Mamie Gummer & More Tapped for Lindsey Ferrentino’s Ugly Lies the Bone Off-Broadway

Stage and screen alum Mamie Gummer will star in the previously reported world premiere of Lindsey Ferrentino’s Ugly Lies the Bone. The Roundabout Underground production will begin performances in the Black Box Theatre at off-Broadway’s Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre on September 10. The play will open on October 13 and run through November 22.

The cast will also feature Karron Graves, Caitlin O’Connell, Chris Stack and Haynes Thigpen. Patricia McGregor will direct.

Ugly Lies the Bone follows Jess (Gummer), a newly discharged soldier who has finally returned to her Florida hometown. She brings with her not only vivid memories of her three tours in Afghanistan, but painful burns that have left her physically and emotionally scarred. Jess soon realizes that things at home have changed even more than she has. Through the use of virtual reality video game therapy, she builds a new world where she can escape her pain. As Jess advances farther in the game, she begins to restore her relationships, her life and, slowly, herself. Roundabout will partner with DeepStream VR to allow audiences to experience the therapy methods portrayed on stage.

Gummer has appeared on Broadway in Les Liaisons Dangereuses and off-Broadway in Mr. Marmalade and The Water’s Edge. Her numerous screen credits include The Ward, Cake, The Good Wife and the upcoming film Ricki and the Flash, appearing opposite her mother, Meryl Streep.

Graves’ previous stage credits include Coram Boy on Broadway and off-Broadway in The Philanderer and Nine Armenians; she is also know for the screen adaption of The Crucible. O’Connell has appeared on Broadway in Mothers and Sons, The Heiress and 33 Variations. Stack recently appeared off-Broadway in Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait; his additional credits include Fidelis and The Wayside Motor Inn. Thigpen has appeared in Dead Accounts and Misalliance on Broadway and An Octoroon and The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters off-Broadway.

The production will feature sets by Tim Brown, costumes by Dede Ayite, lighting by Jiyoun Chang, sound by Jessica Paz, projections by Caite Hevner Kemp and prosthetics by Vincent T. Schicchi & Thomas Denier Jr.