Arkin, Buckley, Hecht, Horne & More Cast In ATC's MAKE ME, Runs 5/31-6/14

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce the complete cast for its final production of the 2008-2009 season - the world premiere of Leslie Ayvazian's play MAKE ME, directed by Atlantic Associate artistic Director Christian Parker.

MAKE ME will feature Anthony Arkin (I'm Not Rappaport), Candy Buckley (After The Fall), Jessica Hecht (Julius Caesar), J.R. Horne (The Crucible), Richard Masur (Democracy) and Ellen Parker (The Heidi Chronicles).

MAKE ME will begin previews Wednesday, May 20; officially open Sunday, May 31; and play a limited engagement through Sunday, June 14, 2009 Off-Broadway at Atlantic Stage 2 (330 West 16 Street).

In MAKE ME, six pent-up Americans in three different relationships have reached the end of their ropes. In this naughty comic fugue, Leslie Ayvazian explores what happens when the rules are changed just at the moment when people think they are perfectly comfortable and the lengths to which some will go to be seen, heard and obeyed.

Leslie Ayvazian makes her Atlantic Theater Company debut. Her acclaimed Off-Broadway play Nine Armenians won the John Gassner Outer Critics Award, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Kennedy Center's Roger L. Stevens Award. Her film credits include Showtime's Every Three Minutes starring Olympia Dukakis.

Atlantic associate artistic director Christian Parker most recently staged the New York premiere of Tina Howe's play Birth And After Birth. Other Atlantic credits include Jeff Whitty's The Hiding Place and 10X20, a festival of newly commissioned ten minute plays by writers previously produced at Atlantic for which he directed plays by Tina Howe, Keith Reddin and Rolin Jones.

The design team for MAKE ME will feature scenic design by Anna Louizos, costume design by Theresa Squire, lighting design by Josh Bradford and sound design by Jill BC DuBoff.

The world premiere production of Academy Award® winner Ethan Coen's new triptych of one-act comedies Offices, directed by Atlantic artistic director Neil Pepe, is in previews at Atlantic's Linda Gross Theater (336 West 20 Street) for a May 7th opening.