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Weisberg, Doyle, Kahn, Sullivan, Shipman & Lavoy Join Butz and Kunken in ENRON on Broadway

By: Feb. 18, 2010
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The upcoming Broadway production of Lucy Prebble's critically acclaimed play ENRON, directed by Rupert Goold, has announced that Noah Weisberg, Rightor Doyle, Ian Kahn, Mary Stewart Sullivan, Madisyn Shipman and January LaVoy have joined the company.

They join the previously announced Norbert Leo Butz and Stephen Kunken.

Additional casting will be announced shortly.

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.

Noah Weisberg is currently appearing as the title role in Calvin Berger at the George Street Playhouse, under the direction of Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall. Broadway credits include original Casts of South Pacific (Professor), Legally Blonde (Aaron, Emmett u/s). Other NY: F#@king Up Everything (Winner - Outstanding Individual Performance), Two Gentlemen of Verona(Shakespeare in the Park, directed by Kathleen Marshall), Awesome 80's Prom (co-writer & co-star). Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville. Tours: Big, Grease. TV: A recurring role on Law & Order, and guest appearances on The Good Wife, Law & Order: CI, Cashmere Mafia, and Love Monkey. Animated Series: Team Umizoomi, Kenny The Shark, and 2 seasons on Disney's JoJo's Circus. Film: Across the Universe, And Then Came Love, Nightmare, DOONCE! Noah can be seen & heard in over 100 commercials and is also the voice for the new cable network Halogen. He's a graduate of NYU (CAP21) and the founder of The Free Nationwide Resource for Performers: www.ImAnActor.com. Check out www.CastNoah.com for everything else Noah.

Rightor Doyle Williamstown: Knickerbocker (by Jonathan Marc Sherman, dir. Nicky Martin), Trouble Tales (for boys and girls), Will You Please Shut Up, Way To Wealth, Caravan Man (The Prophet Muhammad: A Musical), Help Yourself, The Revolt of Little Ola, Tumor. London: The Lightning Field (Oval House) New York: Bully To You (art.party.theater), The Nosemaker's Apprentice (Brick Theatre), Peter and the Star Catchers (Disney Theatricals Workshop) Two Gents (Poor Tom Productions), The Stand-Ins (Gene Frankel Underground), Stake Out (TSI). Other roles: Pylades in Orestes (dir. JoAnne Akalaitis), Artie in The House of Blue Leaves (dir. Will Pomerantz). TV/Film: "Law and Order: SVU", "True Blood Expose "(Bloodcopy, HBO) Education: Bard College.

Ian Kahn Off-Broadway: Still Life at MCC. Regional: Baltimore CenterStage: Arsenic and Old Lace (Mortimer Brewster); Media Theater: My Fair Lady (Higgins); Alley Theater: Long Days Journey Into Night (Jamie); Wilma: Arcadia (Septimus)

Hartford Stage: Ghosts (Oswald); Shakespeare Theatre of NJ: King John (the Bastard); McCarter Theater: The Tempest (Caliban); Cape Playhouse: The Beard of Avon (Will Shakspere); Arena Stage: The Importance of Being Earnest (Algernon Moncrieff); Round House: A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Wheelwright); Ford's Theater: Leading Ladies (Leo Clark); St. Louis Rep: The Glass Menagerie (Tom). Film: The Box (Vick Brenner); Day Zero (James); Brooklyn Lobster (Justin Wallace). TV: "The Unusuals" (Davis Nixon); "Reinventing the Wheelers" (Peter Hudgins); "Dawson's Creek" (Danny Brecker); "Bull" (Marty Decker); "Sex and the City" (Ben); all "Law & Orders" (and always the wrong side of the Law); upcoming Lifetime movie Secrets in the Walls.

Mary Stewart Sullivan 8 years old is making her Broadway debut. She enjoys reading, singing, dancing, acting and sports. She has appeared in commercials, print, vocal recordings and local theatre. Thanks to God, Mom, Dad, Clay and Shirley Grant Management for making my dreams come true!

Madisyn Shipman is excited about her Boadway debut! Television: Sesame Street, SNL, Umi Zoomi. She collects American Girl dolls. Special thanks to mom, dad, the Shirley Grant Management team, and God!

January LaVoy is making her Broadway debut in ENRON. Off-Broadway: Coraline (MCC) Home, Two Trains Running (Signature Theatre), Joy (Actors' Playhouse). World premieres: Christopher Durang's Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge (City Theatre), Dael Orlandersmith's Raw Boys (Wilma Theatre), Keith Glover's Jazzland (Contemporary American Theatre Festival) and Brian Dykstra's Spill the Wine (Gayfest NYC). Regional: Measure for Measure (Shakespeare Theater of NJ), A Streetcar Named Desire, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Lobby Hero, Cyrano de Bergerac (Denver Center Theatre Company), The Piano Lesson (Pittsburgh Public Theatre). Film: War of the Worlds. Television: "3 lbs.", "Law & Order", "Law & Order: SVU", "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", "Guiding Light", and "All My Children". Voiceover work includes many commercials and ten audiobooks. Currently plays the role of Noelle Ortiz on the ABC daytime drama "One Life to Live". BA: Fairfield University, MFA: National Theatre Conservatory (Denver). Proud member of Actors' Equity. www.januarylavoy.com

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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