The Barrow Group Opens Ibsen's ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

The Barrow Group Theatre Company, the Drama Desk award-winning birthplace of this season's Broadway hit A Steady Rain, and last season's Off-Broadway hit The Temperamentals, continues their 23rd Anniversary Season with an innovative new translation and adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic play ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, directed by K. Lorrel Manning, and adapted by Manning and TBG Artistic Director Seth Barrish.

"We couldn't be more excited to present this rarely produced Ibsen play in a fresh and timely new light. While holding true to the essential story of Enemy of the People, we have allowed for some radical changes - including slimming down the cast size, eliminating the fifth act, smoothing out the language, and allowing women more prominent roles within the story, to name a few - to let the story to be as powerful as possible by contemporary standards."

Enemy of the People stars Edward Connors (The Lewinsky Tapes, Prison Stories), Larry Mitchell (The Departed, American Gangster, A Steady Rain at TBG), Katherine Neuman (Dream of a Blacklisted Actor), Myles O'Connor (The Thickness of Skin, Eat the Runt), Clare Schmidt (Mentshn, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow), Eliza Foss (Pentecost at TBG, Ten Unknowns at LCT), Jeremy Folmer (The Fear Project), and Herbert Rubens (45 Seconds from Broadway, Band from Berlin, Requiem for a Heavyweight on Broadway).

Performances run Saturday, February 6th through Monday, March 8th.

The schedule is as follows: Friday thru Monday @ 8pm, Sunday @ 3pm

Seth Barrish (adaptation, co-artistic director and founder) is an award-winning director, actor, composer, and musical director whose work has been enjoyed internationally, Off-Broadway, and regionally. His directing credits include: Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me, David Edgar's Pentecost (Drama Desk Nomination, BEST PLAY), Martin Moran's The Tricky Part (Two Drama Desk Nominations, BEST PLAY & BEST SOLO SHOW, Obie Award), and Jon Maran's Old Wicked Songs (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award & Garland Award for Best Direction, Pulitzer Prize Nomination), Thy Kingdom's Coming, Lonely Planet, Good (Straw Hat Award for Best Direction), Ghost in the Machine, Tales From Hollywood, Greetings, Beau Jest, Three Sisters, and When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?. He has worked at many notable theatres including The Intiman, The Promenade, McCarter, Long Wharf, Sundance Theatre Lab, The Geffen Playhouse, The Asolo Performing Arts Center, The Bleecker Street Theater, Playhouse 91, La Mama E.T.C., The Perry Street Theatre, Capital Rep, Shakespeare & Co., and The Barrow Group, and has made numerous film and television appearances. Mr. Barrish is a Master Teacher at The Barrow Group School, continuing to educate and inspire a multitude of working and student actors. He has also served as a Master Teacher at the International Director's Symposium in Spoleto, Italy. He is author of the book An Actors Companion-99 Bits of Craft.

K. Lorrel Manning (adaptation and director) just finished shooting the feature film Happy New Year, which he wrote and directed, based on his award-winning short film of the same title. His additional works include, A&J Rule the Universe, a prelude to the Columbine massacre, which ran Off-Broadway in 2006, and Wool, for which he was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship. Manning's plays have been developed at theatres throughout New York City, including the Roundabout, the Rattlestick and the Barrow Group. He is a co-founder (with Michael Cuomo) of One Light Left, a full-service Production Company dedicated to telling stories that would otherwise go unheard, and he is the lead singer of the rock band, La Res (www.vivelares.com). He holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University.

Edward Connors (John Aslaksen) Edward studied with Seth Barrish and has appeared with The Barrow Group in its Short Stuff I and IV workshop productions, in works by Joe DiPietro and Barbara Lindsay, as well as in excerpts of John Spellos's Feet of Clay at the John Houseman Theatre in A Tribute to Atrhur Cantor and in numerous versions of Outcast Production's ongoing workshop of Sex, which originated as part of the Reading Series at The Barrow Group. He has performed at the 78th Street Theatre Lab in Laura Strausfeld's The Lewinsky Tapes, Theatre for the New City and La Mama in S. Heidi Arbiter's Prison Stories, the Theatre at Holy Cross in Stephanie Griffin's Trouble in Paradise, JB Priestly's Dangerous Corner for Steppin Out Rep, Kafka's The Trial at the Horace Mann Theatre, and Holding Hands for the HB Playwrights Foundation.

Jeremy Folmer (Greg Billings) was last seen in The Fear Project with TBG. Other TBG projects: Stop Kiss, The Fall Feature, Short Stuff II, Short Stuff III. New York theatre: The Baby Dance, A Phoenix Too Frequent, The Gingham Dog, Scooter Thomas Makes it to the Top of the World, The Region of Shadows, Siren Song of Stephen J. Gould. Regional theatre: Hamlet, Hair, Oklahoma, The Way of the World, The Lower Depths, and Camille. In addition to theatre Jeremy has appeared in a few independent films as well as "The Guiding Light", "All My Children" and "As the World Turns". Jeremy has been a part of TBG community since 1997. B.F.A. from USC. His greatest accomplishment... Emma his 5 ½ year old daughter. www.jeremyfolmer.com.

Eliza Foss (Linda Hovstad) NY Stage: Heart of City (Theater at 30th Street); Pentecost and Natural Selection (The Barrow Group); Ten Unknowns (Lincoln Center); Beau Jest (Lamb's Theater) and Coriolanus (The Public Theater). Regional: The Mercy Seat (Stamford Theatre Works), Dinner with Friends (Hartford Theatreworks), The Road to Mecca (Portland Stage), The Diary of Anne Frank (Cleveland Playhouse) and The Company of Women (TheatreVirginia) T.V: "Law & Order", "Law & Order SVU". Film: Split Ends, Chutney Popcorn.

Larry Mitchell (Dr. Thomas Stockman) has appeared in such films as: The Departed, American Gangster, Staten Island (w/ Vincent D'Onofrio), the Independent Feature Stealing Martin Lane (w/ Dylan Baker, Isiah Whitlock, Jr) and K.Lorrel Manning's Happy New Year. Larry appeared as Joey in the NYC workshop premiere of A Steady Rain at The Barrow Group Theater Company. TV: guest appearances on "Without a Trace", "Hope & Faith", "ED", "Third Watch", "Queens Supreme" (recurring), "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit", "As the World Turns", and "Guiding Light". NY Stage Highlights: "Little Red": "Lost in the Woods", "Lobby Hero", "Short Stuff II", "Fall 2001", "Victims/Trust", "Wild Wind", "No Exit". Independent Film/Webisodes: "The Assassin", "Michael Stahl-David: Behind the Star", "Moffat County", "Channel Surfing", and "Dead World Blues".

Katherine Neuman (Catherine Stockmann) is very happy to be back at The Barrow Group. Previous TBG appearances include Short Stuff and Dream of a Blacklisted Actor, and she is a proud member of FAB Women, TGB's new development group. She has also appeared in productions at New York Shakespeare Festival, Ensemble Studio Theater, Primary Stages, Soho Rep, MTC, The Jewish Rep, and The Toybox Theater Company, among others. She has worked with such regional theaters as The Long Wharf, The Philadelphia Theater Company, Florida Rep, The Renegade Theater, etc. TV work includes "All My Children", "Guiding Light" (R.I.P.), and "Tales From the Darkside". She was featured in the Miramax film Playing for Keeps. Much love and many, many thanks to David and Elias for all their love and support.

Myles O'Connor (Peter Stockmann) This is the fourth production for Myles with the Barrow Group after this season's The Thickness of Skin, as well as Sonnets for an Old Century and Expecting Isabel. Off Broadway: Eat the Runt (Mefisto Theatre Co.) and Ourselves Alone (Banshee Arts). Other Theater: The Boys Next Door, The Vietnamization of New Jersey (Mefisto), Dinner With Friends, and Lethal Dose 100. Film: Oxygen, Summer of Sam, The Siege, Wise Guys, Small Time Crooks and the award winning Independents - Santa Smokes and Jesabelle. TV: "The Sopranos", "Law and Order" (CI and SVU), "Sex and the City", "The Mob" and a number of Soaps.

Herbert Rubens (Mr. Kiil) Broadway: 45 Seconds from Broadway, Band in Berlin, Requiem for a Heavyweight. Off-Broadway: Ghost In The Machine (Barrow Group); Flamingo Court (New World Stages); The Lights (Lincoln Center Theater); The Firebugs (Neighborhood Playhouse); Over the River and Through the Woods (John Houseman); Once in a Lifetime (Atlantic Theater Company); Right Behind the Flag (Playwrights Horizons); Hyde in Hollywood (Playwrights Horizons); Donald Margulies' Obie-award-winning The Model Apartment (Primary Stages); The Day the Bronx Died (American Jewish Theater); Beau Jest (Lambs Theater); Awake and Sing! (Jewish Repertory Theater); The Trial of The catonsville Nine (Spectrum Theatre); The Dance of Death (New York Theater Ensemble); A Shayna Maidel (Westside Theater). Regional Theater: Yale Rep., Long Wharf, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Berkshire Theater Festival, Capital Rep., Philadelphia Theater Company, Hippodrome State Theater, Fulton Opera House. Film: Tied to a Chair, No Way Home, The Florentine, The Paper, The Verdict, Anna, Histoire d'amerique, First Deadly Sin, The Soldier. TV: "Third Watch", "The Sunshine Boys", "Law and Order", "American Playhouse", "The Other Woman".

Clare Schmidt (Petra Stockman) originally hails from Bellingham Washington. She moved to Ohio for school, and graduated from Otterbein College with her BFA last year. Since graduation she has worked as an understudy at the, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, and has been seen in Mentshn (New Worlds Theatre Project), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (The Red Door Theatre Company), along with various short films, and commercials.

Tickets are $25 and available at www.smarttix.com or by calling 212-868-4444.

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