Rose Byrne & Kelli O'Hara to Star in FALLEN ANGELS Benefit Reading at Roundabout Theatre Company

Roundabout Theatre Company will present a special Benefit Reading of Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels, directed by Scott Ellis.
 
The performance will star Emmy & Golden Globe Award nominee Rose Byrne as “Jane Banbury,” and Tony Award winner & Emmy nominee Kelli O’Hara as “Julia Sterroll.”  
 
 Sparkling, dizzying, and deliciously potent, Noël Coward’s Champagne-fresh comedy of bad manners shocked and delighted audiences in its 1925 premiere. Now Emmy nominee Rose Byrne and Tony winner Kelli O’Hara head a star-studded cast to bring Coward’s unmatched wit to life once again, for one night only, under the direction of Roundabout Interim Artistic Director Scott Ellis.  
 
Two upper-class wives, their husbands away for the day, share a few toasts to their pre-marital dalliances—with the same man, who just may be en route from France to visit. Old rivalries and past scandals bubble to the surface in this intoxicating romp from one of theatre’s comedy masters.  
 
Proceeds from the Benefit Reading of Fallen Angels support Roundabout Theatre Company’s many programs and initiatives, including Education at Roundabout.
 
VIP, Benefactor and Producer tickets include admission to an exclusive post-show party following the performance.
 
Please visit www.roundabouttheatre.org/fallen-angels for information and to purchase tickets.
 
Golden Ram, DE-NADA Tequila, Reyka Vodka, and Hendrick's Gin are the alcohol sponsors for the evening.
 
BIOS:

Rose Byrne

(Jane Banbury) is an Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actress who continues to captivate audiences with her tremendously diverse body of work. Byrne is widely known for her role as ‘Ellen Parsons’ in Damages, opposite Glenn Close. The series, created by Daniel Zelman, Glenn Kessler and Todd Kessler, ran for five seasons, garnering Byrne two Golden Globe nominations and one Emmy nomination for her portrayal. She is also known for her role in the Paul Feig directed comedy, Bridesmaids, alongside Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, and Melissa McCarthy. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Comedy and Musical and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
 
Upcoming, Byrne stars in Tony Goldwyn’s Ezra opposite Robert De Niro and Bobby Cannavale. The film follows ‘Max Brandel’ (Cannavale), who blows up his successful career and marriage to become a somewhat less successful stand-up comic. The film is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival September 2023.
 
Currently, Byrne can currently be seen in the third and final season of the Apple TV+ Original drama series Physical, which she stars in and serves as an executive producer. The series follows ‘Sheila’ (Byrne), a woman struggling in her life as a quietly tortured housewife in a 1980s Southern California beach community before finding herself on an unconventional path to power in the world of jazzercize aerobics. Bryne also reteamed with Seth Rogan to star in the Apple TV+ Original series Platonic as two former childhood best friends who reconnect as adults and try to get past the rift that led to their falling out.
 
In 2020, Byrne starred in FX’s limited series, Mrs. America, where she portrayed Gloria Steinem. The series tells the true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly (played by Cate Blanchett). Byrne led the cast of second-wave feminists, alongside Uzo Aduba, Tracey Ullman and Ari Graynor, among others. The nine-episode limited series was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Limited Series.
 
Also in 2020, Byrne returned to the theatre stage in BAM’s Medea, alongside Bobby Cannavale, as they portrayed a divided couple drawn into brutal conflict in a contemporary rewrite of Euripides’ Greek tragedy. Medea, directed by Simon Stone, opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater. Byrne was nominated for a 2020 Drama Desk award in the category of Outstanding Actress in a Play and for a 2020 Drama League Award in the category of Distinguished Performance on behalf of her performance in the show.
 
In addition, Byrne’s other film credits include: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Insidious 5: The Red Door, Spirited, Seriously Red, which she also produced, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway Peter Rabbit, Irresistible, Like a Boss, I Am Mother, Instant Family, Peter Rabbit, Juliet Naked, Insidious: The Last Key, I Love You Daddy, X-Men: Apocalypse, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, The Meddler, Spy, Annie, Adult Beginners, This is where I Leave You, Neighbors, Insidious: Chapter 2, The Turning, The Internship, I Give It a Year, The Place Beyond the Pines, X-Men: First Class, Insidious, Get Him to the Greek, I Love You Too, Knowing, Adam, The Tender Hook, Just Buried, 28 Weeks Later, Sunshine, The Dead Girl, Marie Antoinette, The Tenants, Wicker Park, Troy, The Rage in Placid Lake, All the Way, Take Away, I Capture the Castle, City of Ghosts, and Star Wars: Episode II- Attack of the Clones.
 
Her other TV credits include The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Outstanding Television Movie Emmy Award Nominee).
 
Byrne’s theatre credits include You Can't Take it With You (Broadway debut), Sydney Theatre Company’s Speed-the-Plow, La Dispute and Three Sisters.
 

KELLI O’HARA

(Julia Sterroll), star of stage and screen, has established herself as one of Broadway's greatest leading ladies. The Tony Award winner, Emmy and Grammy-nominated actress has appeared in eleven Broadway shows for which she has garnered seven Tony Award Nominations. 
 
She won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, along with Grammy, Drama League and Outer Critics nominations for her portrayal of Anna Leonowens in The King and I. She then reprised the role while making her West End debut garnering a prestigious Olivier Nomination for her performance and then performed a limited engagement at Tokyo's Orb Theatre. 
 
O’Hara received an Emmy Award nomination for her portrayal of Katie Bonner in Topic's hit web series, The Accidental Wolf, and can currently be seen as Aurora Fane on HBO’s critically acclaimed series, “The Gilded Age.”
 
She has had several recurring television roles such as Showtime's “Master of Sex,” “13 Reasons Why,” “Blue Bloods,” and “All My Children.” Additional Film and Television credits include All the Bright Places, Peter Pan Live!, Sex & The City 2, Martin Scorsese’s The Key to Reserva, “The Good Fight,” “N3mbers,” and the animated series “Car Talk.”
 
O’Hara’s other Broadway credits include Kiss Me, Kate (Tony, Drama League, OCC nominations), The Bridges of Madison County (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, OCC nominations), Nice Work If You Can Get It (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, OCC nominations), South Pacific (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC nominations), The Pajama Game (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC nominations), The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk nominations), Sweet Smell of Success, Follies, Dracula and Jekyll & Hyde.
 
 
O’Hara was awarded the prestigious Drama League's Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre Award in 2019.
 
In 2015, she made history as the first artist to make the crossover from Broadway to Opera when she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Lehar's The Merry Widow opposite Renée Fleming and in 2018 returned as Despina in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte. She was last seen at The Metropolitan Opera in the world premiere of Kevin Puts’ The Hours, as Laura Brown.
 
Her concerts have gained international acclaim, spanning from Carnegie Hall to Tokyo. She is a frequent performer on PBS's live telecasts, The Kennedy Center Honors, and performs often alongside The New York Philharmonic and The New York Pops.
 
Along with her two Grammy nominations, her solo albums, “Always,” and “Wonder in the World,” are available on Ghostlight.
 
Season 3 of “The Accidental Wolf” is now streaming on Topic. Upcoming, Season 2 of “The Gilded Age” on HBO. 
 
O’Hara recently starred in the critically acclaimed new musical, Days Of Wine And Roses, Off-Broadway at The Atlantic Theatre Company, a musical she asked Guettel to create for her 21 years ago. 
 

NOËL COWARD

(Playwright) was born in 1899 and made his professional stage debut as Prince Mussel in The Goldfish at the age of 11, leading to many child actor appearances over the next few years His breakthrough in playwriting was the controversial The Vortex (1924) which featured themes of drugs and adultery and made his name as both actor and playwright in the West End and on Broadway. During the 1920s and 1930s, Coward wrote a string of successful plays, musicals and intimate revues including Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Easy Virtue (1926), This Year of Grace (1928), and Bitter Sweet (1929). His professional partnership with childhood friend Gertrude Lawrence, started with the musical Revue London Calling (1923) and was followed by Private Lives (1931), and Tonight At 8.30 (1936).
 
During World War II, he remained a successful playwright, screenwriter and director, as well as entertaining the troops and even acting as a l spy for the Foreign Office. His plays during these years included Blithe Spirit (1942), which ran for 1997 performances, outlasting the War (a West End record until The Mousetrap overtook it), This Happy Breed and Present Laughter (both 1943). His two wartime screenplays, In Which We Serve, which he co-directed with the young David Lean as well as starring in, and Brief Encounter quickly became classics of British cinema.
 
However, the post-war years were more difficult. Austerity Britain – the London critics determined – was out of tune with the brittle Coward wit. In response, Coward re-invented himself as a cabaret and TV star, particularly in America, and in 1955 he played a sell-out season in Las Vegas featuring many of his most famous songs, including “Mad About the Boy,” “I’ll See You Again,” and “Mad Dogs and Englishmen,” which was followed by three live television specials on CBS including “Together With Music” with Mary Martin In the mid-1950s he settled in Jamaica and Switzerland, and enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1960s becoming the first living playwright to be performed by The National Theatre, when he directed Hay Fever there. Late in his career he was lauded for his roles in a number of films including Our Man In Havana (1959) and his role as the iconic Mr. Bridger alongside Michael Caine in The Italian Job (1968).
 
Writer, actor, director, film producer, painter, songwriter, cabaret artist as well as an author of a novel, verse, essays and autobiographies, he was called by close friends ‘The Master.’ His final West End appearance was Song At Twilight in 1966, which he wrote and starred in. He was knighted in 1970 and died peacefully in 1973 in his beloved Jamaica.
 

Scott Ellis

(Director) is the Interim Artistic Director of Roundabout Theatre Company. Broadway credits include: Take Me Out (2022 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play); Tootsie (2019 Tony Award nomination), Kiss Me, Kate; She Loves Me (2016 Tony Award nomination); On the Twentieth Century; You Can’t Take It With You (Tony nomination); The Elephant Man; The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Tony nomination); Harvey; Curtains (Tony nomination); The Little Dog Laughed (Drama League Award nomination); Twelve Angry Men (Tony nomination); The Man Who Had All the Luck; The Rainmaker; 1776 (Drama Desk Award and Tony nominations); Picnic (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination); Company; A Month in the Country; and Steel Pier (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway credits include Dada Woof Papa Hot; The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin; Gruesome Playground Injuries; Streamers; Good Boys and True; Entertaining Mr. Sloane; Flora, the Red Menace (Drama Desk nomination); And the World Goes ’Round (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), and The Waverly Gallery. His television credits include: “Julia,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “The Closer,” “Weeds” (executive producer), “30 Rock,” (Emmy Award nomination for Best Director), and “Modern Family.”
 
TICKET INFORMATION:
 

UNDERWRITER PACKAGES
 

Gold Sponsor Package at $50,000 ($46,970 tax-deductible) – Includes twelve premium house seats in center orchestra; listing as an Underwriter on all posters, programs and press materials above show title; invitation to pre-show cocktail reception; invitation to the post-show party; a complimentary cocktail at intermission; tickets personally hand-delivered to your door in advance of the event; limited edition, framed show poster signed by the company.
 
Silver Sponsor Package at $25,000 ($23,422 tax-deductible) – Includes six premium house seats in center orchestra; listing as an Underwriter on all posters, programs and press materials below show title; invitation to pre-show cocktail reception; invitation to the post-show party; a complimentary cocktail at intermission; limited edition, framed show poster signed by the company.
 
To learn more about Underwriter Packages, please contact Natalie Rohr at 212-719-9393 ext. 369; natalier@roundabouttheatre.org.
 

BENEFIT TICKETS
 

Producer Ticket(s) at $5,000 ($4,845 tax-deductible) – Includes premium house seat in center orchestra; complimentary cocktail at intermission; invitation to attend post-show party; limited edition, framed show poster signed by the company.
 
Benefactor Ticket(s) at $2,500 ($2,408 tax-deductible) – Includes premium house seat in center orchestra; complimentary cocktail at intermission; invitation to attend post-show party.
 
VIP Ticket(s) at $1,000 ($908 tax-deductible) – Includes premium house seat in orchestra; complimentary cocktail at intermission; invitation to attend post-show party.
 

STANDARD TICKETS

 
Premium Ticket(s) at $500 ($500 tax-deductible) – Includes orchestra/front mezzanine seat
 
Prime Ticket(s) at $250 ($250 tax-deductible) – Includes rear orchestra/mid mezzanine seat
 
General Ticket(s) at $150 ($150 tax-deductible) – Includes rear mezzanine seat
 
Select orchestra and mezzanine tickets ($150-$500) are also available to the general public by calling Roundabout Audience Services at (212) 719-1300 or online at www.roundabouttheatre.org/fallenangels
 
Roundabout has been working to prioritize and actively incorporate anti-racism, equity, diversity, inclusion and accountability throughout the institution. Read more about the company’s social justice progress and timeline at www.roundabouttheatre.org/socialjustice