Maple and Vine
- Written by Jordan Harrison
- Directed by Anne Kauffman
Jordan Harrison was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Marjorie Prime, which had its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons after premiering at the Mark Taper Forum. Other plays include Maple and Vine, Log Cabin, and Doris to Darlene (all at Playwrights Horizons), The Amateurs (Vineyard Theatre), The Grown-Up (Humana Festival), Amazons and their Men (Clubbed Thumb), Futura (NAATCO), Act a Lady (Humana Festival), and Finn in the Underworld (Berkeley Rep). He is the recipient of the Horton Foote Prize, the Kesselring Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. TV: Three seasons as writer-producer on the Netflix series “Orange is the New Black,” as well as Netflix’s “GLOW” and AMC’s “Dispatches from Elsewhere.” A print collection of Jordan’s work, Maple and Vine & Other Plays, will be published later this year by TCG.
Anne Kauffman (Directing Consultant) New York Philharmonic, BAM, Ars Nova, NYTW, Roundabout Theatre Company, Encores! Off-Center, Women’s Project, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, The Public, P73 Productions, New Georges, Vineyard Theater, LCT3, Yale Rep, Steppenwolf, Goodman Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Z Space, American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Rep. She is a Resident Director at Roundabout Theater, Artistic Associate and Founding Member of The Civilians, a Clubbed Thumb Associate Artist and co-creator of the CT Directing Fellowship, a New Georges Associate Artist, an SDC Executive Board Member, Vice President and Trustee of SDCF 2020-2023 and Artistic Director of City Center’s Encores! Off-Center 2017-2020. Kauffman’s awards include a 2024 Tony nomination for Best Director for MARY JANE, a 2023 Tony nomination for Best Revival for THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN’S WINDOW, three Obies, the Joan and Joseph Cullman Award for Exceptional Creativity from Lincoln Center, the Alan Schneider Director Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, a Drama League award and the Joe A. Callaway. Co-creator of the Cast Album Project with Jeanine Tesori.
Katha and Ryu have become allergic to their 21st-century lives. After they meet a charismatic man from a community of 1950s reenactors, they forsake cell phones and sushi for cigarettes and Tupperware parties. In this compulsively authentic world, Katha and Ryu are surprised by what their new neighbors—and they themselves—are willing to sacrifice for happiness.
Featuring
Peter Kim
Trent Dawson
Marin Ireland
Pedro Pascal
Jeanine Serralles
Broadway: Thoroughly Modern Millie. Off-Broadway: Year Zero (Second Stage), Yellow Face (The Public Theater), The Seagull (NAATCO), American Hwangap (PlayCo/Ma-Yi), Happy Birthday William Abernathy (EST), SIDES (Ma-Yi), At Least It’s Pink (Ars Nova). Regional Theatre: Maple and Vine (ATL/Humana Festival), Durango (Cincinnati Playhouse), Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella (Yale Repertory Theatre). Film: The English Teacher, Margin Call, Sex and the City, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Trophy Kids, Hackers. Television: “Mercy,” “Ugly Betty,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “The Return of Jezebel James.” Mr. Kim holds a B.F.A. from NYU and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. (As of November 2011)
Broadway: The Herbal Bed. Other NYC theatre: The Revival (Project Y/Lion Theatre); The Memorandum (TACT/Beckett Theatre); Macbeth (Soho Rep); Love’s Labour’s Lost, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing (American Globe); The Way of the World, Altitude Sickness (Blue Coat Rep.). Regional: The Homecoming, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Misalliance (Baltimore CENTERSTAGE); The School for Scandal (McCarter Theatre); Beyond Therapy (Westport); The Miser (Geva); Henry V, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet (APT); and the title role in Pal Joey (Prince Music Theater). Film/television: Men in Black III, “The Good Wife,” “Homeland,” “Guiding Light,” “As the World Turns” (Emmy nominations). (As of November 2011)
Broadway: reasons to be pretty (Theatre World Award, Tony nomination), After Miss Julie. Some Off-Broadway: In the Wake (The Public), A Lie of the Mind (The New Group, Outer Critics Circle nomination), Blasted (Soho Rep), Cyclone (Studio Dante, Obie); Beebo Brinker Chronicles (4th Street, 37 Arts), The Ruby Sunrise (The Public); The Harlequin Studies (Signature); The Triple Happiness (Second Stage); Manuscript (Daryl Roth); Sabina (Primary Stages); Far Away and Nocturne (both New York Theatre Workshop), 4.48 Psychosis (Royal Court). Film/TV: “Mildred Pierce” (HBO), “The Good Wife,” “A Gifted Man,” “Homeland,” a bunch of “Law & Order,” Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, Great Hope Springs, The Stare, Something in the Water, others. (As of November 2011)
Off-Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, Shakespeare in the Park, Classic Stage Company, The Women’s Project. Regional: Shakespeare Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage. Received Garland and L.A. Drama Critics Circle awards for lead performance in Orphans at ICT. Film: The Adjustment Bureau, Iris, Sweet Little Lies, I Am That Girl, Hermanas (Sisters), Burning Bridges. TV: recurring roles on “The Good Wife,” FX’s “Lights Out,” “Brothers and Sisters,” “Burn Notice,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “Body of Proof,” “Nurse Jackie,” the “Law & Order” trifecta, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” among others, and the series regular role of Detective Ed Indelicato in the doomed “Wonder Woman” pilot. LAByrinth Theater Company member. (As of November 2011)
Off-Broadway: Stunning (LCT3); The Glass Cage (Mint Theater); The Misanthrope (NYTW, Drama League nom.), The Black Eyed (NYTW, Drama League nom.); Hold Please (Working Theater, Drama Desk nom.); Antigone Project (Women’s Project). Other NYC theatre: Busted (Cino Nights); Cedar City Falls (Galapagos); Vendetta Chrome (Clubbed Thumb); Paris Commune (Public Lab); Perfect Harmony (West Bank). Regional: Maple and Vine (Humana Festival); The Liar, House of the Spirits, Dusty and the Big Bad World, 1001 (Denver Center); Fallen Angels (Dorset); Aunt Dan and Lemon (Merrimack); Lucy and the Conquest (Williamstown). Film/TV: All Good Things, Two Lovers, Across the Universe, “The Good Wife,” “Sex and the City.” NYTW Usual Suspect. M.F.A.: Yale. (As of November 2011)
Creative Team
Alexander Dodge
Scenic DesignerIlona Somogyi
Costume DesignerDavid Weiner
Lighting DesignerBray Poor
Sound DesignerWilliam H Lang
Production Stage ManagerPlaywrights 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) Marin Ireland and Peter Kim; (2) Marin Ireland, Jeanine Serralles, Trent Dawson, and Peter Kim; (3) Marin Ireland and Jeanine Serralles; and (4) Peter Kim and Pedro Pascal by Joan Marcus.
Goodbye feminism, lattes and the Internet! Hello, rigid gender roles, Sanka and rotary phones! Jordan Harrison’s Maple and Vine has one of the most intriguing premises of the year.
A clever, sharply drawn fantasy with brightly saturated comic performances. Makes a sneaky, compelling case for the seductions of living the Ozzie and Harriet life. A sleek production directed by Anne Kauffman.
A darkly appealing fairy tale. Jordan Harrison racks up beaucoup points for originality in Anne Kauffman's exceptionally smart production.
