Playwright
Laura Wade

Director
Abigail Morris

Cast
Judith Light (Myra)
Brian Murray (Alec)
Sarah Paulson (Harriet)
Lily Rabe (Jenna)

LAURA WADE (Playwright) Laura's play COLDER THAN HERE premiered at Soho Theatre in February 2005 to rave reviews. She is now working on a new play, OTHER HANDS commissioned by Soho Theatre under the Writers Attachment Programme. BREATHING CORPSES opened at the Royal Court Theatre to further critical acclaim. She is now under commission to Royal Court and Hampstead Theatres. Laura was recently awarded a prestigious Pearson Playwright Bursary in association with The Finborough Theatre on the strength of her play COLDER THAN HERE. Laura's groundbreaking adaptation of WH Davies' YOUNG EMMA opened at the Finborough Theatre, London (where she is now Pearson Writer-in-Residence) in December 2003 presented by Bright Angel Productions and directed by Tamara Harvey. Laura is also a member of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme; her play COLDER THAN HERE was recently selected as Play of the Season and given a rehearsed reading on the main stage starring Marion Bailey and Alan David, directed by Vicky Jones. Laura has written several plays for young people including The Wild Swans, Twelvemachine and The Last Child - a trilogy of fairy tale reworkings for Playbox Theatre.

ABIGAIL MORRIS (Director) Abigail Morris has been Artistic Director of Soho Theatre since 1992. Productions include A Night at the Dogs, Colder Than Here, Protection, Wrong Place, Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight, Office (also at Edinburgh International Festical); Kiss Me Like You Mean It, Navy Pier, The Station, Be My Baby (at Soho Theatre & National tour); Waking, Tulip Futures, The Rock Station and Kindertransport (at the Cockpit, West End and Manhattan Theatre Club, New York). Additional credits include founder of Trouble and Strife Theatre Company, where her productions included the award-winning plays Present Continuous, Now and at the Hour of Our Death, Next to You I Lie (co-writer and director) and various operas including Britten's Noye's Fludde (Royal Albert Hall and Festival Hall); Julius Caesar Jones (Sadler's Wells) and Cole Porter's Leave It To Me (Arts Theatre, Cambridge).

JUDITH LIGHT (Myra) graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA. She worked in repertory theatre throughout the United States and Canada. She also performed in Europe with the USO. She debuted on Broadway in A Dolls House with Liv Ullman and then did a season with the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference. She received two Emmys for Best Actress for "One Life to Live," then starred on the hit series "Who's the Boss?" and in fifteen made-for-television movies. She returned to New York theatre to do the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit for MCC Theater, winning the Helen Hayes and Eliot Norton awards for Best Actress on the national tour. She did Hedda Gabler at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C. and then starred in Athol Fugard's Sorrows and Rejoicings at the Second Stage Theatre in New York City and at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. She appeared in the Los Angeles Reprise! Broadway's Best production of Stephen Sondheim's Company and joined the Ojai Playwrights Conference for their 2004 season. Judith recently stared in the independent film The Shoemaker with Danny Aiello. She can also be seen on the NBC hit series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." Judith is an advocate for many organizations and charities represending AIDS-related and human rights issues, including Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, The Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, Project Angel Food, The Point Foundation, The Trevor Project, Hollywood Health and Society and The Rome Chamber Music Festival.

BRIAN MURRAY (Alec) Broadway: The Crucible (Tony nom.), Uncle Vanya (Drama Desk nom.), Twelfth Night, The Little Foxes (Drama Desk Award, Tony nom.), Racing Demon, A Small Family Business (Drama Desk nom.), Noises Off (Drama Desk Award), Black Comedy, Sleuth, Da, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tony nom.) Off Broadway: Much Ado About Nothing, Beckett/Albee, Scattergood, Hobson's Choice, The Play About the Baby (Obie Award), Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Entertainer, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Misalliance, Molly Sweeney, Travels with My Aunt (Drama Desk, OCC awards), Mud River Stone, Ashes (Obie), Spread Eagle, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, The Butterfly Collection and Alfreed Uhry's Edgardo Mine at Hartford Stage. As director (Broadway): The Circle, Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Show Off, The Waltz of the Toreadors. Film/TV: Bob Roberts, City Hall, Treasure Planet (voice of John Silver) "The Investigation," "Liberty," "Hamlet," "Twelfth Night." Recipient: 1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, 1998 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work, Fox Foundation Fellow.

SARAH PAULSON (Harriet) was most recently seen on Broadway playing Laura Wingfield alongside Jessica Lange in The Glass Menagerie. other theatre credits include Killer Joe with Scott Glenn and Amanda Plummer (Soho Playhouse) Horton Foote's Talking Pictures (Signature Theatre) Films: Serenity, The Ballad of Bettie Page, Down with Love (Staring opposite Renne Zellwegger and David Hyde-Pierce) Swimmers, What Women Want, The Other Sister, Held Up (with Jamie Foxx) T.V.: HBO'S "Deadwood" (Miss Isringhausen) "The D.A".(ABC) starred as Faith on NBC"S series "Leap of Faith" "Path to War" (HBO)," Jack & Jill" (WB), Hallmark's "The Long Way Home" (opposite Jack Lemmom) "Amercian Gothic" (CBS) Proud member of Actor's Equity since 1994.

LILY RABE (Jenna) made her Broadway debut last season in Steel Magnolias, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination. Earlier this year, she appeared in a workshop production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas directed by Joe Mantello (Roundabout Theatre Company). She also recently performed in White Jesus, a part of the Naked Angels' Democracy Project (The Culture Project). Rabe originated the roles of Willa in Israel Horovitz' Speaking Well of the Dead and Jeanie in Frank Pugliese's The Crazy Girl, both at the Gloucester Stage Company. The Crazy Girl was later produced at the New York Stage & Film Festival (Powerhouse Theatre). She also starred in GSC's production of Proof. Lily's film credits include Mona Lisa Smile and Never Again. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2004.