'Sick' by Zayd Dohrn Opens at Berkshire Theatre Festival 8/22

Sick, the black comedy written by Zayd Dohrn and directed by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn tells the story of "a small home on the Lower East Side of Manhattan is the only safe haven for the children of the Krebs family. But despite Mrs. Krebs' attempts to protect her family with scrubbers, masks, and isolation, the delicate balance is brought to the breaking point when her husband's academic career brings a stranger into their safe house.

In its New England Premiere, Sick seeps onto the stage as a terrifying family drama filled with dark comedy, mistrust, and shocking realism."

The show runs at the Berkshire Festival through September 6. Click here for more information and to purchase tickets. the production officially opens tonight, August 22.

The cast includes:

Rebecca Brooksher as Sarah

Rebecca Brooksher is a proud New Orleans native. She made her Off-Broadway debut in Lincoln Center's Production of Dying City for which she was nominated for a Lucille Lortel award for best actress. Also in New York she has starred in White People at The Atlantic Theater and The Scariest at Bleeker St. Theater. Last summer she was seen in the Berkshire area as Sibyl in Private Lives at Barrington Stage Company and as Una in Blackbird at The Chester Theatre Company. Other regional credits include Viola in Twelfth Night at The McCarter, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at NJ Shakespeare Festival, The Eugene O'Neill Playwrights' Conference, The Guthrie Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, The Falcon Theater (LA), and Chautauqua Theater Festival. Film: Cold Souls (Sundance 2009). TV: Ugly Betty (ABC), Canterbury's Law (Fox, recurring), One Life To Live (ABC, recurring), Love Monkey (CBS), Young American Heros (PBS). Training: Juilliard Graduate (Group 34).

Lisa Emery as Maxine

Broadway: The Women, Present Laughter, Jackie, Rumors, Burn This Off-Broadway: Roundabout: Distracted (Lucille Lortel nomination); The New Group: Mouth to Mouth, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Abigail's Party (Lortel and Drama Desk nominations), What the Butler Saw, Curtains (ensemble Obie); Iron, Manhattan Theatre Club (Obie Award); Far East, Lincoln Center; The Monogamist, Marvin's Room (Drama Desk nomination), Playwrights Horizons; Dinner With Friends, Variety Arts. Film: The Night Listener, People I Know, Roger Dodger, A Map of the World, and upcoming Cold Souls. Television: Law & Order, SVU and CI, The Fringe, Damages, Sex and the City, Third Watch, Ed, Canterbury's Law, and The Women and Far East for PBS Stage to Screen.

Michel Gill as Sidney

BTF: Candida, Transit of Venus, The Hasty Heart. Broadway: A Man For All Seasons (Roundabout with Frank Langella) Off-Broadway: The Milliner (Director's Co), Speaking in Tongues (Roundabout), A Winter's Tale (Classic Stage Co. with David Strathairn), Naked (Classic Stage Co.), Othello (N.Y. Shakespeare Fest.), Lincoln Portrait (Joyce Theatre), Da Caravvaggio (MCC), Coyote Ugly (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional: Yale Rep., Long Wharf, Folger, Old Globe, Huntington, Portland Stage, Alley, Great Lakes, Pittsburgh Public, NY Stage and Film. FILM/TV: Ideal, To Forget Palermo, Law & Order: CI, L.A. Law, and Guiding Light. Juilliard 1985. For my loves, Jayne and Jeremy, always.

Greg Keller as Jim

At BTF: A Man For All Seasons, The Glass Menagerie, A Dream Play, This Is Our Youth, The Einstein Project (2000), Coyote On A Fence. Other recent credits include Zayd Dohrn's Reborning (The Public), Telethon (Clubbed Thumb), That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play (Rattlestick), The Seagull (with Dianne Wiest and Alan Cumming at CSC), and the world premiere of Moises Kaufman's 33 Variations (Arena Stage). Greg holds an MFA in acting from NYU, and is a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwrighting Fellow at The Juilliard School, where he is a Lecomte du Nouy prize winner.

Ryan Spahn as Davey

Ryan Spahn won the LA Weekly Theatre award, and was nominated for an LA Drama Critics Circle award, for Stupid Kids (Celebration Theatre). He recently completed BogWog (O'Neill Playwrights Conference) and End Days (Vineyard Playhouse). NYC, Regional, and LA: 78th Street Theatre Lab, Antaeus Company, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Blank Theatre, Hudson Theatre, Theatre @ Boston Court, Shakespeare Festival/LA, Hayworth Theatre, Zephyr Theatre, Meadow Brook Theatre, Masonic Temple and readings at The Public. His performance in Act a Lady won him aStage Scene LAaward. Film/TV: Polish Wedding (w/Claire Danes), Lovers, Liars, and Lunatics, Dances with Films Festival "Grand Jury" - Shelf Life, Star Trek: Voyager, General Hospital, and Robert Altman's Tanner on Tanner. Training: Mimi Leiber, Antaeus Academy, and Interlochen Arts Academy.

 

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