Wishcamper to Direct SPIRIT CONTROL for MTC; Opens Oct. 26

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) announce that Henry Wishcamper (Graceland, Port Authority) will direct the upcoming Manhattan Theatre Club world premiere of Beau Willimon's new play SPIRIT CONTROL.

Previews for the limited engagement will begin Thursday, October 7 with an opening night of Tuesday, October 26 at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street).

Doug Hughes, who was previously announced to direct SPIRIT CONTROL, had to withdraw from the production due to scheduling conflicts.

Both Wishcamper, the up and coming director who won acclaim for his production of Conor McPherson's Port Authority, and Willimon, the breakout young talent behind the play Farragut North, will be making their Manhattan Theatre Club debuts with SPIRIT CONTROL.

Adam Wyatt has the perfect family and a perfect record as an air traffic controller. But when the pilot of a small plane suffers a heart attack, Adam must talk a terrified passenger through an emergency landing. What happens next will link him inextricably to a woman he's never met, and set the life he once knew irrevocably adrift. SPIRIT CONTROL is a chilling and mesmerizing look at how we navigate a crisis, and the demons that haunt us long after.

Casting and creative team for SPIRIT CONTROL as well as other listings information will be announced in the coming weeks.

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Single tickets to all of MTC's 2010-2011 productions will be available at a later date.

Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, MTC has become one of the country's most prominent and prestigious theatre companies. Over the past three decades, MTC productions have earned a total of 17 Tony Awards and six Pulitzer Prizes, an accomplishment unparalleled by a New York theatrical institution. MTC has a Broadway home at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) and an Off-Broadway theatre at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street). Renowned MTC productions include Time Stands Still; The Royal Family; Ruined; The American Plan; Come Back, Little Sheba; Blackbird; Translations; Shining City; Rabbit Hole; Doubt; Proof; The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; Love! Valour! Compassion!; A Small Family Business; Sylvia; Putting It Together; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Crimes of the Heart; and Ain't Misbehavin.'

Henry Wishcamper (Director). Off-Broadway: Graceland (LCT3), Port Authority (Atlantic Theater Company), Elvis People (New World Stages), The Polish Play (Katharsis Theater Company), Pullman Car Hiawatha (Keen Company; Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Revival of a Play). Regional: Animal Crackers and Talking Pictures (The Goodman), Mystery of Irma Vep (Old Globe), Art (Barrington Stage), The Seafarer and Speech & Debate (Hartford TheaterWorks), The Good Thief (Portland Stage). Assistant director of the Broadway productions of August: Osage County and Shining City. Henry is the Artistic Director of Katharsis Theater Company. He is a Drama League Directing Fellow and a graduate of Yale University. Upcoming: Rafta Rafta (The Old Globe).

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