Stage Left Theatre Sets Season 34 Casting

Stage Left Theatre announces casting for all three shows in the company's mainstage season as well as the addition to the company of two Ensemble Members and four Artistic Associates.

CASTING FOR SEASON 34

Stage Left has completed the casting for its 2015/16 season.

In the fall, The Firestorm by Meridith Friedman will feature Stage Left Artistic Director Vance Smith, Ensemble Member Melanie Derleth, and guest artists Kanome Jones and David Lawrence Hamilton.

In the winter, the Chicago premiere of Mutt by Christopher Chen, a co-production with Red Tape Theatre, will feature Stage Left Ensemble Member Ian Daniel McLaren, Stage Left Artistic Associates Lindsey Pearlman and Michael Reyes, and guest artists Nicole Haskins, Daniel Smith, Alejandra Vivanco, and Aurora Adachi-Winter.

Finally, next Spring, Stage Left's Chicago Premiere of The Body of an American by Dan O'Brien will feature Stage Left Artistic Associate Don Bender and gust artist Ryan Hallahan.

ADDITIONS TO THE COMPANY

Stage Left announces the addition of two new Ensemble Members: stage manager Adam Greye and director Amy Szerlong. Szerlong was previously an Artistic Associate. They will join ensemble members Kathy Arfken, Kate Black-Spence, Jason Crutchfield, Melanie Derleth, Jason A. Fleece, Lisa Herceg, John Kohn III, Tara Malpass, Ian Daniel McLaren, Drew Martin, Zev Valancy, Greg Werstler, and Brenda Winstead.

In addition Stage Left welcomes four new Artistic Associates: Celeste Cooper, Elly Green, Nick Mikula and Michael Reyes. They will join previous Artistic Associates Don Bender, Becky Blomgren, Anita Chandwaney, McKenzie Chinn, Sandy Elias, Theresa Ham, Jayme McGhan, Nick Mikula, Lindsey Pearlman, Annie Prichard, Joe Schermoly, Sean Sinitski, Adam Smith, and Kristin Steele.

ABOUT STAGE LEFT

Founded in 1982, Stage Left Theatre is committed to nurturing voices for the American theatre by developing and producing plays that raise debate and challenge perspectives on political and social issues. Through a full subscription season and Downstage Left, one of Chicago's most prolific new play development programs, Stage Left strives to ask provocative social and political questions by producing a mix of new works, regional premieres and timeless classics.

Starting October 24

The Firestorm by Meridith Friedman - Gaby and Patrick, an interracial political power couple hot on the campaign trail, are thrust into the center of a media frenzy when a racially charged incident from Patrick's past surfaces. As the pressure intensifies, the political becomes explosively personal and the foundation of their seemingly picture-perfect marriage begins to fracture.

The Firestorm was developed in part at Stage Left through a Downstage Left Playwright Residency in 2014. As part of a NNPN Rolling World Premiere, The Firestorm will be produced by Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas, Texas in May of 2015, then at Stage Left, and finally by LOCAL Theater in Boulder, Colorado in the fall of 2016.

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