Cast Announced for Lawrence Dial's DANNYKRISDONNAVERONICA at 4th Street Theater

Wheelhouse Theater Company is pleased to present the World Premiere of Lawrence Dial's DANNYKRISDONNAVERONICA, directed by Jeff Wise at the 4th Street Theater (83 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery) January 7-28.

In a Brooklyn park Kris and Danny meet for their children's first play date. While commiserating, a precarious emotional relationship forms between them, but when one of their children is inexplicably injured, the sequential fall-out incites their spouses, Donna and Veronica, along a self-destructive path in search of the superfluous truth. DANNYKRISDONNAVERONICA is an offbeat meditation on the confounding business of contemporary parenthood.

The cast will feature Suzy Jane Hunt (Alice in "The Americans" on FX), Ben Mehl (Pericles, Prince of Tyre at The Public; The School for Scandal with Red Bull Theater), Rachel Mewbron (In the Summer Pavilion at 59E59), and Liz Wisan (Servant of Two Masters and Other Desert Cities with Theatre for a New Audience) with Lighting Design by Drew Florida (Romeo & Juliet with Wheelhouse Theater) and Set Design by Brittany Vasta (The Road to Damascus with The Directors' Company at 59E59).

Performances: 1/7,1/9, 1/10, & 1/11,1/12, 1/13 at 7:30pm, 1/14 at 3pm & 7:30pm, 1/17, 1/18, 1/19, 1/20 & 1/21 at 7:30pm, 1/21 & 1/22 at 3pm, 1/24, 1/25, 1/26 & 1/27 at 7:30pm and 1/28 at 3pm. Tickets ($18) are available online at dannykrisdonnaveronica.bpt.me or by calling 1-800-838-3006.

Lawrence Dial (Playwright) is a 2016-2017 resident playwright for the Amoralists' Wright Club. Larry's play DannyKrisDonnaVeronica was a Primary Stages and ESPA Drills finalist, and received a public reading at the Duke on 42nd. From 2007 to 2012 he was the resident playwright for the LabRats Theater Company, which produced his play Ha! Ha! (a graffiti play) in 2011. His play Beef was performed as part of the Crown Point Arts Festival at the Abrons Art Center in 2007. Beef's expanded two-act version was produced by Slant Theatre Project in 2008. As Promise Tomorrow Today, Beef won the Best Play Award in the 2010 Downtown Urban Theatre Festival. His other plays include: Been Down So Long Looks Like Up to Us (workshopped at the Labyrinth Theatre's 2010 Summer Intensive Ensemble), and an award-winning NYFringe Festival production of Carroll Gardens Aborning. He has been a featured writer for NYMadness (The Wild Project) and The Monologue Series (Barrow Street), and is published via Indie Theater Now. His screenplay TETRA is scheduled for production in late 2016, directed by James Fauvell. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.

Jeff Wise (Director) is an actor, director and producer in NYC. He most recently collaborated with Slant Theatre Project as a producer on the world premier of Lawrence Dial's In the Room. Directing: Romeo and Juliet (Davenport Theater), Julius Caesar (Davenport Theater), Henry IV Part 2 (Access Theater), Hamlet (Gene Frankel), BACK (Walker Theater), Dear Penthouse (Schubert Theater). Acting: Hamlet (Gene Frankel), Lend Me a Tenor, Pajama Game, Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat (Mountain Playhouse), BACK, Three Sisters, Six Degrees of Separation, Bus Stop, La Ronde. MFA, NYU Graduate Acting.

WHEELHOUSE THEATER COMPANY officially launched this past year with back-to-back, critically acclaimed productions of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet (Davenport Theater), and most recently co-produced Lawrence Dial's new play In the Room with Slant Theatre Project. The Wheelhouse prides itself on its use of ensemble, which proves to deepen the actor's sense of trust and abandon on stage, so the audience can relish in the risks that are being taken in the interest of telling bold stories. Born from a shared enthusiasm for playful collaboration while studying together at NYU's Graduate Acting Program, the Wheelhouse is a company of theater artists committed to producing joyful, transformative and highly physical productions. www.wheelhousetheater.com