Fit to be Tied
- Written by Nicky Silver
- Directed by David Warren
NICKY SILVER is pleased to be back at Playwrights Horizons. His plays include Fit to be Tied (Playwrights Horizons), Beautiful Child, Pterodactyls, The Eros Trilogy, Raised in Captivity, The Food Chain, Fat Men in Skirts, The Maiden’s Prayer, Free Will & Wanton Lust, My Marriage to Ernest Borgnine, Past Perfect, The Altruists and The Agony & The Agony. He has won The Oppenheimer Award and The Kesselring Prize and been nominated for three Drama Desk Awards and three Outer Critics Circle Awards. In 2006, Mr. Silver appeared in his play The Agony & The Agony in The Vineyard Theatre’s lab production. (As of August 2008)
DAVID WARREN directed Holiday at Circle In The Square (Outer Critics Circle nomination Best Revival); Summer and Smoke and Misalliance at the Roundabout; and Hobson's Choice at Atlantic Theatre Co. (Lucille Lortel Award nomination Best Revival). Premieres include Richard Greenberg'sThe Dazzle, Hurrah at Last (Both for Roundabout), Night and Her Stars (MTC), and his adaptation of Pal Joey; Nicky Silver's Eros Trilogy, Raised in Captivity, Pterodactyls (Obie Award), and Fit to be Tied; Tom Donaghy's Minutes From The Blue Route and From Above; Leslie Ayvazian's High Dive; William Finn's Romance in Hard Times; Eric Overmeyer's Mi Vida Loca and John Corwin'sGone Home (MTC); Albert Innaurato's Gus and Al; and Harmony by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman. Other credits: West Coast productions of Raised in Captivity and Jon Robin Baitz's The End of the Day. Regional: Twelfth Night (Long Wharf), The Philadelphia Story (Hartford Stage), Eric Bogosian's Griller and productions for La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, New York Stage and Film, and others. He has received an L.A. Weekly, three Dramalogue awards and an L.A. Drama Critic's Circle nomination. He is a founding member of Drama Dept. Upcoming projects include Steven Dietz's Fiction at the McCarter. (As of November 2008)
Featuring
T. Scott Cunningham
Dick Latessa
Matt Keeslar
Jean Smart
Creative Team
James Youmans
Scenic DesignerTeresa Snider-Stein
Costume DesignerDonald Holder
Lighting DesignerC.A. Clark
Production Stage ManagerJohn Gromada
Original MusicPhoto of T. Scott Cunningham and Matt Keeslar by Joan Marcus.