Alley Theatre Sets Cast, Creative Team of THE OTHER PLACE

Alley Theatre Artistic Director Gregory Boyd announces the cast and creative team for The Other Place. Josie de Guzman leads the cast as Juliana Smithton, a neurologist whose research leads to a potential breakthrough for a new treatment. Just as it does, her life takes a disorienting turn. During a lecture to colleagues, she enters into a mystery that blurs fact with fiction, the past with the present, until the elusive truth is unraveled in a windswept cottage on the shores of Cape Cod. The Other Place, by Sharr White and directed by Don Stephenson, begins previews October 23 and opens October 28, with performances continuing through November 15, 2015.

In selecting The Other Place, Artistic Director Gregory Boyd was particularly drawn to the high intellect and vulnerability of the main character. "When someone has superior intellect, they often feel they are invincible. This play explores what happens when someone's greatest strength suddenly becomes their greatest enemy."

The cast of The Other Place features Josie de Guzman as Juliana, Nick Farco as The Man, John Jellison as Ian and Ashley Austin Morris as The Woman.

The creative team includes Scenic Designer Michael Schweikardt, Costume Designer Tracy Christensen, Lighting Designer Stephen Terry, Sound Designers Rob Milburn & Michael Bodeen and Projection Designer Sven Ortel. Additional members of the creative team include New York Casting by Stewart/Whitley and Assistant Director Brandon Weinbrenner.

The Other Place received its world premiere Off-Broadway with MCC Theatre and subsequently received its Broadway premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club. The Other Place was also a recipient of the 2010 Playwrights First Award; the 2011 Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation's Theatre Visions Fund Award; and was an Outer Critics Circle Award nominee for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play. White will join Boyd to discuss the play in detail following the Thursday, October 29 performance.

Director Don Stephenson, making his Alley Theatre directing debut, has directed critically acclaimed productions of The 39 Steps, Noises Off, Lend Me a Tenor, Deathtrap, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Oleanna, The Cottage, and The Great Unknown. He developed and directed the new chamber version of Titanic in 2012 at The Hangar Theatre to critical acclaim and was nominated for 11 BroadwayWorld Awards including Best Director. He also directed the staged concert of Titanic at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. Stephenson starred as Leo Bloom in the Tony Award winning Broadway production of The Producers. His most recent Broadway appearance was as the D'ysquith family in the Tony Award winning Broadway production of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. His other Broadway credits include Rock of Ages, Private Lives, Dracula, Titanic, Parade, By Jeeves, The Bandwagon, Pardon My English, and Wonderful Town.

Tickets are available online at alleytheatre.org, by phone at 713.220.5700 or in person at the Alley Theatre Box Office, 615 Texas Avenue. Tickets to all productions start at $26. Subscriptions are currently on sale for all productions and range in price from $129 - $614. Discounted ticket for groups of 10 or more can be purchased by calling 713.315.3346. This production contains adult language and mature themes.