Go Back to Where You Are
- Written by David Greenspan
- Directed by Leigh Silverman
(he/him) Soho Rep: David Adjmi’s Marie Antoinette. Playwrights Horizons: in his plays She Stoops to Comedy and Go Back to Where You Are, and Kathleen Tolan’s The Wax. Elsewhere: in his plays Dead Mother, I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees, The Memory Motel, his solo plays The Argument and The Myopia; solo renditions: The Patsy, Strange Interlude and Four Saints in Three Acts; solo plays: Joey Merlo’s On Set With Theda Bara and Mona Pirnot’s I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan; six OBIES.
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)
A forgotten chorus boy from the theater of Ancient Greece, stuck in a lonely purgatory these past 2000 years, is sent back to earth on a mission from God. He now finds himself among a vacationing family in Montauk, caught off-guard by his re-discovered ability to feel love. Go Back To Where You Are is a melancholy comic romance, told with Greenspan’s unique brand of theatrical wit and exquisite lyricism.
Featuring
Lisa Banes
Stephen Bogardus
Tim Hopper
Brian Hutchison
David Greenspan
Michael Izquierdo
Mariann Mayberry
At Playwrights Horizons: Isn’t It Romantic (Drama Desk nomination) and Fighting International Fat. Broadway: Present Laughter, Accent on Youth, High Society, Arcadia, Rumors. Off-Broadway includes Look Back in Anger (Roundabout, Theatre World Award); My Sister in this House (Second Stage, Obie Award); Three Sisters, Emily (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Antigone (Public Theater); On the Verge, Ten by Tennesee (Acting Company alumnus). Films include The Hotel New Hampshire, Cocktail, Young Guns, The Jackal, Dragonfly, Pumpkin, and Freedom Writers. Some three score television appearances include being a regular on the series “The Trials of Rosie O’Neil,” “Son of the Beach” and “Girls Club;” recurring roles include “China Beach,” “The King of Queens” and “Six Feet Under.” Guest star appearances include “L.A. Law,” “Rosanne,” “Frasier,” “Desperate Housewives” and most recently “Royal Pains,” “The Good Wife,” and “Law & Order: SVU.” Best Pilot: “Gloria Vane.” Lisa is a graduate of the Juilliard School, an alumna of The Acting Company and a member of three unions. (As of March 2011)
Created the role of Whizzer in the 1981 production of William Finn’s March of the Falsettos here at Playwrights Horizons. Nine years later he reprised the role in Falsettoland at PH. In 1992 these shows were combined to make Falsettos on Broadway in which he co-starred with original cohorts Michael Rupert and Chip Zien. Also on Broadway: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas; Old Acquaintance; Man of La Mancha; James Joyce’s The Dead; High Society; King David; Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nom., Obie); The Grapes of Wrath; Les Misérables and West Side Story. Regional: Some Men (Philadelphia Theatre Co.), A Little Night Music (Center Stage), M. Butterfly (Arena Stage), Show Boat and Chess (Nat’l tours), City of Angels (Shubert, L.A.), 80 Days (La Jolla) and Progress (Long Wharf). Film: Julie and Julia; Love! Valour! Compassion!. Television: “Eleventh Hour,” “Life,” “Without a Trace,” “Monk,” “Ed,” “Law & Order” (all of ‘em). Celebrating 33 years in Actors Equity. (As of March 2011)
(he/him) Soho Rep: David Adjmi’s Marie Antoinette. Playwrights Horizons: in his plays She Stoops to Comedy and Go Back to Where You Are, and Kathleen Tolan’s The Wax. Elsewhere: in his plays Dead Mother, I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees, The Memory Motel, his solo plays The Argument and The Myopia; solo renditions: The Patsy, Strange Interlude and Four Saints in Three Acts; solo plays: Joey Merlo’s On Set With Theda Bara and Mona Pirnot’s I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan; six OBIES.
Theater credits include New Jerusalem (CSC), Mother Courage (The Public Theater), Mrs. Warren’s Profession (The McCarter), Theater of War (US Dept. of Defense), The Miracle Worker (Circle in the Square), A Restoration Comedy (The Old Globe), Priceless (EST), The Time of Your Life and The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (Williamstown), Ishmael in Moby Dick (The Ohio Theater), and Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Theater of NJ). TV and Film credits include Taking Woodstock (directed by Ang Lee), “Blue Bloods,” “Meet Dave,” “Heterosexuals,” “SuperEgo,” “i” in iChannel, “As The World Turns,” Release (Cannes short), The Sidecar. Received his BA from Williams College and MFA from NYU Graduate Acting Program. (As of March 2011)
A Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member in Chicago since 1993. Broadway: August: Osage County, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Metamorphoses. Off-Broadway and regional credits include Victoria Musica (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (3LD), Metamorphoses (Second Stage), The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Goodman, Lincoln Center Serious Fun!, Second Stage), The Odyssey (Goodman, McCarter, Seattle Rep), How I Learned to Drive (Northlight, Alliance), Hamlet, As You Like It (Chicago Shakespeare), and Mirror of the Invisible World (Goodman). Film: Just Wright, Handsome Harry, No God No Master, The Company, Since You’ve Been Gone, War of the Worlds. TV: “Law & Order” (SVU, Criminal Intent, and Trial by Jury), “Eden” (pilot), “Mercy,” “Delocated,” “The Dave Chappelle Show,” “The Pennsylvania Miner’s Story.” (As of March 2011)
Creative Team
Rachel Hauck
Scenic DesignerTheresa Squire
Costume DesignerMatt Frey
Lighting DesignerKyle Gates
Production Stage ManagerRachel Hauck is a Tony Award winning scenic designer based in New York City.
Broadway credits include Hadestown, The Avett Brothers’ Swept Away, Doug Wright’s Good Night Oscar, Paula Vogel’s How I Learned To Drive; Heidi Schreck’s What The Constitution Means To Me; and John Leguizamo’s Latin History For Morons. Most recently, she designed the scenery for Cats: The Jellicle Ball; Galileo: A Rock Musical; and the Avett Brothers’ Swept Away on Broadway.
Rachel is honored that her designs have been recognized. She has received the Tony Award for her design of Hadestown, as well as a Tony Nomination and Jeff Award for Good Night Oscar. Rachel is the recipient of Drama Desk, Lortel, Helen Hayes, Audelco and Ovation Nominations. She is extremely honored to have received the Princess Grace Award, Lilly Award, an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence and the Distinguished Alumni Award from UCLA where Rachel received her BA.
Rachel was the Resident Set Designer at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference for ten years where she worked with more than 70 playwrights. She remains dedicated to new work and new play development.
She is a member of the American Theater Wing Advisory Board, the 1/52 Grant Administration Committee and a co-founder of Design Action. She was an elected leader of her union, USA 829 for 12 years, and has taught at Princeton, Brown, Vassar and Cal Arts.
Playwrights Horizons: The Profane, Rancho Viejo, A Life, Placebo, This, Grand Concourse, The Call, Go Back to Where You Are, She Stoops to Comedy. Other Off-Broadway: Everybody (Signature), All the Ways... (MCC), War (LCT3), Gloria (Vineyard), The Way We Get By (Second Stage), Buzzer (The Public), An Octoroon (Soho Rep., TFANA), Generations (Soho Rep.). Regional: For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday (Humana Festival 2016, Berkeley Rep).
Most recently Kyle served as Producing Manager for Playwrights Horizons Theater School, an NYU Tisch studio, producing 50+ student theater projects a year. Before working in educational theater Kyle was a stage manager for over 15 years working on and off Broadway. Kyle holds a B.F.A. in Stage Management from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Photos of (1) Lisa Banes and Mariann Mayberry; (2) David Greenspan and Brian Hutchison; (3) David Greenspan, Lisa Banes, Michael Izquierdo, and Stephen Bogardus; and (4) Stephen Bogardus and Tim Hopper by Joan Marcus.
CRITIC'S PICK. An endearingly daffy, compassionate comedy. DAVID GREENSPAN is always a delight to watch. MARIANN MAYBERRY and BRIAN HUTCHISON are particularly touching. LISA BANES is delicious. Mr. Greenspan the playwright has concocted A HONEY OF A PART for Mr. Greenspan the actor.
FUNNY, TOUCHING AND INNOVATIVE. Director LEIGH SILVERMAN draws maximum humor and poignancy from the talented cast.
STEPHEN BOGARDUS, MICHAEL IZQUIERDO and TIM HOPPER make their characters into excellent company.