Jennifer Ikeda & Ana Reeder Join 'Top Girls' at MTC

Jennifer Ikeda (Seascape, As You Like It) and Ana Reeder (No Country For Old Men, Sight Unseen) will be featured in the upcoming Broadway production of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls.

The production, to be directed by James Macdonald (Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?, A Number), will begin previews at MTC's Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street) on Tuesday, April 15 and will open on Wednesday, May 7.

Ikeda and Reeder join previously announced cast members Mary Catherine Garrison (Patient Griselda/ Jeanine/ Kit/ Shona), three-time Obie Award winner Elizabeth Marvel (Marlene), Drama Desk Award winner Martha Plimpton (Pope Joan/ Angie), and Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei (Isabella Bird/ Joyce/ Mrs. Kidd).

Top Girls marks the Broadway debut of a Caryl Churchill masterpiece. "At the Top Girls Employment Agency in London in the early 1980s, Marlene (Marvel) has just been appointed head of the firm.  But as this ambitious career woman celebrates her achievements, can we applaud her values? This bold and ingenious work from the singularly talented author of Far Away and Cloud Nine offers one of the theatre's most honest portraits of what it means to be a woman in the modern world," state press notes.

The creative team for Top Girls includes Tom Pye (scenic design), Laura Bauer (costume design), Christopher Akerlind (lighting design), Darron L West (sound design), Matthew Herbert (original music), and Elizabeth Smith (dialect consultant).

Jennifer Ikeda (Lady Nijo/Win). Broadway: Edward Albee's Seascape (Lincoln Center). Other New York credits include Oliver Twist and Coriolanus (TFANA); As You Like It (Delacorte), The Two Noble Kinsmen and another As You Like It (NYSF/Public Theater); Kid Simple (SPF); Le Dispute (NAATCO); The Square (Ma-Yi). Regional: ART, Berkeley Repertory Theater, The Shakespeare Theater, NJ Shakespeare. TV/Film:  "Law & Order", "Nate the Great", "Guiding Light", "Heavy Petting." Other: Selected Shorts (NPR). BFA, Juilliard.

Ana Reeder (Dull Gret/Nell). New York Theatre: Living Room in Africa (Edge Theatre Company), Sight Unseen (Manhattan Theater Club - Broadway), The Wooden Breeks (MCC), Hedda Gabler (New York Theatre Workshop), Small Tragedy (Obie award. Playwrights Horizons); Humble Boy, An Experiment with an Air Pump (MTC); The Time of the Cuckoo (Lincoln Center); Some Voices (The New Group); Killers and Other Family (Rattlestick Theatre); Maid (Lincoln Center Festival); Fire Eater (New York Stage & Film); Macbeth (The Public); Henry VIII (Delacourte Theatre).Sag Harbor: The Lady in Question, Night Season, (Bay St. Theatre) London: The Distance from Here (Almeida Theatre). Boston: Carol Mulroney (Huntington Theatre Co.).  Washington D.C.: The Tempest (The Shakespeare Theatre). TV: "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "Katie Joplin," "The Jury," Kidnapped" Film: Diary of a City Priest, Acts of Worship (Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best Actress, Best Actress award Santa Barbara Film Festival), Marie and Bruce and No Country for Old men BA: Middlebury College, MFA: NYU.

Tickets to Top Girls are available by calling Telecharge.com at (212) 239-6200, (800) 432-7250 outside the NY metro area, online at Telecharge.com, and at the Biltmore Theatre box office (261 West 47th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue). Tickets range in price from $46.50-$91.50.  For group ticket information, call (800) 432-7780.  Student rush tickets are available the day of the performance at the Biltmore Theatre box office for $26.50.  www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com