Jeff Goldblum, Robin De Jesus, Mary Beth Peil & More to Join Laurie Metcalf in LCT's DOMESTICATED

Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Producing Artistic Director André Bishop) has announced that Vanessa Aspillaga, Mia Barron, Robin De Jesus, Jeff Goldblum, Lizbeth MacKay, Emily Meade, Mary Beth Peil, Karen Pittman and Misha Seo will join Laurie Metcalf in the cast of DOMESTICATED, a new play by Bruce Norris, to be directed by Anna D. Shapiro, which will begin previews Thursday, October 10 at 8pm at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 West 65 Street). Opening night is Monday, November 4 at 6:45pm. Additional casting for DOMESTICATED will be announced at a later date.

Bruce Norris' new play, commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater, is about politics and gender involving a husband and wife (to be played by Jeff Goldblum and Laurie Metcalf) whose marriage is upended when they become embroiled in a scandal.

DOMESTICATED will have sets by Todd Rosenthal, costumes by Jennifer Von Mayrhauser, lighting by James F. Ingalls and sound design by John Gromada.

Bruce Norris won the Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as London's Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for his play Clybourne Park. His other works include A Parallelogram, The Unmentionables, The Pain and the Itch, We All Went Down To Amsterdam, Purple Heart, and The Infidel. His work has been produced at Playwrights Horizons, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre and the Philadelphia Theatre Company.

Anna D. Shapiro directed Bruce Norris' A Parallelogram, The Unmentionables, The Pain and the Itch, Purple Heart and The Infidel. Winner of the Tony Award for her direction of August: Osage County, her other NY credits include the Broadway production of The Motherfucker with the Hat.

DOMESTICATED will be performed Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8pm, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 3pm. Please note: there will be no matinee on Saturday, October 12 and no performance on Tuesday, November 5. Tickets, priced from $75 to $85, will be available beginning Sunday, September 15 at the Lincoln Center Theater box office, at telecharge.com or by visiting www.lct.org. A limited number of tickets priced at $30 are available at every performance through LincTix, LCT's program for 21 to 35 year olds. For information and to enroll, visit LincTix.org.

Vanessa Aspillaga LCT: The Clean House. Broadway: Anna in the Tropics. Off-Broadway: productions at Rattlestick Theater, Primary Stages, Signature Theatre Company, The Public, Flea, LAByrinth (of which she is a founding member) and New York Theater Workshop. Film: Tio Papi, Gun Hill Road, Morning Glory, Love and Other Drugs. TV: The Good Wife, Unforgettable, Rubicon, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU. Also a playwright, her play Hush was a finalist for the 2004 New Dramatist Playwriting Fellowship.

Mia Barron LCT: The Coast of Utopia, 'QED'. What Once We Felt (LCT3). Off-Broadway: Bruce Norris's The Pain and the Itch; She Stoops to Comedy; The World Over; Hillary; 1001; Penetration Play; Big Times; Hardball,; Kitty, Kitty, Kitty. Regional theater: Farragut North directed by Doug Hughes (Geffen Theater/LA), The House of Blue Leaves directed by Nicholas Martin (Mark Taper Forum/LA) and productions at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Old Globe, Long Wharf, Humana Festival, Guthrie Theatre. Film: 27 Dresses. TV: Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Medium,

Robin De Jesus Broadway: La Cage Aux Folles (Tony Award nomination), In The Heights (Tony Award nomination), Rent. Off-Broadway: In The Heights. Film: Hairbrained, Bert & Arnie's Guide To Friendship, Gun Hill Road, Elliott Loves, Fat Girls, Camp, Pet the Goat. TV: Law & Order: SVU, How To Make it in America.

Jeff Goldblum Broadway: recent credits include Seminar and The Pillowman (Outer Critics' Circle Award, Drama Critics' Award, nominations for Drama Desk and Drama League Awards). London: The Prisoner of Second Avenue (West End), Speed-the-Plow (Old Vic). Film: his many credits include Adam Resurrected, Nashville, The Life Aquatic, Buckaroo Banzai, Igby Goes Down, Pittsburgh, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Powder, Mr. Fronst, Annie Hall, The Big Chill, Silverado, The Fly, Deep Cover, The Right Stuff, Between The Lines, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Into the Night, Next Stop Greenwich Village, The Tall Guy. He was nominated for an Academy Award for directing the live-action short, Little Surprises and an Emmy Award for his appearance on Will & Grace. He served on the jury of the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

Lizbeth MacKay LCT: The Heiress, Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Broadway: Picnic, All My Sons, The Price, Crimes of the Heart (Theatre World, Outer Critics Circle, Hollywood Drama-Logue Awards), Doubt, Death and the Maiden. Off-Broadway: Sons of the Prophet, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, The Price of Fame. Regional theatre includes Lewis Black's One Slight Hitch at the George Street Playhouse.

Emily Meade Off-Broadway: The Puberty Club, Waitiing for the Light to Change, Sleep Away (24*7 Theater Company at the Cherry Lane Theatre). Film: Gabriel, Thanks for Sharing, Sleepwalk With Me, Gimme Shelter, Young Adult, Trespass. TV: Fringe, Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU.

Laurie Metcalf Broadway: The Other Place (Tony Award nomination), Brighton Beach Memoirs, November (Tony Award nomination), My Thing of Love. Off-Broadway: The Other Place(Obie and Lucille Lortel Awards), A Lie of the Mind (Obie Award), Balm In Gilead (Obie Award. London: Long Day's Journey Into Night (West End), All My Sons (National Theatre). Regional theatre credits include many productions at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre including Detroit, Balm In Gilead, Coyote Ugly, The Glass Menagerie. Film: all three editions of Toy Story, Runaway Bride, Scream 2, Leaving Las Vegas, JFK, Pacific Heights, Internal Affairs, Uncle Buck, Making Mr. Right, Desperately Seeking Susan. TV: many credits include Roseanne (three-time Emmy Award winner), The Big Bang Theory, Desperate Housewives, Gray's Anatomy, Monk, Frasier, Absolutely Fabulous, Malcolm in the Middle, 3rd Rock From the Sun.

Mary Beth Peil LCT: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Broadway: Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, Nine, The King and I opposite Yul Brynner (Tony Award nomination). Off-Broadway: Harper Regan, The Room, Frame 312, Sylvia, Missing Persons, Finding The Sun, Later Life, Spain, Bodoni County, Birds of Paradise. Her many regional theater credits include productions at La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Steppenwolf Theater, The Old Globe, the Kennedy Center. Film: Mirrors, The List, Flags of Our Fathers, The Stepford Wives. TV: The Good Wife, Fringe, Dawson's Creek.

Karen Pittman LCT: Disgraced (LCT3). Broadway: Good People, Passing Strange. Off-Broadway: When Last We Flew. Regional: Two Things You Don't Talk About (Denver Center). Film: Last Night, Bourne Legacy. TV: Medium, Law & Order, White Collar, 30 Rock, Law & Order: SVU, White Collar.

MISHA SEO Off-Broadway: Moses, Amateur Night at the Apollo. Film: Transformers 2, Tea and Justice, Sleeping with the Fishes. TV: Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Sesame Street.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride