Evan Cabnet Replaces Alex Kilgore as Director on 'THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE'

the stageFARM has announced that Evan Cabnet has replaced Alex Kilgore as director of The Gingerbread House by Mark Schultz, in its world premiere. A visiting production at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (224 Waverly Place), The Gingerbread House opens officially on Saturday evening, April 18th at 8 p.m.

The complete cast for The Gingerbread House includes Bobby Cannavale, Jason Butler Harner, Jackie Hoffman, Sarah Paulson and Ben Rappaport.

In The Gingerbread House, Brian and Stacey want a better life, the life they deserve. But what they're willing to do to get it will destroy their family, rip them apart...and finally get them into the Club.

The creative team for The Gingerbread House includes John McDermott (sets), Ben Stanton (lighting), Jessica Wegener (costumes), Zane Birdwell (sound) and Richard DiBella (video/projections).

The Gingerbread House will play the following schedule: Tuesday-Saturday at 8 pm and Sunday at 5 pm. Tickets are $40 and are available by visiting www.smarttix.com.

For more information visit, www.thestagefarm.org.

Evan Cabnet directed Adam Rapp's Tone Unknown, Mark Schultz's Fun, and Elizabeth Meriwether's 90 Days as part of stageFARM's SPIN (Cherry Lane). Other credits include TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund Scene Readings for the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, Donald Margulies' Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (Long Wharf Theater, East Coast Premiere). Elizabeth Meriwether's The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels/Culture Project, World Premiere), Brooke Berman's Wonderland and Adam Szymkowicz's Hearts Like Fists (Juilliard), Tell Out My Soul (Public Theater/SPF), Lewis Black and Rusty Magee's The Czar of Rock and Roll (Joe's Pub), and his own adaptations of Ubu Roi and Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Williamstown).

He has developed new works by Carly Mensch (Playwrights Horizons), Rajiv Joseph (Vineyard), Cusi Cram (MCC), Molly Smith Metzler (MTC), Bekah Brunstetter (Roundabout), Annie Baker, Lucy Thurber, Kyle Jarrow, Steven Levenson, Mat Smart, Tommy Smith, Beau Willimon, Louis Cancelmi, Liz Flahive and many others. Associate/Assistant credits include: Edward Albee's Seascape, Christopher Shinn's Dying City, and The Rivals (Lincoln Center Theater), As You Like It (Delacorte/NYSF), and Arthur Miller's The Man Who Had All The Luck (Roundabout). Five seasons at the Williamstown Theater Festival, including the 2003 Boris Sagal and 2002 Bill Foeller Fellowships. Founding member of the Ars Nova Play Group, former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Associate Artist with the stageFARM, and the recipient of the 2008 Claire Tow Award for Emerging Artists.

Photo Credit: Peter James Zielinski