Our House
- Written by Theresa Rebeck
- Directed by Michael Mayer
Broadway: Mauritius. Off-Broadway: The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann, Spike Heels, View of the Dome, Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection, Omnium Gatherum (co-written, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2003). Her novel Three Girls and Their Brother was named one of Booklist’s 10 Best First Novels of 2008 and was recently released in paperback. Awards include the IRNE and Elliot Norton Award (Mauritius) as well as Edgar, Peabody and WGA awards for episodic drama, all for her work on “NYPD Blue.” (As of May 2009)
MICHAEL MAYER is delighted to be back at Playwrights Horizons, where he directed Keith Bunin’s The Credeaux Canvas and Peter Hedges’ Baby Anger; and reunited with Theresa Rebeck, with whom he worked on View of the Dome at New York Theatre Workshop. Recent credits include Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott’s Everyday Rapture at Second Stage and Spring Awakening at the Atlantic Theater Company, on Broadway, in London and Vienna and the national tour. He has received Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Carbonell and Jeff awards. (As of May 2009)
A cocksure TV bigshot faced with dwindling ratings installs America’s favorite news anchor as host of a popular reality show. Meanwhile in Middle America, a houseful of roommates bickers over high-stakes real-world conflicts: Merv doesn’t clean the bathroom. Someone ate Alice’s yogurt. And the rent is long past due. Soon, as reality collides with reality TV, a sobering drama becomes sexy entertainment and we’re eyewitness to a crisis that holds the nation riveted.
Featuring
Morena Baccarin
Katie Kreisler
Stephen Kunken
Mandy Siegfried
Jeremy Strong
Haynes Thigpen
Christopher Evan Welch
Coming soon.
BROADWAY: A Man for All Seasons. OFF-BROADWAY: Frank’s Home and Our House (PH) Paraffin (Rattlestick); The Coward (LCT3); Conversations in Tusculum (The Public); New Jerusalem (CSC). FILM & TV: Lincoln, See Girl Run, The Messenger, The Happening, “LA Noir,” “The Good Wife.” (As of October 2012)
Playwrights Horizons: Our House. Broadway: Dead Accounts. Other Off-Broadway: Misalliance (Roundabout); Duchess of Malfi, The Revengers Tragedy (Red Bull Theater). Regional: The Aliens (San Francisco Playhouse), Dead Accounts (Cincinnati Playhouse), August: Osage County (Old Globe), Our House (World Premiere, Denver Theater Center), Hamlet (McCarter), The Black Monk (Yale Rep).
Creative Team
Derek McLane
Scenic DesignerSusan Hilferty
Costume DesignerKenneth Posner
Lighting DesignerDarron L West
Sound DesignerJames FitzSimmons
Production Stage ManagerSusan Hilferty has designed set and costumes for over 400 productions across the globe. Recent designs include Parade (Broadway), Funny Girl (Broadway), Swept Away (Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep), Hamlet (St. Anne’s Warehouse and Gate Theatre, Dublin), Little Comedies (Alley Theatre), and A Bright Room Called Day, (Public Theatre). Her many Broadway designs include Wicked (Tony, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk awards and Olivier nomination), August Wilson’s Radio Golf, Present Laughter (Tony nomination), Hands on a Hardbody, Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), Lestat (Tony nomination), Annie (2013 Revival), Into the Woods (Tony and Drama Desk nominations; Hewes Award), and Frank Wildhorn’s Wonderland. Her designs for opera include Rigoletto, La Traviata, and the upcoming Aida for the Metropolitan Opera and Manon at LA Opera and Berlin Staatsoper. Hilferty has designed over a hundred off-Broadway productions including Richard Nelson’s Apple Family Plays, August Wilson’s Jitney and Athol Fugard’s Boesman and Lena.
Previously at the Friedman: The American Plan,To Be or Not To Be, The Royal Family, Top Girls, and Time Stands Still. He is a Tony and Obie Award-winning sound designer whose work for theater and dance has been heard in over 500 Productions nationally and internationally, on Broadway and off. His accolades for Sound Design include the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and AUDELCO Awards. He a two-time Henry Hewes Design Award winner, and a proud recipient of the Princess Grace Award statue.
Photos of (1) Jeremy Strong, Mandy Siegfried, Katie Kreisler, and Haynes Thigpen; (2) Stephen Kunken, Morena Baccarin, Christopher Evan Welch, Haynes Thigpen, and Jeremy Strong; (3) Morena Baccarin; and (4) Christopher Evan Welch and Morena Baccarin by Joan Marcus.
