Welch and Camp Will Join Heaton and Shalhoub in The Scene at Second Stage

Anna Camp and Christopher Evan Welch will join Emmy winners Patricia Heaton and Tony Shalhoub in Theresa Rebeck's The Scene at off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre. The black comedy will begin performances on December 14 and will open officially on January 11, 2007.

In Rebeck's new play, which premiered at the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival and will be directed by Rebecca Taichman, Shalhoub plays an out-of-work actor who is married to a news producer, played by Heaton, but engages in an affair with a young ingénue from Ohio named Clea, and finds himself completely morally and spiritually lost.

Camp will play Clea, a role she originated at the Humana Festival. She most recently appeared off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop's columbinus and was also seen in God Hates the Irish at the Rattlestick Theatre. Her film work includes the upcoming Somebody Like You starring Vanessa Williams.

Welch, who will play Lewis, the best friends of Shalhoub's character, has appeared on Broadway in Festen, The Crucible and London Assurance. Recent off-Broadway credits include The Pain and the Itch, Romance and Writer's Block.

The Scene will have sets by Derek McLane, costumes by Jeff Mahshie, lighting by Natasha Katz and sound design by Martin Desjardins.