Nisi Sturgis and Matt Mueller Lead HOW WATER BEHAVES, Opening Tonight at Capital Rep

Capital Repertory Theatre welcomes Nisi Sturgis and Matt Mueller to lead the Equity cast for the world premiere of Sherry Kramer's new comedy, How Water Behaves, directed by Gordon Greenberg-at theREP today, Jan. 16, through Feb. 8, 2015.

It all begins when sweet Nan and her out-of-work webmaster hubby, Steve, realize they can't afford to keep up the extravagant gift giving that has become their family's tradition. In an effort to make everyone happy, they announce that they have made a gift to a charity in everyone's name. Except it's a fictitious charity. No problem-until the website that Steve creates to seal the deal becomes prey to cyberspace hijinks, with deliciously funny and unpredictable results.

How Water Behaves continues theREP's commitment to new work, having been workshopped at the company's NEXT ACT! New Play Summit 2, in 2013.

Boardwalk Empire star Sturgis (Nan) makes her Capital Repertory Theatre debut, as do the rest of the cast, in How Water Behaves. Sturgis, who has an impressive regional bio, also appeared on Broadway in The 39 Steps and in Intimate Apparel.

Matt Mueller (Steve) recently sang on a new cast recording of Woody Guthrie's American Song. The disc was recorded at Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, Calif. Mueller has appeared regionally throughout the southwest and southeast.

Michael McCorry Rose (Hank) is taking a break from Broadway-where he currently plays Fiyero in Wicked- to appear in How Water Behaves. Rose has toured nationally and internationally with Wicked, Grease! and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and concertizes around the globe, with performances as far flung as China, Australia, Kenya and Brazil.

Kenita R. Miller (Ayutunde) has been seen extensively on and Off Broadway in The Color Purple, Working, Avenue Q, Dessa Rose and other titles. Miller, who also has an extensive touring background, recently won a Barrymore Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical and a New York Musical Theatre Festival Award for Outstanding Individual Performance.

Leslie Kritzer (Molly), known by local audiences for her turn in Barrington Stage Company's Guys and Dolls, has been on Broadway in Elf the Musical, Sondheim on Sondheim, Legally Blonde, A Catered Affair and Hairspray. Her solo show, Beautiful Disaster, is currently in development and upcoming musical projects include The Honeymooners and School Of Rock.

Canadian comic genius Brian Sills (Sal) was featured in the first National tour of The Lion King, and spent three seasons at the Tony Award winning Chicago Shakespeare Theater. He is also well remembered for his work in The Machine at the Park Avenue Armory in New York & Donmar Warehouse in London.

Maine native Brian Lee Huynh (Allen Bell) was in the original American company of War Horse at Lincoln Center, and can be seen in this season of Elementary on CBS. He recently played Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps at Triad Stage in North Carolina.

Greenberg-currently helming the world premiere of Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn (which he co-wrote with Chad Hodge) for Goodspeed Musicals-has a long relationship with theREP, developing Single Girl's Guide and directing Breaking Up Is Hard to Do; Edges: The Musical; Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris; Song of Singapore; and 33 Variations.

Kramer's plays include When Something Wonderful Ends, David's Redhaired Death and The Bay of Fundy. She, too, makes her Capital Repertory Theatre debut with How Water Behaves and teaches playwriting at nearby Bennington College.

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