Prayer for the French Republic Tickets

Prayer for the French Republic at MTC. Broadway: Leopoldstadt (Tony, Best Play), All The Way and Beautiful. Nikolai And The Others and Road (Lincoln Center Theater), The Metal Children and Mary Rose at Vineyard, Celebration at Atlantic, Crooked at WP, Final Follies at Primary Stages. Stone Cold Dead Serious at Edge, Doubt and Appropriate at Westport, Romeo and Juliet at Chicago Shakes, Circle Mirror Transformation at Huntington, All The Way at ART, Mama’s Boy at George Street. TV: Inside Amy Schumer, SVU (recurring), Bull, Madame Secretary, The Americans, Orange Is The New Black, etc. Film: Margaret, Irrational Man, A Vigilante, The Greatest Showman. Awards: Richard Seff 2022, Lucille Lortel nom., Outer Critics Circle nom., Irne nom., BWW Award, Drama Desk Ensemble, Obie Sustained Excellence of Performance. Directing: A Doll’s House Part 2 at George Street.

Franchis Benhamou is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut after originating the role Off-Broadway. She won the Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Awards for Best Featured Actress and was also nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award. Her Off-Broadway credits include: Selling Kabul (Pulitzer Prize Finalist); The Profane (Playwrights Horizons); the Obie award winning Invasion!; I Call My Brothers (The Play Co.); Motel Cherry (Clubbed Thumb/New Georges). Film/TV credits include Arranged, Neal Cassady, Breaking Upwards, Listen up Phillip, Inside Amy Schumer,Daredevil, Life & Beth and Dear Edward. Francis is a graduate of the Maggie Flanigan Studio.

NYC theater credits include: Prayer For the French Republic (MTC); My Name is Asher Lev (Off-Broadway); The Neil Simon Plays (Broadway); The Lucky One (Mint); Black Tie (Primary Stages); Romeo and Juliet (NYSF); Much Ado About Nothing (NYCT); Scenes From Childhood (written by Ari Brand, 14th St Y). Other theater: Bad Jews (Geffen Playhouse); Arabian Nights (Berkeley, KC Reps); Last Night of Ballyhoo (Bay Street); Diary of Anne Frank (Westport);Diner (DTC); My Name Is Asher Lev (Long Wharf). Upcoming TV/Film: Beautiful and Neat Room (feature). Past TV/Film: Blue Bloods, FBI: International, Fosse/Verdon, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Other Two, FBI; White Collar, To The Flame, Listen. B.A. Wesleyan University; BADA; LABA Fellow. For Savta.

Anthony Edwards is probably best known as Dr. Mark Greene on the series ER. Edwards has received four Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Edwards has won three Screen Actors Guild Awards (Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series in 1996 and Best Ensemble Cast in 1998 and 1999). He won the Golden Globe Award in 1998. In the theater Edwards was seen on Broadway in Children of a Lesser God, Month in the Country (Classic Stage Company), Shem Bitterman’s Frozen (WPA), Harvey (Williamstown Theater Festival) and Joyce Carol Oates’s Black. Edwards has starred in more than twenty features, including his memorable turn as "Goose" in the blockbuster feature Top Gun. Other feature film credits include: Consumed, Experimenter, Big Sur, Motherhood with Uma Thurman, Flipped directed by Rob Reiner, and Zodiac directed by David Fincher. Thunderbirds, Forgotten, Playing by Heart,The Client, Miracle Mile, Mr. North, Hawks, Pet Semetary II, Delta Heat, Landslide, The Sure Thing, Gotcha, Revenge of the Nerds, Heart Like a Wheel, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Edwards recently starred in both the Apple series We Crashed and the Netflix mini-series Inventing Anna, created by Shonda Rhimes. Other television credits include Law and Order True Crimes: the Menendez Murders, Zero Hour, Girls, Blue Bloods, Billions, Northern Exposure and It Takes Two as well as the telefilms In Cold Blood, El Diablo, Hometown Boy Makes Good, Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story, High School USA and The Killing of Randy Webster. Edwards made his feature directing debut with My Dead Boyfriend in 2016. He also directed several episodes of ER. Edwards was an Executive Producer of the HBO biopic Temple Grandin, which won multiple Emmys and Golden Globes.

Molly Ranson most recently starred in the Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite, opposite Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker. Prior to, she starred in Manhattan Theatre Club’s Prayer for the French Republic, written by Joshua Harmon and directed by David Cromer. She was also featured in the MTC’s production of Linda, Larry David’s Broadway comedy Fish in the Dark, and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for her critically acclaimed performance in Roundabout Theater Company’s play, Bad Jews. Scott Brown of New York Magazine called her “pitch-perfect and marvelously restrained.” Charles Isherwood of The New York Times also praised her performance: “Melody [is] played with terrific delicacy and good humor by Ms. Ranson.” Molly starred in the title role in MCC’s musical adaptation of the cult film, Carrie, and can also be heard on the production’s cast album. Molly has also appeared on Broadway in Jerusalem, opposite Mark Rylance, and in Tracy Letts’ Tony-winning play August: Osage County, which she also performed on the West End and in Australia. Her on-screen credits include: New Amsterdam, Horace & Pete, and the feature film Love on the Run. Molly is a graduate of LaGuardia Arts High School, where she was the recipient of a Drama Desk Scholarship Award.

Nancy Robinette has worked in the DC area most of her career, as an early company member of Woolly Mammoth, and as an Associate Artist at Arena Stage and at Shakespeare Theatre, where she also teaches. Recent performances include Carrie in Ford Theatre’s Trip to Bountiful, and Nan in Jennifer Who Is Leaving at Round House. She has worked regionally at the Papermill Playhouse, The Everyman Theatre, the McCarter Theatre, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, the Old Globe, Gulfshore Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and in New York at Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, the Roundabout, and in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime on Broadway. Film and TV credits include Serial Mom, The Three Christs, Soldier Jack, Homicide, Louie, and Up Here! She received the Helen Hayes lifetime tribute in 2019.

Aria Shahghasemi is best known as “Landon Kirby” in four seasons of the CW series “Legacies.” He made his debut as the character recurring on “The Originals.” Most recently he joined the cast of the limited series “Penguin” on HBO Max. The oldest of two children born to Iranian immigrants in suburban Minneapolis, Aria Shahghasemi studied at the BFA theater program at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Aria then transferred to the celebrated Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. Shortly after graduating, Aria booked episodes of “Unforgettable,” “Law and Order SVU,” and “Instinct,” and an Off-Broadway play called Connected at 59E59. He has also appeared as “Laertes” in Hamlet and the independent feature No Alternative, before beginning as a CW series regular later that year.

To come.

David Cromer is a New York-based director and actor. He appeared on Broadway as Karl Lindner in the 2014 revival of A Raisin in the Sun, and Off-Broadway as the Stage Manager in Our Town, which he also directed, at the Barrow Street Theatre. He appeared in the HBO series The Newsroom, the Showtime series Billions, and in the motion picture The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected). As a director, his New York credits include The Band’s Visit (2018 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, Ethel Barrymore Theatre); the Broadway revivals of Brighton Beach Memoirs and The House of Blue Leaves; The Treasurer (Playwrights Horizons); Man from Nebraska (Second Stage Theatre); The Effect, Orson’s Shadow, and Tribes (Barrow Street Theatre); Women or Nothing(Atlantic Theater Company); Really Really (MCC Theater); When the Rain Stops Falling and Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center Theater); and Adding Machine(Minetta Lane Theatre). Other directing credits include Come Back, Little Sheba (Huntington Theatre Company); The Sound Inside (Williamstown Theatre Festival); and Our Town in London, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Kansas City. Cromer has received a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, three Obie Awards, three Lucille Lortel Awards, a Joe A. Callaway Award, four Jeff Awards, and in 2010 was made a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.