Casting Set for Ionesco One-Acts at the Atlantic
by Broadway Staff • Jul 26, 2004
Casting is complete for the double-bill of one-acts by Eugène Ionesco at the Atlantic Theater Company. The Bald Soprano will star John Ellison Conlee, Michael Countryman, Seana Kofoed, Maggie Lacey, Jan Maxwell and Robert Stanton. The Lesson will star Maggie Kiley, Christa Scott-Reed and Steven Skybell.
Conlee's Broadway credits include The Full Montyand 1776. He has appeared at the Atlantic in Butter and Egg Man and Once in a Lifetime. Countryman starred in Broadway's Night Must Fall and Laughter on the 23rd Floor. His off-Broadway crdits include Nine Armenians and The Common Pursuit. Kiley is an Atlantic Theater Company member and appeared in the Atlantic's Frame 312. Kofoed also appeared on Broadway in Night Must Fall. Her other credits include off-Broadway's Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine and TV's The Audrey Hepburn Story. Lacey, a Broadway.com Fresh Face, appeared in the most recent Broadway revival of Our Town. Maxwell was recently seen on Broadway in Sixteen Wounded and has appeared on the Great White Way in The Dinner Party and The Sound of Music. Her off-Broadway credits include My Old Lady and House and Garden. Scott-Reed's off-Broadway credits include Burn This and Museum. Skybell appeared on Broadway in Love! Valour! Compassion! and Ah, Wilderness! Stanton has appeared off-Broadway in Fuddy Meers and All in the Timing. Head of State and Wonderland are among his film credits.
Ionesco's comic masterpiece, The Bald Soprano celebrates the verbal mayhem that erupts when proper English people lose their ability to communicate. In The Lesson, a professor tries to teach his student the basics of arithmetic and philology, but things go terribly wrong as his pronouncements escalate into inspired gibberish.
Conlee's Broadway credits include The Full Montyand 1776. He has appeared at the Atlantic in Butter and Egg Man and Once in a Lifetime. Countryman starred in Broadway's Night Must Fall and Laughter on the 23rd Floor. His off-Broadway crdits include Nine Armenians and The Common Pursuit. Kiley is an Atlantic Theater Company member and appeared in the Atlantic's Frame 312. Kofoed also appeared on Broadway in Night Must Fall. Her other credits include off-Broadway's Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine and TV's The Audrey Hepburn Story. Lacey, a Broadway.com Fresh Face, appeared in the most recent Broadway revival of Our Town. Maxwell was recently seen on Broadway in Sixteen Wounded and has appeared on the Great White Way in The Dinner Party and The Sound of Music. Her off-Broadway credits include My Old Lady and House and Garden. Scott-Reed's off-Broadway credits include Burn This and Museum. Skybell appeared on Broadway in Love! Valour! Compassion! and Ah, Wilderness! Stanton has appeared off-Broadway in Fuddy Meers and All in the Timing. Head of State and Wonderland are among his film credits.
Ionesco's comic masterpiece, The Bald Soprano celebrates the verbal mayhem that erupts when proper English people lose their ability to communicate. In The Lesson, a professor tries to teach his student the basics of arithmetic and philology, but things go terribly wrong as his pronouncements escalate into inspired gibberish.
The one-acts, translated by Tina Howe and directed by Carl Forsman, will begin previews on September 1 and officially open on September 19. The limited engagement will close on October 17.