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Anatomy of a Suicide
By Alice Birch
Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
Linda Gross Theater
FEBRUARY 1 – March 15, 2020
Three generations of women. Their lives play out simultaneously. For each, the chaos of what has come before brings a painful legacy.
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Winner of the 2018 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Anatomy of a Suicide is a revelatory exploration of mothers and daughters by Alice Birch (Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.), directed by Obie Award winner Lileana Blain-Cruz (Marys Seacole).
Anatomy of a Suicide is supported by the Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation.
Running time: Approximately 1 hour, 45 minutes with no intermission.
Please Note: This production contains herbal cigarettes, haze, strobe lights and violence.
Reviews

“Cleareyed & dazzling, like sun on ice, Anatomy of a Suicide has the feel of a summoning. The tone throughout is cool, reminiscent of Caryl Churchill. It is a drama like the blue heart of a flame; it looks like winter even as it scorches you.
Alexis Soloski, The New York Times
“Riveting!”
Robert Hofler, The Wrap
★★★★★
“Gorgeously incisive & elegantly devastating! This production is exquisitely timed & calibrated.”
Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
★★★★
“Powerful.”
Max McGuinness, Financial Times
“Birch’s beautiful & aching play functions like a symphony!”
Nicole Serratore, The Stage
“Ambitiously experimental, elegantly constructed & formally impressive! The actors display perfect, split-second timing as they deliver dialogue constructed with the complexity of a musical fugue.”
Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter
“Orchestrated like a work of scientific precision by Lileana Blain-Cruz. All three women are giving beautiful, complex performances.”
Hayley Levitt, Theatermania
Cast & Creative


Celeste Arias
Anna
CELESTE ARIAS. Celeste’s theater credits include Uncle Vanya (The Old Globe and Hunter Theater Project), The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (Yale Repertory Theatre) and Thunderbodies (Carlotta of New Plays). Films: The Big Sick, Rebel in the Rye, Kate Can’t Swim, The Post. TV: “Nos4a2,” “Bull,” “The Code,” “The Good Wife”. Training: M.F.A. Yale School of Drama.

Jason Babinsky
Tim, Toby, Steve, & Mark
JASON BABINSKY. Broadway: Network, Billy Elliot (also first national tour) and Ghost. Off-Broadway: The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Classic Stage Company) and A Man’s a Man (Classic Stage Company). Select regional: 3 seasons in repertory at the Contemporary American Theater Festival, McCarter Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Alley Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Stageworks/Hudson, Syracuse Stage, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, North Shore Music Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Forestburgh Playhouse and Paper Mill Playhouse. Film: You Were Never Really Here, A Cure for Wellness, The Wizard of Lies (HBO), Contagion, You Don’t Know Jack (HBO), and Law Abiding Citizen. TV: “The Good Wife” (recurring), “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (recurring), “Billions” (recurring), “House of Cards,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Elementary,” “Madam Secretary,” “Blue Bloods,” “Shades of Blue,” “The Knick,” “Person of Interest,” “Unforgettable,” “American Odyssey” and “Forever.”

Gabby Beans
Bonnie
GABBY BEANS. Education: BA from Columbia University and MA in Classical Acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. TV: “House of Cards”, “Ray Donovan” and “I Love You, But I Lied.” Theatre: Marys Seacole at LCT3, GIRLS at Yale Rep, The Wolves (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Play) at the Studio Theatre in DC, After the Dark at LaMaMa ETC, and Curse of the Starving Class at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Ava Briglia
Daisy, Anna, & Child
AVA BRIGLIA is a 12 year old performer from Pennsylvania and NYC. Broadway: School Of Rock (Summer), Matilda the Musical (Matilda), The Ferryman (Swing – Nunu, Mercy, and Honor). First National Tour: School of Rock (Summer). Recent workshops/readings: Trevor The Musical, Radio 930, and Another Way. TV & Film: “John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch” (Netflix), “Evil Lives Here,” Sisters, “Balancing Act,” and “Julie’s Greenroom”.

Carla Gugino
Carol
CARLA GUGINO (Carol). Acclaimed screen and stage actress Carla Gugino currently stars in HBO’s crime drama “Jett”, in which she plays a world class thief fresh out of prison lured back into doing what she does best. Other notable TV roles include ‘Olivia’ in “The Haunting of Hill House”, ‘Amanda Daniels’ in HBO’s “Entourage”, ‘Abby Rhodes’ in “Californication”, and the title role in “Karen Sisco”. Notable film roles include ‘Emma’ in San Andreas, ‘Jessie’ in Gerald’s Game, ‘Ingrid Cortez’ in the Spy Kids trilogy, and ‘Sally Jupiter’ in Watchmen. She also starred in American Gangster, Match, and Night At The Museum. On Broadway she has starred in After The Fall, Desire Under The Elms, and Road To Mecca. Off-Broadway: Suddenly Last Summer and A Kid Like Jake.

Julian Elijah Martinez
Jamie
JULIAN ELIJAH MARTINEZ. Broadway: Network. Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway: Alligator (New Georges) and Mud (Boundless Theater Company). Selected Regional credits include: Father Comes Home From The Wars Part 1,2,3 (c/o production with Yale Rep and American Conservatory Theater); The Square Root of 3 Sisters (Dmitry Krymov Lab); 9 Circles (Forum Theatre, Helen Hayes Outstanding Lead Actor in a Resident Play nomination); Locomotion (The John F. Kennedy Center); The Hampton Years (Theater J); Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company); Man of La Mancha (Hangar Theater); Hamlet and All’s Well That Ends Well (Orlando Shakespeare Theater). Television credits include “Wu-Tang: An American Saga,” “Prodigal Son,” “Elementary,” “High School Lover,” and “Madam Secretary.” Film Credits include: Dominant Species (short) and Swimming (upcoming). Martinez is a former co-artistic director of the Yale Cabaret and a former company member of the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company and Developing Artists. Martinez received his MFA from Yale University and his BFA from Elon University. www.julianelijahmartinez.com

Jo Mei
Jo, Laura, & Lola
JO MEI. This is Jo’s Atlantic debut. Theatre credits include: The Great Wave (Berleley Rep), We are Among Us (Pittsburgh City Theatre), Babette’s Feast (off-Broadway/ Portland Stage), Fingersmith (American Repertory Theater), World of Extreme Happiness (Manhattan Theatre Club), King of Hell’s Palace (Goodman Theatre), You For Me For You (Woolly Mammoth Theater). TV credits include “Crashing” (HBO), “Nicki” (Freeform), “Bones” (Fox) and “The Good Wife” (CBS). Jo stars in and co-wrote the award-winning film A Picture of You. Other film credits include Who We Are Now, Adult World, The Grief of Others. Jo is a graduate of The Juilliard School’s Drama Division. @jotomato

Vince Nappo
Dan, Felix, Dave, Luke, & Nick
VINCE NAPPO. International: The Merchant Of Venice (Royal Shakespeare Company); Silence (Stephen Joseph In The Round); Pull My Strings (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). National Tour: Million Dollar Quartet. Off-Broadway: The Merchant Of Venice, The Jew Of Malta (Theatre For A New Audience); Richard II (on low-flying trapeze) (Matchbook Productions/Sonnet Rep.); Other Bodies (Flux Theatre Ensemble). Select Regional: Bay Street Theater, Hartford Stage, Portland Center Stage, Denver Center Theatre Company. Film: Paint, Friends With Kids, Serenity (Best Actor L.A. Shorts Fest 2017), Soundwave, Casting Call, Devout, Deadbeat, Killing Lincoln. Television: “Jack Ryan” (Amazon), “I’m Dying Up Here” (Showtime), “The Last Tycoon” (Amazon), “Reign” (CW), “NCIS” (CBS), “Controversy” (FOX), “Shades Of Blue” (NBC), “Unforgettable” (A&E), “Castle” (ABC), “Red Widow” (ABC). Training: Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama (Graduate Acting Diploma), National Theatre Conservatory (MFA).

Miriam Silverman
Emma, Karen, Daisy, Esther, May, & Diane
MIRIAM SILVERMAN. Broadway: Junk. Off-Broadway: Plano (Clubbed Thumb); Finks (Drama Desk nomination; EST); Tiny Beautiful Things, Hamlet (The Public); A Delicate Ship (Playwrights Realm); You Got Older (page73); Everything You Touch (Rattlestick); The Witch of Edmonton (Red Bull). Regional: Ethan Coen’s A Play Is A Poem (CTG); Mary Jane, The Moors (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Jeff nom.; Goodman); Measure for Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Dog in the Manger (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Peer Gynt (Guthrie Theatre); Awake and Sing! (Arena Stage). Film: Bad Education (upcoming), Sand Mama, Better Days Ahead. TV: “The Village,” “NOS4A2,” “Elementary,” “Pan Am,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” Education: BA and MFA, Brown University.

Richard Topol
John
RICHARD TOPOL. Broadway: Indecent (OCC nomination), Larry David’s Fish in the Dark, The Normal Heart, Awake & Sing, Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino, Cymbeline, The Country Girl, Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington. Off-Broadway: Dance of Death (CSC); When the Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center); Regrets (MTC); King Lear, Twelfth Night, Winter’s Tale (The Public); Bronx Bombers, Opus (Primary Stages); Hamlet (TFANA); also New Group, EST, Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons. Film/TV includes Lincoln, Mickey Blue Eyes, Indignation, “The Good Wife,” “Elementary,” “Person of Interest,” all “Law & Order” series, “Ed,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Drew Carey”, and recurring roles on “Manifest,” “Genius: Einstein,” “Billions,” “The Practice,” “Covert Affairs,” and “Perception.”

Alice Birch
Playwright
Theatre includes: [BLANK] (Donmar Warehouse / Clean Break); Orlando (Schaubühne, Berlin); La Maladie de la Mort (Bouffes du Nord); Anatomy of a Suicide, Ophelia’s Zimmer, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Royal Court Theatre, Soho Rep.); We Want You To Watch (National Theatre); The Lone Pine Club (Pentabus); Little Light (Orange Tree); Little on the inside (Almeida/Clean Break); Salt (Comedie de Valence); Many Moons (Theatre503). Film includes: Lady Macbeth (Nominated Outstanding Debut & Best British Feature BAFTA 2018, Nominated Best International Film Spirit Awards 2018, Winner 5 British Independent Film Awards 2017 including Best Screenplay, Winner Discovery Award European Film Awards 2017, Winner International Critic’s Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) at San Sebastian International Film Festival 2016, Winner Critic’s Choice Award for Best First Feature at Zurich Film Festival 2016, Winner Best Screenplay at Turin Film Festival). Winner Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2018, Finalist 2015 and 2012; George Devine Award (Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.); Arts Foundation Award for Playwriting. In 2016, Alice was selected as one of the Creative England 50. In 2015 Alice was nominated for Friedrich Luft Prize. Alice is currently under commission to Paines Plough, The National Theatre, The Royal Court and The Almeida. Her second feature will be an adaptation of the Graham Swift novel Mothering Sunday for Number 9 Films and Film 4. She will also adapt James Scott’s novel The Kept and is currently adapting Normal People with the novelist Sally Rooney for the BBC.

Lileana Blain-Cruz
Director
Recent Projects: Marys Seacole at LCT3; Faust at Opera Omaha; Fabulation, Or the Reeducation of Undine at Signature Theatre; Thunderbodies at Soho Rep.; The House That Will Not Stand at New York Theatre Workshop; Water by the Spoonful at Mark Taper Forum/CTG; Pipeline at Lincoln Center; The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World at Signature Theatre (Obie Award); Henry IV, Part One and Much Ado About Nothing at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; The Bluest Eye at The Guthrie; War at LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater and Yale Repertory Theater; Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. at Soho Rep.; Red Speedo at New York Theatre Workshop; Salome at JACK; Hollow Roots, the Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater; A Guide to Kinship and Maybe Magic at Dance New Amsterdam. She was recently named a 2018 United States Artists Fellow. She received her MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama. Upcoming projects include Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Girls at Yale Rep.

Mariana Sanchez
Scenic Designer
MARIANA SANCHEZ is a scenic designer originally from Mexico with a background in architecture, based in the New York area. Atlantic Theater Company debut! Some of her scenic design credits include: Off-Broadway: Marys Seacole (LCT3), Winter’s Tale (The Public Theater), Fade (Primary Stages), Troy (The Public Theater), Frontieres Sans Frontieres (The Bushwick Starr), Oh My Sweet Land (The Play Company). Regional: Manahatta (Yale Repertory Theatre), Mojada (St Louis Rep), The Niceties (Geva Theatre Center), American Underground (Barrington Stage), All’s Well that Ends Well (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) Fetch Clay, Make Man (Dallas Theater Center), Manahatta (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Skeleton Crew (Baltimore Center Stage), The Wolves (TheaterWorks), Fade (TheaterWorks), The River Bride (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), War (Yale Repertory Theatre), Winnie the Pooh (The Alliance Theatre Company), Peter Pan (Yale University) among others. She earned an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a Bachelor of Architecture from UNAM.

Kaye Voyce
Costume Designer
KAYE VOYCE. Broadway: Sea Wall/A Life, True West, The Nap, Significant Other, The Real Thing, The Realistic Joneses and Shining City. Recent Off-Broadway Includes: Marys Seacole, After the Blast (LCT3); Hurricane Diane (NYTW); Mary Page Marlowe (2ST); Harry Clarke, This Day Forward (Vineyard); The Antipodes, Signature Plays, The Wayside Motor Inn (Signature); Sea Wall/A Life, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Measure For Measure, (Public Theatre); Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (Soho Rep.); Greater Clements, The Mystery of Love and Sex, 4000 Miles (LCT).

Jiyoun Chang
Lighting Designer
JIYOUN CHANG. Credits include: Slave Play (Golden Theatre, NYTW, Drama Desk Nom); For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf (The Public); Sojourners, Her Portmanteau (NYTW); Marys Seacole, Plot Points in Our Sexual Development, brownsville song (LCT3); Something Clean, Too Heavy For Your Pocket, Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout); Eddie and Dave (Atlantic), BAM, MCC, Signature, Guggenheim, Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes, Guthrie, The Old Globe, OSF, Studio Theatre. Obie Award in special citation. Thanks to my loves, David & Eva. MFA, Yale School of Drama.

Rucyl Frison
Sound Designer
RUCYL FRISON. Recent projects include live performance and sound design for Kaneza Schaal’s Jack &, solar powered sonic installation Sound Prism, and wearable audiovisual midi controller The Chakakhantroller. She received her MPS from NYU Tisch. She experiments with sound, using voice, MIDI controllers, loopers, and effects processors as a medium to represent the non-tactile concepts of time, emotion, identity, and physics. Rucyl is working on her third solo record, and a new performance piece Echo’s Resolve, a soundscape that uses complex delay processing to discuss the psycholinguistic effects of cultural miscommunication on humanity.

Hannah Wasileski
Projections Designer
HANNAH WASILESKI is a visual artist and projection designer whose work spans theater, opera, music and installation. Recent designs include: Fires in the Mirror (Signature Theatre), The Magic Flute (Staatsoper Berlin), Lohengrin (Bayreuth), Sleep (BAM), Pipeline (Lincoln Center; Lortel Award), Water by the Spoonful (Mark Taper), La Voix Humaine (National Sawdust), The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature Theatre), A Proust Sonata (Wortham Center), Angel’s Bone (Prototype Festival), The Wreckers (Bard SummerScape Opera), The World is Round (BAM; Obie Award). Her video installations have been exhibited in NYC, London, Brighton, Glasgow, and Prague.

Tommy Kurzman
Wigs, Hair & Makeup
TOMMY KURZMAN. Most recently designed wigs and makeup for the NYC revival of Little Shop of Horrors (Westside Theatre), and The Wrong Man (MCC). Broadway (Makeup): All My Sons, True West, St. Joan, My Fair Lady, Little Foxes, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Bright Star, Fiddler on the Roof, Thérèse Raquin. Off-Broadway: The Public, MTC, NWS. Regional: Pittsburgh Public, Resident Ensemble Players, Cape Playhouse, Sig. VA, MSM, D.C., BCS. Associate Hair Designer on over 15 Broadway productions. Upcoming Broadway (Makeup): Mrs. Doubtfire. @TommyKurzmanWigs

William Berloni
Animal Director and Trainer
WILLIAM BERLONI. 2011 Tony Honoree for Excellence in Theatre; 1977 and 2013 Outer Critics Awards and 2017 Drama League Award for Unique Contribution to the Theater. Broadway: Annie (1977) to The Ferryman (2018), and 25 shows in between. Animal Director for the new musical Because of Winn Dixie at the Goodspeed Opera House, summer 2019. Credits include hundreds of Off-Broadway, regional and national tours. Television: producer and star of “From Wags to Riches with Bill Berloni,” “Mr. Robot,” “Billions,” “High Maintenance,” “Ramy,” “Almost Family.” Author of Broadway Tails. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter and theatricalanimals.com

Egypt Dixon
Production Stage Manager
EGYPT DIXON is a proud New York City Stage Manager. Production Stage Manager credits include: Always, Patsy Cline (Weathervane Theatre); Assistant Stage Manager credits include: Fefu and Her Friends, Julius Caesar, Winter’s Tale (Theater for a New Audience); Indecent (Weston Playhouse); Bright Star, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Chicago, Sister Act (Weathervane Theatre). This is Egypt’s first production at Atlantic Theater Company and first PSM credit in NYC as member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Kate Mandracchia
Assistant Stage Manager
KATE MANDRACCHIA is thrilled to be making her Atlantic Theater Company debut! Off-Broadway credits include Caesar & Cleopatra (Gingold Theatrical Group), The Plough and the Stars, The Shadow of a Gunman, The Dead, 1904, The Seafarer (Irish Repertory Theatre), Havel: The Passion of Thought, The Possibilities/The After Dinner Joke (Potomac Theatre Project), Napoli, Brooklyn (Roundabout Theatre Company), as well as work with The Public Theater, Signature Theatre, MCC Theater, and The Pigeon Theatre Company. Kate is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Telsey + Company
Casting
TELSEY + COMPANY. Broadway/Tours: Flying Over Sunset, American Buffalo, Mrs. Doubtfire, Diana, West Side Story, Grand Horizons, Tina, Beetlejuice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Mean Girls, Frozen, Come From Away, Hamilton, Wicked, My Fair Lady, Once on This Island, Hello, Dolly!, Anastasia. Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company, Classic Stage Company, MCC Theater, The New Group, Park Avenue Armory, Second Stage Theatre. Film: The Glorias, The Kitchen, Mary Poppins Returns, Ben Is Back, The Greatest Showman, Into the Woods, Rachel Getting Married. TV: “AJ and the Queen,” “Perfect Harmony,” “Tales of the City,” “Fosse/Verdon,” “NOS4A2,” “This Is Us,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “One Day at a Time,” commercials. www.telseyandco.com
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