Natasha Lyonne, Halley Feiffer & More Set for Roundabout Underground's Tigers Be Still

Natasha Lyonne, Halley Feiffer, Reed Birney and John Magaro will star in Roundabout Theatre Company's forthcoming Roundabout Underground production of Tigers Be Still. Written by Kim Rosenstock and directed by Sam Gold, the production begins performances at the Black Box Theatre at the Miriam and Harold Steinberg Center for Theatre on September 10. Opening night is set for October 6.

Tigers Be Still centers on Sherry Wickman (Feiffer), a young woman who expects the perfect career and life to fall into place immediately upon earning her masters degree in art therapy. Instead, Sherry finds herself unemployed, overwhelmed and back at home hiding out in her twin-sized childhood bed. But when Sherry gets hired as a substitute art teacher, things begin to bright up—now if only her mother would come downstairs, her sister would get off the couch, her very first therapy patient would do just one of his take-home assignments, her new boss would leave his gun at home and someone would catch the tiger that escaped from the local zoo, everything would be just perfect.

Birney’s off-Broadway credits include Circle Mirror Transformation, The Savannah Disputation, Blasted, Stuff Happens, Pen, Bug and Homebody/Kabul. Regionally, he has been seen in Finn in the Underworld, The Butterfly Collection, Theater District, Black Forest, Claudia Lazlo, Gemini and The Sixth Floor. Television credits include Kings, Gossip Girl, From the Earth to the Moon, Another World and Law & Order.

Feiffer has been seen off-Broadway in subUrbia, Election Day, Some Americans Abroad, Still Life, None of the Above, Urgent Fury and Feiffer’s People. Regional credits include Third, Knock Knock! and Welcome Home, Dean Charbonneau. On screen, she has been seen in You Can Count on Me, Stephanie Daley, The Squid and the Whale and Margot at the Wedding.

Lyonne’s stage credits include Love, Loss and What I Wore and Two Thousand Years. She is best known for her work in film, including American Pie, But I’m a Cheerleader, Detroit Rock City, Dennis the Menace, All About Evil, 13, Tricks of a Woman, Jelly, The Immaculate Conception and The Slums of Beverly Hills.

Magaro’s stage credits include Lillian Yuralia, Orphans, Gompers, The Grapes of Wrath, Kimberly Akimbo and The Sunken Living Room. Film credits include The Brave One, The Box, Taking Chance, The Life Before Her Eyes, Assassination of a High School President and The Last Kiddie Ride. Television includes Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU, Body of Proof and Conviction

Tigers Be Still’s creative team features sets and costumes by Dane Laffrey, lighting by Japhy Weideman and sound by Fitz Patton.

The production is the fourth of the Roundabout Underground, an initiative launched in 2007 to introduce and cultivate emerging artists by allowing experienced directors to return to their creative roots, as well as by giving a debut production to an emerging writer or director. In spring 2011, Roundabout Underground will present David West Read’s The Dream of Burning Boy, directed by Evan Cabnet.