WaterTower Sets THE BIG MEAL Cast, Creative Team
By: Tyler Peterson Mar. 15, 2016
The Big Meal will run April 15 - May 8, 2016. Individual tickets are on sale now and are available by calling 972-450-6232 or online at www.watertowertheatre.org. The Big Meal is sponsored by Table 13 and Whole Foods Addison.
The creative team, in addition to director Emily Scott Banks, includes Darren Diggle (Set Designer), Sylvia Fuhrken (Costume Designer), Dan Schoedel (Lighting Designer), Kellen Voss (Sound Designer), Bradley Gray (Properties Designer), Nate Davis (Projections Designer), Kyle Eric Bradford (Dramaturg), Caron Grant (Stage Manager) and Hillary Abbott (Assistant Stage Manager).
Somewhere in America, in a typical suburban restaurant on a typical night, Sam and Nicole meet. And sparks fly, setting in motion an expansive tale that traverses five generations of a modern family, from first kiss to final goodbye. A stunning, big-hearted play that spans nearly eighty years in a single sitting, The Big Meal tells the extraordinary story of an ordinary family.
Dan LeFranc is the playwright-in-residence of Playwrights Horizons. His latest play Troublemaker was commissioned by and produced at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. The Big Meal premiered at American Theatre Company in Chicago, received an extended off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons, and has since been produced in theaters across the US - as well as in countries like England, Singapore, Sweden, and China
Performance details:
In the Main Space at the Addison Theatre Centre
Show Run Dates: April 15 - May 8, 2016
Preview dates: Friday, April 15, Saturday, April 16 at 8pm and Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 2pm
Opening night: Monday, April 18, 2016 at 7.30 pm
Pay What You Can Performance: Sunday, April 17 at 2 pm
Performances:
Wednesdays & Thursdays: 7:30 p.m.
Fridays: 8:00 p.m.
Saturdays: 8:00 p.m. (& 2:00 pm April 30 and May 7)
Sundays: 2:00 p.m.
Ticket Prices:
Single Tickets: $22 - $40 per show
Preview Tickets: $20
How/Where to Buy Tickets:
Online: www.watertowertheatre.org
By Phone: 972-450-6232
Or In-person: WaterTower Theatre at the Addison Theatre Centre
15650 Addison Road, Addison, TX 75001
Box Office Hours
Fax: 972.450.6244
Email: boxoffice@watertowertheatre.org
Performance Weeks:
Tuesday-Saturday Noon-6 p.m.
Closed Sunday-Monday
Non-Performance Weeks:
Tuesday-Friday Noon-6 p.m.
Closed Saturday-Monday
About the Playwright
Dan LeFranc received the 2010 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award for Sixty Miles to Silver Lake, premiered by Page 73 Productions and Soho Rep. His play The Big Meal received its world premiere at American Theatre Company in Chicago, where it was declared the "#1 Play of 2011" by Time Out Chicago and garnered five Joseph Jefferson Award nominations. The Big Meal received its off-Broadway premiere at Playwrights Horizons, where it picked up a Drama Desk nomination and four Lucille Lortel nominations, including for Outstanding Play. His play Troublemaker or The Freakin Kick-A Adventures of Bradley Boatright premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2013. Dan's other plays include Backyard, Bruise Easy, Catgut, The Fishbone Fables, In the Labyrinth, Kill the Keepers, Night Surf, and Origin Story.
He is currently working on commissions for Yale Repertory Theatre, South Coast Rep, and Playwrights Horizons, where he is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence. He has been recognized with the Helen Merrill Award and the Whitfield Cook Award, plus a Djerassi Resident Artists Program Fellowship, a John C. Russell Fellowship, and two MacDowell Colony/Alpert Foundation Residencies. He is a member of the MCC Playwrights Coalition and New Dramatists, and a former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. A graduate of the MFA playwriting program at Brown University, Dan served as head playwriting instructor for the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium and visiting faculty at Brown, SUNY Purchase, and Yale University, among others.
About the Director:
Emily Scott Banks returns to direct at WaterTower. An actress initially, Emily has won numerous awards for her work, including two Critics' Forum Awards; and Best Actress of the Year nods for Dallas Observer, D Magazine, TheaterJones and others. Some of her favorite roles include work at WaterTower - A Country Life, Enchanted April, Our Town and Boeing-Boeing. Work at other area stages includes A Most Dangerous Woman, The Normal Heart, Ghost-Writer, and The Clean House among many others. In 2009 she directed A Feminine Ending for WaterTower, and this past Spring she directed a critically acclaimed production of WIT for Theatre Arlington. Emily trained at the University of Texas at Austin, extensively with Shakespeare & Co, MA, and has been a student of the Meisner Technique with Terry Martin for over a decade.
About Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin
Terry Martin's long and distinguished career in the theatre has established him as one of this country's leading actors, directors and arts administrators. As WaterTower Theatre's Producing Artistic Director for the last 16 years, Terry has placed an indelible stamp on the professional theatre scene in Texas through his stewardship of one of the nation's fastest growing theatres. During his tenure at WaterTower Theatre, the company has received 129 Dallas Theatre League Leon Rabin Award nominations and 31 Dallas-Fort Worth Critics' Forum awards.
Terry's extraordinary body of work as a director at WaterTower Theatre includes a number of influential, award-winning productions such as Sexy Laundry, Full Gallop, Dogfight, The Grapes of Wrath, Putting it Together, Spring Awakening, The Diary of Anne Frank, Sweeney Todd, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Country Life, Take Me Out, Cabaret, Little Shop of Horrors, The Laramie Project and The Crucible. Equally comfortable directing a large, Broadway-style musical such as The Music Man or an intimate play like Doubt, Terry is widely acknowledged as one of this country's most influential directors working today. He is a proud member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
He attended the University of Alabama and has trained professionally with Sanford Meisner, Fred Kareman, Wynn Handman, Sally Johnson and Lehmann Byck.
He is a committed mentor and teacher and teaches on-going classes in the Sanford Meisner technique at WTT and has periodically served as an adjunct professor of acting at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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