PARKS & REC's Nick Offerman to Star in Off-Off Broadway Drama

Showbiz411 reports that Nick Offerman is set to star in an off off Broadway play version of CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES, an adaptation of John Kennedy Toole popular novel. The PARKS & REC star will portray Ignatius Reilly in the show which opens in Boston at the Huntington Theater on November 11th. David Esbjornson directs from a script by Jeffrey Hatcher.

According to the report, "Confederacy" O'Toole before penned the novel just before he committed suicide in 1969. In 1979, his mother brought the book to writer Walker Percy who successfully had it published in 1981. In went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Throughout the years, there have been various unsuccessful efforts to bring the popular novel to the big screen, including a version which was to star John Belushi.

Nick Offerman (Ignatius J. Reilly) is best known for the role of Ron Swanson on NBC's hit comedy series "Parks & Recreation," which just completed its 7th and final season. For his work on the show, he won a Television Critics Association Award for Achievement in Comedy in 2011, having earned his first nomination in 2010. He also received two Critics' Choice Television Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. His long list of film credits includes 22 Jump Street, The Lego Movie, We're the Millers, Smashed, Sin City, Casa de mi Padre, The Men Who Stare at Goats, 21 Jump Street, and many more. In 2013, Offerman released his New York Times bestselling book, Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living. He got his start in the Chicago theatre community, where he received a Joseph Jefferson Award for his performance in The Kentucky Cycle at Pegasus Players Theatre, and a second Jefferson Award for the puppets and masks he and his team crafted for The Skriker at Defiant. He has also worked extensively at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the Goodman Theatre, and Wisdom Bridge, among others, he appeared in Adding Machine Off Broadway, and is currently a company member of the Evidence Room Theater Company in Los Angeles. In his spare time, he can be found at his woodshop in Los Angeles building hand-crafted items ranging from fine furniture to canoes to ukuleles.