Playwright
Courtney Baron

Director
Michael Greif

Cast
Amir Arison (Dr. Anil Patel)
Lynn Collins (Carolyn Goldenhersch)
Stephen Kunken (Michael Goldenhersch)

COURTNEY BARON (Playwright) Plays include: Consumption, commissioned by and produced at the Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis; Not Our Last Hurrah, produced as part of the Australia Project at the Kraine Theatre, NYC; These Three Here, produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville and as part of the 24-Hour Plays, NYC; Earlstreetman as part of the Larson Project at New York Theatre Workshop and at the 2003 O'Neill Playwrights Conference; John Brown's Body as part of Keen Americana at the Jose Quintero Theatre; Black Fish as part of the Backstory Project at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2000; The Blue Room, which was awarded a 1999 Heideman Award and nominated for the American Theatre Critics' Association's Osborn Award, premiered at Humana Festival in 1999; In The Widow's Garden for the 2000 ChekhovNOW Festival, NYC; Dream of Heaven and Hell for Reverie Productions, NYC; Dear Anton for the 1999 Chekhov NOW Festival, NYC; The Good Night, a finalist for the 1998 Princess Grace Award, was workshopped at the Theatre for the New City and as part of the First Light Festival at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC; Love As A Science in the Seattle Fringe Festival and Clip for the FronteraFest in Austin, Texas. Courtney's play Preserve won the 1999 Women at the Door Award and received a workshop at the Famous Door Theatre in Chicago, a workshop at Rattlestick Productions and was given a reading at Manhattan Theatre Club. Her play Here I Lie received a reading at the Atlantic Theater Company. Courtney holds an MFA from Columbia University and held an International Summer Residency at the Royal Court Theatre in London. She is currently under her second commission with the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis and is developing a new television show with fox21, the alternative television production studio, in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Primary Stages New American Writers Group.

MICHAEL GREIF (Director) recently transferred Grey Gardens from Playwrights Horizons to the Walter Kerr Theater; Other Recent Work: Diana Son's Satellites (Public), John Guare's Landscape of the Body, Noah Haidle's Mr. Marmalade (Roundabout), Nilo Cruz's Beauty of the Father (MTC). Broadway: Jonathan Larson's Rent (Tony nom.), Never Gonna Dance. NYSF: Suzan Lori-Parks' Fucking A, Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters (Obie), Jose Rivera's Marisol, Pericles, Connie Congdon'a Casanova, Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day, Sophie Treadwell's Machinal (Obie). NYTW (Artistic Associate): Cavedweller; Bright Lights, Big City; Rent (Obie). Off-Broadway: Neal Bell's Spatter Pattern (Playwrights Horizons), Neil LaBute's The Distance From Here (MCC), Betty Rules (Zipper), John Guare's A Few Stout Individuals (Signature), Bell's Monster (CSC). Regional: La Jolla (Artistic Director 1995-1999): Our Town, Sweet Bird of Youth, Son's Boy, Randy Newman's Faust (also Goodman), Tony Kushner's Slavs (also Taper), Bell's Therese Raquin. Williamstown: The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Kaufman and Hart's Once in a Lifetime, Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30.

AMIR ARISON (Dr. Anil Patel) Off-Broadway credits include Beast on the Moon, Modern Orthodox (directed by James Lapine), Mohammed in Omnium Gatherum (2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist directed by Will Frears), Candy & Dorothy, Merchant Of Venice. Other New York highlights/workshops: The Arab-Israeli Cookbook (directed by Jo Bonney, produced by Long Wharf Theatre), Ramanujan in A First Class Man (Alter Ego, Lark, McCarter Theatres), Baby Rattle (directed by Trip Cullman), The Cook's Tour with Estelle Parsons (Rattlestick Theater), Hand, Foot, Arm & Face (Ars Nova) and Rules with Olympia Dukakis (WorkShop Theater). International and regional credits include Michael Kahn's Love's Labour's Lost (The Royal Shakespeare Company, U.K.; Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C.), Black Snow (Yale Repertory; directed by Evan Yionoulis), The Tempest (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis), Tale of the Allergist's Wife (Paper Mill Playhouse), Dorset Theatre Festival, and two years with ComedySportz in Florida. TV: "Hope & Faith," "Traveler" (2006 pilot), "Law & Order," "Criminal Intent," "Special Victims Unit," FOX's "The Jury," ABC Diversity Showcase '05, as well as numerous soaps and commercials. Upcoming films include The Visitor (directed by Tom McCarthy), Anamorph opposite Willem Dafoe, Day Zero, and A Hard Place. Education: Columbia University; The Public Theatre Shakespeare Lab. Amir would like to thank Michael, Courtney, Bernie, Will and Bob for this incredible opportunity, and Stephen and Lynn for the journey.

LYNN COLLINS (Carolyn Goldenhersch) Broadway: The Women (Roundabout Theatre) directed by Scott Elliot; Off-Broadway: As You Like It and Hamlet (Public Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Ahmanson Theatre) and Eve Ensler's Necessary Targets (NY Stage & Film); Regional: Travesties (Williamstown Festival), How I Fell in Love (Williamstown Festival); Television: John Barton's Shakespeare special for PBS, "Shakespeare Sessions"; Film: The Merchant of Venice opposite Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes, 13 Going On 30, 50 First Dates, The Lake House, Down with Love and Never Get Outta the Boat; Upcoming: Bug, Number 23, The Dog Problem, Numb, Return to Rajapur, Untitled Alan Ball Project, Life in Flight. Lynn graduated from the Juilliard School's acting program and is the honored recipient of the school's two most prestigious awards: The Houseman Award, for Exceptional Ability in Classical Theatre and Command of Language and The Michael St. Denis Award for Outstanding Achievement and Commitment to the Ensemble.

STEPHEN KUNKEN (Michael Goldenhersch) Broadway: Festen directed by Rufus Norris, Proof directed by Daniel Sullivan (opposite Anne Heche) - also the national tour. Off-Broadway: Speak Truth to Power, directed by Terry Kinney at The Culture Project, world premieres of Ken Weitzman's Arrangements at the Atlantic Theater, Lynn Nottage's Fabulation at Playwrights Horizon, Mihail Sebastian in the world premiere of David Auburn's one-man play The Journals of Mihail Sebastian for The Keen Company, The Story (Public Theater), Tony Kushner's adaptation of A Dybbuk (Public Theater), Home of the Brave (Jewish Rep. Theater), Henry VIII (NYSF, Delacorte Theater) and Misalliance (Roundabout Theater). Regional: Doc in the Kennedy Center production of Mister Roberts directed by Robert Longbottom, world premieres of Stephen Belber's Tape (Humana Festival, ATL), Touch (Humana Festival, ATL). Other regional work includes the title role in Henry V (Chicago's Shakespeare Theater), O'Neill Theater, Seattle Rep, Studio Arena Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public, Portland Stage, River Rep Theater Company, and The Acting Company. Television: "Law & Order," "Law & Order: SVU," "The Sopranos," "Spin City," "Guiding Light," "Mary and Rhoda," "Now and Again," and the PBS special "Far East" (directed by Daniel Sullivan). Film: The Girl in the Park (release spring 2007), Wait till This Year, Light and the Sufferer (by Jonathan Lethem) and Spike Lee's Bamboozled. Stephen holds a BA from Tufts University and graduated with multiple honors from the Juilliard School's Graduate Acting Program. He is a 2004 Fox Fellowship recipient.