Gotham Stage Company’s Thanksgiving To Be Held At The Players Theatre
By: Gabrielle Sierra
Cassie Beck (The Drunken City), Sherman Howard (All My Sons) and Armando Riesco (Four) have been confirmed to lead the cast of Gotham Stage Company's reading of Sara Farrington's Thanksgiving. Directed by company member Zach Shaffer, Thanksgiving is the debut presentation of the Off-Broadway company's SPRINGboard Reading Series, to be held on April 11th at The Players Theatre in Greenwich Village.
Thanksgiving is about a family's attempt at a normal American Thanksgiving despite something being obviously wrong. Existing in real time, the family slowly starts to burn as each member attempts to steer the spiraling holiday their way, hoping touncover the truth about how this "every family" went astray.Playwright Sara Farrington is currently in the MFA playwriting program at Brooklyn College with Mac Wellman. She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a playwright in the 2011 PlayLab Group at the Great Plains Theater Conference, and co-founder of Fine Feathered Friends theater company.Director Zach Shaffer has appeared as an actor on Broadway in A View From The Bridge and The Man Who Came to Dinner. Film and TV acting credits include Salt (Columbia Pictures), Strangers With Candy, The Black Donnellys, All My Children, Six Feet Under, XX/XY, Law & Order.According to Co-Artistic Director Michael Barra, "Gotham's mission is two-pronged; to create opportunities for emerging artists and to increase the accessibility of theatre to the general public. This series is designed to allow us to further our mission on both fronts."Videos