Jordan Dean, Lance Coadie Williams & Zoe Winters Will Join Patti LuPone & Michael Urie in LCT's SHOWS FOR DAYS

Lincoln Center Theater has announced that Jordan Dean, Lance Coadie Williams, and Zoë Winters will join Patti LuPone, Dale Soules, and Michael Urie in its upcoming production of Shows For Days, a new play by Douglas Carter Beane, to be directed by Jerry Zaks. The production will begin performances Saturday evening, June 6 and open on Monday, June 29 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 West 65 Street).

SHOWS FOR DAYS is playwright Douglas Carter Beane's fond remembrance of his immersion into a life in the theater. The comedy is set in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1973, when 14-year-old Car, the play's narrator and the author's alter-ego (to be played by Michael Urie), is introduced to the world of theater through his local community theatre, the Prometheus Theatre, and its devoted cast and crew which is led by Irene (to be played by Patti LuPone), an indomitable force of nature whose life is dedicated to putting on productions she directs, designs, and stars in. Jordan Dean, Dale Soules, Lance Coadie Williams, and Zoë Winters will also be featured as members of the theatre troupe.

SHOWS FOR DAYS will have sets by John Lee Beatty, costumes by William Ivey Long, lighting by Natasha Katz, and sound by Leon Rothenberg.

DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE is the author of The Nance, produced by Lincoln Center Theater in 2013, which was filmed by Live from Lincoln Center and shown in movie theaters and broadcast on PBS. His other plays include The Little Dog Laughed (Tony Award nomination, Olivier Award nomination, GLAAD Media Award), Mr. & Mrs. Fitch, As Bees in Honey Drown (Outer Critics Circle's John Gassner Playwriting Award), Advice From a Caterpillar, The Country Club, Music From a Sparkling Planet, and The Cartells. He received Tony Award nominations for the books of the Broadway musicals Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, Sister Act, Lysistrata Jones, and Xanadu, for which he also won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards. His screenplays include To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar and Advice from a Caterpillar (Best Feature, Aspen Comedy Festival).

JERRY ZAKS returns to LCT where he directed The House of Blue Leaves, Anything Goes, The Front Page, Six Degrees of Separation, and A Bad Friend. He has directed over 30 productions in New York and is the winner of four Tony Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and an Obie Award. His other productions include Guys and Dolls, Lend Me A Tenor, La Cage Aux Folles, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, A Bronx Tale, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, and Beyond Therapy. He directed the films Marvin's Room and Who Do You Love? and episodes of the long-running comedy series' "Everybody Loves Raymond," "Frasier," and "Two and a Half Men."

This spring, in addition to Shows For Days, Lincoln Center Theater is also producing Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I, directed by Bartlett Sher, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, The Mystery of Love & Sex, a new play by Bathsheba Doran, directed by Sam Gold, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, and the LCT3 production of Preludes, a new musical by Dave Malloy, developed with and directed by Rachel Chavkin, which will begin performances Saturday, May 23 at the Claire Tow Theater.

JORDAN DEAN LCT: The New Century, Cymbeline. Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mamma Mia!. Other theater: Pump Boys and Dinettes (City Center), The Heart of Robin Hood (American Repertory Theater), Macbeth (Manchester Theatre Festival, UK), A Midsummer Night's Dream (CSC), Romeo and Juliet (Pamela Brown Theatre), The Corn is Green (Williamstown), As You Like It (Public). Film: Not Fade Away, Thanks For Sharing, Burning Blue, Virgin Alexander, Jersey Girls, Our Little Happiness. TV: "The Mysteries of Laura," "Forever," "Law & Order: SVU," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Law & Order," "Guiding Light." Education: M.F.A., Carnegie Mellon.

PATTI LuPONE LCT: Anything Goes (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics' Circle award nominations), Matters of the Heart. Broadway: The Anarchist, An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, Gypsy (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle awards; Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance), Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle award nominations), Evita (Tony, Drama Desk awards). New York Theater: The Seven Deadly Sins (NY City Ballet), Company (New York Philharmonic). She most recently appeared in the Los Angeles Opera production of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles and will be seen in the upcoming season of the Showtime series "Penny Dreadful."

DALE SOULES Broadway: Hands On A Hard Body, Grey Gardens, The Crucible, The Magic Show, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Dude, Hair (original production). Off-Broadway: Posterity (Atlantic Theater Company), I Remember Mama. Film: AWOL. TV: "Orange is the New Black" (SAG Award), "Unforgettable," "Law & Order," "American Playhouse," "Sesame Street," Maurice Sendak's "Really Rosie."

MICHAEL URIE Broadway: How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Off-Broadway: Buyer and Cellar (Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Clarence Derwent awards), The Cherry Orchard, Angels in America, The Tempermentals (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Theatre World awards). Film: Uptown Girl, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, He's Way More Famous Than You (actor and director). TV: "Ugly Betty," "Modern Family," "The Good Wife," "Hot in Cleveland."

LANCE COADIE WILLIAMS Theater: BootyCandy (Playwrights Horizons, Wilma Theater, Woolly Mammoth); The Convert (Wilma Theater); Sucker Punch, Marcus or the Secret of Sweet (Studio Theatre); The Oedipus Plays (Shakespeare Theatre); My Children! My Africa! (Everyman Theatre); Fences (Roundhouse); Hamlet (Baltimore Shakespeare Festival); Blues for an Alabama Sky, The Children's Hour, (Everyman Theatre). TV: "The Wire."

ZOË WINTERS LCT: 4000 Miles (Newhouse and LCT3). NY Theater includes Laugh (NYS&F), Much Ado About Nothing (Public), An Octoroon (SoHo Rep.), Love and Information (NYTW), Love Long (59E59), Hater (The Misanthrope) (Ohio Theatre), Swimming Legs (also playwright). Regional includes Alliance Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, The Old Globe, Baltimore Center Stage, Magic Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Virginia Stage Company, Seattle Rep, Merrimack Rep. TV: "Elementary," "Law & Order," "Ugly Betty," "Gossip Girl," "Army Wives." Education: B.F.A., SUNY Purchase.