Erika Rolfsrud & More to Join Robert Cuccioli in MAGICAL THINKING Reading

ERIKA ROLFSRUD has joined recently announced Tony nominated actor ROBERT CUCCIOLI (Title roles: Jekyll & Hyde, Rothschild & Sons; Upcoming Paint Your Wagon) for a staged reading of MAGICAL THINKING: My Favorite Indigents & Severe Clear by playwright/designer CARRIE ROBBINS, directed by PAUL DOBIE (Associate/Assistant Director for B'way's Once, Cabaret, Wicked, Martin Short... Fame Becomes Me, Glengarry Glen Ross).

ERIKA has appeared on BROADWAY in Coast of Utopia, Rabbit Hole, The Big Knife, & Exit the King.

TV: House of Cards, The Mysteries of Laura, The Following, The Knick, The Leftovers, Law & Order.

OFF-B'WAY: Electra in a One-Piece, Misalliance, The Cocktail Party, The Glory of Living, How I Learned to Drive, Trout Stanley, O Pioneers!, We Play for the Gods, Eclipsed, Love's Fire, & more. REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre of N.J., Cleveland Playhouse, Ford's Thea., Rep Thea. of St. Louis (Kevin Kline Award, Best Actress, Little Dog Laughed), Pittsburgh Public Thea., Hartford Theatreworks, Old Globe, Arizona Thea. Co., Wilma Thea., ACT, others.

Erika will be joining veteran B'way ladies Mimi Turque and Kristie Dale Sanders.

MIMI TURQUE Has been featured in eleven Broadway shows including the original MAN OF LA MANCHA, (Hear her on YOUtube from the original album!), FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, TEIBELE & HER DEMON and KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN. She also appeared in the original THREEPENNY OPERA & was Lili in CARNIVAL.

Mimi is currently working with Nancy Ford on a musical adaptation of The Glass Menagerie called POEMS ON A SHOEBOX.

KRISTIE DALE SANDERS has appear on Broadway in Cabaret, Evita, Next Fall, Phantom of the Opera, Urinetown, The Sound of Music among others.

NATIONAL & OFF-B'WAY: Phantom, Dream of the Burning Boy, Johnny Guitar, A Class Act, Hello Muddah... Favorites include Sweeney Todd, King Lear, Trust, Cover of Life, and over 100 regional productions. TV: All My Children, The Wire.

The Semi-staged reading will take place on Monday, April 18, at 7pm at Goddard/Riverside, the Bernie Wohl Arts Center.

MAGICAL THINKING features 2 new 1-Acts, the first from the POV of a doctor-in-training, then from a doctor in retirement:

My Favorite Indigents, based on true stories by R.D. Robbins, MD, is a valentine to the homeless of NYC and the doctors who provide the care for these anonymous and smelly "sheep."

Severe Clear, a pilot's term for the kind of brilliant cloudless sky we saw in September of 2001, is a record of the first hour-plus of the cataclysmic event as one couple viewed it from the safety of their bedroom window & the TV.

CARRIE ROBBINS's play "SAWBONES & THE DIAMOND EATER" (HERE Arts Center, NYC), directed by Tazewell Thompson, received six nominations from the NY Innovative Theatre Awards, the most nominations received by any show in 2014. Her "Le WEDDING DRESS" (Dir. PauL Dobie) was chosen from 500 scripts by NYNew Works Theatre Festival in 2015, and was one of 24 Semi-Finalists. In 2013, "SAWBONES" was chosen by The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) - Wall St. Journal's 2012 "Company of the Year" - for its NewTACTics New Plays Festival.

PHOTO BY EMILY HEWITT