theatrical, Live Television, Fashion and Immersive Entertainment. Off-Broadway credits include: The Laramie Project, Mexodus, Energy Curfew Music Hour, Strategic Love Play (Audible); The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (BAM); King James (MTC); Judgment Day, Deep Blue Sea (Park Ave Armory); Stargazers (Page73). Other credits include: BravoCon Live with Andy Cohen - NYC & Vegas, The Traitors - live reunion shows, The Dream Machine Experience (Lincoln Center). FENDI - New York Show, DiscOasis, and helping launch New York’s newest Off-Broadway venue: Studio Seaview.
Company Manager
Rebecca F.
Sherman
General Manager
Showtown Theatricals /
Amanda Feldman
Broadway/Tour: Titanique; Ragtime (LCT); Oh, Mary!; Parade (Broadway/Tour); Job; How to Dance in Ohio; Just For Us; Into the Woods (Broadway/Tour), A Christmas Carol (Broadway/Tour); In Residence on Broadway; The Jimmy Awards; Notre Dame de Paris (Lincoln Center). Off-Broadway: Audible Theater, Kyoto (LCT), Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion; Other; Joy; Mind Mangler; A Sherlock Carol. Upcoming: Galileo, Bad News Bears. showtown.nyc.
Playwright
Tom Noonan
TOM NOONAN was an acclaimed playwright, actor, writer, and director whose distinctive voice shaped theatre, film, and television for more than four decades. After dropping out of Yale, he founded New York’s Paradise Theatre in 1983, where he created original, character-driven works for the stage, including Wifey, which earned an Obie Award. What Happened Was… began as a two-character stage work developed at the Paradise Theatre before Noonan adapted it into the film of the same name, which he wrote, directed, and starred in. The film won the Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival and received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. As an actor, Noonan is also known for memorable performances in films including Manhunter, The Monster Squad, RoboCop 2, and Last Action Hero, along with numerous television appearances including Damages, Hell on Wheels, and 12 Monkeys.
Directed By
Ian Rickson
Ian Rickson was the Artistic Director of the Royal Court from 1998 to 2006. He directed numerous productions including The Weir by Conor McPherson, Jerusalem, The River (also West End and Broadway), Mojo (also Chicago), all by Jez Butterworth; Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen and This is a Chair by Caryl Churchill. West End shows include Lyonesse, Rosmersholm, Uncle Vanya, The Birthday Party, Old Times, Betrayal and The Children’s Hour; National Theatre, London Tide, Paradise, All of Us, Translations by Brian Friel, Evening at the Talk House by Wallace Shawn, The Red Lion by Patrick Marber, The Hothouse by Harold Pinter. Productions at the Old Vic include Electra by Sophocles. Ian was Artistic Director of Sonia Friedman’s Re-Emerge season in the West End in 2021 and directed for the stage and the filming of Walden, one of the three plays in that Season. Rickson also works with PJ Harvey and Kae Tempest on their music and poetry shows.