Dorothy Lyman to Direct Margulies' SIGHT UNSEEN, 9/23-10/10

InProximity Theatre Company is proud to announce that Dorothy Lyman will be directing the upcoming production of SIGHT UNSEEN by Donald Margulies (Time Stands Still, Collected Stories, Brooklyn Boy, Dinner With Friends, God of Vengeance, Pitching to the Star, Nocturne, Luna Park, Found a Peanut, The Loman Family Picnic). The show will feature Laurie Schaefer, Jonathan Todd Ross, Brent Vimtrup, and Bryn Boice. Designers include James J. Fenton (scenic), Lisa Soverino (Lighting), Court Watson (Costumes), and Jeremy Lee (sound). The Production Stage Manager is Jasmin Sanchez.

Dorothy Lyman's most recent producing and directing credits include the feature films The Northern Kingdom (2007), in which she also starred, Split Ends (2009), and the documentary Janet's Class (2010), currently in post- production. Ms. Lyman also directed the original Off-Broadway production of John Ford Noonan's A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking and 75 episodes of The Nanny for CBS. She won two Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Opal Gardner on All My Children and starred as Naomi on Mama's Family. Other television credits include Law and Order, Battlestar Galactica, CSI: Miami, Reba, Judging Amy, and The Practice. Film Credits include The Departed, World Trade Center, Blow, and Ruby in Paradise. L.A. Theatre credits include A Rage in Tenure, My Kitchen Wars, and Last Summer At Bluefish Cove at the Tiffany Theatre for which she won a Dramalogue Award. Ms. Lyman currently teaches directing at The New School for Drama and is set to star in a Modern Stage adaption of Ibsen's Enemy of the People in 2011.

Donald Margulies' SIGHT UNSEEN tells the story of Jonathan Waxman, artist as superstar, plunged into the exorbitant hype of the American art world. Just before his works are celebrated at an exhibition in London, he journeys to the village where his former lover, Patricia, lives with her British husband, Nick. In their cold, remote house, Jonathan discovers an early painting of Patricia he'd done when they were young lovers. The subsequent struggle for the painting embodies the unreconciled passions of the past. Patricia has never forgiven Jonathan for leaving her, Nick despises Jonathan and the kind of art he produces, and Jonathan has never been able to recapture the inspiration and purity he felt when he painted Patricia. The characters are forced to deal with the unanswerable question of anti-Semitism, the legacy of the Holocaust and assimilation, the sadness of lost love, the role of the artist and the location of the human soul at the end of a ragged century.

This is the third production for InProximity Theatre Company and the launch of their 2010-2011 Season. The company's first two productions Craig Wright's ORANGE FLOWER WATER and Nicky Silver's THE MAIDEN'S PRAYER earned InProximity critical acclaim. Upcoming productions in 2011 include New York City premieres of NAVY PIER by John Corwin and THE FALL TO EARTH by Joel Drake Johnson.

SIGHT UNSEEN will run September 23 through October 10 at Theatre 54 at Shetler Studios, 244 West 54th Street 12th Floor NYC 10019. Performances will be Thursdays thru Saturdays at 8PM and Sundays at 2PM. For additional information please visit www.InProximityTheatre.org. Tickets can be purchased at www.SmartTix.com or www.InProximityTheatre.org.