Three Changes
- Written by Nicky Silver
- Directed by Wilson Milam
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)
New York: The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Atlantic/Broadway; Lucille Lortel and Tony Award nominations, Best Director), Killer Joe (29th Street Rep/Soho Playhouse). UK and Ireland credits include Harvest, Flesh Wound, Fresh Kills (Royal Court); Othello (Globe); On Such As We, Defender of the Faith (Abbey, Dublin); A Lie of the Mind (Donmar); Hurlyburly (Peter Hall Company Old Vic/West End); True West (Bristol Old Vic); Swimming with Sharks (West End); Chimps (Liverpool Playhouse); The Wexford Trilogy (Tricycle); The Lieutenant of Inishmore (RSC Stratford/Barbican/West End); Killer Joe (Traverse/Bush/West End); Bug (Gate, London); Mr. Placebo (Traverse). U.S. credits include Closer (Berkeley Rep), Bug (Woolly Mammoth), Pot Mom (Steppenwolf), The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (A Red Orchid), Killer Joe (Next), Skeleton (Shattered Globe), Witness to Temptation (American Blues). Other: “Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka” (BBCi). NEIL PATEL (Scenic Designer). (As of August 2008)
Nate and Laurel are a comfortably married, Upper West Side couple – until Nate’s wayward brother Hal arrives from Hollywood. What at first seems a casual visit, a chance to reconnect, is quickly revealed as something more ominous. Hal may have had success, but human connection is all that matters, and he intends to make connections – no matter who pays the price. THREE CHANGES is a funny and darkly suspenseful look at the joy of family, and how far we’ll go to get it.
Featuring
Aya Cash
Scott Cohen
Dylan McDermott
Brian J. Smith
Maura Tierney
Playwrights Horizons (where she got her Equity card!): The Pain and the Itch, Three Changes. Other Off-Broadway: Killers and Other Family (Rattlestick); Offices, Happy Hour (Atlantic); From Up Here (MTC); The Other Place (MCC); Playlist, Missed Connections (Ars Nova). Film: The Wolf of Wall Street, Sleepwalk With Me, The Oranges, Off Jackson Avenue. TV: “You’re the Worst” (Critic’s Choice, TCA nominations, Comedy Lead Actress), “Easy,” “Traffic Light,” “The Newsroom,” “Modern Family,” “The Good Wife.” Upcoming: Mary Goes Round, F*cking People, Village People, producing/starring in Little Beauties based on her mother’s first novel. @maybeayacash
(as of 2/1/17)
Creative Team
Neil Patel
Scenic DesignerTheresa Squire
Costume DesignerBen Stanton
Lighting DesignerBart Fasbender
Sound DesignerWilliam H. Lang
Production Stage ManagerBorn in Wales, raised in Wisconsin and living in New York City, Neil’s design work has been seen in feature films, television series, commercials, Broadway and West End plays and musicals, international operas as well as exhibitions for the Venice Biennale.
Recent projects include Laurence Fishburne’s LIKE THEY DO IN THE MOVIES at the Perelman Performing Arts Center, CIVILIZATION TO NATION: THE GREAT INDIAN MUSICAL which opened the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Center in Mumbai, Antoine Fuqua’s KING SHAKA (CBS/Showtime) and David Byrne’s THEATER OF THE MIND (Denver Center for Performing Arts/Arbutus).
Notable film and television projects include DICKINSON for AppleTV+ (Peabody Award), PRETTY LITTLE LIARS:ORIGINAL SIN for HBOMAX, SOME VELVET MORNING (TriBeCa Film Festival) for TriBeca Films, IN TREATMENT for HBO (Peabody Award), DIL DHADAKNE DO and LITTLE BOXES (TriBeCa Film Festival) for Netflix.
Ben 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) Dylan McDermott, Maura Tierney, and Scott Cohen; (2) Maura Tierney, Brian J. Smith, and Scott Cohen; (3) Aya Cash and Dylan McDermott; and (4) Brian J. Smith, Scott Cohen, and Dylan McDermott by Joan Marcus.
A born playwright, Nicky Silver is a creator of language that unscrolls across the stage like luminous skywriting. His instinctive theatrical gracefulness is still in evidence in Three Changes.
Fiercely good acting and the taut direction of Wilson Milam make for a gripping experience. Maura Tierney shines.
Scott Cohen creates both the charm and the meanness of psychopathic Hal. Dylan McDermott gives one of the best performances of his career.