Campbell Scott in 'The Atheist' for Culture Project 5/20

Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director) has announced that it will present a special one-night-only performance of THE ATHEIST, written by Ronan Noone, directed by Justin Waldman and starring Campbell Scott (most recently seen in the ABC series "Six Degrees").  The solo show will play Culture Project's SoHo Theater (55 Mercer Street) on Tuesday, May 20 at 8:00 p.m.
 

In THE ATHEIST, Scott plays 'Augustine Early,' a crooked reporter who will do anything to get his next front-page story.  When Augustine turns a prominent local politician's tawdry predilections into front page news, the scandal threatens to undo the one person Augustine thought was immune - himself.  The Atheist is a searing and hilarious play about catching the perfect front-page headline, whatever the cost.

 
THE ATHEIST comes to Culture Project after a critically acclaimed run at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company last year.  After Culture Project, Scott takes THE ATHEIST to the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where it plays the Nikos Stage June 25 – July 6.

 
Tickets for the one-night-only performance are priced at $51 and are available by calling 212-352-3101 or visiting www.cultureproject.org.  Culture Project is located at 55 Mercer Street (at Broome) in the heart of SoHo.

 
                                                                                                                              
Campbell Scott has appeared on Broadway in Long Day's Journey into Night with Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst, Ah!, Wilderness, Hay Fever and The Queen and the Rebels.  His Off Broadway credits include The Last Outpost, Copperhead, A Man for All Seasons and On the Bum.  He played the title role in Hamlet at The Old Globe in San Diego and at The Huntington Theatre Company in Boston.  Other Shakespearean roles include Angelo in Measure for Measure (Lincoln Center), the title role in Pericles (The Public Theater/NYSF) and Iago in Othello (Philadelphia Drama Guild).  Film roles include From Hollywood to Deadwood, Longtime Companion, Dead Again (directed by Kenneth Branagh), Dying Young (opposite Julia Roberts), Singles (directed by Cameron Crowe), The Innocent, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner, Big Night, Lush, Delivering Milo, Rodger Dodger, The Secret Lives of Dentists, The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Music and Lyrics.  For television, he most recently starred in ABC's "Six Degrees." He starred in, co-directed and produced Hamlet for the Odyssey Network.  Other TV credits include The Kennedys of Massachusetts (as Joseph Kennedy, Jr.), Sweeney Todd (Showtime), The Love Letter and Follow the Stars Home (Hallmark Hall of Fame) and Shot in the Hart (HBO).  As a director, Mr. Scott directed the films Off the Map, starring Joan Allen and Sam Elliot and Final starring Hope Davis and co-directed with Stanley Tucci Big Night.  For the stage, he has directly Miss Julie, Snake Pitt and Recruiting Officer.  Most recently, Mr. Scott directed and produced the film Company Retreat.

 

Ronan Noone began writing his first play, The Lepers of Baile Baiste, while working on Martha's Vineyard.  The play caught the attention of Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, head of Boston University's M.A. program in Playwriting, and Noone was asked to join the program.  Lepers won the Michael Kanin National Playwriting Award at the American College Theatre Festival, was produced at The Kennedy Center, and played Off Broadway in 2004.  Mr. Noone's second play, The Blowin of Baile Gall, was nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for the Steinberg New Play Award, and won the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script.  Both plays shared the Independent Reviewers of New England Award (IRNE) for Best New Script.  Blowin was produced Off Broadway by Gabriel Byrne in 2005.  Mr. Noone's plays have had productions in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and London.  

 

Justin Waldman is the artistic associate of Boston's Huntington Theatre Company and the founder / producing artistic director of Next Stages.  Boston credits include Present Laughter, Persephone, The Cherry Orchard, Love's Labour's Lost, Sonia Flew, The Rose Tattoo, Springtime for Henry, Breath, Boom (all for Huntington) and Over It (Next Stages).  He is a graduate of Tufts University.

 

Culture Project's mission is to bear witness to injustice, to stimulate challenging conversation about the most profound and urgent matters of our time and to convert interest, energy and engagement into a motivational demand for progressive change.  Culture Project has premiered celebrated shows including The Exonerated, Sarah Jones' Bridge & Tunnel, Guantanamo, AMAJUBA: Like Doves We Rise and Lawrence Wright's My Trip To Al-Qaeda and most recently presented Dan Hoyle's acclaimed solo show Tings Dey Happen.  They are currently presented the critically acclaimed World Premiere of George Packer's Betrayed, through June 28.