Cumming, Bernhard, Cavanagh Lead I WANT TO BE EVIL Industry Reading

i want to be evil, a new play by David Brind, gets a private industry reading on April 11th in Manhattan.

Tony Award winner Alan Cumming (Cabaret, CBS' "The Good Wife"), Sandra Bernhard (I'm Still Here... Damn It, Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy), Golden Globe nominee Tom Cavanagh (Yogi Bear, NBC's "Ed" ), Ashlie Atkinson (Fat Pig, The Bridge Project) and Lucas Near-Verbrugghe (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Ritz) will appear in the reading, directed by Will Frears (Still Life, The Water's Edge).

David Brind wrote the critically acclaimed film Dare which premiered in Dramatic Competition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and stars Emmy Rossum ("Shameless"), Zach Gilford (NBC's "Friday Night Lights"), and Rooney Mara (The Social Network). Dare was released theatrically in 2009 and is widely available both digitally and on DVD/Blu-Ray. Brind's recent projects include the screenplay adaptation of the newly-released book Leverage for Academy Award-winning producer Stanley Jaffe (Kramer vs. Kramer, Fatal Attraction). He is a graduate of Yale (BA) and Columbia (MFA) Universities.

Shane Marshall Brown and Charly Seamon will produce the reading.

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