Stephen Kunken Joins ENRON as 'Andy Fastow'

Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominee Stephen Kunken, best known for his celebrated portrayal of James Reston in Frost/Nixon on Broadway, will assume the mantle of a particularly less honorable historical figure when he takes on the role of disgraced ENRON Chief Financial Officer Andy Fastow in Lucy Prebble's critically acclaimed play ENRON.

ENRON will begin previews on Broadway on April 8, 2010 at The Broadhurst Theatre (235 W. 44th St. between 8th and Broadway), in preparation for an April 27, 2010 opening.

Stephen Kunken (Andy Fastow) Broadway: Ferdinand in Tom Stoppard's Rock ‘n Roll (Jacobs Theater), James Reston in Frost/Nixon (Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Nominations), Festen (Music Box Theater), Proof (Walter Kerr Theater). National Tour: Proof. Off-Broadway: Our Town, Theresa Rebeck's Our House (Playwrights Horizons), A Very Common Procedure (Drama League Nomination) MCC Theater, Speak Truth to Power, Fabulation, Journals of Mihail Sebastian, The Story, A Dybbuk, Arrangements, Henry VIII, Misalliance. Regional: Quartermaine's Terms, True West, Three Sisters (Williamstown Theater Festival), Mister Roberts (Kennedy Center) Television: "Gossip Girl", "New Amsterdam", all the different incarnations of "Law and Order", "The Sopranos," "Spin City," "Far East", "Mary and Rhoda". Film: Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, All Good Things (Sundance '10), Girl in the Park, Wait till This Year, Light/Sufferer and Bamboozled. Multiple honors from Juilliard's Graduate Acting Program. 2004 Fox Fellowship recipient.

He will be starring alongside Norbert Leo Butz, previously announced to portray ENRON CEO Jeffrey Skilling.

Directed by Rupert Goold, ENRON will feature scenic and costume design by Anthony Ward, lighting by Mark Henderson, music and sound by Adam Cork, video and projection by Jon Driscoll and choreography by Scott Ambler.

Inspired by the real-life financial scandal of 2001, ENRON, which was commissioned by Headlong Theatre, premiered this past summer at the Minerva Theatre Chichester, and then moved for a six-week run at The Royal Court Theatre where it played through November 8, 2009. The play transferred to West End's Noel Coward Theatre in January 2010.

Headlong Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Court Theatre production of ENRON will be produced on Broadway by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Matthew Byam Shaw, Act Productions, Caro Newling for Neal St. Productions and The Shubert Organization.

Lucy Prebble won the George Devine Award and the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright for her debut play The Sugar Syndrome at The Royal Court Theatre. On television, her work includes creating the series Secret Diary of a Call Girl. ENRON is her second play.

Rupert Goold's previous productions include Minerva Theatre Chichester's staging of Macbeth with Patrick Stewart (that transferred to the West End and Broadway) and Six Characters in Search of an Author. Additional credits include Time and the Conways at the National Theatre, Pete Postlethwaite in King Lear, and West End productions of Pinter's No Man's Land and Oliver! (currently at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane). He most recently directed Turandot for English National Opera which opened at the London Coliseum in October.

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