Grace Gummer, Corey Stoll, and Treat Williams join Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress, Ellen Barkin, in The Parisian Woman. Commissioned by The Flea Theater, Beau Willimon has adapted Henry Becque's La Parisienne, now set in contemporary Washington D.C. To what lengths will a woman go to advance the political career of her husband? The Parisian Woman tears the veil off adultery in this modern retelling of the scandalous affairs of a bored and intelligent wife left to her own devices. Directed by Joel Schumacher.
The Flea is offering an exclusive reading at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center. The cost of a ticket will be $250 and will include preshow cocktails. All premium event tickets are sold out at this time. To reserve a seat, call 212-226-0051 x102 or visit
www.theflea.org.
Grace Gummer Broadway: Arcadia (Theater World Award), The Columnist. Off-Broadway/Regional: The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents at the Wild Project and Much Ado About Nothing at the
Kirk Douglas Theater in Los Angeles. Film: Meskada, Larry Crowne, Margin Call, Frances Ha. TV: Smash, Zero Hour.
Corey Stoll has been acting steadily in theater, film and television since graduating from NYU's Masters Program in 2003. He starred in Law & Order: Los Angeles through 2011. Most recently, Stoll had the opportunity to work on director
Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris with Owen Wilson,
Rachel McAdams and
Marion Cotillard. His other film work includes Philip Noyce's feature Salt opposite
Angelina Jolie, Paul Mcguigan's Push and Lucky Number Slevin, Niki Caro's North Country, and
John Krasinski's directing debut, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, based on
David Foster Wallace's book.
Stoll has also appeared in the Broadway revival of View from the Bridge opposite
Liev Schreiber and Scarlet Johansson, as well as in
Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, directed by
John Doyle. His early highlights include playing
Viola Davis' love interest in
Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel (Drama Desk Award nomination in New York, Drama Critics Circle Award for the Los Angeles production), and starring in the title role in
Michael Weller's play Beast, opposite
Logan Marshall Green. He also appeared in the revival of Some Americans Abroad with
Tom Cavanaugh. Stoll has also made numerous guest appearances, including Law & Order, The Good Wife, Life on Mars, The Unusuals, and ER.
Treat Williams started his career at Fulton Repertory Theatre at Lancaster in the heart of Amish country where Williams performed the classics as well as contemporary dramas and musicals. After graduating he understudied the Danny Zuko role in Grease. After working in the The Andrews Sisters musical Over Here, he made his film debut as a cop in Deadly Hero (1976), then returned to Grease, this time in the starring role. While he took leaves for two small film roles, in The Ritz (1976) and The Eagle Has Landed (1976). It was his stage work in Grease that led to his cinematic breakthrough in Hair (1979). He then portrayed a GI on the make in
Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979) and starred in the romantic comedy Why Would I Lie? (1980) before tackling the role of Danny Ciello in
Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City (1981). He followed that with The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981); Flashpoint (1984); Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984); and Smooth Talk (1985). Television viewers have seen Williams in a prestigious pair of dramas, Dempsey (1983), and John Erman's adaptation of
Tennessee Williams' classic A Streetcar Named Desire. Williams has also returned to Broadway sporadically -- first to appear in Once in a Lifetime while filming Hair, and in 1981 to play the role of the pirate king in The Pirates of Penzance.
Beau Willimon is playwright, screenwriter and producer. His play Farragut North, became the basis for the film Ides of March, which he co-wrote with
George Clooney and
Grant Heslov. Ides of March earned Willimon Academy Award®, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay. Other plays include Lower Ninth (The
Flea Theater, 2008; UK premiere,
Donmar Warehouse, 2010), and Spirit Control (Manhattan Theatre Club, 2010). Subsequent productions of his plays have been mounted across the U.S. and overseas. Willimon was a recipient of the Lila Acheson Wallace Juilliard Playwriting Fellowship, named 2008 Playwright-in-Residence at the
Donmar Warehouse, and he is a two-time winner of the Lincoln Center Le Comte du Nouy Award. He is currently an executive producer and show-runner of Netflix's first original series House of Cards starring
Kevin Spacey and
Robin Wright, directed by
David Fincher.
Ellen Barkin, Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress, can be currently seen in NBC's The New Normal. Barkin's diverse body of work spans theater, film and television. She has had an illustrious acting career comprised of over 50 films that include Sam Levinson's Sundance winner Another Happy Day, Cam Archer's Shit Year,
Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's 13, Todd Solondz' Palindromes,
Antoine Fuqua's Brooklyn's Finest, This Boy's Life opposite
Robert De Niro and
Leonardo DiCaprio,
Spike Lee's She Hate Me, Tony Scott's The Fan opposite
Robert De Niro,
Walter Hill's Johnny Handsome and Wild Bill opposite
Jeff Bridges, Sea of Love opposite
Al Pacino, Drop Dead Gorgeous,
Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Mike Newell's Into the West, Bob Rafelson's Man Trouble opposite
Jack Nicholson,
John Turturro's Mac, Jim McBride's The Big Easy opposite
Dennis Quaid,
Blake Edwards' Switch,
Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law, Bruce Beresford's Tender Mercies opposite
Robert Duvall and
Sydney Lumet's Daniel. Her first film and breakout performance was in
Barry Levinson's iconic film Diner. In 2011, Barkin received the prestigious Tony Award for her performance in
George C. Wolfe's Broadway production of
Larry Kramer's award-winning play The Normal Heart. Her critically lauded performance also garnered her an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award, among others. Barkin received a Best Actress Emmy Award for her performance in
Oprah Winfrey's Before Women Had Wings. She has been twice nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Behind the camera, Barkin is also an accomplished producer whose films include Letters to Juliet, starring
Amanda Seyfried and
Vanessa Redgrave, as well as Sam Levinson's Another Happy Day, in which she also stars alongside
Ellen Burstyn and
Demi Moore. Barkin, a Bronx native, currently resides in New York City.
Joel Schumacher is renowned for his versatility, style and ability to move seamlessly between film genres with equal popular success and critical acclaim. He began his film career as a costume designer for such legendary directors as
Woody Allen (Sleeper, Interiors) and
Herbert Ross (The Last of Sheila), before making his own name as a screenwriter with Sparkle and Car Wash. After cutting his teeth directing two television movies, Joel made his feature film directorial debut on The Incredible Shrinking Woman in 1981. His career soon took off with such iconic fare as St. Elmo's Fire and The Lost Boys, followed by other successes - Cousins, Flatliners, Dying Young and Falling Down. He would go on to direct film versions of two best selling novels by
John Grisham (The Client and A Time to Kill) as well as two installments of the blockbuster Batman film series, Batman Forever (the #1 movie of 1995, with
Jim Carrey as 'The Riddler') and Batman & Robin. Most recently, Joel brought audiences the films 8MM, Flawless (which he also wrote), Tigerland, Phone Booth, Bad Company and Veronica Guerin. In 2004 he adapted
Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical, The Phantom of the Opera, for the screen. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy. He followed that up with his second collaboration with
Jim Carrey, the intriguing thriller The Number 23. Twelve, based on the groundbreaking novel by Nick McDonell, was honored as the closing night presentation of the 2010 Sundance Film. Joel's twenty-fourth feature film, Trespass, starring
Nicolas Cage and
Nicole Kidman, marked his second production with each of the two Academy Award winning actors. Currently, Joel is filming 2 episodes of the Netflix original series House of Cards. The series stars
Kevin Spacey and
Robin Wright with
David Fincher producing.
The
Flea Theater, under Artistic Director
Jim Simpson and Producing Director
Carol Ostrow, is one of New York's leading off-off-Broadway companies. Winner of a Special Drama Desk Award for outstanding achievement, Obie Awards and an Otto for political theater, The Flea has presented over 100 plays and numerous dance and live music performances since its inception in 1996. Past productions include the premieres of
Anne Nelson's The Guys, seven plays by
A.R. Gurney (O Jerusalem, Screenplay, Mrs. Farnsworth, Post Mortem, A Light Lunch, Office Hours and Heresy), Cellophane and Two September by
Mac Wellman, Ashley Montana Goes Ashore... and The Oldsmobiles by
Roger Rosenblatt; JABU and Kaspar Hauser by
Elizabeth Swados; Return of the Chocolate Smeared Woman by
Karen Finley, Bingo with the Indians by
Adam Rapp, Oh, The Humanity and other exclamations by
Will Eno, Dawn and Job by
Thomas Bradshaw, Love/Stories (or But You Will Get Used to it)
Itamar Moses, The Great Recession, Girls in Trouble by
Jonathan Reynolds, Parents' Evening by
Bathsheba Doran, Looking at Christmas by
Steven Banks, the Drama Desk nominated She Kills Monsters by
Qui Nguyen, the Drama Desk nominated These Seven Sicknesses by Sean Graney and I Hate f-ing Mexicans by Luis Enrique Gutiérrez Ortiz Monasterio.
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