Marin Ireland Will Star in On the Exhale, Martin Zimmerman's New Play About America's Gun Violence Crisis, Off-Broadway

Tony nominee Marin Ireland will star in the world premiere of Martín Zimmerman’s On the Exhale. Leigh Silverman will direct the Roundabout Underground production, which will begin performances at the Black Box space in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre on February 7, 2017.

In the one-woman show, Ireland plays a liberal college professor who finds herself inexplicably drawn to the very weapon used to perpetrate the crime—and to the irresistible feeling of power that comes from holding life and death in her hands. Peering down the barrel of a uniquely American crisis, she begins to suspect that when it comes to gun violence, we’re all part of the problem.

Ireland earned a Tony nomination for her Broadway debut in reasons to be pretty and went on to appear in Roundabout’s productions of The Big Knife and After Miss Julie. Her previous off-Broadway credits include Ironbound, Kill Floor, Maple and Vine and Three Sisters. On screen, she has appeared in Glass Chin, the upcoming film Aardvark and the NBC miniseries The Slap.

On the Exhale will open officially on February 28 and is scheduled to run through April 2.