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Describe the Night
Written by RAJIV JOSEPH
Directed by GIOVANNA SARDELLI
Linda Gross Theater
November 11 – December 24, 2017
Set in Russia over the course of 90 years, this thrilling and epic new play by Rajiv Joseph (Atlantic’s Guards at the Taj, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo) traces the stories of seven men and women connected by history, myth and conspiracy theories.
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In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel wanders the countryside with the Red Cavalry. Seventy years later, a mysterious KGB agent spies on a woman in Dresden and falls in love. In 2010, an aircraft carrying most of the Polish government crashes in the Russian city of Smolensk.
Accolades
OBIE AWARD | BEST NEW AMERICAN PLAY | RAJIV JOSEPH
Cast & Creative


Tina Benko
Yevgenia
TINA BENKO played Calpurnia in Julius Caesar this summer for The Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park. Recent Broadway credits include Ivo Van Hove’s production of The Crucible and The Cherry Orchard at Roundabout. Off-Broadway includes Scenes from a Marriage at New York Theatre Workshop, Informed Consent at Primary Stages, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at TFANA, Who Left This Fork Here? at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jackie at The Women’s Project and the New York, Los Angeles and International productions of Toni Morrison’s play Desdemona. TV and Film credits include “Mapplethorpe,” “Hot Air,” The Greatest Showman, “Fair Market Value,” “Blindspot,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “Vinyl” and “Flesh and Bone.”

Nadia Bowers
Mariya, Mrs. Petrovna
NADIA BOWERS. Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, Doubt, Metamorphoses. Other NYC credits: Recently, Church and State at New World Stages, The Way West by Mona Mansour at Labyrinth. Other NYC theater: Collapse (The Women’s Project), Julius Caesar (Public Theater; NYSF), Wildflower (Second Stage), Dog and Wolf (Watson Arts @59E59), Eyes of the Heart (NAATCO), The Netflix Plays (Ars Nova), Romania. Kiss Me! (The Play Company). Regional: The Farnsworth Invention, Sideways (La Jolla Playhouse), Blood Wedding, Boston Marriage (Guthrie Theater), Circle Mirror Transformation (Huntington Theater), Chapter Two (Bucks County Playhouse), Tartuffe (Westport Country Playhouse) and many others. TV: “Quantico,” “Orange is the New Black,” “The Strain,” “NCIS,” every incarnation of “Law and Order.” Film: (upcoming) Unintended. B.A: Dartmouth College – Sociology/French. M.F.A: Tisch School of the Arts, NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. www.nadiabowers.com

Danny Burstein
Isaac
DANNY BURSTEIN is a six-time Tony Award and two-time Grammy Award nominee whose sixteen Broadway credits include: Fiddler on the Roof; Cabaret; The Snow Geese; Golden Boy; Follies; Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; South Pacific; The Drowsy Chaperone; Saint Joan; The Seagull; Three Men on a Horse; A Little Hotel on the Side; Titanic and Company. Off-Broadway credits include: Bottom in Midsummer…; Talley’s Folly; Mrs. Farnsworth; Psych; All in the Timing; Merrily We Roll Along; Weird Romance and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Film/TV includes: Indignation (directed by James Schamus); The Family Fang (directed by Jason Bateman); Blackhat (directed by Michael Mann); Transamerica; Deception; Affluenza; Nor’easter; The Sounding; “Boardwalk Empire” (directed by Martin Scorsese); “Louie”; “Absolutely Fabulous”; “Law & Order”; “The Good Wife”, etc. In 2014 he made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Frosch in the Jeremy Sams/Douglas Carter Beane production of Die Fledermaus.

Zach Grenier
Nikolai
ZACH GRENIER returns to Atlantic Theater Company, where he appeared in Gabriel and Storefront Church. He recently played Willy Loman in Pittsburgh Public Theater’s production of Death of a Salesman. A New York stage veteran, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his portrayal of Beethoven in Moisés Kaufman’s 33 Variations. He appears in the recently released film Crown Heights, as well as many others, including Fight Club, Zodiac and Ride with the Devil. His television career has included a number of series regular and recurring roles, but he is most frequently recognized as David Lee of “The Good Wife.”

Rebecca Naomi Jones
Urzula
REBECCA NAOMI JONES was last at Atlantic in the acclaimed new play Marie and Rosetta. She has performed on Broadway in Significant Other, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, American Idiot and Passing Strange. Other New York work includes Murder Ballad at Manhattan Theatre Club (Lilly Award and Lucille Lortel nomination), Signature Theater’s production of Big Love (Drama League nomination), The Fortress of Solitude (Public Theater), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare in the Park), Wig Out! (Vineyard Theatre), God Bless You Mr. Rosewater (Encores), and the recent Public Works production of As You Like It. Films: Most Likely To Murder, The Big Sick, Ratter, Ordinary World, Passing Strange and the documentary Broadway Idiot. Select TV: “High Maintenance,” “Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll,” “Inside Amy Schumer,” “Limitless,” “Difficult People,” “Blue Bloods.” Solo concerts: Lincoln Center American Songbook, Apollo Cafe. Rebecca holds a BFA in Drama from the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Max Gordon Moore
Vova
MAX GORDON MOORE is pleased to be making his Atlantic Theater Company debut. Broadway: Indecent, Relatively Speaking. Off-Broadway: Man from Nebraska (Second Stage); Indecent (Vineyard); Man and Superman, It’s A Wonderful Life (Irish Rep). Recent: The Master Builder (BAM); Arcadia, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Yale Rep); Time and the Conways (Old Globe); Constellations (Seattle Rep); Tragedy: A Tragedy (Berkeley Rep); As You Like It, Merchant of Venice, Merry Wives of Windsor, Richard III (California Shakespeare); Pleasure and Pain (Magic Theatre); Bach at Leipzig (ACT Theatre); The Seagull (Cleveland Playhouse). Film/TV: Gods Behaving Badly, “Madam Secretary,” “The Good Wife.” MFA, Yale School of Drama, Hershel Williams Prize in Acting.

Stephen Stocking
Feliks
STEPHEN STOCKING is thrilled to be making his Atlantic Theater Company debut. Most recently: Gavrilo Princip in the world premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s Archduke directed by Giovanna Sardelli at Center Theatre Group. New York and Regional theater: Describe the Night (Alley Theatre and NYU); Great Expectations (Portland Center Stage); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Theatre Co., DC and Macau); Every Good Girl Deserves Fun (by Heidi Armbruster); The Casebook of Rudolf H (NYTW Studio); Dance Dance Revolution (Alex Timbers, Dir.); Romeo & Juliet, Anything Goes (Williamstown). NYU: Desire, Three Sisters, Plenty, Landscape of the Body, The Beaux’ Strategem, Pale Fires. TV: “Z: The Beginning of Everything.” MFA: NYU Grad Acting. stephenstocking.com

Rajiv Joseph
Playwright
RAJIV JOSEPH. His play, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo was a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama and was also awarded a grant for Outstanding New American Play by the National Endowment for the Arts. His play Guards at the Taj was a 2016 Obie Winner for Best New American Play and a 2016 Lucille Lortel Winner for Best Play. His play Archduke received its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Other plays include Gruesome Playground Injuries, The Monster at the Door, Animals Out of Paper, The Lake Effect, The North Pool, and Mr. Wolf. Rajiv has been awarded artistic grants from the Whiting Foundation, United States Artists and the Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. He is a board member of the Lark Play Development Center in New York City, where he develops all his plays. He served for three years in the Peace Corps in Senegal and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Giovanna Sardelli
Director
GIOVANNA SARDELLI. With Rajiv Joseph: Los Angeles: Archduke (World Premiere at the Taper, CTG), Guards at the Taj (Geffen Playhouse, 2017 Ovation Award for Best Production of a Play). Off-Broadway World Premieres: Huck & Holden (Cherry Lane); Animals Out of Paper and All This Intimacy(Second Stage); The Leopard and The Fox (AlterEgo). Regional: Mr. Wolf(Cleveland Play House); The Lake Effect (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley); The North Pool (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley World Premiere, Barrington Stage Company). Other Select Off-Broadway World Premieres: Little Children Dream of God (Roundabout); Wildflower (Second Stage); Finks (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Apple Cove (Women’s Project). Other Select Regional: All The Way, The Whipping Man (Cleveland Play House); The Mountaintop, Absalom (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Clybourne Park, Lord of the Flies, Muckrakers (Barrington Stage Company); Crimes of the Heart, Velocity of Autumn, Somewhere (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley). Though based in New York, Sardelli is the Director of New Works for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Education: MFA Graduate Acting Program, NYU and graduate of their Director’s Lab.

Tim Mackabee
Scenic Designer
TIM MACKABEE. Atlantic: The Penitent, Guards at the Taj, Our New Girl. For Rajiv Joseph: Guards at the Taj (NYC, Chicago, South Korea, 2016 Lucille Lortel Award), Archduke (Center Theatre Group), Mr. Wolf(Cleveland Play House). Broadway: The Elephant Man (starring Bradley Cooper), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (dir. Spike Lee). West End: The Elephant Man. Off-Broadway: The Last Match (Roundabout), Vietgone, Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (MTC), Heathers The Musical, Luce (Lincoln Center Theatre), Gigantic (Vineyard), Much Ado About Nothing (Public). Regional: Alley Theatre, The Old Globe, Steppenwolf, Arena Stage, Geffen, ACT San Francisco, Ford’s Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, Center Stage Baltimore, Denver Center, Portland Center Stage, Dallas Theatre Center, Yale Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Williamstown. TV: Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo (HBO), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (HBO), Gotham, Smash, The Today Show. Education: North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale School of Drama. timothymackabeedesign.com, @timmackabeedesign.

Amy Clark
Costume Designer
AMY CLARK. Broadway: A Night With Janis Joplin, Chaplin(Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle Nominations). Current projects include Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion The Musical, The return of The Big Apple Circus, The Goodman’s world premiere of Blind Date. Off-Broadway: Himself and Nora, Stupid $*&%! Bird, Heathers the Musical, Cagney, Unlock’d, Animals out of Paper, All That Intimacy, Jayson With A Y, Dreams of The Washer King, Apple Cove, and Dramatis Personae. Other selected designs: Vocalosity, Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus presents Circus Extreme ’15 and Legend’s ’14, and On Your Toes City Center Encores. Regionally: The Fifth Avenue Theater, Geva Theater Center, Cleveland Playhouse, The Goodman Theater, Alley Theatre, The Alliance Theater, Hartford Stage Co., The Asolo Repertory Theater, The Paper Mill Playhouse, The Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Bay Street Theater, Goodspeed Musicals, The MUNY, The Actors Theater of Louisville, Hartford Theaterworks, Barrington Stage Co., and Portland Stage Co. Awarded the 2012 Theatre Hall of Fame Emerging Artists fellowship. MFA from NYU.

Lap Chi Chu
Lighting Designer
LAP CHI CHU. Recent works include world premieres of Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves (Playwrights Realm), Rajiv Joseph’s Archduke(Mark Taper Forum), and Suzan-Lori Park’s Father Comes Home From the Wars (Public Theater). He has designed regionally for Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Contemporary Theater, Goodman Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Arena Stage, Dallas Theater Center, and Portland Center Stage. His New York design credits include The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, Performance Space 122, and Kitchen Theatre Company. His awards include the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Angstrom Award for Career Achievement in Lighting Design, an Ovation Award, multiple Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, a “Drammy” for best lighting, as well as a Lucille Lortel Award nomination. Chu is on the lighting design faculty at California Institute of the Arts.lapchichu.com

Daniel Kluger
Original Compositions and Sound Design
DANIEL KLUGER. Broadway: Marvin’s Room, Significant Other. Off Broadway: Animal, I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard, Women or Nothing (Atlantic Theater Company); Man From Nebraska (Second Stage); The Light Years, Antlia Pneumatica, Marjorie Prime, Iowa (Playwrights Horizons); The Effect, Tribes, Hit the Wall (Barrow Street Theatre); The Mystery of Love and Sex, Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center); Significant Other, The Common Pursuit (Roundabout); Lost Girls, The Nether(MCC);You Got Older (PAGE 73); Somewhere Fun, and The North Pool (Vineyard). Regional: The Old Globe, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Rep, Huntington Theater Co, Long Wharf, Pig Iron, Two River Theater, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. www.danielkluger.com

J. David Brimmer
Fight Master, SAFD
J. DAVID BRIMMER. Selected Broadway: Spring Awakening; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Grace; Speed the Plow; Thérèse Raquin; Long Day’s Journey into Night; NY premieres: Yen; Futurity; Gloria; Punk Rock; An Octoroon; Mr. Burns; Blasted; The Whipping Man; Bethany; The American Pilot; Blackbird; Bug; Killer Joe; The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, The Changeling, and The Government Inspector, worked at some wonderful venues: NY Public Theater, Metropolitan Opera, MTC, LCT3, TFANA, TBTB, Signature Theatre, MCC, Soho Rep, Ars Nova, The Vineyard, The Geffen Playhouse, ART, Yale Rep, The Old Globe, The Goodman Theatre, The Guthrie, and collaborated with some great folks: David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Ethan Coen, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Simon Stephens, Martin McDonough, Tracy Letts, Joe Chaikin, JoAnne Akalaitis, Darko Tresnjak, Ethan McSweeney, Sarah Benson, Wilson Milam, Joe Mantello, Joel Schumacher, Ken Russell, Franco Zeffirelli, “Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.” G. Fox

Lori Lundquist
Production Stage Manager
LORI LUNDQUIST is originally from Minnesota and still calls it home, but has been based in NYC for 30 years. Most recently she stage managed Describe The Night at the Alley Theater. She has worked on Broadway with Fosse, The Best Man and Holiday as well as London Assurance, Misalliance, The Deep Blue Sea, Talley’s Folly and Fiction for The Roundabout Theatre Company. She has toured with Spelling Bee, Will Roger’s Follies and Fosse. Other NYC credits include Head Of Passes with Phylicia Rashad (The Public), Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TFANA), The Legend Of Georgia McBride (MCC), Gloria (Vineyard), Incident At Vichy and Big Love (Signature), Into The Woods and the musical version of Two Gentlemen Of Verona (NYSF at the Delacorte in Central Park), Civil War Christmas (NYTW & Long Wharf), The Shaggs and The Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons). Regional Theatre credits include the World Premiere of Sousatzka The Musical in Toronto, The Alley Theater, LaJolla Playhouse, The Huntington, The Ordway, Trinity Rep, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage and Kansas City Rep.. Lori is a proud member of AEA

Caroline Englander
Assistant Stage Manager
CAROLINE ENGLANDER. Off-Broadway: The Outer Space (Pubic/NYSF), HAMLET (Waterwell), Sense & Sensibility (BEDLAM), The Flick (Barrow Street Theatre), Little Children Dream of God (Roundabout). The Civilians’ The Great Immensity (Public/NYSF), Richard Nelson’s The Apple Family Plays (Public/NYSF) GOODBAR (Waterwell / UTR). Recall (Colt Coeur). Various productions at Juilliard and NYU Tisch Graduate Acting. B.A. Barnard College.
Reviews
“Describe the Night is that rare must-see in the theater! With theatrical derring-do, Rajiv peppers his narrative with jaw-dropping coincidences, truth-telling serums, misidentified children, physical seizures & infidelities.”
Robert Hofler, The Wrap
“Rajiv Joseph has and ear for the heartbeat of the moment. Describe the Night is a fascinating new play about stories, one that begins in historical fact and spins outward, like a fractal pattern with the truth as its seed but something grander than plain truth in its proliferation.The filmmaker Werner Herzog might call it ‘ecstatic truth.’”
Sara Holdren, Vulture/New York Magazine
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