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The Lake Effect (joslakee)

In a depressed Cleveland neighborhood amidst a fierce winter storm, an Indian-American brother and sister, long estranged, are reunited by the sudden death of their father. Enter their late father'’s African-American confidante and gambling bookie, and a slew of family secrets get unearthed. The Lake Effect sets in motion a complicated web of relationships and conflicts that challenge our perceptions of race, gender, and success.

Premiere Year
2013
Premiere Theater
Silk Road Rising
Premiere City
Chicago
Premiere Creative

Cast: Minita Gandhi, Adam Poss, and Mark Smith

Director: Timothy Douglas

Major Production Year
2015
Major Production Theater
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
Major Production City
Palo Alto, CA
Major Production Creative

Cast: Nilanjana Bose, Jason Bowen, and Adam Poss
Director: Giovanna Sardelli

 

Major Production 2 Year
2017
Major Production 2 Theater
Geva Theatre
Major Production 2 City
Rochester, NY
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Neimah Djourabchi, Clinton Lowe, and Lipica Shah

Director: Pirronne Yousefzadeh

Major Production 2 Date
February 2, 2017
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The Monster at the Door (josmonst)

In The Monster at the Door, the commissioning of a colossal art work for display in the lobby of a global corporation launches a surreal journey that explores the mythic power of attraction, seduction and transformation, and the events surrounding a mysterious woman whose healing touch leaves destruction and chaos.

Premiere Year
2011
Premiere Theater
Alley Theatre
Premiere City
Houston
Premiere Creative

Cast: Rebecca Brooksher, Adam Green, Portia, Brian Reddy, and James A. Stephens

Director: Daniella Topol

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The North Pool (josnorth)

Khadim has no idea why he's been called into the office of Dr. Danielson, the Vice Principal at Sheffield High. At first, Danielson is cagey, using a minor violation to keep the boy at school for detention. But as tension mounts, Danielson alternately plays good cop and bad, and winds up catching Khadim in a series of lies about crimes he may (or may not) have committed. The truth shifts constantly in this riveting cat-and-mouse thriller from Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph. What’'s bothering Dr. Danielson? What are the secrets that trouble Khadim? As the semester reaches its final hour, the time for revelation begins. The North Pool is a psychological drama that weaves a timely character study about racial and cultural profiling in America, skillfully using an interrogation to peel away ever more unexpected layers of the characters’ lives as they navigate our increasingly complex society.

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Premiere Year
2011
Premiere Theater
Theatreworks
Premiere City
Menlo Park, CA
Premiere Creative

Cast: Adam Poss and Remi Sandri

Director: Giovanna Sardelli

Major Production Year
2012
Major Production Theater
Barrington Stage Company
Major Production City
Pittsfield, MA
Major Production Creative

Cast: Remi Sandri and Babak Tafti Director: Giovanna Sardelli

Major Production 2 Year
2013
Major Production 2 Theater
Vineyard Theatre
Major Production 2 City
New York
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Babak Tafti and Stephen Barker Turner Director: Giovanna Sardelli

Major Production 2 Date
6-Mar-13
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Gruesome Playground Injuries (josgrues)

Over the course of 30 years, the lives of Kayleen and Doug intersect at the most bizarre intervals, leading the two childhood friends to compare scars and the physical calamities that keep drawing them together.

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Premiere Year
2009
Premiere Theater
Alley Theatre
Premiere City
Houston
Premiere Creative

Cast: Selma Blair and Brad Fleischer

Director: Rebecca Taichman

Major Production Year
2010
Major Production Theater
Woolly Mammoth
Major Production City
Washington, D.C
Major Production Creative

Cast: Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey and Tim Getman Director: John Vreeke

Major Production 2 Year
2011
Major Production 2 Theater
Second Stage
Major Production 2 City
New York
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Jennifer Carpenter and Pablo Schreiber Director: Scott Ellis

Major Production 2 Date
Jan-11
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Purvis (johpurvi)

Purvis’'s seven reverse-chronological scenes catalog the fall and rise of Melvin Purvis, the G-man who brought down John Dillinger and Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd. Johnson takes us from Washington'’s back rooms to a Midwestern cornfield, dramatizing the seductive allure of power and our own human capacity for both pettiness and grace.

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Premiere Year
2006
Premiere Theater
Campo Santo
Premiere City
San Francisco
Premiere Creative

Cast: Catherine Castellanos, Vanessa Cota, Cully Fredricksen, Daryl Lozupone, Delia MacDougall, Michael Shipley, Michael Torres, and Danny Wolohan

Director: Delia MacDougall

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Shoppers Carried By Escalators Into the Flames (johshopp)

Part Two in Johnson'’s trilogy about the Cassandra family, Shoppers delves deeper into the plight of the Cassandra brothers, sister, their father, and grandmother, all thrown together at a family reunion/wedding/melee at their shabby homestead in Ukiah, California.

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Premiere Year
2001
Premiere Theater
Campo Santo
Premiere City
San Francisco
Premiere Creative

Cast: Gabriela Barragan, Catherine Castellanos, Lisa Joffrey, Sean San Jose, Alexis Lezin, John Polak, Brian Keith Russell, Luis Saguar, Helen Shumaker, and Michael Torres

Director: Nancy Benjamin

Major Production Year
2002
Major Production Theater
Evenstar
Major Production City
New York
Major Production Creative

Cast: Gretchen Cleevely, Kevin Corrigan, Emily McDonnell, Betty Miller, Will Patton, Michael Shannon, Adam Trese, James Urbaniak and Kaili Vernoff Director: David Levine

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A Great Wilderness (hungreat)

Walt has devoted his life to counseling teenage boys out of their homosexuality at his remote Idaho wilderness camp. Pressured to accept one last client, his carefully constructed life begins to unravel with the arrival of Daniel. When Daniel disappears, Walt is forced to ask for help——both in finding the missing boy and reconciling his past with the present. As penned by Samuel D. Hunter——one of the rising stars of American theatre——A Great Wilderness explores the issues that challenge all of us with gentle clarity and enormous humanity.

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Premiere Year
2014
Premiere Theater
Seattle Repertory Theatre
Premiere City
Seattle
Premiere Creative

Cast: Christine Estabrook, Gretchen Krich, Mari Nelson, Jack Taylor, Evan Whitfield, Michael Winters, and R. Hamilton Wright

Director: Braden Abraham

Major Production Year
2014
Major Production Theater
Williamstown Theatre Festival
Major Production City
Williamstown, MA
Major Production Creative

Cast: Stephan Amenta, Mia Barron, Jeffrey DeMunn, Mia Dillon, Kevin Geer, and Tasha Lawrence

Director: Eric Ting

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Rest (hunrest)

A retirement home in northern Idaho is shutting down. Only three patients remain——and one of them is lost. Gerald, 91 and suffering from dementia, has wandered off, leaving his wife Etta and her friend Tom. Remaining staff includes a new 20-year-old cook and two longtime employees, women suddenly faced with a crisis of their own. In the midst of a record-breaking blizzard, the search for Gerald takes an unexpected turn—, as the others find themselves powerless in the face of an uncertain future. A tender and heartbreakingly funny new work by a playwright who has risen like a meteor on the theatrical scene.

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Premiere Year
2014
Premiere Theater
South Coast Repertory
Premiere City
Costa Mesa, CA
Premiere Creative

Cast: Sue Cremin, Richard Doyle, Wyatt Fenner, Hal Landon Jr., Lynn Milgrim, Rob Nagle, and Libby West

Director: Martin Benson

Major Production Year
2014
Major Production Theater
Victory Gardens
Major Production City
Chicago
Major Production Creative

Cast: McKenzie Chinn, Amanda Drinkall, Matt Farabee, Steve Key, William J. Norris, Ernest Perry Jr., MaryAnn Thebus Director: Joanie Schultz

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The Great God Pan (hergreat)

Jamie's life in Brooklyn seems just fine: a beautiful girlfriend, a budding journalism career, and parents who live just far enough away. But when a possible childhood trauma comes to light, lives are thrown into a tailspin. Unsettling and deeply compassionate, The Great God Pan tells the intimate tale of what is lost and won when a hidden truth is unloosed into the world.

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Premiere Year
2012
Premiere Theater
Playwrights Horizons
Premiere City
New York
Premiere Creative

Cast: Becky Ann Baker, Peter Friedman, Sarah Goldberg, Keith Nobbs, Jeremy Strong, Joyce Van Patten, and Erin Wilhelmi

Director: Carolyn Cantor

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The Convert (gurconve)

This moving new work explores the untold cultural and religious collisions caused by British colonialism in southern Africa, and the reverberating effects still felt in the region today.

Set amid the colonial scramble for southern Africa in 1895, The Convert tells the tale of Jekesai, a young girl who escapes a forced marriage arrangement with the help of a stalwart black African catechist, Chilford Ndlovu. Caught between her loyalties to her family and culture but indebted to this new Christian god, she becomes Chilford's protégé, but when an anti-colonial uprising erupts she is forced to decide which side of the conflict she will choose——and where her heart truly belongs. With wit and compassion, The Convert explores the untold cultural and religious collisions caused by British colonists in this section of southern Africa (now Zimbabwe), and the reverberating effects still felt in the region today.

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Premiere Year
2012
Premiere Theater
McCarter Theater / Goodman Theater / Kirk Douglas Theater
Premiere City
Princeton / Chicago / Los Angeles
Premiere Creative

Cast: Pascale Armand, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Zainab Jah, Kevin Mambo, LeRoy McClain, Warner Joseph Miller, and Harold Surratt

Director: Emily Mann

Major Production Year
2013
Major Production Theater
Woolly Mammoth
Major Production City
Washington, D.C
Major Production Creative

Cast: Starla Benford, JaBen Early, Alvin Keith, Erik Kilpatrick, Nancy Moricette, Irungu Mutu, Dawn Ursula Director: Michael John Garces

Major Production 2 Year
2017
Major Production 2 Theater
Gate Theatre
Major Production 2 City
London
Major Production 2 Creative

Cast: Stefan Adegbola, Marcus Adolphy, Michael Ajao, Joan Iyiola, Mimi Ndiweni, Richard Pepple, and Clare Perkins

Director: Christopher Haydon

Major Production 2 Date
January 12, 2017
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