Lili Taylor Stars in 11/2 Reading of Moses' Celebrity Row

Lili Taylor will appear this Thursday, November 2 at 8:30 at the New Work Now! reading of Itamar Moses's Celebrity Row.

Taylor will play the lead role of Maze Carroll, a civil liberties attorney whose work takes her to Colorado's Supermax prison The cast also includes Arliss Howard as Ted Kaczynski, Richard Montoya as Luis Felipe, Firdous Bamji as Ramzi Yousef, and Paul Sparks as Timothy McVeigh.

The production will be directed by The Public's artistic director, Oskar Eustis.

"Colorado Supermax is the most secure prison in the United States. When Latin Kings leader Luis Felipe is transferred there, civil liberties attorney Maze Carroll attacks his sentence as unconstitutional. But Felipe and his new neighbors-- Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, and Ramzi Yousef--have other ideas about how to use her assistance," state notes.

Taylor, who appeared in the 1997 Broadway revival of Three Sisters, received an Obie Award for her off-Broadway turn in Aunt Dan and Lemon; other credits include The Dead Eye Boy and What Did He See? She was also recently seen in Landscape of the Body for Signature Theatre Company.  On screen, she has appeared in such films as High Fidelity, The Haunting, Ransom, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Short Cuts, Say Anything and Mystic Pizza; she is also familiar to TV viewers as Lisa on "Six Feet Under."

Moses is is the author of the full-length plays Outrage, Bach At Leipzig, The Four Of Us, Celebrity Row, and Yellowjackets, as well as various short plays and one acts. His work has been produced off-Broadway and at regional theatres across the country. He is currently at work on new play commissions for Manhattan Theatre Club, the Wilma Theater, Berkeley Rep, and Playwrights Horizons, and is also theoretically collaborating as book-writer on several musicals.

Tickets are free and available at 212-967-7555 from 10AM to 9PM Monday through Sunday; there is a limit of two tickets per person.

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