Driver, Tucker et al Lead LITTLE DOC Cast for Rattlestick Playwrights; Opens 6/17

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced the cast and creative team for the world premiere of Little Doc, written by award-winning filmmaker Dan Klores and directed by John Gould Rubin. Opening the company's 16th Season, performances of Little Doc will begin Friday, June 11 at Rattlestick Theatre (224 Waverly Place). The official opening night is set for Thursday, June 17. The production is scheduled to run through July 18.

The cast of seven features Adam Driver, Salvatore Inzerillo, Steven Marcus, Tobias Segal, Billy Tangradi, Dave Tawil, and Joanne Tucker.

The creative team features David Rockwell (scenic design), Clint Ramos (costume design), Nicole Pearce (lighting design), Jill BC Du Boff (sound design), and Eugenia Furneaux-Arends (properties). Meredith Dixon is Production Stage Manager and Melissa Mae Gregus is Assistant Stage Manager.

Dan Klores, whose searing and deeply felt documentaries have become modern classics, once again weaves a New York tale in this very personal new work, infused with equal parts humor and heartbreak. Set in 1970's Brooklyn, in the living room of a one-bedroom apartment under the "el" and above a tiny neighborhood bar, Little Doc centers on four childhood friends who find themselves in a life-threatening situation that challenges the validity of the virtues they've adopted from a sex, drugs and rock ‘n' roll culture.

The performance schedule is as follows: Wednesday - Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm and Monday at 8pm. Tickets are $45 and are available by calling SmartTix at (212) 868-4444 or online at www.smarttix.com.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is a multi-award-winning company which has produced over forty-six world premieres in the past fifteen seasons and was the recipient of the 2007 Ross Wetzsteon Memorial OBIE Award for its work developing new and innovative work. Rattlestick's Advisory Board participates in The Emerging Playwrights Project, which matches a new playwright with an established artist for an experienced eye and creative support. Playwright and artist mentors have included Edward Albee, Jon Robin Baitz, Zoe Caldwell, Arthur Kopit, Craig Lucas, Joe Mantello, Terrence McNally and Marsha Norman. Previous plays include Two Boys in a Bed, Message to Michael, Carpool, Volunteer Man, A Trip to the Beach, Ascendancy, Stuck, Vick's Boy, The Messenger, Saved or Destroyed, Neil's Garden, My Special Friend, Faster, Bliss, St. Crispin's Day, Where We're Born, Five Flights, Boise, Finer Noble Gases, God Hates The Irish: The Ballad of Armless Johnny, Miss Julie, Acts of Mercy: passion-play, Cagelove, It Goes Without Saying, Dark Matters, Stay, American Sligo, Rag and Bone, War, Geometry of Fire, That Pretty Pretty; or The Rape Play, The Amish Project, Killers and Other Family, Post No Bills, Blind, the Off-Broadway GLAAD Award-nominated hit The Last Sunday in June, Craig Wright's The Pavilion (Drama Desk nominee - Outstanding Play of 2005) and Lady (Drama Desk nominee - Outstanding Play of 2008), as well as The Aliens by Annie Baker (2010 Obie Award winner for Best New American Play).

Dan Klores (Playwright) is an Award-winning director who has made six films during the last eight years, four of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Following The Boys of 2nd Street Park (2003), Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (2005), and Crazy Love (2007), which also captured the 2008 Independent Spirit Award for best documentary film, he directed the dark operatic comedy, Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks. He will begin work in September on Breslin: The Great One, a documentary about legendary New York newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin, Klores is also a playwright; his latest play, Little Doc, premieres at New York's Rattlestick Theatre in June. Klores's other films include the Peabody Award-winning Black Magic and Viva Baseball, which both explore his ongoing theme of exclusion from the mainstream. Mr. Klores grew up in Brooklyn. He resides in Manhattan with his wife Abbe and three sons, Jake, Sam and Luke.

John Gould Rubin (Director) was Co-Artistic and Executive Director of LAByrinth Theater Company for which he directed the premieres of Philip Roth in Khartoum and Penalties & Interest (both as part of Public/LAB at The Public Theater); STopless; The Trail of Her Inner Thigh by Erin Cressida Wilson; John Patrick Shanley's A Winter Party; (and co-created and directed:) Dreaming in Tongues and Mémoire. He co-created and directed The Erotica Project for the NYSF; directed In The Daylight Off-Broadway, Trial By Water for Ma-Yi, A Taste of Honey at Playwrights Horizons; Blood in the Sink at Urban Stages; both A Matter Of Choice and NAMI for Partial Comfort; Rebecca Gilman's The Land of Little Horses, and Timberlake Westenbaker's Three Birds Alighting on a Field; EST's and Naked Angel's Marathons; The Fartiste for the NY Fringe Festival (Best Musical.) He wrote and played Ivan Boesky in The Predators' Ball (collaborating with Karole Armitage and David Salle) for the Teatro Comunale in Florence, Italy, and at BAM's Next Wave Festival. He recently directed his first film, "Almost Home" for Trigger Street Independent, which appeared at The Berkshire Film Festival.

Adam Driver (Ric) Theater: The Forest (CSC), The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons), Slipping (Rattlestick), Cipher (SPF). Television: "Law and Order: Brilliant Disguise," "The Unusuals: The E.I.D," "The Wonderful Maladays" (HBO), "You Don't Know Jack" (HBO) Film: "Archangel," "The Visit," "Goldstar Ohio."

Salvatore Inzerillo (Angelo) Theatre: Dutch Heart of Man, Pretty Chin Up (Public), Twenty Seven Wagons Full of Cotton and Mountains on the Bering (EST), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Public), Jesus Hopped the ‘A' Train (CSC, Wilma, Donmar), Where's My Money (MTC). TV: "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Damages," Law & Order," The Black Donnellys." Film: "Jack Goes Boating," "We Own the Night," "Sugar Hill," "Used Parts." He is a member of LABryrinth Theater Company and The Actors Studio.

Steven Marcus (Weasel) Broadway: Ah, Wilderness (Vivian Beaumont) and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Royale). Off-Broadway: Balm in Gilead (Minetta), Self Defense (Joyce), Good Honest Food (Manhattan Punchline) and The Arbor (La Mama). Regional: New York Premiere of Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine by Warren Leight, World Premiere of Minnesota Moon by John Olive. Other theatres include The Guthrie, The Alley, The Long Wharf and Mixed Blood Theatre. Film: "The Missing Person," "Neal Cassidy," "Party Monster," "The Tavern," "Bristol Boys," and "Me and Him." TV: "Live on Mars" (recur), "Homicide" (recur), "NYPD Blue," "The District" (recur), "Law and Order" (All), "Mathnet," and many, many more. Steven is a founding member of Minneapolis Playwrights Lab Acting Company.

Tobias Segal (Billy) just made his Broadway debut playing "James" in The Miracle Worker. Last season he played roles in The Cherry Orchard and A Winter's Tale in Sam Mendes' Bridge Project (BAM, Old Vic, European and Asian Tour.) Off Broadway: MTC, Playwrights Horizons. Regional: Philadelphia Theater Company, Denver Center. Film and television: "Rocky Balboa," "The New Year Parade, ""Medium," "Law & Order," "Law & Order SVU."

BillyTangradi (Lenny) Theatre: The Muscles in our Toes, Proposals, The Credeaux Canvas, Straight Ahead. TV: "Without a Trace," "Castle," "The Sarah Connor Chronicles," "Numbers," "Jericho," "Medium," "Criminal Minds," " Law and Order." Film: "Murder Party," "Nicky's Game," "Broken Angel." Bill most recently finished filming the John Sayles Spanish American War film, "Amigo."

 

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