LaMaMa Presents the World Premiere of FALSE SOLUTION, Beginning 6/13

FALSE SOLUTION, a world-premiere play about an architect's struggle to design a Holocaust museum in Poland, written and directed by Oren Safdie, will be presented Off-Broadway with previews starting Thursday, June 13, 2013 (prior to an official press opening night on June 16th) at La MaMa (74A East 4th Street) in Manhattan. The production runs through Sunday, June 30.

FALSE SOLUTION is the third in Oren Safdie's series of plays -- also including PRIVATE JOKES, PUBLIC PLACES and THE BILBAO EFFECT -- about contemporary architecture. PRIVATE JOKES, PUBLIC PLACES, which also premiered at La MaMa in 2003 before transferring to the Center for Architecture, starred Anthony Rapp. THE BILBAO EFFECT debuted Off-Broadway, again at the Center for Architecture, in 2010. Mr. Safdie's other Off-Broadway play, THE LAST WORD, also enjoyed critical and popular success in 2007 starring Emmy Award-winning actor, Daniel J. Travanti.

FALSE SOLUTION finds Anton Seligman, an established German-Jewish architect, in his studio late at night working on the design for a new Holocaust museum in Poland. His plans for the museum are challenged by Linda Johansson, a striking young intern and a first-year architecture student. Over the course of this intimate evening, Linda confronts Anton's resolve and throws his vision for the museum into turmoil. The effects of war, religious identity and sexual politics loom large over their electrifying encounter as creative process and personal agendas collide.

FALSE SOLUTION was commissioned by the Canada Council for the Arts with additional support from the Quebec Delegate General in New York.

FALSE SOLUTION stars Sean Haberle and Christy McIntosh.

FALSE SOLUTION has set design by Blanca Añón García, costume design by Greco, lighting design by Emily McGillicuddy. The Stage Manager is Jessica Gouker. Dramaturg: Fritz Michel. Casting: Pat McCorkle, CSA, McCorkle Casting Ltd.

Sean Haberle's theatre credits include THERESE RAQUIN at The Classic Stage Company, MADEA IN JERUSALEM at Rattlestick, HAMLET at Theater for a New Audience, JANE EYRE and HEDDA GABLER at The Guthrie, MACBETH at Torch Minneapolis and at Center Stage, A NERVOUS SMILE at The Actors Theater of Louisville, ENRICO V at ART, EDWARD II and HAMLET at Yale Rep, TWELFTH NIGHT and THE WINTER'S TALE at The California Shakespeare Theater, SWIMMING INTO MARCH at The Market Theater. Film and TV: "Sex and the City," "Law and Order," "Law and Order: SVU," "Law and Order Criminal Intent," August Rush, The Surgeon, Normal Adolescent Behavior, and the independent films Jolly Friends Forever More and The Disappearance of Andy Waxman. Sean appears in the music video of Bed Song by Amanda F. Palmer. Sean holds a Masters from Yale School of Drama and a BFA from Boston University.

Christy McIntosh's theatre credits include the Off-Broadway production of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL at New World Stages; ELVIS AND JULIET with Fred Willard at Abington Stage; Clyde Fitch's THE TRUTH, NY Fringe, New York Musical Theatre Festival. Her Regional credits include THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Denver Center Theatre Company), THE SCENE (Hartford Stage, George St. Playhouse), SLASHER (Humana Festival), FUNKED UP FAIRY TALES (Barrington Stage Company), and San Francisco premieres of THE LAST 5 YEARS, DEBBIE DOES DALLAS: THE MUSICAL, BAT BOY, and Louis Sachar's HOLES. Television: "Law & Order: SVU."

Oren Safdie is a native of Montreal, where he grew up in his father, Moshe Safdie's, famed Habitat '67. Oren is also a former architecture student at Columbia University. In addition to its successful debut in New York City, PRIVATE JOKES, PUBLIC PLACES has been produced internationally in Toronto, London, and The National Theatre in Romania, and translated into Japanese. Other plays include CHECKS & BALANCES; WEST BANK, UK; JEWS & JESUS; FIDDLER SUB-TERRAIN; and LA COMPAGNIE, which he developed into a half-hour pilot for CBS. As a screenwriter, Oren scripted the film You Can Thank Me Later starring Ellen Burstyn, Amanda Plummer, Genevieve Bujold, Mark Blum and Mary McDonnell, and the Israeli film Bittersweet. He has also written for Metropolis, Dwell, The New Republic, The Jerusalem Post, The Forward, Arutz Sheva, Times of Israel andBeyond.

La MaMa is a remarkable arts institution with a world-wide reputation for producing daring work in theater, dance, performance art, and music. Founded in 1961 by theater pioneer and legend, Ellen Stewart, La MaMa has produced and presented more than 3,200 theatrical productions to date and is a vital part of the fabric of cultural life in New York City and around the world. La MaMa provides a supportive home for artists and takes risks on unknown work. Artists such as Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, Harvey Fierstein, Blue Man Group, David and Amy Sedaris, -and others whose names you haven't heard of yet - began their careers at La MaMa. International Artists introduced to America by La MaMa include Tadeusz Kantor, Andrei Serban, Kazuo Ohno and, more recently, the acclaimed Belarus Free Theatre. La MaMa has been honored with more than 30 OBIE Awards, dozens of Drama Desk and Bessie Awards, and, in 2006, Ellen Stewart was recognized with a special TONY Award for "Excellence in the Theatre."

Performances of FALSE SOLUTION run June 13-June 30 at La MaMa (74a East 4th Street Place, between Bowery & 2nd Avenue in the East Village).