Completeness
- Written by Itamar Moses
- Directed by Pam MacKinnon
ITAMAR MOSES is the author of the full-length plays Outrage, Bach at Leipzig, Celebrity Row, The Four of Us, Yellowjackets, Back Back Back and Completeness; the musicals Nobody Loves You (with Gaby Alter) and Fortress of Solitude (with Michael Friedman and Daniel Aukin); and an evening of short plays called Love/Stories (Or But YouWill Get Used to It). His work has appeared Off-Broadway and elsewhere in New York, at regional theatres across the country and in Canada, and is published by Faber & Faber and Samuel French. He has received new play commissions from the McCarter Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Wilma Theater, South Coast Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center and Goodman Theatre. On television, Itamar has written for both TNT’s “Men of a Certain Age” and HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.” Itamar holds an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from NYU and has taught playwriting at Yale and NYU. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and MCC Playwrights Coalition, and is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. He was born in Berkeley, CA and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. (As of September 2011)
How does a computer scientist hook up with a molecular biologist? He blinds her with science, of course. When Elliot builds a computer program to help Molly with her research project, the variables in their evolving relationship shift as rapidly as the terms of their experiment. This deft and imaginative new ROM-comedy shows that even the most sophisticated algorithm may freeze in the face of life’s infinite possibilities.
Featuring
Brian Avers
Aubrey Dollar
Meredith Forlenza
Karl Miller
Broadway: Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’N’ Roll directed by Trevor Nunn; Mart in McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Off-Broadway/regional: Edgar in The Public Theater’s King Lear with Kevin Kline; Max Garrett in Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw at South Coast Repertory;Yvan in Art, Brindsley in Black Comedy and Dennis McLeary in The Violet Hour at Barrington Stage. Film: Julie & Julia, Gigantic. Television includes “NCIS: Los Angeles” (recurring), “NCIS,” “The Closer,” “Medium,” “Castle” and “Law & Order.” Brian’s first feature film as director, The Weekend, is in post-production. M.F.A.: NYU. Recipient of the AV Global Fellowship in the Arts.
is happy to return to Playwrights Horizons after last appearing in Wendy MacLeod’s Juvenilia. She starred on the FOX drama “Point Pleasant” as well as the ABC series “Women’s Murder Club.” Dollar created the role of Marina Cooper on CBS’s daytime drama “Guiding Light.” Other theatre credits include Bottom of the World (Atlantic Stage2), The Mistakes Madeline Made (Yale Rep), Orange Lemon Egg Canary (P.S.122) and many productions at Boston University, where she studied. Guest spots include “The Good Wife,” “Ugly Betty,” “Cupid” and “Going to California. Film: Prime, Failure to Launch, Hard Luck, Stepping Up, Backseat and the upcoming See Girl Run.
just finished playing Hannah in the new comedy feature film Hannah Has a Ho Phase. Other credits include A Behanding in Spokane (Broadway), A Contemporary American’s Guide to a Successful Marriage (SoHo Playhouse) and Steel Magnolias (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina). TV: “Mercy,” “Guiding Light,” “As theWorld Turns.” Film: David Chase’s upcoming Twylight Zones. Graduate of Northwestern University. Thanks to Playwrights Horizons, the cast and crew, Dara and Authentic, Val and Gersh. As always, for Mom, Dad and Sean. (As of August 2011)
New York: Columbinus (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional: Completeness (South Coast Rep); Sometimes a Great Notion (Portland Center Stage); My Name Is Asher Lev (Arden Theatre); Passion Play, a cycle (Arena Stage); The Four of Us (Theatre J); The Talented Mr. Ripley (Round House Theatre); Hamlet (Rep Stage); This Is Our Youth (Studio Theatre); Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Rorschach Theatre); The Maids (Washington Shakespeare Company); Angels in America Parts I and II (Forum Theatre). In 2010 he won the Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Lead Actor, for Angels in America. He’s a Boomerang Grant recipient and a resident company member with Rorschach Theatre in Washington, DC. He trained at Wittenberg University. (As of August 2011)
Creative Team
David Zinn
Scenic Designer & Costume DesignerRussell Champa
Lighting DesignerBray Poor
Sound DesignerCharles M Turner III
Production Stage ManagerPlaywrights 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.
Playwrights Horizons: Maple and Vine, Completeness, The Flick (Drama Desk nom.). Broadway: The Glass Menagerie; The Real Thing; The American Plan; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play. His sound design and music have been heard in many Off-Broadway and regional theaters. Recent work: The Antiopodes (Signature); Julius Caesar, Hamlet (NYSF). Obie Awards for Annie Baker's John, and Sustained Excellence in Sound Design.
Photos of (1) Aubrey Dollar and Karl Miller; (2) Meredith Forlenza and Karl Miller; (3) Brian Avers, Aubrey Dollar, Meredith Forlenza, and Karl Miller; and (4) Karl Miller and Aubrey Dollar by Joan Marcus.
