Meet the Cast of ARCADIA Day 11: David Turner

Tom Stoppard's ARCADIA is coming to Broadway for a limited engagement this spring, following a sold out run in London where it was heralded as a "dazzling masterpiece, a glimpse of theatrical heaven" (The Daily Telegraph) and "the greatest play of its time" (The Independent).

Directed by five-time Tony Award® nominee David Leveaux, ARCADIA is "Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy" (The New York Times) - a witty masterpiece of misunderstanding and quest for knowledge, resonating across centuries.

April 1809, an elegant English country estate... a gifted pupil, proposes a startling theory well beyond her comprehension. All around her, the adults, including her tutor, are preoccupied with secret desires, illicit passions and professional rivalries.

Two hundred years later, two academic adversaries are piecing together puzzling clues, curiously recalling those events of 1809 in their quest for an increasingly elusive truth.

ARCADIA features an exquisite cast including Margaret Colin, Billy Crudup, Raúl Esparza, Glenn Fleshler, Grace Gummer, Edward James Hyland, Byron Jennings, Bel Powley, Tom Riley, Noah Robbins, David Turner and Lia Williams. Crudup, who won a Tony Award for his performance in Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia, made his Broadway debut in the 1995 production of ARCADIA. Esparza has received four Tony Award nominations for starring roles on Broadway in Speed-the-Plow (2009), The Homecoming (2008), Company (2007) and Taboo (2004). Lia Williams made her Broadway debut in David Hare's Skylight for which she received a Tony Award nomination and Olivier Award nomination.

Tom Stoppard, one of the most celebrated and prolific playwrights of modern day, has been represented on Broadway with seventeen different productions to date including Rock 'n' Roll, Jumpers, The Real Thing, Travesties, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Coast of Utopia, which received the most Tony Awards of any play on Broadway. David Leveaux's previous collaborations with Stoppard include the Tony Award-winning revival of The Real Thing and the Tony-nominated revival of Jumpers, receiving Tony Award nominations for his direction of both.

Name: Ezra Chater Background: Ezra Chater is an unsuccessful poet staying at Sidley Park. His wife's affairs lead him to challenge Septimus to a duel. Later, it is revealed that he is the same person as a Mr. Chater, the botanist who dies of a monkey bite in Martinique (after he has travelled there with his wife and Captain Brice). Portrayed by: David Turner: David Turner made his Broadway debut ten years ago in Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love. Other Broadway: Sunday in the Park with George, The Ritz, In My Life. Off Broadway: Gutenberg! The Musical!, The Butter and Egg Man, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) , The Last Sunday in June. Six seasons at Williamstown, including: As You Like It with Gwyneth Paltrow, Tonight at 8:30 (dir. Michael Grief), Where’s Charley? (dir. Nicholas Martin), and Jessica Stone’s production of Forum, in which he played Philia. New York Stage & Film: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (dir. Michael Mayer). Touring: Monty Python’s Spamalot. TV: “The Good Wife,” “Lipstick Jungle.” In addition to his stage work (two Helen Hayes nominations), David is also a composer/lyricist (BMI Jerry Harrington Award), the writer and director of a film called The Debut, a professional pianist who’s played Feinstein’s and Birdland, a certified teacher of English to adult learners and a licensed private airplane pilot. An avid traveler, he has visited all seven continents. Training/Education: New Actors Workshop; BA,Williams College; CELTA, Cambridge University ESOL.

ARCADIA begins previews February 26. The show's opening is set for March 17.

For more information, visit www.arcadiabroadway.com.