Marin Ireland & More Set for Lisa Kron's In the Wake at the Public

Tony Award nominee Marin Ireland will lead the cast of the Public Theater's forthcoming New York premiere of Lisa Kron’s In the Wake. Directed by Leigh Silverman, the production begins previews on October 19 with opening set for November 1. The limited engagement plays through November 21.

In addition to Ireland, the cast of In the Wake will include Jenny Bacon, Michael Chernus, Miriam F. Glover, Deirdre O’Connell, Susan Pourfar and Danielle Skraastad. The play is set at Thanksgiving of 2000 and the presidential election still has not been decided. Ellen (Ireland) insists that her friends and family don’t understand how bad the situation really is. But no one—not her loving partner, Danny (Chernus), nor the passionate Amy (Bacon), nor the brutally pragmatic and world-weary Judy (O'Connell)—can make Ellen see the blind spot at the center of her own politics and emotional life.

In the Wake received its world premiere at Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group (which commissioned the play) in March 2010 with Heidi Schreck as Ellen. O'Connell and Skraasted were part of the L.A. cast.

Ireland’s Broadway credits include After Miss Julie and Reasons to be Pretty, which earned her a Tony Award nomination. Off-Broadway, she has been seen in A Lie of the Mind, The Ruby Sunrise, Blasted, Cyclone, The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Bad Jazz, The Harlequin Studies, The Triple Happiness, Manuscript and Nocturne, among others.

Bacon’s New York theater credits include The Orphan of Zhao, Omnium Gatherum, Carson McCullers, Race, A Streetcar Named Desire and More Stately Mansions.

Chernus last appeared at the Public in The Poor Itch. Additional New York Theatre credits include The Aliens, Rag & Bone, Finer Noble Gases, Hunting and Gathering, Essential Self-Defense and Mr. Marmalade.

Newcomer Glover has been seen regionally in Eclipsed, St. Joan and the Dancing Sickness and numerous productions at the University of Southern California.

O’Connell was last seen off-Broadway in Circle Mirror Transformation. Additional New York credits include The Poor Itch, A Lie of the Mind, Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Moe’s Lucky Seven, The Dream Express, Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away With It), Manic Flight Reaction and Fugue.

Pourfar has appeared at the Public in The Singing Forest and The Poor Itch. Additional off-Broadway credits include Blur, Last Sunday in June, Iron, Swimming in the Shallows and When the Rain Stops Falling.

Skraastad was seen on Broadway in All My Sons. Off-Broadway credits include The Pain and the Itch, Anon, Carrie, Fugue, The One That Flutters, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lascivious Something and Red-Haired Thomas.

In the Wake will feature scenic design my David Korins, costume design by Susan Hilferty, lighting and projection by Alexander V. Nichols and sound design by Darron L. West.