Photo Flash: First Look a ROZ AND RAY, Premiering Tonight at Seattle Rep

Seattle Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere of Roz and Ray, a play by local playwright, Seattle Rep Writers Group alumna, and University of Washington Senior Artist in Residence Karen Hartman, with direction from the acclaimed Chay Yew, Artistic Director of Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. Broadway talents Ellen McLaughlin (Angels in America) and Teagle F. Bougere (The Crucible, A Raisin In The Sun, The Tempest) star in Roz and Ray, which runs now through November 13, 2016 (opening night is tonight, October 19, 2016) in the Leo K. Theatre. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the duo in action below!

Last seen at Seattle Rep in the 2013 production of Good People, Ellen McLaughlin is well known for having originated the part of the Angel in Tony Kushner's Angels in America, appearing in every domestic production from its earliest workshops through its Broadway run. Teagle F. Bougere plays her opposite in Roz and Ray, having last been seen at the Rep in its 2011 production of Clybourne Park as well as Of Mice and Men in 2010. In addition to his multiple Broadway credits, Bougere also has a number of film roles to his name including features in A Night At The Museum, Two Weeks Notice, A Beautiful Mind, and others.

Roz and Ray follows the close, turbulent relationship between Roz, a brilliant pediatric physician, and Ray, the single father of two hemophiliac boys. Inspired by her own father, a man who practiced medicine from the early 1970s until the early 1990s, playwright Karen Hartman pulled her vision for this story not only from her family's past, but from the information documented during the time that HIV entered the blood supply in United States hospitals. Much like Hartman's father, both Roz and Ray are caught in a devastating chapter of medical and queer history having to ask themselves - can they "do no harm" while saving the children they love?

Tickets are on sale now through the Seattle Rep Box Office at 206.443.2222 and online at seattlerep.org.

Photo Credit: Alabastro Photography

Teagle F. Bougere (Ray)

Ellen McLaughlin (Roz)

Teagle F. Bougere (Ray) and Ellen McLaughlin (Roz)

Ellen McLaughlin (Roz) and Teagle F. Bougere (Ray)