Elizabeth Marvel to Star in MTC's That Face

Elizabeth Marvel is set to star in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Polly Stenham’s That Face, directed by Sarah Benson. The play will begin performances on April 29 at at MTC at New York City Center – Stage I and open on May 18, 2010.

Marvel, a three-time Obie winner, last appeared at Manhattan Theatre Club in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls. Her other Broadway credits include Seascape and An American Daughter (both for Lincoln Center Theater) as well as Taking Sides and The Seagull. She will appear this season at the Public Theater in Suzan-Lori Parks’ new play, Book of Grace. Her off Broadway credits include Henry V, Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Silence, Cunning, Exile, Fifty Words, Almost an Evening, A Secondhand Memory, Dark Matters, Terrorism, Meshugah, Therese Raquin, Misalliance, Arts & Leisure, Hedda Gabler, A Streetcar Named Desire, Lydie Breeze, Shopping and Fucking and Play Yourself. Marvel will play the title role in the forthcoming PBS American Master film biography Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women.

That Face is a darkly comic look at an affluent family in freefall. Mia has been suspended from boarding school. Her brother, Henry, has dropped out altogether. And Martha (Marvel), their mum, manipulates them all. Money can no longer fix their problems—now it's up to them.

Additional casting and creative team for That Face will be announced in the coming weeks.