New Rep and Boston Theatre Center presents SINNERS

New Repertory Theatre and Boston Center for American Performance present Greensboro Arts Alliance & Residency/Mirror Theater's Sinners by Joshua Sobol, March 23-April 2, 2017 in the TheatreLab@855, Boston University, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA. Tickets are $20-$35 and may be purchased by calling the New Rep Box Office at 617-923-8487 or visiting newrep.org.

In Sinners, Layla, a marriEd English professor, has an affair with one of her married students, Nur. Out of fear that the oppressing authorities would find out and kill them both, Nur decides to confess, claiming that Layla seduced him. A fully staged production directed by Olivier- and Emmy Award-winner Brian Cox, the play examines issues of women's rights, societal constraints, and what choices one makes for love.

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New Repertory Theatre is the award-winning, professional theatre company in residence at the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA. For over 30 years, New Rep has been a leader of self-produced theatre in greater Boston, producing contemporary and classic dramas, comedies, and musicals in both the 340-seat MainStage Theater and the 90-seat BlackBox Theater. Annually, New Rep serves over 40,000 patrons, including 2,000 season subscribers. In addition to its mainstage productions, New Rep produces Next Voices, a program dedicated to developing new plays with playwrights through staged readings and world premiere productions. Under its Lifelong Enrichment Arts Programs (LEAP), New Rep also produces its Classic Repertory Company, Page to Stage, Insider Experiences, and Spotlight Symposium Series.

About BOSTON CENTER FOR AMERICAN PERFORMANCE

Boston Center for American Performance serves as the professional production extension of the Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre. Expanding the definition of the College as an "artistic home," BCAP is designed to foster significant interaction between members of the professional performing arts world and the College. BCAP employs professional artists to collaborate directly with student artists in a way that encourages intergenerational learning not only through the forging of strong teacher/student relationships, but through the creation of artistic collaborations between artists of differing levels of experience. It is the College's conviction that such collaborations will have a profound impact on the College's educational mission, become a significant source of inspiration for the creation of new work and/or new approaches to existing work, and provide the College with a professional extension of its expanding and diverse aesthetic.

About GREENSBORO ARTS ALLIANCE & RESIDENCY/MIRROR THEATER LTD
Mirror Theater Ltd, originally founded in 1983 by Sabra Jones, is the spiritual successor to Harold Clurman's Group Theatre and Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory. The founding initiative was spearheaded by the legendary philanthropist, Laurance S. Rockefeller, and received additional endowments from Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Dina Merrill, Kitty Carlisle Hart, and Paul Newman, as well as NYSCA, ATT, the Astor Foundation, The Lilah Acheson Wallace Foundation, and a host of others. The Mirror Theater Ltd's Greensboro Arts Alliance & Residency (GAAR) strives to benefit the community of Greensboro by providing year-round cultural and artistic opportunities to the residents of Greensboro and its surrounding areas. Founded in 2005, GAAR operates year-round, employs Greensboro-based staff, and its events have brought together the thousands of people who come to Greensboro every year. GAAR to date has produced over 60 plays in Vermont, as well as beginning an Opera Company and a much lauded Children's Musical Comedy Professional Training Camp. GAAR also works in the public school system to offer the full canon of Shakespeare as well as training. The Mirror is proud to have produced over 172 plays on Broadway, off-Broadway, in London, regionally, and on television. The Mirror has been nominated for a Tony as well as numerous awards including Outer Critics Best Overall Excellence and Best Acting Ensemble and the Brown and Williamson Award for their Arts & Education program, which has been a recipient of multi-year funding from the Department of Cultural Affairs.

Artistic Bios
Nicole Ansari* (LAYLA) Broadway: Rock N' Roll directed by Trevor Nunn; Off-Broadway: Shakespeare's Sister directed by Irina Brook at La Mama; Regional: Island of Slaves at Shakespeare and Company, MA. In Europe: World Premiere of Tom Stoppard's Rock N' Roll at The Royal Court Theatre in London and in the West End. Company Member of the famed Theatre du Soleil, directed by Ariane Mnouchkine, in Paris and on tour for two years. Founding Member of the Shakespeare Company Berlin. At The Public Theatre in Vienna, Austria: Berenice in Berenice, Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac, Irma in the Musical Irma La Douce, Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, and Romy Schneider in the play Romy, which she also co-wrote. Nicole started her Theatrical Career in Switzerland in Repertory in Zurich doing Shakespeare, Karge, Jelinek, Goetz and Brecht, amongst others. Film/TV includes: Side Effects by Steven Soderbergh; Blumenthal and As Good as Dead (both of which she also co-produced); Maggie Black; I Was There; NBC's Mysteries of Laura; HBO's Deadwood (recurring role); NBC's The Blacklist; Current: Einstein for SAT1 (Germany); TV's Bar Karma; CBS' As The World Turns. Nicole studied with the late Uta Hagen at HB Studios in NYC for Scene Study and the Shakespeare Masterclass and with Susan Batson at the Actor's Studio NY, as well as at the Stage school of Dance and Drama. Nicole is also the proud Mama of Orson and Torin and lives with her husband, the actor Brian Cox, and her children in NYC.

BEN GETZ* (Nur) is happy to be working on his first production with the Mirror Theater. Ben is a graduate of NYU Tisch's New Studio. Some of his favorite roles from college include Diomedes in Troilus and Cressida, Phil in Hurlyburly, Joe in Bachelorette, and Duke Senior in As You Like It. Film/TV credits include Blue Bloods, Uncaged and the soon to be released series Play by Play on Verizon Go90.

Brian Cox (Director) is an award-winning actor of the stage, screen and television. He has appeared in dozens of plays on the stages of London, New York, and Scotland. Cox earned AFI and Independent Spirit Award nominations for his work in the critically hailed independent film L.I.E. and also shared a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination as part of the ensemble cast of Spike Jonze's Adaptation. His most recent film credits include roles in The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Red 2, Coriolanus, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Campaign, and Blood. Additionally, he has appeared in The Good Heart, Tell-Tale, The Escapist, Troy, X2, Zodiac, 25th Hour, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Ring, Red, The Rookie, The Affair of the Necklace, For the Love of the Game, Rushmore, Desperate Measures, The Boxer, Kiss the Girls, Braveheart, Rob Roy, Manhunter, Hidden Agenda, and Nicholas and Alexandra. Repeatedly honored for his work in the theatre, Cox won two Olivier Awards for his performances in Rat in the Skull and Titus Andronicus; British Theatre Association Drama Awards for Best Actor for his work in The Taming of the Shrew and Strange Interlude; and the Lucille Lortel Award, as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations, for St. Nicholas. He spent eight months in London's West End, starring as Max in Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n Roll, a role he reprised on Broadway. Cox was also seen on Broadway in The Championship Season. Cox has also helmed stage productions of I Love My Life, Mrs. Warren's Profession, The Philanderer, The Master Builder, and Richard III. In 2003, Cox's contributions to the arts were honored by Queen Elizabeth II, who named him a Commander of the British Empire. In 2006, Empire Magazine honored his film achievements with the Empire Icon Award and, in 2007, the UK Film Council named him one of the Top 10 powerful British film stars in Hollywood today.

Joshua Sobol (Playwright) is a playwright, director, and author. Sobol has written over 75 plays and directed productions in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Israel, and the United States. He is currently the playwright in residence at Israeli Stage. His most famous play, Ghetto, has been performed in 24 countries, and his plays have garnered many awards including The Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year; The Critics' Circle London Theatre Awards - Best New Play 1989; Laurence Olivier Award Nomination for Best Play; Mainichi Art Prize - Best Play of the Year; Yumiuri Shimbun Grand Prize for Best Play of the Year. Sobol won five David's Harp awards for Best Israeli Play and won the Israeli Theatre Award for Lifetime Achievement. Sobol was awarded The Golden Medal of the City of Vienna for Excellent Achievement in 2014.

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