The Pride to star Hugh Dancy, Andrea Riseborough, Ben Whishaw

MCC Theater has announced the trio of English actors who will appear in the American premiere production of Alexi Kaye Campbell�s The Pride, directed by Tony Award-winning director Joe Mantello (Assassins, Take Me Out).

Hugh Dancy, Andrea Riseborough and Ben Whishaw will star in the four person play, with a fourth actor to be announced shortly. The production will mark Riseborough and Whishaw�s New York stage debuts.

The Pride opens at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on 16 Feb 2010, following previews from 27 Jan and runs through to 20 Mar 2010. Tickets go on sale to the general public on 15 Dec 2009.

The Pride: Oliver, Philip and Sylvia are caught in a kind of erotic time warp. Their complex love triangle, replete with conflicting loyalties and passions, jumps from 1958 to the present and back in a maelstrom of fantasy, repression and rebellion.

The Pride opened in 2008 at London's Royal Court, where it played from 21 Nov - 20 Dec 2008. The production starred Bertie Carvel, JJ Feild, Lyndsey Marshal, Tim Steed and was directed by Jamie Lloyd, and won a 2008 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement In An Affiliate Theatre.

Hugh Dancy made his Broadway debut in 2007 when he starred as 'Captain Stanhope' in 'Journey's End.' His recent film credits include 'Adam,' 'Confessions of a Shopaholic,' 'Blood and Chocolate,' 'Savage Grace,' 'Evening' and 'The Jane Austen Book Club.' He received an Emmy nomination for his role as the 'Earl of Essex' in the 2005 British television miniseries 'Elizabeth 1.' Other TV credits include 'David Copperfield,' 'Daniel Deronda,' 'Relic Hunter' and 'Madame Bovary.'

Andrea Riseborough's London theatre credits include 'Ivanov' (Donmar Warehouse), 'The Pain and the Itch' (Royal Court), 'Miss Julie/Measure for Measure' (Theatre Royal Bath), 'Citizen/Burn/Chatroom' (National Theatre), 'A Couple of Poor Polish Speaking Romanians' and' A Brief History of Helen of Troy' (Soho Theatre). TV credits include playing 'Maggie Thatcher' in the BBC drama 'The Long Road to Fonchey' for which she nominated for a BAFTA TV Award.

Ben Whishaw made his West End debut at the National Theatre in their stage adaptation of Phillip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' and starred as 'Hamlet' in Trevor Nunn's 'youth' version of the play at the Old Vic, for which Whishaw received tremendous critical acclaim and a Laurence Olivier nomination in 2005. His film credits include playing the lead character 'Grenouille' in the highly acclaimed 'Perfume'. In 2008 Whishaw starred in the BBC drama 'Criminal Justice' which saw him pick up the award for best actor at the 2009 Royal Television Society Awards and was BATFA nominated for the second time. He was nominated for his first Bafta in 2007 in the category for 'Rising Star.'

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