Second Stage Uptown's Ghostly THE OTHER THING Opens Tonight

THE OTHER THING, written by Emily Schwend and directed by Lucie Tiberghien, makes its world premiere at Second Stage tonight, May 21, following previews from May 12. The production runs through June 7, 2015.

THE OTHER THING is described as: "Kim is a journalist, writing what she thinks will be a run-of-the-mill article about a father and son team of ghost hunters in rural Virginia. As the three of them pass the evening outside a haunted barn, waiting for spirits to reveal themselves, what begins as just another day at the office soon becomes a night none of them will forget. In the paranormal world, the ghosts you hunt may be closer than you think."

The cast includes John Doman, James Kautz, Bhavesh Patel, and Samantha Soule.

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ABOUT THE TEAM:

JOHN DOMAN (Carl) can currently be seen in the new FOX series "Gotham" as 'Don Falcone' as well as the new SHOWTIME series "The Affair." Perhaps best-known for playing William A. Rawls in HBO's brilliant series "The Wire," he has also starred in the Canal+/Neflix 1-hour drama "Borgia" created by Tom Fontana. Other television credits include "Person of Interest," "The Good Wife," "Burn Notice," "Rizzoli & Isles," "Damages," "Law & Order," "CSI," "The Practice," and "ER" among many others. John's numerous film credits include Blue Valentine,The Company Men, Lonely Hearts, Mystic River, City by the Sea, Mercury Rising, and Die Hard with a Vengeance. John has worked extensively on stage as well, most recently appearing in The Book of Grace at The Public Theatre. His other off-Broadway credits include Unconditional, Robbers, True West and Fool for Love.

JAMES KAUTZ (Brady). Off-Broadway: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side (PS 122), The Bad and The Better (Playwrights Horizons - PJS), Collision (Rattlestick), The Hallway Trilogy (Rattlestick), Ghosts In the Cottonwoods (Theatre 80 St Marks), Take Me Back (Walker Space @ Soho Rep). Founding Artistic Director of The Amoralists.

BHAVESH PATEL (Thomas). Roundabout: Indian Ink; Lincoln Center: War Horse, Hayden's Seven Last Words; BAM: RadioLoveFest. Other Theatre: Classical Stage Company, Red Bull Theater, The Public Theater, The Guthrie, St. Louis Rep, The Alliance, Pittsburgh Public, Berkshire Theater Festival, Chautauqua Theater Company, O'Neill Theater Institute. TV: "Anthony Edelman" in The Good Wife, Guest Star in The Mysteries of Laura, Elementary, Blue Bloods, White Collar, Damages. Film: Two Days in NY, Maiden Heist, The Weekend. Education: MFA NYU's Grad Acting Program.

SAMANTHA SOULE (Kim). Broadway: The Philanthropist, Dinner At Eight, Coram Boy. Off-Broadway: And I And Silence (Signature), Much Ado About Nothing, Detroit '67 (Public), The Hill Town Plays, A Summer Day, Fable, Killers and Other Family (Rattlestick); Realists (HERE), A Little Journey (Mint); Gabriel, The Voysey Inheritance(Atlantic); Monstrosity (13P); Valhalla, (NYTW); Dining Room (Keen, Drama Desk Award). Regional: Edith, Candida(Berkshire Theater Festival) The Evildoers (Yale Rep), Twelfth Night, An Enemy of the People, The Tempest.(Shakespeare Theater of DC), Lady Windermere's Fan(Williamstown), Body of Water (Old Globe). Film/TV:"Nurse Jackie", "Blue Bloods","Law & Order: SVU," "Do No Harm","Smash."How We Got Away With It, The Penny Dreadful Picture Show, Revolutionary Road, Cigarette Soup, No Retreat (post prod.) Grand Theft Auto (G4) B.F.A. Juilliard. Artistic Associate for Rising Phoenix Rep.

EMILY SCHWEND (Playwright) is the current recipient of the 2014 Tow Foundation grant for the creation, development and production of this new play through Second Stage Theatre. Her other plays include Carthage, South of Settling, Splinters, Route One Off, Take Me Back, and Behind the Motel. She Her play, Take Me Back, was produced in 2014 at Walkerspace in Soho and was a New York Times Critics Pick. Her ten-minute play, Halfway, is the winner of the 2013 Heideman Prize and was produced at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Her play, South of Settling, was produced in Steppenwolf's Next Up Rep in 2012. Her work has been developed at The New Group, Roundabout Theatre Company, ACT Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Partial Comfort Productions, Ars Nova, the Alliance Theatre, the Source Festival in DC, and the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, among others. She is a frequent contributor to Christine Jones' Theatre for One Booth. She is a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Prize winner, the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, the 2011 ACT New Play Award winner, the 2009 David Calicchio Emerging American Playwrights Prize winner, and a finalist for the 2011 ATCA/Steinberg prize. Her work has been commissioned by EST and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, as well as by the Old Vic in London. She is an alumna of the playwriting programs at Juilliard and Tisch.

LUCIE TIBERGHIEN (Director). Upcoming: Soldier X by Rehana Mirza (Ma-Yi Theatre). Recent credits include: Love in Afghanistan by Charles Randolph-Wright (Arena Stage), Water by the Spoonful (Arden), Don't Go Gentle by Stephen Belber (Manhattan Class Company at the Lucille Lortel Theatre), Blood and Gifts by JT Rogers (La Jolla Playhouse and development workshop at Playpenn and New Dramatists), We Are Here by Tracy Thorne (Contemporary American Theater Festival, WV), Blind by Craig Wright (world premiere at Rattlestick), Geometry of Fire by Stephen Belber (world premiere, Rattlestick Theater and main stage production at New York Stage and Film), Great Falls by Lee Blessing (world premiere, Humana Festival), Augusta by Richard Dresser (world premiere, Contemporary American Theater Festival), Hoodoo Love by Katori Hall (world premiere, Cherry Lane main stage), A Small Melodramatic Story by Stephen Belber (world premiere, LAByrinth at the Public Theater), The Winning Streak by Lee Blessing (George Street Playhouse), The Pavilion by Craig Wright (Drama Desk nomination for Best Play, Rattlestick Theater and CATF), Flag Day by Lee Blessing (CATF), and The Last Schwartz by Deborah Laufer (CATF), and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Juilliard), among others.