Six-Part Cycle Steel, by Three-Time Tony Winner Mark Rylance, in Development from Guthrie Theater & A.R.T.

Stage-and-screen star Mark Rylance will bring to life the Age of Steel between the Civil War and World War I with a newly-in-development play series titled Steel. The six-part play, co-written by Peter Reder, has been co-commissioned by the Guthrie Theater and American Repertory Theater.

Steel will focus on the dramatic life and characters of the Carnegie Steel Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The plays will be directed by Claire van Kampen, who helmed Nice Fish (penned by Rylance and Louis Jenkins) for the Guthrie in 2013 and A.R.T. in 2016. She also wrote the Tony-nominated play Farinelli and the King, which starred Rylance in a Tony-nominated turn on Broadway.

Rylance is known for his Tony-winning performances in Boeing Boeing, Jerusalem and Twelfth Night. His screen turn in Bridge of Spies earned him an Academy Award.

The co-commission between A.R.T. and the Guthrie will provide for the development and realization of the first two parts in the six-part series. Production dates, additional creative team and casting will be announced at a later date.

A.R.T. is represented on Broadway this season by the new musicals Jagged Little Pill and Six, both of which played out-of-town runs at the Cambridge, Massachusetts theater.