Gregory Itzin Joins Kunken & Butz in ENRON as 'Kenneth Lay'

The New York Times reports that Gregory Itzin, most famous for his portrayal of Charles Logan in Fox's hit series "24," will join the previously announced Norbert Leo Butz (as 'Jeffrey Skilling'), Stephen Kunken (as 'Andy Fastow') in the upcoming Broadway production of Lucy Prebble's ENRON. Itzin will portray disgraced Enron chairman Kenneth Lay.

No stranger to the stage, Itzin received a Tony Award nomination for his role in the Pulitzer Prize winning play The Kentucky Cycle. He is a member of the Matrix Theatre Company in Los Angeles, where he has acted in award-winning productions of Waiting for Godot, The Homecoming and The Birthday Party (each earning him an L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for performance). He recently appeared on stage as Louis de Rougemont in the world premiere of Donald Margulies Shipwrecked! An Entertainment at South Coast Repertory, and subsequently revived at the Geffen Playhouse.He has played in several radio plays with The L.A. Theatre Works, and most recently played the Archbishop in the Hollywood Theater of the Ear's 2010 audio production of Saint Joan. For his work on 24, Itzin received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He currently appears on the CBS drama The Mentalist.

Itzin joins Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominee Stephen Kunken, best known for his celebrated portrayal of James Reston in Frost/Nixon on Broadway, and Norbert Leo Butz (Speed the Plow, Wicked, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels).

ENRON will begin previews on Broadway on April 8, 2010 at The Broadhurst Theatre (235 W. 44th St. between 8th and Broadway), in preparation for an April 27, 2010 opening.

Directed by Rupert Goold, ENRON will feature scenic and costume design by Anthony Ward, lighting by Mark Henderson, music and sound by Adam Cork, video and projection by Jon Driscoll and choreography by Scott Ambler.

Inspired by the real-life financial scandal of 2001, ENRON, which was commissioned by Headlong Theatre, premiered this past summer at the Minerva Theatre Chichester, and then moved for a six-week run at The Royal Court Theatre where it played through November 8, 2009. The play transferred to West End's Noel Coward Theatre in January 2010.

Headlong Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Court Theatre production of ENRON will be produced on Broadway by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Matthew Byam Shaw, ACT Productions, Caro Newling for Neal St. Productions and The Shubert Organization.

Lucy Prebble won the George Devine Award and the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright for her debut play The Sugar Syndrome at The Royal Court Theatre. On television, her work includes creating the series Secret Diary of a Call Girl. ENRON is her second play.

Rupert Goold's previous productions include Minerva Theatre Chichester's staging of Macbeth with Patrick Stewart (that transferred to the West End and Broadway) and Six Characters in Search of an Author. Additional credits include Time and the Conways at the National Theatre, Pete Postlethwaite in King Lear, and West End productions of Pinter's No Man's Land and Oliver! (currently at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane). He most recently directed Turandot for English National Opera which opened at the London Coliseum in October.