Cast Set for Speech & Debate, First Show at New Roundabout Black Box

Jason Fuchs Sea of Tranquility, Gideon Glick Spring Awakening and Sarah Steele The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie will play teenage misfits linked by a sex scandal that rocks their small town in Stephen Karam's Speech & Debate. Joining them in this, the first production at Roundabout Theatre Company's new black box theater Roundabout Underground, will be [title of show] player Susan Blackwell.

In Speech & Debate, Salem, Oregon teens Diwata Steele, Howie Glick and Solomon Fuchs reluctantly form their school's first speech and debate team after learning of the scandal. According to the press notes, "secrets become currency, blogs are belted and 'bathing suit areas' exposed in this black comedy about what, if anything, it means to be an adult.'"

Directed by Avenue Q's Jason Moore, Speech & Debate will begin performances on October 5 and open on October 29. The limited engagement is scheduled to end on December 16.