Bill Camp to Join Parker and Chalfant in Dead Man's Cell Phone

Bill Camp has signed on to play the title role in Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone at Playwrights Horizons. He joins the previously announced Mary-Louise Parker and Kathleen Chafant in the play, which will begin previews on February 8, 2008, and open off-Broadway on March 4, directed by Anne Bogart.

In Dead Man's Cell Phone, Gordon Camp is dead but his cell phone lives on. When Jean, an empathetic museum worker Parker, answers his ringing phone beside her in a cafe, she is soon playing unwitting comforter and confessor to the man's grieving mother Chalfant, family and friends. Before she knows it, Jean is ensnarled in the underbelly of the dead man's bizarre life and is forced to confront her assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technology-obsessed world.

Camp is currently starring in the title role of New York Theater Workshop's acclaimed production of The Misanthrope and will move directly into NYTW's production of Beckett Shorts with Mikhail Baryshnikov in December. His Broadway credits include Coram Boy, Heartbreak House, Jackie: An American Life, The Seagull and Saint Joan. Off-Broadway credits include Homebody/Kabul, The Devils, Lydie Breeze, Hamlet, One Flea Spare, Troilus & Cressida , Twelfth Night , Titus Andronicus, Sore Throats, Macbeth and Measure for Measure. Film and TV includes The Dying Gaul, In & Out, Reversal of Fortune, Law & Order, Joan of Arcadia, The Great Gatsby and Hamlet.