Boyer, Conroy Set For LCT3's THE COWARD, Opens 11/22

LCT3, Lincoln Center Theater's programming initiative devoted to producing the work of new artists and developing new audiences, has announced that Steven Boyer, Jarlath Conroy, John Patrick Dougherty, Stephen Ellis, Richard Poe, Kristen Schaal, Jeremy Strong, and Christopher Evan Welch will be featured in its world premiere production of THE COWARD, a new play by Nick Jones, directed by Sam Gold, the first of LCT3's three productions during the 2010-2011 season. THE COWARD will begin previews Monday, November 8, open Monday, November 22 and run through Saturday, December 4 at The Duke on 42nd Street, a NEW 42ND STREET® project, (229 W. 42 Street).

THE COWARD is a period comedy set in 18th century England. A cowardly young gentleman named Lucidus, to be played by Jeremy Strong, initiates a pistol duel then finds that he can't go through with it. So he hires a common criminal to fight in his place, only to have the scoundrel make a bloody mess of things. As duel follows duel with many shots fired, this coward finds his reputation growing beyond his wildest expectations.

THE COWARD will have sets by David Zinn, costumes by Gabriel Berry, lighting by Ben Stanton, and sound by Jane Shaw.

Playwright Nick Jones is a writer, director, puppet designer and performer. His show Jollyship the Whiz-Bang originally produced at Ars Nova was recently revived for the Under the Radar Festival at the Public. He has performed music or theater at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts TBA Festival, the Dublin Fringe Festival, The Kitchen, P.S. 122, The Public and the Edinburgh Fringe. Sam Gold directed the critically acclaimed productions of Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons) and The Aliens (Rattlestick Theater). His work has also been seen at the New York Theatre Workshop, Studio Dante, the Cherry Lane and the Ohio Theater. He has developed plays at many theatres nationally including ACT, MCC, MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, The Public, Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Yale Repertory Theater.

Citing the need to develop strong relationships with new artists and to build new audiences, Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) created LCT3 to offer these artists fully staged productions. Later this season, LCT3 will present "WHEN I COME TO DIE," a new play written by Nathan Louis Jackson and directed by Thomas Kail (January 31 - February 26), as well as a third production to be announced. LCT has just begun construction of a new theater, rehearsal and office space complex on the roof of the Vivian Beaumont Theater. The 131 seat theater, to be named the Claire Tow Theater, is scheduled to open in 2012 and will be the home of LCT3. Paige Evans is the Artistic Director of LCT3.

This season, in addition to LCT3, Lincoln Center Theater will be producing the world premieres of the new musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, based on the film by Pedro Almodóvar, with a book by Jeffrey Lane, music and lyrics by David Yazbek and direction by Bartlett Sher (beginning Friday, October 8) on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre, John Guare's A Free Man of Color, directed by George C. Wolfe, (beginning Thursday, October 21) in the Vivian Beaumont Theater and Jon Robin Baitz' Other Desert Cities, directed by Joe Mantello, (beginning Thursday, December 16) in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. The 2010-2011 season will continue with the American premiere of the National Theatre of Great Britain's critically acclaimed production of War Horse (beginning Tuesday, March 15) in the Vivian Beaumont Theater and the New York premiere of A Minister's Wife, a new musical version of Shaw's Candida (beginning Thursday, April 7) in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.

Tickets to THE COWARD, priced at $20, are available at The Duke on 42nd StreetSM Box Office, by visiting Dukeon42.org or by calling 646.223.3010. For additional information on LCT3 please visit www.lct3.org.

Steven Boyer Broadway: I'm Not Rappaport. Off-Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Public), Enjoy (59E59), Misalliance (Pearl Theatre), Jollyship the Whiz-Bang (Ars Nova), Richard III (Classic Stage), Oliver Twist (Theatre for a New Audience). Regional: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hartford Stage), Oliver Twist (A.R.T & Berkeley Rep). TV includes: "Law & Order" and "Ed." Training: The Juilliard School.

Jarlath Conroy LCT: A Man of No Importance. Broadway: The Weir; The Iceman Cometh; Davies; On The Waterfront; Ghetto; Nichols; The Visit; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Comedians. Off-Broadway: Bell, Book, & Candle; Translation; Fletch; Mantello; Henry V. Regional: The Steward of Christendom (Barrymore Award), Juno and the Paycock and Henry V (Helen Hayes Awards). Numerous film and TV appearances.

John Patrick DOUGHERTY Off-Broadway: A Bright New Boise. Regional: The Torch-Bearers, The Tutors, The Good Negro (reading), Big Money, Schmoozy Togetherness (Williamstown); A Woman of No Importance (Yale Rep); Henry V (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ). Training: Yale School of Drama

Stephen Ellis New York Theater: Homunculus (Workshop), Dance Dance Revolution, Asking For Trouble, Hollywood Science, Bare Naked Drama, This Is Not A Torture. Regional: House of Gold, 7th Inning Stretch, Fraternity (Staged Reading), 1984. Film/TV: Thank You Tommy Feinstein, "Rock Band 2 Video Awards". Training: Kenyon College, National Theater Institute.

Richard Poe Broadway: Present Laughter, Cry-Baby, M. Butterfly, The Pajama Game, Journey's End, 1776, Our Country's Good, The Dinner Party, Moon Over Buffalo, Fiddler on the Roof, Girl Crazy. Off-Broadway: Why Torture Is Wrong, Jeffrey. TV: "Star Trek," "Frasier," "Law & Order," "Ed," "Queen," "The Prosecutors." Film: Transamerica, Burn After Reading, Born on the Fourth of July, Peacemaker, The Jackal, Presumed Innocent, The Night We Never Met.
Kristen Schaal Theater: Lorraine McLaine Today, Bird, Striking Viking Story. Film Includes: Toy Story 3, Kate & Leopold, Dinner for Schmucks, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, Going the Distance, Valentine's Day. TV includes: "The Flight of the Concords," "Penelope Princess of Pets," "Modern Family," "American Dad," "Mad Men," "Freak Show," "6 Degrees."
Jeremy Strong LCT: 2009/2010 recipient of the Lincoln Center Theater Annenberg Fellowship for "An artist of extraordinary talent." Broadway: "A Man for All Seasons (Roundabout). Off-Broadway: Defiance (MTC); Frank's Home, Our House (Playwrights Horizons); Conversations In Tusculum (Public); New Jerusalem (Classic Stage); . FILM: The Ambassadors, The Romantics, The Messenger. Studied at Yale, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

Christopher Evan Welch Broadway: Festen, The Crucible, London Assurance. Off-Broadway: Romance, Writer's Block, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Measure for Measure, A Skull in Connemara, A Streetcar Named Desire (Obie), Scapin (Encore Award). Extensive regional. Film: The Good Shepherd, The Hoax, The Interpreter, The Stepford Wives, War of the Worlds. TV: "The Sopranos," "Law & Order: SVU/CI."

 

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