Playwright Horizons announces 4 world premiere productions for its 2009/10 season

Playwrights Horizons has announced four World Premieres for its 2009/2010 season. The productions will be (in Season order:

The Retributionists by Daniel Goldfarb, Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker, This by Melissa James Gibson and Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris

A new musical and a sixth and final production, as well as all casting information and dates for all six shows of Playwrights Horizons 2009/2010 season, will be announced in the coming months.

The Retributionists by Daniel Goldfarb. (World premiere)
Director: Leigh Silverman
Cast: TBA
Synopsis: Spring 1946. The plan was simple � a German for every Jew. Its execution would be swift, clean, its impact undeniable. A band of Jewish freedom fighters attempts to avenge a society�s wrongs � if only they can keep from tearing each other apart along the way.
Dates: TBA


Daniel Goldfarb (Playwright). Along with Martin Short, Goldfarb wrote the book for the Broadway show 'Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me' (2006). Off-Broadway: 'Modern Orthodox' at New World Stages; 'Sarah, Sarah' at Manhattan Theater Club.

Leigh Silverman (Director) last worked at Playwrights Horizons directing Tanya Barfield�s 'Blue Door' (Audelco nomination for Best Director). Broadway: Lisa Kron�s 'Well.' Silverman is to direct Stephin Merritt & David Greenspan�s upcoming new musical 'Coraline'.

Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker (World premiere)
Director: Sam Gold
Cast: TBA
Synopsis: When four lost New Englanders enrolled in Marty�s community center drama class experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won.
Dates: TBA


Annie Baker (Playwright) full-length plays include 'Body Awareness' (Atlantic Theater Company, Time Out New York�s Top Ten Plays of 2008, 2008 GLAAD Media Award Nomination), 'Nocturama,' 'The End of the Middle Ages' and 'The Aliens.'

Sam Gold (Director) most recently directed Nick Jones� 'Jollyship the Whizbang' which, after a successful run at Ars Nova, is receiving a commercial transfer that will open in Summer 2009.

This by Melissa James Gibson (World Premiere)
Director: Daniel Aukin
Cast: Parker Posey (Jane), further casting tba
Synopsis: Everyone�s worried about Jane. Her husband�s been dead a year. Her daughter is ten. Her poetry�s lost its muse. Her friends aren�t that happy either. Her married friends are struggling. Her gay friend is lonely. And Jane�s blind date with the French doctor (without borders) is complicated.
DatesTBA


Melissa James Gibson (Playwright) plays include '[sic]' (Obie Award for playwriting, Kesselring Prize, The Best Plays of 2001-02); 'Suitcase or, those that resemble flies from a distance' (NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, Rockefeller Foundation�s Multi-Arts Production Fund); 'All Is Not' (New York State Council on the Arts Theatre Artist Commission); and 'Current Nobody,' a loose adaptation of Homer�s Odyssey (2005 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist; 2006 Sundance Theatre Lab).

Daniel Aukin (Director) most recently directed the New York premiere of 'Back Back Back' by Itamar Moses at Manhattan Theatre Club. Other recent credits include 'A View from the Bridge' at Arena Stage, Melissa James Gibson�s 'Current Nobody' at Woolly Mammoth and Elmer Rice�s 'The Adding Machine' at La Jolla Playhouse, as well as a workshop of Rachel Axler�s new play 'Smudge' at the Eugene O�Neill Conference.

Parker Posey (Jane) last starred Off-Broadway in the acclaimed revival of 'Hurlyburly,' for which she received a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress and in Lanford Wilson�s 'Fifth of July' (a Lortel nomination for Lead Actress). She also starred in the Los Angeles premiere of John Patrick Shanley�s 'Four Dogs and a Bone,' directed by Lawrence Kasdan, and starred on Broadway opposite Matthew Broderick in Elaine May�s 'Taller Than A Dwarf.' (2000)

Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris (World premiere)
Director: Pam MacKinnon
Cast: TBA
Synopsis: In 1958, a white family moves out. In 2008, a white family moves in. In the intervening years, Change overtakes a neighborhood, along with attitudes, inhabitants, and property values.
Dates: TBA


Bruce Norris (Playwright) is an actor and writer whose plays include 'The Infidel' (2000), 'Purple Heart' (2002), 'We All Went Down to Amsterdam' (2003), 'The Pain and the Itch '(2004) and 'The Unmentionables' (2006) all of which had their premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago. His newest play, titled 'A Parallelogram,' will premiere there in 2010. 'The Pain and the Itch 'had its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons in 2007.

Pam MacKinnon (Director) recently directed 'A Delicate Balance' by Edward Albee at Arena Stage with Kathleen Chalfant and Ellen McLaughlin, and the World Premiere of Richard Greenberg�s new play, 'Our Mother�s Brief Affair' at South Coast Repertory. Other recent credits include 'All the King�s Men' by Robert Penn Warren (Intiman Theatre), 'The Four of Us' by Itamar Moses (Manhattan Theatre Club), Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa�s 'Good Boys and True' (Steppenwolf), the New York debut of Edward Albee�s 'Peter and Jerry' (Second Stage), Bruce Norris� 'The Unmentionables' (Woolly Mammoth), and the World Premieres of both John Fugelsang�s 'All The Wrong Reasons' (New York Theatre Workshop) and 'The Four of Us' by Itamar Moses (Old Globe).

Playwright Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, is a writer�s theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers and lyricists, and to the production of their new work.