The Great God Pan
- Written by Amy Herzog
- Directed by Carolyn Cantor
AMY HERZOG won the 2012 Obie Award for Best New American Play for 4000 Miles (Lincoln Center). Her other plays include After the Revolution (Williamstown Theater Festival; Playwrights Horizons; John Gassner Award Nomination; Lilly Award), Belleville (Yale Repertory Theater, upcoming at NYTW in Spring 2013), and The Wendy Play (ACT, San Francisco). She has had readings/workshops at Steppenwolf, Manhattan Theater Club, New York Stage and Film, Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and Lincoln Center, among others. She has received commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Yale Rep, and Steppenwolf. Amy is a recipient of the Whiting Writers Award and the Helen Merrill Award. She is an alumna of Youngblood, Play Group, and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. She has taught playwriting at Bryn Mawr and Yale. M.F.A., Yale School of Drama (As of October 2012)
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Playwrights Horizons: Fly By Night, The Great God Pan, After the Revolution (Callaway Award), and Essential Self-Defense. Other NY Theater: Regrets and Pumpgirl (Manhattan Theatre Club); In A Dark Dark House (MCC Theater); Arlington (Vineyard); Something You Did (Primary Stages); The Talls (Second Stage); Core Values (Ars Nova); Orange Flower Water, Now That's What I Call A Storm, Living Room in Africa, Stone Cold Dead Serious, and Life is a Dream (Edge Theater); EVE-olution (Cherry Lane); and Kitty Kitty Kitty (SPF). Regional: The Violet Hour (Old Globe); Rabbit Hole (Geffen, Garland Award); Diary of Anne Frank (Papermill); Not Waving and King Stag (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Vera Laughed and Get What You Need (NYS&F); After Ashley and Finer Noble Gases (Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference); and Nocturne (Ojai Playwrights Conference). Carolyn is the recipient of the Kanin-Seldes Award from the Theater Hal of Fame, both the Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Fellowships from the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and a Drama League Directing Fellowship. She was the founding artistic director of the Obie Award—winning Edge Theater and is a graduate of Dartmouth College. (As of 2/2/15)
Tues & Wed @ 7, Thu & Fri @ 8, Sat @ 2:30 & 8, Sun @ 2:30 & 7:30 Added Weds 2:30pm mat on Jan 9th
Jamie's life in Brooklyn seems just fine: a beautiful girlfriend, a budding journalism career, and parents who live just far enough away. But when a possible childhood trauma comes to light, lives are thrown into a tailspin. Unsettling and deeply compassionate, The Great God Pan tells the intimate tale of what is lost and won when a hidden truth is unloosed into the world.
Featuring
Becky Ann Baker
CathyPeter Friedman
DougSarah Goldberg
PaigeKeith Nobbs
FrankJeremy Strong
JamieJoyce Van Patten
PollyErin Wilhelmi
JoellePlaywrights Horizons debut. Broadway: Good People, All My Sons, Assassins, Titanic, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Off-Broadway: Othello, Two Gentlemen of Verona (NYSF); Encore!’s Wonderful Town; The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (NYTW); Shanghai Moon, June Noon (Drama Dept.); Durang, Durang (MTC); Suddenly Last Summer (Roundabout); Laura Dennis (Signature), The House in Town (Lincoln Center).. Film: Nights in Rodanthe, Stay, The Night Listener, War of the Worlds, Two Weeks Notice, A Simple Plan, Men in Black, In & Out, Sabrina, Unstrung Heroes, White Squall, Lorenzo’s Oil, Come See the Paradise. TV: “Kings,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Freaks and Geeks,” “Star Trek: Voyager,” “Sex and the City, “Law & Order,” “L&O: SVU,” “Oz.” Williamstown Theatre Festival, Honorary Associate. (As of October 2012)
Playwrights Horizons: After the Revolution, The Great God Pan (Amy Herzog); Circle Mirror Transformation (Annie Baker); The Shaggs (Gregory, Lang, Madsen); Fly By Night (Connolly, Mitnick, Rosenstock); The Heidi Chronicles (Wendy Wasserstein). Broadway: Ragtime (Ahrens, Flaherty, McNally), The Heidi Chronicles, Twelve Angry Men, The Tenth Man. Other Off-Broadway: Sundown, Yellow Moon (Bonds); Her Requiem (Pierce); The Nether (Haley); End Days (Laufer); Jacuzzi (The Debate Society); The Open House (Eno); The Hatmaker’s Wife (Yee); Body Awareness (Baker, and her adaptation of) Uncle Vanya; Hamlet (The Public, 2017). Film: The Savages, Safe, Single White Female. TV: “High Maintenance,” “The Muppet Show,” “The Affair,” “The Path.”
(as of 8/24/17)
Playwrights Horizons: The Great God Pan, Clybourne Park (Broadway). Off-Broadway: Look Back in Anger, The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin. In London: Apologia, Clybourne Park (Olivier nomination, Best Supporting Actress), Six Degrees of Separation, Miss Lilly Gets Boned, Member of the Wedding. Film: The Dark Knight Rises, Gambit, A Bunch of Amateurs, Drifters. Series regular on the TV show “Hindsight.” Other TV includes “Any Human Heart,” “Elementary” and “Black Box.” (As of April 2015)
Keith Nobbs made his Broadway debut in The Lion in Winter and was last seen in Lombardi. Other New York stage credits include Dog Sees God, Stupid Kids (Century Center); Dublin Carol, World Premiere of David Mamet’s Romance (Atlantic); Free to Be …You and Me, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers (Drama Dept.); Fuddy Meers, Four (Lortel Award, Drama Desk nomination, both MTC); The Hasty Heart (Keen Company), Triple Happiness (Second Stage). TV: “The Pacific,” “The Black Donnellys,” “In Treatment,” “The Sopranos,” “In Plain Sight,” “Fringe.” Film: Double Whammy, Phone Booth, 25th Hour, The Briefcase, Weakness and Premium. (As of October 2012)
BROADWAY: A Man for All Seasons. OFF-BROADWAY: Frank’s Home and Our House (PH) Paraffin (Rattlestick); The Coward (LCT3); Conversations in Tusculum (The Public); New Jerusalem (CSC). FILM & TV: Lincoln, See Girl Run, The Messenger, The Happening, “LA Noir,” “The Good Wife.” (As of October 2012)
Broadway: twenty productions including the recent The People in the Picture; I Ought to Be in Pictures, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Rumors and Jake’s Women (all by Neil Simon); Taller Than a Dwarf; Same Time, Next Year; and More to Love. Lincoln Center: A Fair Country, Ring ‘Round the Moon. Chicago: Show Boat. Signature: The Oldest Profession. MTC. Labor Day. Public: The Seagull. Los Angeles Ahmanson Theatre: Rabbit Hole. Huntington: The Cherry Orchard. Film: Grown Ups; Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding; This Must Be the Place; Mame (with Lucille Ball); Bad News Bears; St. Elmo’s Fire. Television: six decades of work including the more recent “The Good Wife,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Without a Trace,” “Judging Amy,” “NYPD Blue,” “The Sopranos” and “Oz.” (As of October 2012)
Erin Wilhelmi. New York Theater: The Girl from Nashville (Abingdon Theatre), Likeness (Manhattan Theatre Source), Folly of Crowds (Slant Theatre Company), Fur (Access Theatre). Readings: Primary Stages, The Lark, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Dramatists, Barrow Group. Film: The English Teacher starring Julianne Moore, The Perks of Being a Wallflower starring Emma Watson, Disconnect starring Alexander Skarsgard. TV: “Digital Abuse” (MTV short directed by Joel Schumacher). Music Video: Jimmy Eat World, “My Best Theory.” (As of October 2012)
Creative Team
Mark Wendland
Scenic DesignKaye Voyce
Costume DesignJaphy Weideman
Lighting DesignDarron L West
Sound DesignCole P. Bonenberger
Production Stage ManagerKaye Voyce is a costume and set designer active in theater, opera, dance and performance. She received her BFA and MFA in theatrical design from New York University in 1994. She is represented by Rachel Viola at United Talent Agency.
Previously at the Friedman: The American Plan,To Be or Not To Be, The Royal Family, Top Girls, and Time Stands Still. He is a Tony and Obie Award-winning sound designer whose work for theater and dance has been heard in over 500 Productions nationally and internationally, on Broadway and off. His accolades for Sound Design include the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and AUDELCO Awards. He a two-time Henry Hewes Design Award winner, and a proud recipient of the Princess Grace Award statue.
Playwrights: Aubergine, Familiar, The Qualms, Stage Kiss, The Great God Pan. Broadway: Dividing the Estate. Other Off-Broadway: Napoli, Brooklyn (Roundabout); Linda (MTC); The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, The Comedy of Errors (The Public/Delacorte); February House, Yellowface, Wrecks (The Public); He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, Tamburlaine Parts I & II, The Killer (TFANA); Night Is a Room, The Liquid Plain, The Old Friends, The Dance and the Railroad, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Landscape of the Body, The Trip to Bountiful (Signature). Regional: Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, The Acting Company, Trinity Rep, Westport Country Playhouse.
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Special thanks to the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation for its generous support of The Great God Pan.
Photos of (1) Keith Nobbs and Jeremy Strong; (2) Peter Friedman, Becky Ann Baker, and Jeremy Strong; (3) Joyce Van Patten and Jeremy Strong; (4) Sarah Goldberg and Erin Wilhelmi by Joan Marcus.
CRITIC’S PICK. HAUNTING, DEEPLY AFFECTING, AND UNFAILINGLY HONEST. Amy Herzog is one of the bright theatrical lights of her generation. The actors embody their characters with impeccable precision. Under the attentive direction of Carolyn Cantor, The Great God Pan is not something I'll soon forget.
REMARKABLE and REVELATORY. Whatever the ideal contemporary American drama is, it has to look a lot like The Great God Pan.
Within its fascinating parade of alternate possibilities, [Herzog] has packed a set of big, beautiful, perpetually troubling questions, moral and philosophical. The work is tiny, but it runs deep. Carolyn Cantor's production is taut and quietly pitch-perfect.
BEAUTIFULLY CONCEIVED. Herzog (4000 Miles and After the Revolution) sets up intimate and touching scenes, in which wordless moments reveal seismic epiphanies.
CAPTIVATING. Herzog’s deepest, most mature writing to date. How many playwrights display this kind of economy and strength?
4 STARS. CRITIC'S PICK.