The Retributionists
- Written by Daniel Goldfarb
- Directed by Leigh Silverman
DANIEL GOLDFARB made his Broadway debut with MARTIN SHORT: FAME BECOMES ME. His off-Broadway credits include CRADLE AND ALL and SARAH, SARAH both at Manhattan Theatre Club; THE RETRIBUTIONISTS at Playwrights Horizons; MODERN ORTHODOX at Dodger Stages; and ADAM BAUM AND THE JEW MOVIE at Blue Light, which won the Oppenheimer Award for Best New York debut, the Canadian Authors Association Award for Best Play, and was a Dramatist’s Guild Hull-Warriner Award Finalist. Regional credits include the musicals PARTY COME HERE at Williamstown Theatre Festival and RADIO GIRL at Goodspeed. His plays have been produced and developed regionally across the country and are published by Dramatists Play Service. Television includes two seasons in the writer’s room on Rogue (DirecTV), for which he wrote episodes 108 and 207 and the accompanying webseries; pilots for Showtime and CBS; and an episode of The Electric Company (PBS). Film includes screenplays for HBO and Chicago Films. Current film and TV includes the screenplay A FAIR MARRIAGE for Maven Pictures, and comedy pilot NUCLEAR FAMILY for Sphere Media. Daniel is a graduate of The Juilliard School and NYU’s Department of Dramatic Writing at Tisch (BFA, MFA), where he is now on faculty as Area Head of Playwriting. He serves on the council of the Dramatist’s Guild where he sits on the steering committee and Chairs the publications committee that oversees The Dramatist magazine. He is a member of the WGAE, WGC, and MCC’s Playwrights Coalition. (October 2013)
Broadway: David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish; Lisa Kron’s Well. Recent world premieres: The Madrid (MTC); No Place to Go (Public Theater); In the Wake (Center Theatre Group/Berkeley Repertory Theatre and The Public Theater, Obie Award, Lortel nomination); Chinglish (Goodman Theater, Jeff nomination; West Coast/Hong Kong tour); Go Back to Where You Are (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award); From Up Here (MTC, Drama Desk nomination); Yellow Face (Center Theatre Group/The Public Theater); Coraline (MCC/True Love); Blue Door (Playwrights Horizons); Hunting and Gathering (Primary Stages); Beebo Brinker Chronicles (Hourglass Group/37 Arts); Creature (New Georges/P73); Well (The Public Theater; Huntington Theatre; ACT); Oedipus at Palm Springs (NYTW); also Golden Child (Signature Theatre) and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Second Stage Theatre); and many regional productions. West End: Wit. She is currently directing Tanya Barfield's The Call for Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages. (As of March 2013)
Spring 1946. The plan was simple – a German for every Jew. Its execution would be swift, clean, its impact undeniable. In this daring, new romantic thriller inspired by actual events, a band of Jewish freedom fighters attempts to avenge a society’s wrongs – if they can keep from tearing each other apart along the way.
Featuring
Hamilton Clancy
Adam Driver
Rebecca Henderson
Margarita Levieva
Cristin Milioti
Adam Rothenberg
Lusia Strus
Hamilton Clancy is currently the producing artistic director of The Drilling Company. Producing credits include In The Car, Neighbors, Windows of the World, Dealers, Big Apple, Hamlet, Two Gentlemen of Verona. As an actor, Clancy has appeared in film, Off-Broadway, and regional theaters across the country. Film: "Burn After Reading", "American Gangster", "The Exonerated". Theatre: Hamlet, Dog Logic, Chicago, Carousel, South Pacific, and Offerings. Clancy earned his B.F.A. at The Catholic University of America and earned his M.F.A. through The University of San Diego's program at the Old Globe Theatre.
Broadway: Man and Boy, Mrs. Warren's Profession. Off-Broadway: Look Back in Anger, Angels in America: Millenium Approaches, Angels in America: Perestroika. Television: "Girls" (Two Primetime Emmy Nominations), "Law and Order: SVU", "You Don't Know Jack", "Law and Order", "The Unusuals". Film: "This is Where I Leave You", "Inside Llewyn Davis", "While We're Young", "Hungry Hearts" (Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival), "What If", "Lincoln", "Frances Ha", "Gayby". Driver graduated from Julliard in 2009.
Playwrights Horizons: The Whale, The Retributionists. Other Off-Broadway: Too Much, Too Much, Too Many (Roundabout); Red-Handed Otter (Cherry Lane); The Collection/A Kind of Alaska (Atlantic); Canary (Rattlestick); Three Sisters, The Misanthrope, Scapin (Classic Stage Company), Baby Face (Soho Rep). Other New York: Roadkill Confidential (Clubbed Thumb), Spin (StageFARM). Film/Television: True Story, “The Good Wife.”
Playwrights Horizons debut. Broadway: Impressionism. Television: "Law and Order: Trial by Jury", "Vanished", "Kings", "Revenge", "The Blacklist". Film: "The Invisible", "Adventureland", "The Stand Up", "The Lincoln Lawyer", "For Ellen", "Kings of Badassdom", "The Loft". Levieva recieved her acting training from The William Esper Studio's Meisner Traninig program.
Milioti made her Broadway debut inThe Lieutenant of Inishmore. She went on to appear in more Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including The Devil's Disciple, Stunning, The Little Foxes, Crooked, and Coram Boy. Milioti originated the role of Girl in the musical adaptation of Once (Tony Award nomination, Grammy Award winner). Her television credits include "30 Rock" and "How I Met Your Mother", playing the titular character. Her film credits include "Sleepwalk with Me", "The Brass Teapot", and "The Wolf of Wall Street".
Adam Rothenberg has appeared in Off-Broaway and regional theatre productions, television, and film. Off-Broadway: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Birdy, The Wooden Breeks. Regional: A Streetcar Named Desire, Lady Windermere's Fan, Mother of Invention, A Doll's House. Television: "The Jury", "Law and Order", "The Ex-List", "House", "Elementary", "Person of Interest", "Ripper Street". Film: "Mad Money", "Tennessee", "The Dish and the Spoon".
Playwrights Horizons: The Retributionists. Broadway: Enron, Elling. Other Off-Broadway: The Undeniable Sound of Right Now (Rattlestick). Regional: Confederacy of Dunces (Huntington); Travesties and Are You There, McPhee? (McCarter); Good People (Jeff Nomination), Our Town, Hysteria, Whispering City, her commissioned, LA Weekly award-winning solo-show, It Ain't No Fairy Tale (Steppenwolf); Love's Labor's Lost, Merry Wives of Windsor (Chicago Shakespeare), Go Away Go Away (European Rep, Jeff Award); Henry IV (Royal Shakespare Company, England). Film: Restless, Kelly & Cal, The Mend, Cotton (Best Actress, Four Festivals), 50 First Dates, Miss Congeniality 2. TV: “Blue Bloods,” “Modern Family,” “Wayward Pines,” Estelle on “Good Behavior.”
Creative Team
Derek McLane
Scenic DesignerSusan Hilferty
Costume DesignerPeter Kaczorowski
Lighting DesignerTom Kitt
Original MusicJill B.C. DuBoff
Sound DesignerBess Marie Glorioso
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.
Photos of (1) Adam Driver and Margarita Levieva; (2) Adam Driver and Cristin Milioti; (3) Margarita Levieva and Adam Rothenberg; and (4) Margarita Levieva and Adam Driver by Joan Marcus.
