Brad Fleischer, Glenn Davis & More Join Robin Williams in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

Complete casting has been announced for Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, which will begin performances on March 11, 2011 ahead of a March 31 opening at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre. Tony nominee Moises Kaufman, who helmed the show’s earlier incarnations in Los Angeles, will again direct the play, a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize.

In addition to the previously announced Robin Williams, the cast will include Glenn Davis, Brad Fleischer, Hrach Titizian, Sheila Vand, Necar Zadegan and Arian Moayed, all of whom appeared in the two productions of Tiger at Los Angeles’ Center Theatre Group, first in 2009 and again earlier this year.

Williams stars as the narrator for the darkly comic tale, a tiger held captive in the Baghdad Zoo. The play follows the intertwined lives of two American marines and one Iraqi gardener as they search through the rubble of war for friendship, redemption and a toilet seat made of gold.

Fleischer was seen on Broadway in Coram Boy and off-Broadway in Streamers with the Roundabout Theatre Company, and he appeared in Rajiv Joseph’s play Gruesome Playground Injuries at the Alley Theatre.

Davis appeared off-Broadway in Wig Out and at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre in The Brother/Sister Plays.

Moayed’s theater credits include appeared in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul, Queens Blvd, American Pilot, and Jeff Daniels’ play Apartment 3A.

Titizian has appeared onscreen in The Kingdom and in The Men Who Stare at Goats with George Clooney.

Vand appeared in the Los Angeles Theatre Company production of Portrait Of The Architect in Ruins and was a regular on the television series Prom Queen.

Zadegan appeared in the West Coast premiere of Stop Kiss and in Gilgamesh at Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena.

Bengal Tiger marks the Broadway debut of Oscar, Emmy and Grammy Award-winning actor Robin Williams. He last appeared on the New York stage in 1988, when he starred opposite comedian Steve Martin in a revival of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at Lincoln Center.