Log Cabin
- Written by Jordan Harrison
- Directed by Pam MacKinnon
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.
"They couldn’t get married, and then they could. Their families wouldn’t accept them, and then they would. They didn’t have any money, and then they did. There had to be something else to want."
It’s a faraway age of hope and inclusivity; in other words, it’s 2015. When a tight-knit circle of married gays and lesbians – comfy in the new mainstream – sees themselves through the eyes of their rakish transgender pal, it’s clear that the march toward progress is anything but unified. With stinging satire and acute compassion, Jordan Harrison’s pointed comedy charts the breakdown of empathy that happens when we think our rights are secure, revealing conservative hearts where you’d least expect.
Featuring
Phillip James Brannon
Chris
Cindy Cheung
Pam
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Ezra
Ian Harvie
Henry
Talene Monahon
Myna
Dolly Wells
Jules
Playwrights Horizons: Bootycandy (Obie Award). Broadway: Junk (Lincoln Center). Other Off-Broadway: The Antipodes (Signature Theatre); Tiny Beautiful Things, ToasT (The Public); The City of Conversation (Lincoln Center); Nat Turner in Jerusalem, Love and Information, Belleville (New York Theatre Workshop); We Are Proud To Present... (Soho Rep.). Regional: A Confederacy of Dunces (Huntington); Bootycandy (Wilma, Woolly Mammoth); The Brother/Sister Plays, The March (Steppenwolf); Court Theatre; Kansas City Rep; numerous productions at The Goodman and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Elementary,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “The Plug.” Film: Contagion. BFA in Acting from DePaul University.
Playwrights Horizons: Log Cabin, Iowa. Also: Golden Shield (MTC), Tiny Beautiful Things (Long Wharf), The Great Immensity (Civilians/Public), Middletown (Vineyard), The Seagull, Antigone (NAATCO), Sugar House…(Ma-Yi), Sides…(Ma-Yi/Miyagi). Film/TV: The Sinner (Netflix, October 2022), The Flight Attendant, Billions, Awkwafina, Thirteen Reasons Why, High Maintenance, Bull, Blue Bloods, New Amsterdam, Love Boat Taipei (upcoming), Mistress America, Obvious Child, Children of Invention, Lady In The Water. Love to Walter and Eddie.
Playwrights Horizons debut. Broadway: On the Town, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Drama Desk Award), Fully Committed (Drama Desk Award). Off-Broadway: Newyorkers (MTC), Little Fish (Second Stage), Where Do We Live (Vineyard Theater). Public Theater / Shakespeare in the Park: On the Town, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Winter’s Tale, The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest. The Hollywood Bowl: The Producers, Spamalot, Sondheim on Sondheim. TV: “Modern Family” (5 Emmy nominations, 4 SAG Awards), “The Class,” “Ugly Betty,” “Web Therapy,” “Night Cap.” Co-Founder of TieTheKnot.org, raising funds to protect LGBTQ Equality.
Playwrights Horizons and Off-Broadway debut. TV: “Transparent” (Amazon), “Mistresses” (ABC), “Young and Hungry” (Freeform), “Will & Grace” (NBC), “Ian Harvie: May The Best Cock Win” (Amazon). Studied Viewpoints, Improvisation and Scene Study with Steppenwolf West. Veteran standup comic (17 years). ianharvie.com
Playwrights Horizons debut. Off-Broadway: Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout), The Government Inspector (Red Bull), Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic), Permission (MCC), The Wild Party (Encores! Off-Center), Alligator (New Georges/Sol Project), Widower’s Houses (TACT/Gingold), Here’s Hoover! (Les Freres Corbusier). Regional: Hollywood (La Jolla Playhouse), Confederacy of Dunces (Huntington).
Playwrights Horizons debut. Off-Broadway: The Whirligig (The New Group). UK Regional: Crush (Finborough Theatre), The Underpants (Old Red Lion), Aunt Dan and Lemon (Almeida), Tamagotchi Heaven (Edinburgh Festival), As You Like It (Riverside Studios). Film: Home Again, I Do…Until I Don’t, Boundaries, Can You Even Forgive Me?, Bridget Jones’s Baby, Black Mountain Poets, 45 Years. TV: “Portlandia,” “Blunt Talk,” “Doll & Em,” “The Mighty Boosh.”
Creative Team
Allen Moyer
Scenic DesignJessica Pabst
Costume DesignRussell H. Champa
Lighting DesignLeah Gelpe
Sound DesignAmanda Spooner
Production Stage ManagerJohn C. Moore
Assistant Stage ManagerBroadway credits include The Lyons, After Miss Julie, Grey Gardens (Tony/Drama Desk Nominations, Henry Hewes Award), Thurgood, The Little Dog Laughed, and Twelve Angry Men, among others. Off-Broadway credits include productions for the Public Theater, Second Stage, Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theater, Signature Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, New Group/Second Stage, and the Drama Dept. Regional credits include productions for the Dallas Theatre Center, Huntington Theater, Guthrie Theater, The Goodman, Yale Rep, Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf, Steppenwolf, Baltimore’s Center Stage, LA’s Center Theater Group, and Pittsburgh Public Theater. His extensive opera credits include work for the Metropolitan Opera (Orfeo ed Euridice, directed by Mark Morris), New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Boston Lyric Opera, Scottish Opera, and the Wexford Festival (Ireland). He also worked with Mark Morris on Sylvia for San Francisco Ballet, and Romeo and Juliet, on Motifs of Shakespeare for MMDG. He received the 2006 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence. For more information, visit allenmoyerdesign.com.
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.
Broadway: In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play (Lyceum Theatre/Lincoln Center), and Julia Sweeney's God Said Ha!(Lyceum Theater), Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, Second Stage, Public Theater
Award winning sound and video designer for live performance, including theater, musicals, opera and dance. Based in NYC and working on and off-Broadway, downtown, at regional theaters, and in Europe. Director collaborators have included Scott Elliot, Anne Kauffman, Rachel Chavkin, Pam MacKinnon, Will Davis, Steve Cosson, Ken Rus Schmoll, Kate Whoriskey, Davis Mccallum, Eric Ting, Bill Rauch, Wendy Goldberg, Evan Yionoulis, Doug Fitch, and Robert Woodruff. Nominated for a Tony Award for her sound design for Mary Jane at MTC. Other honors include two Lortels for Outstanding Sound Design, a Connecticut Critics Circle Award, and multiple Hewes nominations.
Playwrights Horizons debut. Broadway: Indecent. Off-Broadway: The Wolves (Playwrights Realm), Everybody (Signature), 10 Out of 12 (Soho Rep.), The Glory of the World (BAM), An Octoroon (Soho Rep./TFANA). Regional: A.R.T., Yale Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Westport. TV: “The Academy Awards.” Assistant Adjunct Professor of Stage Management at Rider University, Programming Director of Tandem at Transport Group Theatre Company, mother to a toddler named Jack.
Broadway: Between Riverside and Crazy, The Skin of Our Teeth, A Strange Loop, Pass Over. Select Off-Broadway: Fefu and Her Friends, We're gonna die (2nd Stage), Tambo and Bones, A Strange Loop
A brave and bracing, hot-button gay-versus-trans comedy.
Provocative and timely! Jesse Tyler Ferguson is perfect.
