Kin
- Written by Bathsheba Doran
- Directed by Sam Gold
Other plays include Parents’ Evening, Ben and the Magic Paintbrush, Living Room in Africa, Nest and adaptations of Dickens’ Great Expectations, Maeterlinck’s The Blind and Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. She is currently adapting The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency as a feature for HBO Films and writing on Season Two of the Martin Scorsese/HBO series “Boardwalk Empire.” Ms. Doran moved to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship in 2000, after working as a TV sketch comedy writer in England. She received her B.A. from Cambridge University, her M.F.A. from Columbia University and went on to become a playwriting fellow at Juilliard. She is a recipient of a Helen Merill Award and under commission from Atlantic Theater and Playwrights Horizons. Her work is available from Samuel French and Playscripts Inc. (As of February 2011)
Anna, an Ivy League poetry scholar, and Sean, an Irish personal trainer, hardly seem destined for one another. But as their web of disparate family and friends crosses great distances – both psychologically and geographically – an unlikely new family is forged. Bathsheba Doran's play sheds a sharp light on the changing face of kinship in the expansive landscape of the modern world.
Featuring
Suzanne Bertish
Bill Buell
Kristen Bush
Patch Darragh
Laura Heisler
Matthew Rauch
Cotter Smith
Molly Ward
Kit Flanagan
Broadway: Nicholas Nickleby, Salome, The Molière Comedies (Tony nomination). MTC: Skirmishes (Theatre World Award), The Art of Success, The Memory of Water. The Public: Measure for Pleasure. Shakespeare Theatre Company: Antony and Cleopatra. McCarter: Mrs. Warren’s Profession. West End: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, An Inspector Calls, Tango at the End of Winter, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The National Theatre: King Lear, Rosmersholm, The Oedipus Plays. RSC: Nicholas Nickleby (Olivier Award), Three Sisters, Othello, Twelfth Night. Old Vic: Hamlet (Clarence Derwent Award). Young Vic: Hamlet. TV/film includes “Rome,” “Absolutely Fabulous,” “To the Lighthouse,” “Poirot,” “Trial & Retribution,” “Secret Diary of a Call Girl,” The Hunger, Hanover Street, Venice/Venice, The 13th Warrior. (As of February 2011)
Playwrights Horizons: Kin, On the Bum, Violet (concert). Broadway: Cyrano, Equus, The History Boys, Inherit the Wind, Urinetown, 42nd Street, Titanic, Tommy, Taking Steps, Big River, Annie, Once a Catholic. Other Off-Broadway: Indian Ink (Roundabout); Tartuffe, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night (The Public/Delacorte). Film: God's Pocket, Across the Universe, Spy Game, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Love Letter, Requiem for a Dream, Quiz Show, Kinsey. TV: “Elementary,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Bronx Is Burning,” “John Adams,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Law & Order,” “Boardwalk Empire.”
Broadway: A Touch of the Poet (Roundabout). Off- Broadway: Photograph 51 (Ensemble Studio Theatre), King Lear (The Public), As You Like It (The Public Theater) Shakespeare in the Park), Bathsheba Doran’s adaptation of Great Expectations (Lucille Lortel). Regional: Saturn Returns (South Coast Repertory), Passion Play (Goodman), The Violet Hour (Old Globe). TV/film includes “Blue Bloods,” “A Legal Mind,” “The Good Wife,” “Knight Rider,” “NCIS,” “Numb3rs,” “Medium,” “Law & Order: SVU,” Calling It Quits and Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman). Ms. Bush trained at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama. (As of February 2011)
New York: The Glass Menagerie (Lortel nomination), Crimes of the Heart (Roundabout); Our Town (Broadway); The Ruby Sunrise (The Public); All That I Will Ever Be (NYTW); Where We’re Born (Rattlestick); Spin (stageFARM); Safe (Studio Dante); The Grille Room, Secret Agenda of Trees (Cherry Lane); Golden Age (Kraine). Regional: Mark Taper Forum, Williamstown (3x), Guthrie, Old Globe, Yale Rep, ATL Humana, Long Wharf, San Jose Rep, Pittsburgh Public. TV/Film: Tim Flanagan on NBC’s “Mercy,” “NCIS,” “White Collar,” “Cupid,” “Damages,” “Guiding Light,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” Coach, “Monday Night Mayhem,” Little Horses. Juilliard graduate. (As of February 2011)
Playwrights Horizons: Kin, Doris to Darlene, People Be Heard. Broadway: Coram Boy. Other Off-Broadway: The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels), Everything Will Be Different (Soho Rep), A Mother, A Daughter and a Gun (Dodger Stages), Water Music (EST), Somewhere Someplace Else (Clubbed Thumb), The Given (Studio Dante). Regional: Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Williamstown, Humana Festival, Woolly Mammoth, McCarter, Old Globe, The Alley. TV: “The Middle,” “Ugly Betty,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Bones,” “Numbers.”
Broadway: The Merchant of Venice, Prelude to a Kiss. Off-Broadway: The Winter’s Tale, The Merchant of Venice, The Duchess of Malfi (2010 Callaway Award), Still Life, Edward the Second, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Book of Days, more. Regional: Williamstown, Long Wharf, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, Westport, A.R.T., Cincinnati Playhouse, Rep. Theatre of St. Louis, Hartford Stage, others. Film: Premium Rush, Stags, The Absence, Breaking Point, No Reservations. TV: ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC. Screenwriter (with Brad Shelton): Between Two Waves, Fever, “The Light,” “In Between Days” for Working Title Television. (As of February 2011)
Broadway: Next Fall, An American Daughter, Burn This. Off- Broadway: Next Fall (Naked Angels), How I Learned to Drive, The Dying Gaul (Vineyard), Borderlines, El Salvador, Empty Hearts, Walking the Dead (Circle Rep), A Soldier’s Play (Negro Ensemble), Blood Knot (Roundabout). L.A.: The Tavern (L.A. Drama Critics Award), The Seagull, Endgame, The Homecoming, Mad Forest (Matrix Theatre); How I Learned to Drive, A Soldier’s Play (Mark Taper); Romeo and Juliet (Skylight). National tour: Art. Film: X2; You Don’t Know Jack; Burning Blue; Friends with Kids; Lunatics, Lovers and Poets (Best Supporting Actor nom., Method Fest). TV: early days of “Hill Street Blues” to this season’s “White Collar.” (As of February 2011)
New York: Bathsheba Doran’s Kin (Playwrights Horizons); The Tenant (Woodshed Collective); Keep Your Baggage With You (Theater for the New City); Nick Jones’ Nosemaker’s Apprentice (Brick Theater); Crystal Skillman’s Nobody (RPR); End of Lines, The Shape of Metal (59E59 Theaters); Umbrella Plays (FringeNYC); The Lacy Project (Ice Factory Festival); and Richard Foreman’s Paradise Hotel. World Premieres of Wendy MacLeod’s Find and Sign (Pioneer Theater) and Theresa Rebeck’s Our House (Denver Center); Three Sisters, The Seagull and Romeo and Juliet (American Repertory Theater), Camille (Bard Summerscape), Othello (Hartford Stage). International: Krystian Lupa’s Three Sisters (Edinburgh International Festival). TV: Ali LeRoi’s “Are We There Yet?” (As of March 2012)
Creative Team
Paul Steinberg
Scenic DesignerDavid Zinn
Costume DesignerJane Cox
Lighting DesignerMatt Tierney
Sound DesignerAlaina Taylor
Production Stage ManagerPaul Steinberg (Scenic Designer, he/him). Playwrights Horizons: Kin. Broadway: M. Butterfly. Off Broadway: Judgment Day (Henry Hewes Award Park Ave Armory), The Twilight Zone (Almeida Theater and West End, London). Opera: Falstaff, Masked Ball, Rosenkavalier (Met Opera), Semiramide (ROH London), Il Trovatore (Bregenz Festival), Don Giovanni, Peter Grimes, Der Meistersinger (ENO, London), Wozzeck (Komische Oper Berlin), La Calisto (Munich), Tamerlano (Frankfurt), Billy Budd (Golden Mask Award Bolshoi Opera), Tanhauser (Opera Nomori, Tokyo). Paul is an Arts Professor at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts Department of Design For Stage and Film.
Playwrights Horizons: Hir, The Flick (Drama Desk nomination, also Barrow Street and National Theater, UK), Circle Mirror Transformation, Kin, The Big Meal, Completeness, Placebo. Broadway: A Doll’s House Part 2 (costumes, Tony nom.), Amelie; Present Laughter; The Humans (Tony Award); Fun Home (Tony nomination); The Last Ship, In the Next Room (Tony nomination), Xanadu. Off-Broadway: Hamlet, How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, 10 out of 12.
Matt Tierney is an American actor with a diverse range of credits on stage, television, and film. Born and raised in New York City, Tierney discovered his passion for acting at a young age and began performing in local theater productions. He went on to study theater at the prestigious Juilliard School, where he honed his craft and developed his unique style.
Photos of (1) Company; (2) Bill Buell and Suzanne Bertish; (3) Kristen Bush and Laura Heisler; and (4) Patch Darragh and Kristen Bush by Joan Marcus.
CRITICS' PICK! Simply terrific. Perhaps the finest new play of the season. Funny and audacious, haunting, and exquisitely wrought. A superlative cast, directed by Sam Gold with his customary grace.
Raucous comedy, poignant emotion — Kin does all that and more, establishing Bathsheba Doran as a major talent. The ensemble delivers vividly memorable performances. You’ll fall in love.
FOUR STARS! A smashing cast and bravura direction by Sam Gold.
