Our Town announces full cast

Jean Doumanian Productions and Barrow Street Theatre have announced th full cast for director David Cromer�s acclaimed staging of Thornton Wilder�s Our Town, opening at Off Broadway�s Barrow Street Theatre on 26 Feb 2009, following previews from 17 Feb and running through to 12 Apr 2009.

The cast of Our Town includes Jeremy Beiler as Sam Craig, Rob Beitzel as Howie Newsome, Kati Brazda as Mrs. Webb, George Demas as Constable Warren, Donna Jay Fulks as Mrs. Soames, Jennifer Grace as Emily, Wilbur Edwin Henry as Professor Willard, Adam Hinkle as Joe Crowell, James McMenamin as George, Jeff Still as Doc Gibbs, Ken Marks as Editor Webb, Jonathan Mastro as Simon Stimson, Seamus Mulcahy as Wally Webb, Lori Myers as Mrs. Gibbs, Jay Russell as Joe Stoddard, Jason Yachanin as Si Crowell and David Cromer as the Stage Manager.

The creative team for Our Town will feature Michele Spadaro (set design and props), Alison Siple (costume design) and Heather Gilbert (lighting design).

The production played at chicago' Chopin Theatre from 20 Sep - 26 Oct 2008.

This production marks the official debut collaboration between Jean Doumanian Productions and Barrow Street Theatre who recently announced a creative partnership to bring innovative works and artists to Off Broadway, and will take place during the 70th anniversary year of Our Town's Broadway premiere (Pulitzer Prize, 1938).

Cromer, who directed last season�s hit musical, 'Adding Machine,' and who next season will make his Broadway directing debut with Neil Simon�s 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Broadway Bound,' will himself perform the central role of �Stage Manager� in this staging of Wilder�s play in which the action takes place in, among and around the audience, creating an intimacy between actors and audience and a powerful encounter with the play�s searching questions about family, community and mortality.

David Cromer�s production of the Joshua Schmidt/Jason Loewith musical 'Adding Machine' (Minetta Lane Theatre), also produced by Barrow Street Theatre�s Scott Morfee and Tom Wirtshafter, earned him unanimous critical acclaim and OBIE and Lucille Lortel awards as Best Director. 'Adding Machine' received four OBIE Awards and Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel awards as Best Musical.

One of Chicago�s most respected and prolific theater artists, Cromer most recently staged praised productions of William Inge�s 'Picnic' at Writers� Theatre, and the premiere of 'Celebrity Row' by Itmar Moses at American Theater Company, in addition to Our Town, which he directed for Hypocrites Theater Company.

Jean Doumanian Productions is currently a lead producer on the Broadway production of Tracy Letts� Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning 'August: Osage County,' for which the company is also producing the feature film adaptation.

The company�s previous Broadway credits include Tom Stoppard�s 'Jumpers,' Michael Frayn�s 'Democracy,' 'Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune,' and 'Amour'; and Off-Broadway credits include 'The Great America Trailer Park Musical,' 'Fuddy Meers,' 'Bat Boy the Musical,' 'Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight,' 'Dinah Was,' and 'Death Defying Acts.'

Scott Morfee and Tom Wirtshafter have been producing together since 2001, and operating Barrow Street Theater since 2003. Their collaborations have included award-winning productions of 'Bug' by Tracy Letts, 'Orson�s Shadow' by Austin Pendleton, Nilaja Sun�s 'No Child,' The Civilians� 'Gone Missing,' and the musical 'Adding Machine' by Joshua Schmidt/Jason Loewith.