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STUNNING by David Adjmi World Premiere Featuring Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Clinton Brandhagen, Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey, Michael Gabriel Goodfriend, Laura Heisler and Abby Wood Appropriate for ages 16 & up.      About the Show:Sixteen year old Lily knows nothing beyond the Syrian-Jewish community in Brooklyn where she lives a cloistered life with her much older husband. Soon an unlikely relationship with her enigmatic African-American maid opens Lily’s world to new possibilities – but at a big price. David Adjmi’s daring new work shifts from caustic satire to violent drama as it exposes the ways we invent and defend our identities in the melting-pot of America. “POWERFUL. SHARPLY FUNNY CHARACTERS [and] KEENLY ETCHED PERFORMANCES.” Click here to buy tickets...PHOTO GALLERY:Click thumbnails to expand
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DAVID ADJMI’s (Playwright) plays include Strange Attractors (Empty Space Theatre), The Evildoers (Yale Rep), Elective Affinities (Royal Court, RSC/Stratford and Soho Theatre), Marie Antoinette (Sundance/Public NYSF Residency) and Caligula (Soho Rep). David’s other work has been developed and produced at the Sundance Theatre Lab, Manhattan Theatre Club, NYTW, Lincoln Center and Portland Center Stage, among others. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a McKnight Fellowship, the Marian Seldes-Garson Kanin Award, a Jerome Fellowship, a Helen Merrill Award, an Ovid Grant for New Writing, a Lecomte du Nouy Award, a Cherry Lane Theatre Fellowship, as well as multiple fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and Ucross Foundation. David has received commissions from the Royal Court Theatre, Yale Rep and Berkeley Rep. He attended Sarah Lawrence College, the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and the Juilliard School. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, MCC Playwrights Coalition, Rising Phoenix Rep and Vinegar Tom Players.
DIRECTOR
ANNE KAUFFMAN (Director) received an OBIE Award for her direction of The Thugs by Adam Bock at SoHo Rep (TimeOut NY, New York Sun top 10 productions of 2006). Her 2007 production of God’s Ear by Jenny Schwartz (New Georges) is being remounted at the Vineyard Theatre in April 2008. Her other directing credits include Have You Seen Steve Steven by Ann Marie Healy (13P), Doubt by John Patrick Shanley and Expecting Isabel (Sarasota Herald Tribune top 10 productions of 2007) by Lisa Loomer (Asolo Repertory Theater), Act A Lady by Jordan Harrison (Humana Festival), SIDES: The Fear is Real (Culture Project), Typographer’s Dream by Adam Bock (Encore Theater), The Loyal Opposition by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas (New York Theater Workshop), Hang Ten by Karen Hartman (Women’s Project & Productions) and The Ladies by Anne Washburn with The Civilians (Dixon Place and Cherry Lane Theater). Anne has worked at Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, CSC, The Vineyard, The Public, American Conservatory Theater, A.R.T., The Guthrie and the Sundance Institute. She received a “Big Easy” award in New Orleans for her production of The Children’s Hour (Loyola University). She is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, The Drama League of New York, and a founding member of The Civilians. She is on NYU’s directing faculty in the Playwrights Horizons Theater Studio. Click here to read about Anne Kauffman in the October 2007 issue of American Theatre magazine. CAST
QUINCY TYLER BERNSTINE (Blanche) was raised in D.C. and is thrilled to be making her Woolly Mammoth debut. Her New York theater credits include The Misanthrope (New York Theatre Workshop), Unchained Memories (Roundabout, workshop), Chicken (Studio Dante), A Small, Melodramatic Story (The Public Theater/LAByrinth), ‘nami (Partial Comfort Productions), (I am) Nobody’s Lunch, The Ladies, Paris Commune, Gone Missing (all with The Civilians), Matt & Ben (P.S. 122 and National Tour), Passing Strange (The Public Theater/Berkeley Rep, workshop) and The Trail of Her Inner Thigh (LAByrinth). Regionally she has appeared at Williamstown, Sundance Theatre Institute, Berkeley Rep, The Alliance, Long Wharf, La Jolla Playhouse, Chautauqua Theater Company, Alabama and Nashville Shakespeare Festivals, Baltimore Center Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Virginia Stage Company, and others. Her film and television credits include Dancing With Shiva (Jonathan Demme, dir.), HBO Voyeur Project, Babylon Fields (pilot), Life in Flight, Chappelle’s Show, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and All My Children. She is a proud graduate of Georgetown Day School, Brown University (BA) and UC San Diego (MFA). 
CLINTON BRANDHAGEN (JoJo) is very happy to make his first appearance at Woolly Mammoth in Stunning. He recently played Butch in Christmas Carol, 1941 at Arena Stage, Sean in Orson’s Shadow at Round House, Norman in And a Nightingale Sang at Everyman Theatre and Hans-Dietrich Genscher in Democracy at Olney Theatre Center. Some of his favorite regional credits include Mister Roberts at The Kennedy Center and The Comedy of Errors at The Folger Theatre where he played both Antipholus twins. In May, he will be returning to the Folger to play Charles Surface in The School for Scandal. Clint trained at Southern Methodist University and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association. 
MICHAEL GABRIEL GOODFRIEND (Ike) is a member of New York’s Irondale Ensemble, where he played the roles of Hamlet, Abbie Hoffman and a frustrated artist named Hitler in Degenerate Art!. Recent New York credits include Arrivals at the Bank Street Theatre and The Orphan Singer at Symphony Space. His regional credits include Sleuth (Triad Stage), Intimate Apparel (City Theatre; best supporting actor 2007: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Proof (Santa Barbara’s Ensemble Theatre), Three Musketeers (Madison Rep), Seven Angels and Yale Rep. He performed in Beast on the Moon at the Fountain Theatre (Garland Award, L.A.’s Best Production 2001), East L.A. Classic Theatre, A Noise Within, the Getty Center and Playwrights Arena. His film and tv credits include First, Monk, The Commission and The District. Michael produces XM Satellite Radio’s Left Jab (www.leftjabradio.com) and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. 
GABRIELA FERNANDEZ-COFFEY (Shelly) has most recently performed in Cita a ciegas and Valor, agravio, y mujer (GALA Hispanic Theatre), bobrauschenbergamerica (CapFringe), References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Rorschach Theatre), Drama under the Influence (American Century Theatre), as well as the National Tours of The Importance of Being Earnest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Aquila Theatre Company). Gabriela has also collaborated in a variety of community-based docudrama projects including GALA’s Jornada escondida, Steve Wangh’s Quickfix-Addiction Project and Sabrina Peck’s common green/common ground, which promoted the preservation of urban green spaces throughout NYC. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. 
LAURA HEISLER (Lily) is thrilled to return to Woolly Mammoth, where she acted opposite Howard Shalwitz in Rocket to the Moon (co-prod with Theater J). On Broadway, she appeared in Coram Boy, and Off-Broadway in Doris to Darlene, A Cautionary Valentine and People Be Heard (Playwrights Horizons), Everything Will Be Different (Soho Rep), The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels), The Given (Studio Dante), BFF (WET), A Mother, A Daughter and a Gun (Dodger Stages) and Somewhere Someplace Else (Clubbed Thumb). Regionally, Laura has appeared in Bus Stop and Top Girls (Williamstown), Eurydice (title role, world premiere, Madison Rep), Compleat Female Stage Beauty and Taming of the Shrew (Old Globe), Essential Self-Defense (CCTP), The Real Thing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Alley Theatre), as well as at Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre Company and Actors Theatre of Louisville, among others. Her film credits include Cold Souls, Coverage and Wrist (Slamdance). Upcoming: A Seagull in the Hamptons (McCarter, dir. Emily Mann). 
ABBY WOOD (Claudine) is excited to be back at Woolly Mammoth having last appeared as a sous-chef in Cooking with Elvis. Her other credits include Breath, Boom! at Studio Theatre 2ndStage, Caligula, Edward III, The Rape of Lucrece and The Children’s Hour at Washington Shakespeare Company, The Skriker and The Gas Heart/Hamletmachine with Forum Theatre, The Hothouse, Energumen/The Real Inspector Hound and The Power of the Dog with Longacre Lea Productions (where she is a company member) and The Crucible with Keegan Theatre. Abby has a BA in Theater from The Catholic University of America.
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Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Laura Heisler, photo by Stan Barouh
“STUNNING is about people wanting to correlate their histories with consciousness and failing. They fail because the world can’t or won’t support them. They fail because they get ensnared in traps – social and economic – too powerful to escape. And they fail out of simple human frailty. And that’s how it is sometimes in life. The structures and ideologies are too powerful and we collapse under their weight.” – David Adjmi |
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