Dan McCabe & Reed Birney Join the Cast of Pen at Playwrights Horizons
Dan McCabe and Reed Birney will join J. Smith-Cameron in the upcoming Playwrights Horizons production of David Marshall Grant's Pen. The play will begin performances at Playwrights' Peter Jay Sharp Theater on March 23.
Pen follows, a controlling mother confined to a wheelchair Smith-Cameron, who holds tightly to her son McCabe by influencing his enrollment in a nearby college, while her ex-husband Birney tries to spring the boy loose. Backed into a corner, the young man makes a choice that unleashes a series of mysterious events, forcing a broken family to confront its unresolved wounds.
McCabe has appeared on the New York stage in The Dear Boy and A & J Rule the Universe. His other theatrical credits include Kimberly Akimbo at Hartford Theatreworks and The Dead Eye Boy at the Cincinnati Playhouse.
Birney made his New York theatrical debut at Playwrights in 1976 in Gemini and has also appeared in the company's productions of Herself As Lust, An Imaginary Life and The Butterfly Collection. His other New York stage appearances include Bug for which he won an Obie Award, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann, The Common Pursuit, Volunteer Man, Bedfellows, Minor Demons and The Exact Center of the Universe.
