Kelley Curran Steps Into SENSE & SENSIBILITY, BEDLAM Taps New Managing Director

BEDLAM has just announced that Kimberly Pau Boston has been named BEDLAM's new Managing Director. Additionally, Kelley Curran is now starring as Elinor in BEDLAM's critically acclaimed production of SENSE & SENSIBITY which is extended through Sunday, November 20, 2016, at The Gym at Judson (243 Thompson Street).

Andrus Nichols has stepped down from her managing role at BEDLAM and starring role as Elinor in BEDLAM's SENSE & SENSIBILITY to appear in the Tony Award-winning production of A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE directed by Ivo van Hove at CTG's Ahmanson Theatre and The Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater this fall. Andrus, the co-founder of BEDLAM, will remain on the theater company's board.

Kimberly Pau Boston is honored to be joining the extraordinary BEDLAM team as Managing Director. Producer Credits NY: Catch-22 and Iliad: Book One, (Lucille Lortel Theatre), As You Like It, An Enemy of the People, Six Characters In Search of an Author and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Skirball Center), Macbeth (Gym at Judson) all for Aquila Theatre; Out of Iceland (Walkerspace), The Seagull (Lynn Redgrave Theater) both for Culture Project. She helped to create and manage Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives, a large-scale national public program aimed at presenting works of Greek Drama for an audience of Veterans for Aquila Theatre, has also worked as a Fundraising Consultant, and is a playwright.

Kelley Curran is a Callaway Award winning, Drama League and Princess Grace Award nominated actress. Off-Broadway credits include The DingDong (The Pearl), 'Tis Pity...(Red Bull), Angels In America (Signature), The Atmosphere of Memory (LAByrinth), Henry V (New Victory), Knives & Spoons... (59E59), and work with The Drama League, Shakespeare Society and Public Theater. Regional credits include work with Bedlam, Shakespeare Theatre of DC, Shakespeare & Co, Guthrie, Portland Center Stage, and The Acting Co. Film credits include Dear Santa, Still On the Road.

Committed to the immediacy of the relationship between the actor and the audience, Bedlam creates works of theatre that reinvigorate traditional forms in a flexible, raw space, collapsing aesthetic distance and bringing its viewers into direct contact with the dangers and delicacies of life. In this new, fresh, active environment storytelling becomes paramount and the result is a kinetic experience of shared empathy.

BEDLAM's past critically acclaimed productions are enjoying runs across the country. Houston's Stark Naked Theatre presented the award winning BEDLAM production of SAINT JOAN, directed by Eric Tucker from June 3 through June 18, 2016. BEDLAM returned to Boston's Central Square Theater following last season's SAINT JOAN, with director Eric Tucker's TWELFTH NIGHT and What You Will,one play, two completely different ways, with the same five actors from the original New York production, which ran from June 9 through July 10, 2016. The McCarter Theater Center in Princeton, NJ has announced they will be presenting BEDLAM's HAMLET and SAINT JOAN in repertory from January 13, 2017 through February 12, 2017.

BEDLAM's SENSE & SENSIBILITY, a New York Times and Time Out New York Critic's Pick which has now played more than 150 performances Off-Broadway, is directed by Eric Tucker and adapted for the stage by Kate Hamill, with scenic design by John McDermott,lighting design by Les Dickert, costume design by Angela Huff and choreography by Alexandra Beller.

SENSE & SENSIBILITY won the 2016 Off-Broadway Alliance Award for "Best Unique Theater Experience," and the cast features Laura Baranik, Kelley Curran, Jessica Frey, Jack Haley, Kate Hamill, Carman Lacivita, Nicole Lewis, Jason O'Connell, Flor De Liz Perez, Violeta Picayo, Benjamin Russell, John Russell, Samantha Steinmetz and Stephan Wolfert.

You've never seen Austen like this! 2016 OBIE Award-winning BEDLAM's rollicking adaptation follows the adventures (and misadventures) of the Dashwood sisters - sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne - after their sudden loss of fortune. Bursting with humor, emotion, and bold theatricality, SENSE & SENSIBILITY asks: when reputation is everything, how do you follow your heart?

Tickets range from $69 to $99, and are available at www.bedlam.org (866-811-4111). Pending availability, $25 student rush tickets will be sold at THE GYM AT JUDSON box office 15 minutes prior to the start of each performance. Students with a valid ID are limited to two rush tickets per ID.

The playing schedule for SENSE & SENSIBILITY is as follows: Tuesday through Thursday at 7:30pm, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sundayat 7pm, Wednesday and Saturday at 2pm, and Sunday at 2:30pm. Please note there will be no performances: Saturday, August 27; Wednesday, August 31 at 2pm; Wednesday, September 7 at 2pm;Wednesday, September 14 at 2pm; Sunday, September 25; and Sunday, October, 2 at 7:30pm.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride