Jeremy Shamos, Kate Walsh & More Set for If I Forget Off-Broadway; Complete Cast Announced

The cast is now set for the premiere of If I Forget, a new play by Dear Evan Hansen book writer Steven Levenson. Among those taking center stage in the Roundabout off-Broadway production are Tony nominees Jeremy Shamos and Maria Dizzia, as well as TV favorite Kate Walsh.

The Daniel Sullivan-helmed staging will begin performances on February 2, 2017 at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, where it is set to open officially on February 22. The cast will also feature Tony nominee Larry Bryggman (Proof), Tasha Lawrence (Good People), Gary Wilmes (Chinglish) and Seth Steinberg in his New York stage debut.

Shamos most recently appeared on Broadway in Noises Off; his additional credits include a Tony-nominated performance in Clybourne Park, as well as Glengarry Glen Ross and The Assembled Parties. Dizzia earned a Tony nomination for In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) and recently starred in The Layover off-Broadway. Walsh starred as Dr. Addison Montgomery in Private Practice and Grey’s Anatomy; her additional credits include The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Bad Judge.

The play takes place in July 2000, immediately following the failed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at Camp David. Three adult siblings (Shamos, Dizzia and Walsh) and their families gather in a D.C. suburb of DC for their father’s 75th birthday. When it’s revealed that the middle son, a Jewish studies professor, is at work on a book that is both dedicated to his Jewish WWII veteran father and argues an incendiary point about American Jews, Israel, and the Holocaust, familial responsibility quickly resorts to familial resentment.

The production will feature set design by Derek McLane, costumes by Jess Goldstein and lighting design by Kenneth Posner.