Playwright
Neil LaBute

Director
Carolyn Cantor

Cast
Louisa Krause (Jennifer)
Ron Livingston (Drew)
Frederick Weller (Terry)

NEIL LaBUTE (Playwright) received his Master of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from New York University and was the recipient of a literary fellowship to study at the Royal Court Theatre. Films include: In the Company of Men (New York Critics' Circle Award for Best First Feature, Filmmakers' Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival), Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty, Possession, and The Shape of Things, a film adaptation of his play by the same title. His latest film Wicker Man, starring Nicolas Cage, was released in September 2006. Plays include: bash: latter-day plays, written by LaBute and staged in New York in 1999 and London in 2000, both directed by Joe Mantello; The Shape of Things which LaBute wrote and directed for London and New York in 2001; The Distance From Here, written by LaBute, which ran at the Almeida Theater in London in spring 2002 (directed by David Leveaux) and in New York in spring 2004 (directed by Michael Greif); and The Mercy Seat, written and directed by LaBute in New York in fall 2002. In spring 2004, the MCC Theater performed five of his one-act plays, collectively titled Autobahn. MCC staged LaBute's play Fat Pig, directed by Jo Bonney, in fall 2004. In spring 2005, his play This Is How It Goes premiered at New York's Public Theater, directed by George C. Wolfe. In May of that year, the play debuted at The Donmar Warehouse in London, directed by Moises Kauffman. Also in May 2005, LaBute's play Some Girl(s) premiered on London's West End, directed by David Grindley. In November 2005, he directed the premiere of his one-man, one-act play Wrecks in Cork, Ireland. In May 2006, Some Girl(s) had its New York debut at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. MCC Theater staged and Jo Bonney directed. In October 2006, LaBute once again directed Wrecks, this time for the New York premiere at the Public Theater. LaBute is the author of several fictional pieces that have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, and Playboy among others. A collection of his short stories was published by Grove/Atlantic in October 2004.

CAROLYN CANTOR (Director) New York credits include Essential Self Defense (Playwrights Horizons/Edge Theater co-production), Orange Flower Water, Now That's What I Call A Storm, Living Room in Africa, Life Is A Dream and Stone Cold Dead Serious (all Edge Theater), EVE-olution (Cherry Lane), and Kitty Kitty Kitty (SPF). Regional: Violet Hour (Old Globe), Rabbit Hole (Geffen Playhouse), Diary of Anne Frank (Papermill), King Stag (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Get What You Need (NYS&F), After Ashley and Finer Noble Gases (Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference) and Nocturne (Ojai Playwrights Conference). She has been awarded the Garson Kanin-Marion Seldes fellowship from the American Theatre Wing, both the Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Fellowships from the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and a Drama League Directing Fellowship. She is the founding artistic director of Edge Theater and a graduate of Dartmouth College.

LOUISA KRAUSE (Jennifer) Rocket to the Moon (Long Wharf Theatre), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Huntington Theatre), Aida (Ogunquit Playhouse), Dance Light (Carnegie Mellon Rauh Studio), Side Show and The Cripple of Inishmaan (George C. Marshall), and many others. Kennedy Center performances of Love's Labour's Lost, Coppelia (American Ballet Theatre), and Hansel and Gretel. The Washington Ballet's The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Upcoming Films: The Babysitters and Superheroes.

RON LIVINGSTON (Drew) Livingston may be best known as the star of the cult hit "Office Space" and as Captain Lewis Nixon in HBO's Band of Brothers, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Supporting Actor category. In the West Village, however, he will always be Jack Berger. This fall, he stars in the film, The Music Within which is currently running the festival circuit. Other Films: Relative Strangers, Holly, Pretty Persuasion, Winter Solstice, Adaptation, The Cooler, Swingers, Two Ninas, Little Black Book, A Rumor of Angels, The Low Life, among others. On Stage: Pensacola (Mark Taper Forum), Celebrity (Actors Gang), Rummage, Fortinbras Gets Drunk (Fountainhead), Never The Sinner, The Iceman Cometh (Goodman Theatre), Titus Andronicus (Williamstown). Television: "Standoff," "Nightmares and Dreamscapes," "House," "Sex and the City," and "The Practice." Raised in Iowa, Livingston attended Yale University, where he earned his BA in Theatre Studies and English Literature.

FREDERICK WELLER (Terry) Broadway: Seascape, Glengarry Glen Ross (Ensemble Drama Desk Award), Take Me Out (as Shane Mungitt; Drama Desk nomination), The Rehearsal, The Little Foxes, Six Degrees of Separation. Off-Broadway: Some Men (Drama Desk Nomination), Mother Courage (with Meryl Streep) The Shape of Things (Lucille Lortel nomination), Curtains (Ensemble Obie Award), The Country Club, Plunge. Regional: Zoo Story, Hurrah at Last. Film: When Will I Be Loved, The Shape of Things, The Business of Strangers, Stonewall, Four Lane Highway, Coyote Ugly and Basquiat. TV: upcoming USA series "In Plain Sight" (series regular), "Missing Persons" (series regular). Several made-for-TV movies including "The Beach Boys" and "Aftershock." Many TV guest appearances including "Monk" and the various incarnations of "Law and Order." AEA since 1992.