Wyatt Fenner Will Replace Seth Numrich in Rattlestick's SLIPPING in LA

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater announces that Wyatt Fenner (The Whale, Misalliance, Next Fall) will take over the lead role of Eli in Slipping starting Sunday, April 21, 2013. Fenner will replace Seth Numrich (Broadway's War Horse, Golden Boy), who will travel to London to star with Kim Cattrall in the upcoming production of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic. Fenner has received rave reviews for his performances, including his most recent role as 19-year-old Mormon missionary Elder Thomas in The Whale, at South Coast Rep. Slipping, written and directed by Daniel Talbott, runs through Sunday May 5, 2013 at the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood, CA. Elephant Stages' Lillian Theatre is located at 1076 Lillian Way, Los Angeles, CA 90038. For additional information, please visit www.Rattlestick.org/rattlestick-LA.

Numrich, for whom the role of Eli was created, performed in Rattlestick's 2009 critically acclaimed New York production of Slipping, reprising his part this year in Los Angeles. In addition to Numrich's upcoming performances at London's Old Vic, the rising star has also recently signed on as one of the leads in AMC's pilot, the period drama Turn, which tells the story of an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America's fight for independence.

Slipping is the coming-of-age story of Eli. ?Alone, numb, and friendless after the death of his father, high school senior Eli moves with his English professor mom from San Francisco for a fresh start in Iowa. A new relationship with a boy at school exposes him again to the possibility of closeness and the danger of being swallowed by it.

The cast of Slipping is MacLeod Andrews (Slipping in New York, Too Much Memory at piece by piece/Rising Phoenix Rep); Wyatt Fenner (The Whale and Misalliance at South Coast Rep, Next Fall at the Geffen); Maxwell Hamilton (professional stage debut, UCLA productions of RENT and Neon Boneyard); Seth Numrich (Golden Boy, War Horse, The Merchant of Venice on Broadway, Iphigenia at Signature, the New York production of Slipping); Wendy vanden Heuvel (Resurrection Blues by Arthur Miller at the Guthrie Theater, Counting The Ways/Talk To Me Like the Rain... at the Magic Theatre, A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White at Signature). The Eli alternate is Brett Donaldson (professional stage debut, college and community theatre credits include Angels in America, Harvey, and Auntie Mame).