A Feminine Ending
- Written by Sarah Treem
- Directed by Blair Brown
Plays include Empty Sky (South Coast Rep's Pacific Playwrights Festival, winner of the Reva Shiner New Play Award at the Bloomington Playwrights Project); Against the Wall (workshop at The Source Theatre in DC and the new play lab at Berlin's Friends of the Italian Opera); Mirror, Mirror (developed at Playwrights Horizons); and Human Voices (Manhattan Theater Club's Springboard's New Play Series, New York Stage and Film). Sarah has read from her non-fiction work on NPR's All Things Considered. She has taught playwriting at Yale University and currently writes for the upcoming HBO television drama "In Treatment". Graduate of the Yale School of Drama and Yale University. (As of October 2007)
Has appeared as an actor in over fifty plays including: Copenhagen (Tony Award), James Joyce’s The Dead, Cabaret, The Secret Rapture, and The Threepenny Opera. She has directed Leslie Ayvazian’s plays Rosemary and I (Passage Theatre, NJ), and Lovely Day (The Play Company, NY). Recently, Blair also directed a workshop of A Feminine Ending at Portland Center Stage.
Having recently graduated from a major conservatory, and with a rocker boyfriend on the brink of stardom, aspiring composer Amanda Blue’s “extraordinary life” seems to be all mapped out. But when she’s called home to answer her mother’s distress call about a [marriage in crisis/marital crisis], Amanda’s grand plan starts to unravel. AFE is a bittersweet new play about dreams deferred, loves lost and learning to trust a woman's voice in a man's world.
Featuring
Alec Beard
Gillian Jacobs
Marsha Mason
Richard Masur
Joe Paulik
Is thrilled to make her debut at Playwright’s Horizons. Other theater credits include: “Cagelove” (dir. Adam Rapp) at the Rattlestick Theater and “The Fabulous Life of a Size Zero” at the DR2. Film and television credits include: the upcoming films “Choke” starring Sam Rockwell and Angelica Houston, “Gardens of the Night” featuring John Malkovich and “Blackbird” written and directed by Adam Rapp. Television credits include a recurring role on “The Book of Daniel” (NBC) and several pilots. Training: The Juilliard School. (As of October 2007)
Is delighted to be in this wonderful play with this fabulous cast, director, creative team and crew. He most recently appeared in the Lincoln Center Directors Lab presentation of The Maestro’s Garden, by Bathsheba Doran; at The Public Theatre in the NY premiere of The Ruby Sunrise, by Rinne Groff; in the Broadway premiere of Michael Frayne’s Democracy; and off-Broadway in The Manhattan Theatre Club’s premiere of Daniel Goldfarb’s Sarah, Sarah, and The Culture Project’s award-winning The Exonerated. He has worked in several regional theatres, and toured last year opposite Sharon Gless in Neil Simon’s Prisoner of Second Ave. He has starred in more than 45 films, over 40 television movies, and on several television series. He has been nominated for an Emmy and an Oscar. Richard has directed televison, film, and many plays, including several for LA Theater Works’ The Play’s the Thing series. (As of October 2007)
Creative Team
Cameron Anderson
Scenic DesignerMichael Krass
Costume DesignerBen Stanton
Lighting DesignerObadiah Eaves
Sound DesignerRobyn Henry
Production Stage ManagerBen is a lighting designer for theater, concerts, dance, installations, and events. He is a five-time Tony Award nominee as well as an Obie, Lortel, IRNE, and Ovation Award winner. Ben is currently represented on Broadway by Maybe Happy Ending at the Belasco Theater. Recent Broadway credits include The Notebook at the Schoenfeld Theater; Mary Jane starring Rachel McAdams; Days of Wine and Roses Starring Kelli O'Hara & Brian Darcy James; Goodnight, Oscar starring Sean Hayes; The Collaboration Starring Paul Bettany & Jeremy Pope; Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Featuring Jefferson Mays; The Rose Tattoo starring Marisa Tomei; Derren Brown: SECRET at the James Earl Jones Theater; Regina Spektor: Live On Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater; Ayad Akhtar’s JUNK at the Vivian Beaumont; Six Degrees of Separation starring Allison Janney, Corey Hawkins, and John Benjamin Hickey; Deaf West Theater’s Spring Awakening at the Lena Horne Theater; Fully Committed starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson; and Fun Home (Broadway, Off-Broadway, 1st National Tour, London).
Photos of (1) Gillian Jacobs; (2) Richard Masur and Gillian Jacobs; (3) Joe Paulik and Gillian Jacobs; and (4) Gillian Jacobs and Marsha Mason by Joan Marcus.
DARKLY COMIC. A FEMININE ENDING HAS UNDENIABLE WIT. Director BLAIR BROWN has elicited fine performances from her actors, with veterans MARSHA MASON and RICHARD MASUR particularly memorable.
APPEALINGLY OUTLANDISH HUMOR. BLAIR BROWN gently underscores the play’s oddball comic touches.
COURAGEOUS. The 90-minute piece swerves with nerve and naïveté. SARAH TREEM has a voice all her own.
A SNAZZY PRODUCTION. A Feminine Ending speaks up for itself in an unusually melodic voice.
