Photo Flash: First Look - Marin Theatre Co's BEAUTY QUEEN, Now Through 6/16

Marin Theatre Company closes its 2012-13 Season with a revival of Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane in Mill Valley from May 23 to June 16. Named San Francisco Chronicle's MVP of 2012 Bay Area theater, Mark Jackson (Shotgun Players, Aurora Theater Company) directs this "gloriously funny; wickedly amusing; unalloyed delight" (The Telegraph). Opening night is on Tuesday, May 28.

MTC's production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane features the MTC debut of Bay Area director Mark Jackson. Named best director in 2009 and 2004 by East Bay Express, best theatrical auteur in 2007 by SF Weekly and among the top 100 Bay Area artists in 2002 by San Francisco Magazine, he was the San Francisco Chronicle's MVP of 2012 Bay Area theater, with theater critic Robert Hurwitt writing, "every show is exhilarating in its intellectual challenges, sharp visual images and expressive physical acting, and every year at least one of his shows makes my Top 20 list." His directorial work was most recently seen at Aurora Theatre Company in The Arsonists and Salomania, which he also wrote, and at Shotgun Players in Woyzeck and God's Plot, which he also wrote.

MTC's production also features a cast of local actors, including returning MTC veterans Joy Carlin (Misalliance, My Old Lady) and Rod Gnapp (Edward Albee's Tiny Alice, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Frozen), as well as the debuts of Joseph Salazar and Beth Wilmurt, who were both most recently seen at Shotgun Players.

Photos by: Kevin Berne

Rod Gnapp, Beth Wilmurt, Joy Carlin

Beth Wilmurt, Rod Gnapp, Joy Carlin

Beth Wilmurt, Joseph Salazar

Beth Wilmurt, Rod Gnapp

Joy Carlin

Joy Carlin

Joseph Salazar, Joy Carlin