Marin Ireland Joins The Cast Of Roundabout's AFTER MISS JULIE, Previews Begin 9/18

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), in association with Sonia Friedman Productions and Ostar Productions presents Sienna Miller as "Miss Julie", Jonny Lee Miller as "John" and Marin Ireland as "Christine" in the American premiere of playwright Patrick Marber's drama After Miss Julie, a version of Strindberg's Miss Julie, directed by Mark Brokaw.

After Miss Julie will begin preview performances on September 18th, 2009 and open officially on October 22nd, 2009 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd Street). This is a limited engagement through December 6th, 2009.

The design team includes Allen Moyer (Sets), Michael Krass (Costumes), Mark McCullough (Lights) and David Van Tieghem (Original Music & Sound).

After Miss Julie transposes August Strindberg's 1888 play about sex and class to an English country house on the eve of Labour's historic landslide in 1945.

Tickets are available by calling Roundabout Ticket Services at (212)719-1300, online at www.roundabouttheatre.org or at the American Airlines Box Office (227 West 42nd Street). Ticket prices range from $66.50 to $111.50. Through ACCESS Roundabout, 100 tickets are available for the first four preview performances beginning September 18 for only $10 each.

Mark Brokaw's production of Lisa Loomer's play Distracted, starring Cynthia Nixon, recently concluded its extended limited engagement at Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre. His other past Roundabout productions include the 2006 production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer with Blythe Danner and Carla Gugino and The Constant Wife at the American Airlines Theatre in 2004.

After Miss Julie will play Tuesday through Saturday evening at 8:00 p.m. with Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.

Sienna Miller (Miss Julie). Born in New York, Sienna Miller spent the majority of her childhood in London and Wiltshire. She went on to study drama at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. In 2000 she starred in the off-Broadway production of Independence at the Neighbourhood Playhouse. Sienna portrayed "Celia" in the Young Vic's critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare's As You Like It, at the Wyndhams Theatre in London's West End. She starred alongside Helen McCrory, Dominic West and Reece Shearsmith. Sienna Miller was presented with the 2009 ShoWest Supporting Actress of the Year Award. Recently released movies include The Edge of Love with Keira Knightly, directed by John Maybury and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh opposite Peter Sarsgaard. In August, Sienna can also be seen in the highly anticipated action film G.I. Joe: Rise Of The Cobra directed by Stephen Sommers in which she plays the baroness Anastasia DeCobray. Sienna has starred in Interview opposite Steve Buscemi and played "Nikki," a beautiful but unstable party girl, in Charles Shyer's high profile remake of the1960's classic Alfie. She starred alongside Jude Law, Susan Sarandon, Marisa Tomei, Jane Krakowski and Nia Long. Sienna also starred opposite Heath Ledger in Lasse Hallström's production of Casanova. She plays the part of Francesca, the only woman Casanova fails to seduce. Sienna completed four other feature films in 2006, the most notable of which was Factory Girl directed by George Hickenlooper in which she plays the ill-fated Andy Warhol muse, Edie Sedgwick, opposite Guy Pearce. In addition, she starred in Interview opposite Steve Buscemi, Camille opposite James Franco, and had a cameo in Stardust directed by Matthew Vaughn.

JONNY Lee Miller (John) has distinguished himself with incredible versatility in features, theatre and television. First seen on the big screen as a teenage computer genius opposite Angelina Jolie in Iain Softley's Hackers, he soon came to international attention starring opposite Ewan MacGregor as the drug addicted punk ‘Sick Boy' in Danny Boyle's Trainspotting. Miller's auspicious beginning led to a span of dramas and comedies ranging from 18th Century period pieces to contemporary tales. His film credits include The Flying Scotsman, which garnered him a Scottish BAFTA nomination for Best Actor, Woody Allen's Melinda And Melinda, Alan Rudolph's Afterglow, Behind The Lines, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Plunkett & Maclean, which reunited him with "Trainspotting" co-star Robert Carlyle. Miller most recently co-starred with William Hurt and Chiwetel Ejiofer in the South African drama Endgame, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Miller starred for two seasons in the title role in the critically acclaimed ABC series "Eli Stone". His television work began with classic BBC dramas such as "Casualty" and "Prime Suspect 3", leading to his first US mini-series "Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk", a prequel to "Lonesome Dove." He also starred in the title role in "Byron" for the BBC. This year, Miller completed filming the role of ‘Mr. Knightley' in a BBC mini-series adaptation of "Emma". Miller's stage talents have been equally well received in productions such as Festen, The Play What I Wrote, Democracy, Four Knights In Knaresborough, and Beautiful Thing. He also starred in a revival of Frank McGuinness' Someone Who'll Watch Over Me in London's West End.

Marin Ireland (Christine). Broadway: Reasons to be Pretty (Tony nomination, Theatre World Award). Off-Broadway: Blasted (Soho Rep), Cyclone (Studio Dante, Obie), The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (4th Street, 37 Arts), Bad Jazz (the Play Company), The Ruby Sunrise (Public Theater), The Harlequin Studies (Signature), The Triple Happiness (Second Stage), Manuscript (Daryl Roth), Fighting Words (Underwood), Savannah Bay (Classic Stage), Where We're Born (Rattlestick), Sabina (Primary Stages), Far Away and Nocturne (both at New York Theatre Workshop). Royal Court's American tour of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis. Selected regional: Mauritius (Huntington, Elliot Norton nom.), Heartbreak House (Goodman), The Bells (McCarter), Uncle Vanya (Lake Lucille), As You Like It (Commonwealth Shakespeare) and Richard Greenberg's The Injured Party (South Coast Rep). Film/TV: "Law & Order" trifecta, I Am Legend, The Understudy, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, Suburban Girl, Rachel Getting Married, others.

Patrick Marber (Playwright). Patrick Marber was born in 1964. Theatre: His first play Dealer's Choice opened at the National Theatre in February 1995. It subsequently transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre, London. It was revived at The Menier Chocolate Factory in 2007 and transferred to The Trafalgar Studios. Dealer's Choice received the 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and the Writer's Guild Award for Best West End Play. His second play Closer opened at the National Theatre, Cottesloe auditorium in May 1997. In October 1997 it transferred to the NT Lyttelton Theatre and then in March 1998 to the Lyric Theatre, London. The play opened on Broadway in March 1999. Closer received the 1997 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy, the Critics Circle Award for Best Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. The Broadway production won the 1999 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play. There have been productions of Closer in more than a hundred cities across the world. Howard Katz opened at the National Theatre in June 2001. It received its New York premiere in March 2007 at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Roundabout Theatre.

After Miss Julie opened at the Donmar Warehouse in November 2003. Patrick Marber's play for teenage actors The Musicians premiered at the National Theatre as part of Shell Connections in summer 2004. Patrick's most recent play is Don Juan in Soho which opened at the Donmar Warehouse in November 2006. As well as his own plays Patrick Marber has directed Craig Raine's ‘1953' (Almeida), Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills (NT, Lyttelton), David Mamet's The Old Neighborhood (Royal Court, Duke of York's) and Harold Pinter's The Caretaker (Comedy Theatre). Television and Radio: "After Miss Julie", which he adapted and directed for the BBC2 ‘Performance' series in 1995. He has co-written and appeared in the

award winning comedy programmes "The Day Today", "The Paul Calf Video Diary", "Knowing Me, Knowing You..." with Alan Partridge and "Three Fights", "Two Weddings and a Funeral". His short film The Egg (Dir. Richard Wilson) was shown

on BBC2 in 2002, and his short radio play Hoop Lane was transmitted on BBC Radio 3 in November 2004. Film: Old Street (short film, released 2004) directed by Angus Jackson and starring Ray Winstone. Closer was released in the US in December 2004 and in the UK in January 2005. It received two Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actor (Clive Owen) and Best Supporting Actress (Natalie Portman), and was nominated for Golden Globes for Best Picture, Best Screenplay (Patrick Marber), and Best Director (Mike Nichols). Clive Owen and Natalie Portman also received Academy Award nominations. Notes an a Scandal from the novel by Zoe Heller (dir. Richard Eyre), starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett, opened in the UK in February 2007. It received numerous award nominations; Patrick Marber for Best Adapted screenplay (Golden Globes, Oscars, BAFTAs), Judi Dench for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Golden Globes, Oscars, BAFTAs), Cate Blanchett for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Golden Globes, Oscars), Outstanding British Film (BAFTAs), Philip Glass for Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) Love You More (short film, released 2008) directed by Sam Taylor-Wood was nominated for both BAFTA and Palme D'Or awards. It has won numerous prizes on the international festival circuit where it has been screened in more than fifty festivals world wide. Patrick is currently working on a screenplay based on Ian McEwan's novel Saturday.

Mark Brokaw (Director). At Roundabout, Brokaw recently staged Lisa Loomer's play Distracted, starring Cynthia Nixon at the Laura Pels Theatre. Other Roundabout productions include the Off-Broadway production of Suddenly Last Summer, starring Blythe Danner and Carla Gugino & the Tony® Award nominated revival of The Constant Wife starring Kate Burton and Lynn Redgrave. Other Broadway: Cry-Baby the Musical. Other recent New York revivals include Reckless (Manhattan Theatre Club and Second Stage at the Biltmore) and Baltimore Waltz (Signature Theatre Company). New York premieres include Paula Vogel's The Long Christmas Ride Home and How I Learned to Drive (Vineyard Theatre), Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero (Playwrights Horizons and its UK premiere at London's Donmar Warehouse and West End) and This Is Our Youth (New Group and Second Stage), Craig Lucas' The Dying Gaul and Stranger (Vineyard Theatre), Douglas Carter Beane's As Bees in Honey Drown and Music From a Sparkling Planet (Drama Dept.), Wendy Wasserstein's Old Money (Lincoln Center Theater), Lisa Kron's 2.5 Minute Ride (New York Shakespeare Festival) and Lynda Barry's The Good Times Are Killing Me (Second Stage). Regional credits include the new musical Marty with John C. Reilly at the Huntington, A Little Night Music in the Sondheim Celebration at the Kennedy Center, as well as work at the Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, La Jolla Playhouse and the Gate Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. He is an Associate Artist at Roundabout Theatre Company, serves on the executive board of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and is a member of Drama Dept.

Roundabout Theatre Company is one of the country's leading not-for-profit theatres. The company contributes invaluably to New York's cultural life by staging the highest quality revivals of classic plays and musicals as well as new plays by established writers. Roundabout consistently partners great artists with great works to bring a fresh and exciting interpretation that makes each production relevant and important to today's audiences.

Roundabout Theatre Company currently produces at three permanent homes each of which is designed specifically to enhance the needs of the Roundabout's mission. Off-Broadway, the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, which houses the Laura Pels Theatre and Black Box Theatre, with its simple sophisticated design is perfectly suited to showcasing new plays. The grandeur of its Broadway home on 42nd Street, American Airlines Theatre, sets the ideal stage for the classics. Roundabout's Studio 54 provides an exciting and intimate Broadway venue for its musical and special event productions. Together these three distinctive venues serve to enhance the work on each of its stages.

American Airlines is the official airline of Roundabout Theatre Company. Roundabout productions are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts; and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

Roundabout Theatre Company's 2009-2010 season includes Mark Saltzman, Irving Berlin & Scott Joplin's The Tin Pan Alley Rag, directed by Stafford Arima; Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie, starring Sienna Miller & Jonny Lee Miller, directed by Mark Brokaw; Michael Stewart, Lee Adams and Charles Strouse's Bye Bye Birdie, starring John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Bill Irwin & Nolan Funk, directed and choreographed by Robert Longbottom; Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking, directed by Tony Taccone; Theresa Rebeck's The Understudy, directed by Scott Ellis; Noël Coward's Present Laughter starring Victor Garber, directed by Nicholas Martin; Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, directed by Gordon Edelstein. Roundabout's sold out production of The 39 Steps made its second Broadway transfer to the Helen Hayes Theatre on January 21, 2009.

 

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