Conor Lovett to Lead TITLE AND DEED at Signature Theatre

Signature Theatre today announced that Conor Lovett will star in TITLE AND DEED, a new play by Will Eno and directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett. The production runs May 8 – June 3, 2012 with a May 20 opening night in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Company's new home The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between Dyer and 10th Avenues). The production is presented in association with Gare St Lazare Players Ireland.

A nameless traveler from a far off place searches for connection and solace in an unknown country in this funny and sad meditation on mortality, loneliness, innocence, home, family, love, funerals, words, and the world. TITLE AND DEED is a provocative new work by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Horton Foote Prize winner Will Eno, whom The New York Times called "a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation."

The critically acclaimed Gare St Lazare Players Ireland has toured to over seventy cities in twenty-five countries worldwide. Gare St Lazare Players was originally founded in Chicago by Artistic Director Bob Meyer in 1983, and moved to France in 1988. In 1996, Conor Lovett (Actor) and Judy Hegarty Lovett (Director) formed the Gare St Lazare Players Ireland, internationally renowned for creating elegant text-and-performance based productions of Samuel Beckett's prose. Conor Lovett, who trained in Paris at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq, has become known as one of the world's best living Beckett performers. Judy Hegarty Lovett has directed him in eleven solo shows for the company. Gare St Lazare Players Ireland's most celebrated performances include Molloy (1996), Malone Dies (2000), The Beckett Trilogy (2001), First Love (2008), The End (2008) and The Calmative (2010). In 2009 Lovett and Hegarty Lovett adapted Herman Melville's Moby Dick as a two hour piece for solo actor and live musician. For his performance Lovett was a Best Actor nominee at the 2010 Irish Times Theatre Awards. In 2009 Gare St Lazare Players Ireland performed First Love at The Public Theater's Under The Radar Festival.

Residency Five playwright Will Eno wrote Title and Deed specifically for Conor Lovett, who is a fan of Eno's work in return: "Will has a truly unique poetic voice which, for all its apparent lack of ornamentation, succeeds in creating a sublimely mesmeric world all his own."

The design team includes Christine Jones (Scenic Designer), Andrea Lauer (Costume Designer) and Ben Stanton (Lighting Designer). Donald Fried is Production Stage Manager.

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