Barrett Foa & Maria Dizzia to Star in Bock's 'Drunken City'

Barrett Foa and Maria Dizzia are the first confirmed cast members for the Playwrights Horizons production of The Drunken City, a new play by Obie Award winner Adam Bock.  The play's New York City premiere will be directed by Trip Cullman (Some Men, Swimming in the Shallows, The Last Sunday in June) in Spring 2008. 

Previews for The Drunken City begin March 13, 2008 with performances through April 20, 2008; with an opening night to be announced; at Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd Street).

"Off on the bar crawl to end all crawls, three twenty-something brides-to-be find their lives going topsy-turvy when one of them suddenly begins to question her future after a chance encounter with a recently jilted handsome stranger.  The Drunken City is a unique theatrical take on the mystique of marriage and the ever-shifting nature of love and identity in a city that never sleeps," explain press notes.

Maria Dizzia (Melissa) originated the title role in the recent hit Eurydice at Second Stage, having also appeared in the initial productions at Yale Repertory and Berkeley Repertory.  Her other Off-Broadway credits include The Wooden Breeks (MCC); Millicent Scowlworthy, The Map Maker's Sorrow (SPF); Apparition (Connelly Theater); Pullman Car Hiawatha (Keen Company); Alice the Magnet (Clubbed Thumb); Cause for Alarm (FringeNYC); and Gone Missing (The Civilians).  She was a regular on the short-lived CBS series "Smith" and has also appeared on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."

Barrett Foa (Eddie) appeared on Broadway in Avenue Q (Princeton/Rod), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Leaf Coneybear) and Mamma Mia! (original cast, Broadway debut). His Off-Broadway credits include Jesus in Godspell (2000 cast recording) and Cupid in Cupid & Psyche. Regional: the recent The Lady in Question (Bay Street Theatre), Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing (Hartford Stage/Shakespeare Theatre), Mordred in Camelot (Paper Mill), Krieger/Russell's Kept (TheatreWorks in CA), Just So (North Shore), The Fantasticks (St. Louis Muny), Gypsy (Weston Playhouse), Children of Eden and The Sound of Music (MT Wichita).  

Adam Bock's (Playwright) plays include The Thugs (SoHo Repertory, Obie Award), Swimming in the Shallows (Second Stage), The Shaker Chair (Humana Festival), Five Flights (Rattlestick), The Typographer's Dream (Clubbed Thumb) and The Receptionist (opening this month at Manhattan Theatre Club). Bock also helped Jack Cummings III develop The Audience.  He is the resident playwright at Encore Theater, a Shotgun Players Artistic Associate, and a member of New Dramatists. Adam's plays are published by Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts Inc. and are featured in The Best Plays of 2005.  The Drunken City marks his Playwrights Horizons debut.

Trip Cullman (Director). New York credits include Terrence McNally's Some Men (Second Stage), Bert V. Royal's Dog Sees God (The Century Center), Sarah Schulman's Manic Flight Reaction (Playwrights Horizons), Adam Bock's Swimming in the Shallows (Second Stage), Jonathan Tolins's The Last Sunday in June (Century Center and Rattlestick Theater), Paul Weitz's Roulette (EST), Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Dark Matters (Rattlestick Theater), Roland Schimmelpfennig's Arabian Night (The Play Company), Glen Berger's The Wooden Breeks (MCC Theater), Brooke Berman's Smashing (The Play Company), Rinne Groff's Of a White Christmas (Clubbed Thumb), and The Wau Wau Sisters (Ars Nova). Training: Yale School of Drama.

Photos: Barrett Foa and Maria Dizzia

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