Russell & McCarthy Join Cast of MCC's Fat Pig

Broadway.com has learned that Ashlie Atkinson, Andrew McCarthy and Keri Russell will star opposite Jeremy Piven in the MCC Theater production of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig.

Atkinson has appeared onstage in many regional productions. Her theatrical credits include mountings of All The King's Men and Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll. Earlier this year, she had a recurring role in the series Rescue Me.

McCarthy, who is still best known for being a part of the "brat pack," has a considerable list of theater credits. He appeared on Broadway in The Boys of Winter and Side Man. He also starred in off-Broadway's Psychopathia Sexualis. McCarthy's regional theater credits include Hartford Stage productions of Long Day's Journey Into Night and The Glass Menagerie. He was recently featured on the small screen as the star of the ABC mini-series Kingdom Hospital.

Russell is best known for her Golden Globe-winning portrayal of the title character on the WB series Felicity. Her film credits include Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, Eight Days a Week, Dead Man's Curve, Mad About Mambo, We Were Soldiers and the upcoming The Upside of Anger.

Fat Pig centers on a man, Tom Piven, who is dating an overweight woman Atkinson. The play traces the courtship of two people who truly care for one another set against a world that ridicules and ostracizes those who do not fit into a Hollywood realm of ideal beauty. McCarthy and Russell play Tom's shallow friends, who don't understand his choice in dates.

The play, directed by Jo Bonney, is scheduled to run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre from November 23 through January 15.