Lucas to Star in Schwimmer Directed 'Fault Lines'

Nationally-recognized for developing and producing new works for the theater, Vassar and New York Stage and Film announce casting for Fault Lines, the final workshop presentation of their 24th annual Powerhouse Theater season.

Stephen Belber's newest play, Fault Lines (August 2 – 3), directed by David Schwimmer, will be presented as a developmental workshop. The cast will include Noah Emmerich (Pride and Glory, The Truman Show), Dominic Fumusa (Tape, Wait Until Dark), Josh Lucas (The Glass Menagerie, A Beautiful Mind), and Jennifer Mudge (Dutchman, The Pavilion).
 
The final weekend of the 2008 Powerhouse Theater season will also include five new plays by internationally recognized playwrights – Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros, Ronan Noone, Deborah Rennard, John Patrick Shanley, and Andrea Stolowitz –during the second Reading Series  (August 1 – 3).

FAULT LINES (August 2-3)

Playwright Belber describes Fault Lines this way: "Whole Foods.  Enlarged prostates. The proactive delineation of loyalty and conviction. A play that approaches what it means to approach 40." Belber's Geometry of Fire premiered on the Powerhouse Mainstage last season and will receive its Off-Broadway debut in the fall. Directed by David Schwimmer, the Fault Lines cast will include Noah Emmerich, Dominic Fumusa, Josh Lucas, and Jennifer Mudge (August 2 – 3).
 
Fault Lines is presented as part of the Inside Look workshop series, which is intended to bridge the gap between a reading and a full production; works are presented with script-in-hand, with minimal production values.

Noah Emmerich (Joe) began his acting career in the black box theaters of Off-Off Broadway. His last stage appearance was in the Kennedy Center's production of A Streetcar Named Desire. His film credits include Beautiful Girls, Cop Land, The Truman Show, Love & Sex, Frequency, Windtalkers, Miracle, and Little Children, and in Gavin O'Connor's Pride & Glory, opposite Edward Norton and Colin Farrell, this fall.

Dominic Fumusa (Jim) made his Broadway debut in Wait Until Dark; portrayed Mitch Albom in a national tour of Tuesdays with Morrie; originated roles in Rich Greenberg's Take Me Out and Stephen Belber's Tape; and appeared in Melissa James Gibson's Obie Award-winning [sic]. With Josh Lucas, he will be seen this fall in the film Management, written and directed by Stephen Belber. Fumusa last appeared at Powerhouse in Zach Helm's Last Chance for a Slow Dance, directed by Michael Morris.  

Josh Lucas's (Bill) theater credits include The Glass Menagerie on Broadway and Corpus Christi and Spalding Gray: Stories Left Untold Off Broadway. Lucas has appeared in over 30 films, including A Beautiful Mind, Glory Road, Sweet Home Alabama, Wonderland, and American Psycho. With Dominic Fumusa, he will next be seen in Stephen Belber's film Management this fall.
 
Jennifer Mudge (Jess) was nominated for a 2007 Drama Desk Award for her performance opposite Dulé Hill in Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Her other New York credits include Craig Wright's Drama Desk-nominated The Pavilion; world premiere of Terrence McNally's The Stendhal Syndrome; Reckless; Rose's Dilemma; and Only the End of the World. Her films include independent features: Drifting Elegant by Stephen Belber and Play It by Ear. Mudge is the 2007 recipient of the Marian Seldes-Garson Kanin Fellowship.

Stephen Belber's (playwright) upcoming credits include the film Management, which he wrote and directed, starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn and Woody Harrelson, and the play Geometry of Fire (first produced at Powerhouse) at Rattlestick Theater (New York) this fall. Some of his plays include Match on Broadway, McReele at Roundabout, and Tape produced at Naked Angels in New York City, Los Angeles, and London, for which he also wrote the screenplay for the film directed by Richard Linklater (Sundance; Berlin), as well as for McReele, which is currently being developed by Will Smith's Overbrook Productions.

David Schwimmer (director) recently directed Little Britain USA for HBO and acted in the film Nothing But The Truth for Rod Lurie. He is the cofounder of Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company, where he has acted in and directed many productions. Schwimmer starred in the premieres of Roger Kumble's D Girl and Turnaround, Warren Leight's Glimmer Brothers in Williamstown, and Neil LaBute's Some Girl(s) in London as well as The Caine Mutiny Court Martial on Broadway. Notable television and film credits include Madagascar I & II, Duane Hopwood, Big Nothing, Band of Brothers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Days Seven Nights, Apt Pupil, The Pallbearer, and the hit comedy series Friends, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor. Schwimmer made his film debut as a director with the UK hit comedy Run, Fat Boy, Run, starring Simon Pegg.