Cast, Creative Team Set for The Hub Theatre's THE TYPOGRAPHER'S DREAM

Casting has been announced for The Hub Theatre's Spring production of THE TYPOGRAPHER'S DREAM, by Obie-Award winning playwright Adam Bock. Three professionals, a typographer (KATIE NIGSCH), geographer (JENNA SOKOLOWSKI), and stenographer (DANIEL COREY) strive to explain their work in this humorous examination of art and occupation, boundaries, and self truth.

Katie Nigsch is making her Hub theatre debut. Katie is a company member of this year's John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company recipient, Flying V and was also part of the Helen Hayes Award nominated ensemble of
Bat Boy at 1st Stage.

Nigsch is joined by Hub company member Jenna Sokolowski, who was last seen at the Hub in Act a Lady, as well as John and Beatrice. Other credits include The Shoplifters(Arena Stage), Beneatha's Place and Clybourne Park (CenterStage) and Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company). Another familiar face is Daniel Corey, who was last seen at the Hub in A Man, His Wife, and his Hat. Corey garnered a Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor this year for his work in One Man, Two Guvnors at 1st Stage, and was last seen in Lobster Alice (Flying V).

THE TYPOGRAPHER'S DREAM is directed by Associate Artistic Director Matt Bassett. Matt received a Helen Hayes Award nomination for his direction of the Hub's
Failure: A Love Story and continues to direct many table and staged readings for new play development for The Hub. Matt's DMV directing work includes Arts on the Horizon, Montgomery College, Montgomery College's Summer Dinner Theatre, Compass Rose Theater, Kaiser Permanente's Educational Theatre and Imagination Stage's Education Department. He serves as Theatre Chair for Metropolitan School of the Arts and on the faculties of Montgomery College, the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts and Imagination Stage. Matt is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association and is currently serving as a judge for the Helen Hayes Awards. Matt holds a BA in English from Tennessee Tech University and an MFA in Acting from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Adam Bock's plays include Phaedra (Shotgun Players) A Small Fire (Playwrights Horizons, Drama Desk nomination), book for We Have Always Lived in the Castle, with music by Todd Almond(Yale Rep), The Flowers (About Face Theatre), The Receptionist (MTC, 2008 Outer Critics nomination, Best Plays of 2007-2008, The Evidence Room with Megan Mullally), The Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons, 2008 Outer Critics nomination), The Thugs (Soho Rep, 2007 OBIE Award for Playwriting), The Shaker Chair (2005 Humana Festival), Swimming In The Shallows(Shotgun Players, Second Stage Uptown, 2000 BATCC Award, Clauder Prize), Five Flights (Encore Theatre and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 2002 Glickman Award, ACTA nomination, Osborn nomination), Marcy Comes Home, and The Typographer's Dream (Encore Theatre/Shotgun Players). Adam is the resident playwright at Encore Theatre, and a Shotgun Players Artistic Associate. He is a NEA grantee, a three-time resident at Yaddo, a former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect, and a TDF Open Doors mentor. Adam's plays are published by Samuel French, Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts, Inc. He is a 2012 Guggenheim grantee, a NEA grantee, a Guernsey Award-winner, a three-time resident at Yaddo, a former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect, and a TDF Open Doors mentor. He is a proud member of New Dramatists.

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