Indian Summer
- Written by Gregory S. Moss
- Directed by Carolyn Cantor
Gregory S. Moss is a writer, performer, and educator from Newburyport, MA. His work has been seen at La Comédie Française, Clubbed Thumb, The Guthrie, PlayPenn, Soho Rep, Steppenwolf Garage, and New York Theatre Workshop. Gregory is a 2012 MacDowell Fellow, a Playwrights Center Core Member, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Jerome Fellowship, and of the 2011-2012 McKnight Fellowship. His work has been published by Play: A Journal of Plays, n+1, and Playscripts. He is currently working on commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Woolly Mammoth, and Clubbed Thumb. In collaboration with composer/lyricist Joe Iconis, he’s creating a new musical based on the life and work of Hunter S. Thompson for La Jolla Playhouse. Recent and upcoming productions include “I Promised Myself to Live Faster,” in collaboration with Pig Iron Theatre Co., at the 2015 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville; Reunion at South Coast Repertory (“Best New Play of 2014,” The OC Weekly); Billy Witch at Studio 42 and APAC (NY); House of Gold at La Comédie Française (Winner, Prix du Public) and at EST-LA (LA Times and LA Weekly Critics’ Pick); and sixsixsix at Antimatter Collective, NY (Editor’s Pick, Flavorpill). Writing and news are updated regularly at www.gregorysmoss.com. (As of 2/2/15)
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)
Abandoned by his wayward mom, Daniel is consigned to spend summer with granddad in a Rhode Island beach town, where the locals don’t look kindly on city kids. But his hapless vacation turns around when he meets Izzy: tough-acting, back-sassing, beguiling, and taken. Gregory S. Moss’s feisty romantic comedy follows a passing fling that could last a lifetime — as impossible and charmed as an indian summer.
Featuring
Owen Campbell
Daniel
Jonathan Hadary
George
Elise Kibler
Izzy
Joe Tippett
Jeremy
Playwrights Horizons debut. NYC Theater: Recall, Nocturnes, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Grippe of October, Macbeth. Film: As You Are (Sundance 2016; named one of Variety’s “Breakthrough Performers” of the festival), Very Good Girls, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Conviction. TV: “The Americans,” “The Following,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Law & Order: SVU.”
Playwrights Horizons: Assassins, Gemini (also Broadway), Coming Attractions. Broadway: Gypsy (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC nominations), Golden Boy, Spamalot, Awake and Sing, All Shook Up, The Best Man, Guys and Dolls, As Is (Obie Award), Torch Song Trilogy. National tour: Angels in America (Jeff, Hayes awards). Off-Broadway: Incident at Vichy; Jules Verne; The Destiny of Me; Lips Together, Teeth Apart. TV: “As Is,” “Louie.”
Playwrights Horizons debut. Broadway: The Heidi Chronicles, This Is Our Youth. Off-Broadway: London Wall. Other NYC Theater: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare in the Square). Playwrights Horizons Theater School: Suburbs/Anarchy. Television: “Daredevil,” “The Affair.”
Playwrights Horizons: Familiar, Indian Summer. Broadway: Waitress, Airline Highway. New York City: Ashville, Fish Eye, Seven Minutes in Heaven, Happy Birthday, A Thick Description of Harry Smith. Regional: Familiar (world premiere), Waitress, Bull Durham: the Musical, The May Queen, Picnic, Three Sisters, The Corn is Green, Peter and the Starcatcher, Equus. Film: License Plates, Damascus Road, All Saint’s Day. Television: “The Blacklist,” “Boardwalk Empire.”
Creative Team
Dane Laffrey
Scenic DesignKaye Voyce
Costume DesignEric Southern
Lighting DesignStowe Nelson
Sound DesignKyle Gates
Production Stage ManagerPlaywrights: Rancho Viejo, Indian Summer, Iowa, The Christians. Broadway: set for the current revival of Once On This Island, set and costumes for Deaf West’s Spring Awakening, set for Fool For Love. Other Off-Broadway: MTC, Roundabout, Atlantic, BAM Harvey, Labyrinth, Second Stage, Vineyard, LCT, MCC, Soho Rep., Rattlestick, Transport Group, others. Regional: Humana Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Old Globe, Geffen, Williamstown, Huntington, Goodspeed, Denver Center, Center Stage, Dallas Theatre Center, others. International work in Tokyo, Oslo, Osaka, and throughout Australia. 2017 Obie for Sustained Excellence in set and costume design; nominations for a Drama Desk Award and five ATW Henry Hewes Awards.
Kaye 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.
Eric Southern is a lighting designer for theater, opera, and dance. Recent projects include: The Good Swimmer, a pop requiem created by Heidi Rodewald, Donna DiNovelli, and Kevin Newbury (BAM Next Wave); After the Blast, Ghost Light, Bull in a China Shop, and The Harvest (Lincoln Center); Sarah Jones' Sell/Buy/Date (Manhattan Theater Club, New York Live Arts); Indian Summer and Pocatello (Playwrights Horizons); Kate Hamill's adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (Primary Stages, HVSF); Buyer and Cellar (Barrow Street Theater, Mark Taper Forum, London and National Tour); The Heidi Chronicles directed by Leigh Silverman (The Guthrie Theater). He is a longtime collaborator with the award-winning theater group 600 HIGHWAYMEN where he has designed The Fever, Employee of the Year, The Record, Empire City, This Great Country, and Everyone is Chanting Your Name.
Stowe Nelson is a sound designer based in New York. New York: queens, The Wolves (Lincoln Center Theater); Miles for Mary, The Essential Straight & Narrow, Samuel & Alasdair (Drama Desk nomination, The Mad Ones); Small Mouth Sounds (Lortel Nomination, Ars Nova); Animal Wisdom (Bushwick Starr); The Skin of Our Teeth (Theatre for a New Audience); Indian Summer (Playwrights Horizons); The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, The Wayside Motor Inn (Signature Theatre); Buyer & Cellar (Barrow Street Theatre). Regional: Evocations to Visible Appearance, Marginal Loss, I Now Pronounce (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Lost Laughs (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); The Roommate (Williamstown Theatre Festival); What Would Crazy Horse Do? (Kansas City Repertory Tehatre); Future Thinking (South Coast Repertory). www.wingspace.com/stowe
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.
★ ★ ★ ★ It’s the right time for Gregory S. Moss’s Indian Summer, a warm and gently breezy new play about teenage love on the Rhode Island seashore.
Gregory S. Moss has given us a summertime idyll that could keep a theatergoer warm long past Labor Day, quickly winning over his audience (in a thoroughly winning manner) and never losing them.
