Photo Coverage: Meet the Cast of Playwrights Horizons' IOWA

Playwrights Horizons will soon present IOWA, the world premiere of a new musical play written by Susan SmithBlackburn Prize finalist Jenny Schwartz (God's Ear, Somewhere Fun), music by Todd Almond (Stage Kiss at PH, Kansas City Choir Boy, The Tempest, On the Levee) and lyrics by Mr. Almond and Ms. Schwartz. Directed by two-time Obie Award winner Ken Rus Schmoll (Red Dog Howls, Middletown, What Once We Felt; next season's just-announced Antlia Pneumatica by Anne Washburn at PH), the musical play will be the fifth production of the theater company's 2014/2015 Season.

The cast of IOWA will feature Cindy Cheung (The Great Immensity, Middletown, Speak Up Connie), April Matthis (On the Levee, The Sound and the Fury, Lear, Hollow Roots), Annie McNamara (GATZ; God's Ear; The Sound and the Fury; That Pretty, Pretty...; Blue Jasmine), Karyn Quackenbush (Annie Get Your Gun; Blood Brothers; Imaginary Friends; Love, Loss and What I Wore), Carolina Sanchez (2014 Westminster College of the Arts graduate in her New York debut), Lee Sellars (Talk Radio, West Side Story, A Time to Kill, The Alchemist), Jill Shackner (Landscape of the Body, LES MISERABLES) and Kolette Tetlow (Once).

IOWA will begin previews Friday, March 20, 2015 with an Opening Night set for Monday, April 13 at 7PM. The limited engagement will play through Sunday evening, May 10 at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd Street).

Mom (Ms. Quackenbush) found her soul-mate on Facebook, and he (Mr. Sellars) lives in Iowa. So Becca (Ms. Shackner) says goodbye to her beloved math teacher (Mr. Sellars), bulimic best friend (Ms. Sanchez), neighborhood pony (Mr. Sellars) and her mildly deficient teenage life, and she follows her wayward mother to a new, uncharted beginning. But in this fanciful, absurdist and intoxicating musical play from the imagination of Jenny Schwartz andTodd Almond, nothing can prepare them for what they'll find.

Photo Credit: Jessica Fallon Gordon

Ken Rus Schmoll, Jenny Schwartz and Todd Almond

Tim Sanford, Ken Rus Schmoll, Jenny Schwartz, Todd Almond and Leslie Marcus

Tim Sanford, Ken Rus Schmoll, Jenny Schwartz, Todd Almond and Leslie Marcus with the cast

Todd Almond, Jenny Schwartz, Kolette Tetlow and Ken Rus Schmoll

Lee Sellars, Karyn Quackenbush and Jill Shackner

Kolette Tetlow and Jill Shackner

April Matthis, Cindy Cheung, Carolina Sanchez and Annie McNamara

Lee Sellars, Karyn Quackenbush, April Matthis, Kolette Tetlow, Cindy Cheung, Carolina Sanchez, Jill Shackner and Annie McNamara