Shaleeha G'ntamobi's stirring new play about an alcoholic black mother and her card sharp son trying to get out of the projects has just been accepted into the nation's preeminent theater festival. Trouble is, Shaleeha G'ntamobi doesn't exist, except in the imagination of wannabe-playwright Danny Larsen (Jonathan Groff), who created her as a kind of affirmative-action nom-de-plume.
But a nom-de-guerre may prove more useful as the lies pile up, shaky alliances are forged, and everyone dear to Danny must decide whether or not to run for cover as the whole thing threatens to blow up in his lily white face. New York-based actor Jeff Talbott makes an auspicious play-writing debut with The Submission after taking home the first-ever Laurents/Hatcher Award for the play earlier this year.
The production features actors Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening, "Glee"), Will Rogers (When the Rain Stops Falling), Eddie Kaye Thomas (American Pie, HBO's "How to Make It in America"), and Rutina Wesley ("True Blood," The Vertical Hour).
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Theatre Marquee - 'The Submission'
Theatre Marquee
Eddie Kaye Thomas, Jonathan Groff, Rutina Wesley & Will Rogers
Eddie Kaye Thomas & Jonathan Groff
Eddie Kaye Thomas
Eddie Kaye Thomas, Jonathan Groff & Rutina Wesley
Jonathan Groff, Rutina Wesley, Will Rogers & Eddie Kaye Thomas
Bernard Telsey, Blake West, Robert LuPone & William Cantler
Playwright Jeff Talbott
Director Walter Bobbie
Tom Kirdahy & Terrence McNally
Sharr White
Sharr White
Terrence Mann & Charlotte d'Amboise
Marin Mazzie & Jason Danieley
Marin Mazzie
Jason Danieley
John Earl Jelks
Thomas Higgins
Jay Armstrong Johnson
Gideon Glick
Patrick Breen
Hugh Dancy
Nina Arianda
Nina Arianda
Hugh Dancy & Nina Arianda
John Behlman
John Behlman
Rutina Wesley
Rutina Wesley
Eddie Kaye Thomas
Eddie Kaye Thomas
Will Rogers
Will Rogers
Jonathan Groff
Jonathan Groff, Rutina Wesley, Will Rogers, Eddie Kaye Thomas
