David Aaron Baker Joins Mary-Louise Parker in Dead Man's Cell Phone

David Aaron Baker, Carla Harting and Kelly Maurer will join the previously announced Mary-Louise Parker, Kathleen Chalfant and Bill Camp in Playwrights Horizons' forthcoming production of Dead Man's Cell Phone. This new work by Sarah Ruhl The Clean House, Eurydice is set to begin previews on February 8 at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater and will open 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 Parker, an empathetic museum worker, answers his ringing phone beside her in a café, she is soon playing unwitting comforter and confessor to the man's grieving friends and family. Before she knows it, Jean is ensnarled in the underbelly of the dead man's bizarre life.

Baker has appeared on Broadway in A Raisin in the Sun, The Rainmaker, Once Upon a Mattress, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, The Moliere Comedies, White Liars/Black Comedy and The Flowering Peach and in 110 in the Shade at the New York City Opera. His off-Broadway credits include Rose's Dilemma, The Glory of Living, Hobson's Choice, Ancestral Voices, Bosoms & Neglect, Blue Window and Durang, Durang.

Harting appeared last season in Ruhl's Eurydice at Second Stage. Other New York stage credits include Orson's Shadow, Kid-Simple, Jimmy Carter Was a Democrat, Be Aggressive, Freakshowand Razing Houses. Regional credits include The Lady from Dubuque, Passion Play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, What the Butler Saw, Our Country's Good and Uncle Vanya.

Maurer made her Broadway debut in David Mamet's The Old Neighborhood as standby for Patti LuPone. A founding member of SITI Company, her New York credits include Radio Macbeth, Culture of Desire, The Medium, Small Lives, Big Dreams, Seven Deadly Sins and bobrauschenbergamerica. Off-Broadway she appeared in The Water Engine.