Deirdre O'Connell Will Lead MTC's FULFILLMENT CENTER in Summer 2017

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) just announced that Manhattan Theatre Club will produce the world premiere of Fulfillment Center, a new play by Abe Koogler (Kill Floor), directed by Daniel Aukin (Fool For Love at MTC).

The cast of Fulfillment Center will feature Deirdre O'Connell (By The Water at MTC, "The Affair," Circle Mirror Transformation). Additional casting, creative team, and listings information for Fulfillment Center will be announced at a later date.

The limited engagement of Fulfillment Center will begin previews June 6, 2017 for a June 20, 2017 opening at The Studio at Stage II - Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series at New York City Center - Stage II (131 West 55th Street).

In the New Mexico desert, a down-on-her-luck folk singer (Deirdre O'Connell) takes a job at a giant online retailer's shipping center. Her young manager struggles to connect with his girlfriend newly relocated from New York. And a drifter living at a local campground dangerously links them all. Raw, surprising, and funny, this world premiere from the fast-rising author of Kill Floor is about four lonely lives coming together in the search for fulfillment.

Fulfillment Center was commissioned by MTC.

Fulfillment Center completes MTC's upcoming 2016-2017 season of eight productions across their three stages. The complete Broadway season at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) will feature the Broadway premiere of MTC's acclaimed production of Simon Stephens' Heisenberg, directed by Mark Brokaw; the Broadway premiere of August Wilson's Jitney, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson; and the new Broadway production of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, directed by Daniel Sullivan. At MTC's Off-Broadway home at New York City Center - Stage I, the season includes the New York premiere of Qui Nguyen's Vietgone, directed byMay Adrales, the American premiere of Penelope Skinner's Linda directed by Lynne Meadow, and the New York premiere of Martyna Majok's Cost of Living, directed by Jo Bonney. At The Studio at Stage II - Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series, the season will include the world premiere of Sell/Buy/Date, written and performed bySarah Jones and directed by Carolyn Cantor, and Abe Koogler's Fullfillment Center, directed by Daniel Aukin.

Manhattan Theatre Club, under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, has become one of the country's most prominent and prestigious theatre companies. Over the past four and a half decades, MTC productions have earned numerous awards including six Pulitzer Prizes and 20 Tony Awards. MTC has a Broadway home at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) and two Off-Broadway theatres at New York City Center (131 West 55thStreet). Renowned MTC productions include The Father by Florian Zeller; Fool For Love by Sam Shepard;Airline Highway by Lisa D'Amour; Casa Valentina by Harvey Fierstein; Outside Mullingar and Doubt by John PatRick Stanley; The Commons of Pensacola by Amanda Peet; Murder Ballad by Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash; Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney; The Assembled Parties by Richard Greenberg; Wit by Margaret Edson; Venus in Fur by David Ives; Good People and Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire; The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez; Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies; Ruined by Lynn Nottage; Proofby David Auburn; The Tale of the Allergist's Wife by Charles Busch; Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terrence McNally; The Piano Lesson by August Wilson; Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley; and Ain't Misbehavin', the Fats Waller musical. For more information on MTC, please visitwww.ManhattanTheatreClub.com.

The Studio at Stage II is Manhattan Theatre Club's initiative at New York City Center - Stage II (131 West 55thStreet). The initiative launched in 2012 with the sold out, critically acclaimed world premiere of Murder Ballad, the rock musical by Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash and has continued with the critically acclaimed premieres of Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Taking Care of Baby by Dennis Kelly, The Lion by Benjamin Scheuer, By The Water by Sharyn Rothstein, Heisenberg by Simon Stephens, Important Hats of the Twentieth Century by Nick Jones, and The Ruins of Civilization by Penelope Skinner.

The Studio at Stage II has been partially underwritten with a major grant from The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.

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