Casting Set for Sarah Ruhl's Orlando at Classic Stage Company

Classic Stage Company has announced casting and opening night for its forthcoming season premiere production of Orlando, Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of the novel by Virginia Woolf. The play will play a limited engagement at CSC September 8-October 17, directed by Rebecca Taichman, with choreography by Annie-B Parson. Opening night has been set for September 23.

Francesca Faridany (The 39 Steps, The Homecoming) will play the title role in Orlando. The cast also includes Annika Boras (An Oresteia, Ernest in Love as Sasha), Gibson Frazier (God’s Ear, The Internationalist) as Marmaduke, Obie winner David Greenspan (The Royal Family, Some Me, The Boys in the Band) as Queen Elizabeth, Tom Nelis (Enron, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial) as Sea Captain and Howard Overshown (Julius Caesar, Yellow Man) as Othello.

Virginia Woolf's Orlando is your typical Elizabethan Man: a favorite of the Queen, madly in love with a Russian Princess, fleeing an Archduchess and waking up one fine day in Constantinople to find he has become, of all things, a woman. She survives the 19th and 20th centuries grappling with what it means to live fully in the present, in our own skin, in our own gender and in our own time.

CSC’s production of Orlando will have set design by Allen Moyer, costumes by Anita Yavich, lighting by Christopher Akerlind, and original music & sound design by Christian Frederickson & Ryan Rumery.