SNL Alum Nora Dunn Joins 'Speech and Debate' Cast

 SNL alum Nora Dunn (who also appears in the upcoming Seth Rogen/James Franco film "Pineapple Express") completes the cast for  previously announced L.A. Theatre Works production of  Stephen Karam's hot new play, "Speech & Debate".

She joins previously announced cast members  Andrea Bowen ("Desperate Housewives", "Les Miserables"), Gideon Glick (Broadway's "Spring Awakening", Off Broadway's "Speech & Debate") and Bobby Steggert (Outer Critics Circle nominee for Broadway's "110 in the Shade").

Speech & Debate - Sex, secrets and performance-art video blogs with a George Michael beat - just another typical day when you're a teenager in Salem, Oregon. Stephen Karam's fiercely funny and surprisingly timely new play just completed an extended run at New York's Roundabout Theatre.  They may go to the same school, but misfits Solomon, Diwata and Howie have never met and their teachers and peers just don't take them seriously - until a sex scandal involving one of their teachers brings them together.  Soon they realize that three voices are stronger than one.  And since their school has no speech and debate squad, maybe this is their chance to be heard at last - by the school and even the world.  All performances are recorded to air on LATW's nationally-syndicated radio theater series, The Play's The Thing, which broadcasts weekly on public and satellite radio. 

Written by Stephen Karam
Directed by Matt August
Starring Andrea Bowen ("Desperate Housewives", "Les Miserables"), Nora Dunn (SNL), Gideon Glick (Broadway's "Spring Awakening", Off Broadway production of  "Speech & Debate") and  Bobby Steggert (Outer Critics Circle nominee for Broadway's "110 in the Shade")
Produced by Susan Albert Loewenberg

WHEN:
Wednesday, May 14 at 8 pm
Thursday, May 15 at 8 pm
Friday, May 16 at 8 pm
Saturday, May 17 at 3 pm
Sunday, May 18 at 4 pm

WHERE:
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA  90049

HOW:
L.A. Theatre Works Box Office (310) 827-0889 or www.latw.org

TICKETS:
$20.00 to $47.00

OTHER:
L.A. Theatre Works' radio theater series, "The Play's the Thing," airs locally every Saturday night from 10 pm to midnight on 89.3 KPCC, and is streamed on the KPCC website (www.kpcc.org) for one week following each broadcast.  The series can also be heard on public radio stations throughout the country, and on XM Satellite Radio.  The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection is available in bookstores, libraries, through their catalog, digitally on audible.com, itunes.com, and on the L.A. Theatre Works website at www.latw.org.

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