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• • BEGINS SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 • •

TIGERS BE STILL
by Kim Rosenstock
directed by Sam Gold

with
Reed Birney as “Joseph”
Halley Feiffer as “Sherry”
Natasha Lyonne as “Grace”
John Magaro as “Zack”

Running Time: TBA

Performances Schedule:
Tuesday through Sunday at 7:00PM,
Saturday and Sunday at 1:30PM

Special Wed. matinee Sept. 29 at 1:30pm
No evening performance Sunday, Oct. 3rd
No performances Sunday, October 24th
Special Wed. matinee Oct. 27 at 1:30pm
No evening performance Sunday, Oct. 31st
Special Wed. matinee Nov. 17 at 1:30pm
No evening performance Sunday, Nov 21st

Sam Gold (Circle Mirror Transformation) directs this darkly funny and moving world premiere by Kim Rosenstock. TIGERS BE STILL follows the spectacular misadventures of Sherry, a substitute art teacher who, in the midst of mentoring a troubled teen and dealing with a tiger on the loose, faces her biggest challenge yet...getting her sister off the couch.

Reed Birney (Joseph). Theatre: Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwright's Horizons); The Savannah Disputation (Playwright's Horizon) ; Blasted (Soho Rep); Stuff Happens (Public Theatre); Pen (Playwright's Horizons); Bug (Barrow Street Theatre); Homebody/Kabul (Steppenwolf, Mark Taper, BAM); Finn in the Underworld (Berkley Rep); The Butterfly Collection (Playwright's Horizons); Theater District (Steppenwolf); Black Forest (Long Wharf Theatre); Claudia Lazlo (George St. Playhouse); Gemini (Dir. Mark Shifter and Marshall Mason) ; The Libson Traviata (Seattle Rep); The Common Pursuit (Promenade Theatre); An Imaginary Life (Playwright's Horizons) ; The Cocktail Hour (Wilbur Theatre and Tour); The Family of Man (Second Stage); Loose Knit (Long Wharf Theatre and Second Stage); Anthony Rose (Philadelphia Fest.); Hay Fever (Kenyon Festival); and The Sixth Floor (Florida Repertory Theatre). Television credits include “Kings”, “Gossip Girl”, “From the Earth to the Moon”, ” Another World”, “Tales From the Crypt”, “Kidnapped”, “Law & Order”, “Law & Order: SVU”, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, “Law & Order: Conviction”, “James Thurber's The Greatest”, “Man in the world, American Short”, “Story”, “Kane and Abel”, and “Ed”. Film Credits include Chain Letters; Crimeweave; Four Friends; Changeling; Twelve Thirty; and Morning Glory.


Halley Feiffer (Sherry). Off-Broadway: subUrbia, Election Day and Some Americans Abroad (Second Stage), Still Life (MCC), None of the Above (South Ark Stage), Urgent Fury (Cherry Lane Theatre), and Feiffer's People (Backhouse Productions). Regional: Third (Huntington Theatre Company), Knock, Knock! (Vineyard Playhouse) and Adam Rapp's recent workshop of Welcome Home, Dean Charbonneau (Seattle Rep). TV and film: “Law & Order,” “The Good Wife,” “Ugly Betty,” HBO's “Flight of the Conchords” and “The Wonderful Maladys”, You Can Count on Me, Stephanie Daley, Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale and Margot at the Wedding, The Messenger and Gentlemen Broncos; upcoming films include Fighting Fish, Twelve Thirty, Last Night and Todd Haynes' HBO miniseries “Mildred Pierce.” Halley's work as a playwright has been produced at the Cherry Lane Theatre (Young Playwrights' Festival XXII) and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and has been developed at The Orchard Project. BA: Wesleyan University.


Natasha Lyonne (Grace). Previous theatre credits include Love, Loss, and What I Wore (Dir. Nora Ephron) and Two Thousand Years (Dir. Scott Elliott). Television: “Loving Leah”, “Knights of Prosperity”, “Old School”, “Grounded for Life”, “Night Visions”, “Will & Grace”, “If These Walls Could Talk”, “Modern Vampires”, and “Pee-Wee's Playhouse”. Film credits include All about Evil; 13; Heterosexual, Tricks of a Woman; Jelly; The Immaculate Conception; Of Little Dizzle; Outrage; Goyband; Hysteria; My Suicidal Sweetheart; Robots; Blade: Trinity; Madhouse; America Brown; Die, Mommie, Die!; Party Monster; Night At the Golden Eagle; Zigzag; Kate & Leopold; The Grey Zone; American Pie; American Pie 2; Scary Movie 2; Fast Sofa; But I'm A Cheerleader; Detroit Rock City; Slums of Beverly Hills; Krippendorf's Tribe; and Dennis the Menace.


John Magaro (Zack). Last seen on the New York stage in Lillian Yuralia at LaMaMa E.T.C. directed by Austin Pendleton. Regional highlights include Orphans (Penguin Rep) Adam Rapp's Gompers (City Theatre) The Grapes of Wrath (The Cleveland Playhouse) Kimberly Akimbo (Pittsburgh Playhouse) and The Sunken Living Room (New Theatre/Southern Rep.) Film credits include The Brave One, The Box, Taking Chance, The Life Before Her Eyes, Assassination of a High School President, The Last Kiddie Ride, and the upcoming Wes Craven film My Soul to Take. He has been seen on television in “Law and Order”, “Law and Order: SVU”, “Body of Proof” and “Conviction”.




Kim Rosenstock (Playwright) recently earned her MFA in playwriting under the mentorship of Paula Vogel at the Yale School of Drama where she is the recipient of the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Scholarship. Her work has been developed and produced by The Kennedy Center, Ars Nova, The Old Vic in association with The Public Theater, Voice and Vision, the NY Fringe Festival, Vital Theatre and New York Stage & Film. Her play 99 Ways To Fuck A Swan was featured in Portland Center Stage's 2009 JAW Playwrights Festival. She was the Artistic Director of the 2009 Yale Summer Cabaret where she produced several shows including Fly-By-Night, a new indie rock musical she co-wrote about star-crossed love and blackouts. From 2005-2007 she was Associate Producer of Ars Nova in New York City where she produced new works of music, comedy and theater. She has her BA from Amherst College where she first began writing plays under the mentorship of Constance Congdon. She is originally from Baldwin, Long Island.


Sam Gold (Director) most recently directed the critically acclaimed production of Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation at Playwrights Horizons. He directed Nick Jones' Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, which played to a sold out run at Ars Nova in 2008. Other credits include Threepenny Opera (Juilliard), Anne Carson's translation of Electra (Williams College), Noah Haidle's Rag and Bone (Rattlestick), Sam Marks' The Joke (Studio Dante), Betty Shamieh's The Black Eyed (New York Theater Workshop), Colin McKenna's The Secret Agenda of Trees (Cherry Lane), Rogelio Martinez's Fizz (The Ohio Theater), Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (The Hangar Theater), Joanna Laurens' The Three Birds (Gale Gates), and Betty Shamieh's Chocolate in Heat (The Tank). Sam is the Resident Director at the Juilliard School, where his credits include Beau Willimon's War Story, Twelfth Night, Williams' Suddenly Last Summer, Willimon's Farragut North, Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood, and Marlowe's Edward II for the Juilliard Centennial Tour (REDCAT, LA/Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago). From 2003 to 2006, Sam served as Dramaturg at The Wooster Group. He is a NYTW Usual Suspect, a Drama League Directing Fellow, a recipient of the Princess Grace Award, and a graduate of The Juilliard Directing Program.

Tigers Be Still is made possible with major support from
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust,
Jodi and Daniel Glucksman, and The Educational Foundation of America.

Tigers Be Still benefits from Roundabout's New Play Production Fund
with a gift provided by Laura S. Rodgers/The Honorable Ann W. Brown & Donald A. Brown.

Roundabout Underground is also supported, in part, by funds from
the City of New York Theater Subdistrict Council, LDC and the City of New York.

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