Scott Zigler To Direct PTC's RACE 1/21-2/13/2011

Philadelphia Theatre Company is pleased to announce that Scott Zigler will direct their production of David Mamet's hit Broadway play Race, running January 21-February13 at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre (Broad and Lombard Streets).

Scott Zigler is closely associated with David Mamet, having directed Mamet's The Old Neighborhood on Broadway, after directing the world premiere production at The American Repertory Theatre. Other plays by David Mamet that he has directed include The Cryptogram at both Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Alley Theatre, Oleanna at Actors Theatre of Louisville as well as the national tour, The Woods at Atlantic Theater Company, Sexual Perversity in Chicago for Common Ground Stage and Film and numerous shorter pieces. Most recently he directed Jon Robin Baitz's play, A Fair Country, at Steppenwolf. Zigler, along with David Mamet and William H. Macy, is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, where he also served as Artistic Director and directed Suburban News by William Wrubel; Sure Thing by David Ives; As You Like It by William Shakespeare; and Happy Endings by Shel Silverstein. Currently he is Associate Director and Head of Actor Training at The American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University, and Artistic Coordinator of A.R.T. New Stages.

In Race, Two-time Tony-nominated and Pulitzer Prize Award-winning playwright David Mamet tackles the biggest four-letter word of all - RACE. Two lawyers, one black and one white, are offered the chance to defend a wealthy white executive charged with committing a provocative crime against a young black woman. When a new legal assistant gets involved, suspicions bubbling beneath the surface explode.

Philadelphia Theatre Company is celebrating its 35th Anniversary Season which, in addition to Race, also includes the multiple Tony Award winner The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee with music and lyrics by William Finn on November 12-December 12, the Philadelphia premiere of Anna Deavere Smith in her one-woman award-winning show Let Me Down Easy on March 18-April 10, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined by Lynn Nottage on May 20-June 12, and PTC@PLAY which kicks off PTC's 2010/2011 season October 6 - 21 with six staged readings by contemporary playwrights.
Founded in 1974, Philadelphia Theatre Company is a leading regional theater company whose mission today is to produce, develop and present entertaining and imaginative contemporary theater focused on the American experience that both ignites the intellect and touches the soul. By developing new work through commissions, readings and workshops-alone or in collaboration with others-PTC generates projects that have a national impact and reach broad regional audiences. Sara Garonzik has been PTC's Producing Artistic Director since 1982, and Diane Claussen became its Managing Director in 2007. Under their leadership, PTC supports the work of a growing body of diverse dramatists and takes pride in being a home to scores of nationally recognized artists who have participated in more than 130 world and Philadelphia premieres. In October 2007, PTC moved into a home of its own, the Suzanne Roberts Theatre on Center City Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts, solidifying the Company's status as a major player on the American theater scene.

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