InterAct Theatre Company to Present THE WAR PARTY Starting 10/24

InterAct Theatre Company will present the East Coast premiere of THE WAR PARTY by Vincent Delaney directed by Rebecca Wright. It will run from Oct. 24 - Nov. 23 2008 at The Adrienne in Center City, PA. For tickets and more information please visit www.interacttheatre.org

ABOUT THE PLAY

It’s 3:00 a.m. on election night. Campaign headquarters is outfitted for a huge celebration; streamers, posters, olives. But the room is as quiet as a churchmouse. Laura Smith, the prohibitive Republican favorite, has lost her Senate race in a landslide. Suddenly without friends, and drunk as a skunk, Laura is thinking of cashing it all in… that is until one of her loyal and spunky interns, Jessie, rescues her from the brink of disaster and wrestles her, quite literally, back to political life. THE WAR PARTY is a modern political parable about the limitations of the two-party system. A timely and provocative satire featuring food fights, girls kissing and the spirit of FDR.

 
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Vicent Delaney, Playwright of THE WAR PARTYVicent Delaney’s plays include THE ART OF BAD MEN, THREE SCREAMS, WRITER 1272 and KUWAIT, which won the Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville and the New Play Award from Sonoma Rep. His plays have been produced, commissioned and developed at the Guthrie, Cleveland Playhouse, ACT, Children’s Theatre Company, the Humana Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Magic, Woolly Mammoth, the Empty Space, PlayLabs, Seattle Public, the New Harmony Project, Pittsburgh Public, Florida Stage, InterAct, and the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, among others. THE SEQUENCE, commissioned by the Guthrie, has been produced around the country and in the UK. ACCELERATION RED won the Lamia Ink contest and was produced by Harrogate Theatre and Brooklyn College.

He is the recipient of a Bush Fellowship, a McKnight Fellowship, a Jerome Commission, the Apsey Award, the Nathan Miller Award, and a grant from the Seattle Arts Commission. His work is published by Smith and Kraus, Heineman, Samuel French, Dramatics Magazine and Playscripts.com. Vince is a Core Writer at the Playwrights Center.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Rebecca Wright, Director of THE WAR PARTYRebecca Wright (Director) is a Philadelphia-based director and dramaturg. Her Philadelphia directing credits include HOLD PLEASE with Eternal Spiral Project, Larry Loebell’s THE BALLAD OF JOHN WESLEY REED, and 2008 YOUNG VOICES for InterAct/Philadelphia Young Playwrights. She also assistant directed AN EMPTY PLATE AT THE CAFE DU GRAND BOUEF and SLEEPING BEAUTY with Whit MacLaughlin at the Arden Theatre, and BUG with Matt Pfieffer at Theater Exile. She has a BA from the University of Michigan and an MA in Performance and Culture from the University of London. She dramaturged InterAct's Barrymore-nominated production of HOUSE DIVIDED last season and James MacLindon's SAVING GRACE at PlayPenn 2008. She is the literary director and resident dramaturg at InterAct Theatre Company.

 
ABOUT THE CAST & CREW

Susan Wilder

Susan Wilder (Laura Smith) previously appeared on InterAct’s stage in SINCE AFRICA. Susan has worked on Broadway in KING LEAR (with Christopher Plummer), IVANOV (with Kevin Kline) and FAR EAST at Lincoln Center Theater. Regional credits include: Coconut Grove Playhouse, Walnut Street Theatre, Wilma Theatre (Barrymore Nomination for THE MAGIC FIRE), Arden Theatre (Barrymore Nomination for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC), Studio Theatre (Washington D.C.), Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays, Marin Shakespeare Company, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, and six years a member of The People's Light & Theatre Company. Her television and feature film credits include: "The Silence at Bethany" (American Playhouse - Christopher Award), "Perry Mason", "Spencer: For Hire", "Equal Justice", "The Petrified Forest" (CBS Live Broadcast), Big, Unbreakable and Universal Signs. As a teacher and text coach, she coached MEASURE FOR MEASURE at Theatre Couth Carolina as a Guest Artist of The Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C. Susan received her MFA from The Academy for Classical Acting at George Washington University.

Meghan Heimbecker

Meghan Heimbecker (Jessie) makes her InterAct debut with THE WAR PARTY. Meghan recently returned from doing the musical QUILTERS with the Great Plains Theatre in Kansas. Locally, she has worked with Walnut, Wilma (Barrymore Nominee for MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! ), 11th Hour, Montgomery, Arden, Prince, Theatre Horizon and Seventh Sister. Visit www.meghanheimbecker.com for more information about Meghan’s work as an actress, director and teaching artist.

 Tim Moyer

Tim Moyer (Franklin D. Roosevelt) marks his 17th production at InterAct with THE WAR PARTY. Tim most recently appeared in last season's World Premiere production Seth Rozin's BLACK GOLD. A few of Tim's previous shows with InterAct include A HOUSE WITH NO WALLS, REINVENTING EDEN, BLUE/ORANGE (also at Act II Playhouse), BLACK RUSSIAN, BEE-LUTHER-HATCHEE, as Richard Nixon in NIXON'S NIXON (also at Act II), as Paul Barrow in the Barrymore Award-winning production of Permanent Collection, and as director of InterAct's production of MAN MEASURES MAN. Tim has also appeared in an episode of "Hack," worked on the film The Village, and appeared in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY at the Walnut Street Theatre.

The design team for THE WAR PARTY includes Set Design by Dirk Durossett, Costume Design by Susan Smythe, Lighting Design by Maria Shaplin, Sound Design by Chris Colucci and Props by Amanda Hatch. The production will be Stage Managed by Joshua Lieberman, with Jessica Hurley serving as Assistant Director, Kia Feindt as Assistant Stage Manager and Britt Plunkett as Technical Director.

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