Playwrights Horizons debut. Off-Broadway: Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare in the Park), The Who & the What (LCT3), Urge for Going (The Public), Theatre for One: Barrel Wave (Signature). Regional: Head Over Heels, The Happiest Song Plays Last, Troilus and Cressida, The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Welcome to Arroyo’s (The Old Globe); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Huntington). TV: “American Odyssey,” “Smash,” “Law & Order: CI,” “Covert Affairs,” “30 Rock,” “Law & Order.” Other: Sundance Theater and Film Institute. BFA: Boston University; LAMDA, UCB.

(as of 3/7/17)

Playwrights Horizons debut. Theater: Kennedy Center, The Public, Old Vic (UK), Williamstown, Manhattan Theatre Club, Sundance, McCarter Theater, Culture Project, NYSF, Yale University, Hartford Stage, Lincoln Center Lab, Red Bull Theater, Bedlam Theater. Films of Woody Allen, Sidney Pollack, Sidney Lumet, among others. Select television: “Homeland,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Black List,” “Taken,” “Falling Water,” “The Big C,” “State of Affairs,” “One Life to Live,” “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “The Good Wife,” “Unforgettable,” “The Sopranos,” “30 Rock,” the “Law & Order” trilogy, “Blue Bloods,” “Flight of the Conchords,” “NYC 22.”

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ALI REZA FARAHNAKIAN is an Iranian-American actor who is profoundly honored and humbled to be playing this role, in this play, written by this writer, directed by this director at this theater at this time in history in New York City. He lives in the city with his wife and two daughters, who he loves with all his heart. He thanks his parents, Ali and Azam, and his sister Lilly for their love and support. He has been in plays, films, and television shows. Google him. He teaches and performs at The PIT (Peoples Improv Theater) in NYC, where he walks amongst the people. Spread the Word!  

(as of 3/7/07)

Playwrights Horizons debut. Off-Broadway: Measure for Measure, Sad and Merry Madness (The Public); Born With Teeth, Hamlet Remix (Epic Theatre); The Strangest (HERE CultureMart). UK: I Call My Brothers (The Gate); Muse of Fire, Sonnet Walks (Shakespeare’s Globe); Timon of Athens (Willow Globe); Valiant (Edinburgh Fringe); Ironmistress (Albany). Regional: 1001, The House of the Spirits (Denver Center); 9 Parts of Desire (Lyric Stage, Kitchen Theatre); Metamorphoses (Capital Rep); Damascus (Northern Stage); Inspector General, The Comedy of Errors (CSF). MA Acting: Royal Central, BFA: Syracuse. lannajoffrey.com 

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Playwrights: The Profane. Heather Raffo is an award-winning playwright and actress whose work has been seen Off-Broadway, off West End, in regional theater and in film.  She is the author and solo performer of the play 9 Parts of Desire (Lucille Lortel Award, Susan Smith Blackburn commendation, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, Helen Hayes nominations), which The New Yorker called “an example of how art can remake the world.”  The play ran Off-Broadway for nine months and has played across the U.S. and internationally for over a decade.  Current productions in Greece, Hungary and India. Raffo’s libretto for the opera FALLUJAH was part of Kennedy Center’s International Theater Festival, received its world premiere at Long Beach Opera and opened at New York City Opera in 2016. Heather’s newest play, Noura, just won Williamstown’s prestigious Weissberger Award. Noura was further developed at Georgetown University’s LAB for Global Performance and Politics with refugee and Middle East policy experts.  Further workshops were supported by the McCarter Theater, Epic Theater Ensemble and our nation’s first Arab-American Museum in Dearborn, MI.  Noura is currently receiving its world premiere at Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC before a production in Abu Dhabi. Raffo is the recipient of multiple grants from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Playwrights: The Profane. Other Off-Broadway: Othello (NYSF/Public), Small Mouth Sounds (Ars Nova/Signature), The Bachelors (Lesser America/Rattlestick), The North Pool (Vineyard), The In-Between (Noor). Regional: Selling Kabul (Williamstown); O.P.C (ART); Scorched (ACT); Guards at The Taj, Blood and Gifts (La Jolla Playhouse). Film: Swallow, Tu Me Manques. TV: “Succession,” “Ramy,” “Legacies,” “Bull,” “New Amsterdam.” Yale School of Drama MFA.

Recent theatre design projects: LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD by Samuel D. Hunter directed by Joe Mantello and starring Laurie Metcalf; INHERIT THE WIND by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, directed by Henry Godinez, at the Goodman’s Albert Theatre. THE COST OF LIVING by Martyna Majok, directed by Jo Bonney on Broadway at the Samuel Friedman Theatre; Other Broadway credits include The Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of MARVIN'S ROOM by Scott McPherson directed by Anne Kauffman starring Lili Taylor, Celia Weston, and Janeane Garofalo and THE HEIDI CHRONICLES by Wendy Wasserstein, directed by Pam MacKinnon starring Elisabeth Moss, Jason Biggs, and Bryce Pinkham.

Playwrights Horizons: The Profane, Rancho Viejo, A Life, Placebo, This, Grand Concourse, The Call, Go Back to Where You Are, She Stoops to Comedy. Other Off-Broadway: Everybody (Signature), All the Ways... (MCC), War (LCT3), Gloria (Vineyard), The Way We Get By (Second Stage), Buzzer (The Public), An Octoroon (Soho Rep., TFANA), Generations (Soho Rep.). Regional: For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday (Humana Festival 2016, Berkeley Rep).

Brandon Wolcott is a Brooklyn based sound designer, composer and DJ. His work has been felt and heard at dozens of venues in the U.S. and around the world, including: BAM, The Pubic Theater, Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, The Shed, Mass Moca, Museum of Contepmorary Art Chicago, Le Pompidou, La Mama ETC, Invisible Dog, 3LD, PS122, Playwrights Horizon, Clubbed Thumb, Walker Museum of Art, Fusebox, A.R.T., Mark Taper Forum, CTG, La Jolla Playhouse, Salzburg Festival, Noordezon, Edinburgh Festival and many more…  As a sound designer and composer, Brandon has collaborated on a diverse array of projects, including work in dance, theater, installation and film. Collaborations include 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Taylor Mac, Faye Driscoll, Geoff Sobelle, Kevin Newbury, Lee Sunday Evans, Lila Neugebauer, Lear DeBessonet, Taibi Magar, Tyne Rafeli, and many others.  As a DJ and producer, he has released music with Nicolas Jaar’s Other People, Wolf+Lamb, Archipel and Kingdoms. His Smirk project performed live sets at festivals around the world, including highlights: Mutek Montreal, Unsound Krakow, Dispatch Belgrade and Save Moscow. 

 WCP: Doubt, Don Juan, A Flea in Her Ear, Flyin’ West, The Invisible Hand, Bedroom Farce. Off-Broadway: Fairview, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, Why?, Julius Caesar, Heart/Box, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Tamburlaine (TFANA); Seven Deadly Sins (Tectonic), Noura, This Flat Earth, The Profane, Rancho Viejo, Familiar (Playwrights Horizons). Napoli, Brooklyn, Look Back in Anger (Roundabout); The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, The Comedy of Errors (NYSF); Detroit ’67 (Public); Night is a Room, The Liquid Plain, The Old Friends (Signature); Cymbeline (Fiasco), Red Dog Howls (NYTW); Uncle Vanya (Soho Rep).