WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME
By Heidi Schreck Directed by Oliver Butler
Performances Nov 27–Dec 30 during the Greenwich home Theater (27 Barrow Street)
Heidi Schreck’s just What the Constitution Means to Me ended up being the hit associated with autumn period and we have relocated it across city to your GREENWICH HOME THEATER (27 Barrow Street) to run for FIVE MORE WEEKS! UNIQUE OFFER: To allow more people that are young see just exactly exactly What the Constitution Means if you ask Me, the front row at every performance is going to be designed for $30 for audiences 30 and underneath. Buy tickets online, by in-person or phone during the field workplace while materials final! Fifteen-year-old Heidi Schreck place by herself through university by providing speeches about the U.S. Constitution. Now, the Obie Award champion resurrects her teenage self so that you can locate the document’s profound effect on ladies’ bodies—starting along with her great-great-grandmother, a bride that is mail-order passed away under mysterious circumstances. This witty and searingly individual research breathes brand new lease of life into our founding document and imagines exactly exactly how it’ll contour the next generation of US ladies. Obie Award champion Oliver Butler directs. Just just exactly What the Constitution Means to me personally ended up being commissioned by real Love Productions. This production originated included in Summerworks 2017, generated by Clubbed Thumb together with real Love Productions. Scenic Design Rachel Hauck Costume Design Michael Krass Lighting Design Jen Schriever Sound Design Sinan Zafar Dramaturgy Sarah Lunnie Stage Manager Noah Silva
The Period
Heidi Schreck on just exactly What the Constitution Means to me personally (meaning her, and possibly you too)
NYTW first. Rosdely is starting school that is high autumn, participates in her school’s debate group, has finished from Barbizon modeling college and everyday lives with her mother in new york. She’s got a desire for acting and an affinity for technology, enjoys listening and dancing to music and attends Girl Scouts to assist you her community.
Mike has formerly showed up at NYTW into The Sound & The Fury, as Jake Barnes in The Select/The Sun additionally Rises, plus in Fondly, Collette Richland, all because of the Elevator Repair Service theater that is multiple-award-winning business. Other current movie theater includes Gatz, Arguendo, and Measure for Measure (all ERS/Public Theater); last spring’s Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf (ERS/Abrons Arts Center); the present lots revival (Public); the Obie-winning A stunning time in November on the best for the Great Lakes (New Georges); The World the Mama Raised (Clubbed Thumb); ways to get into Buildings (New Georges); criminal activity or crisis (PS122); and many more. He published and composed the songs for their very own shows Sorry Robot (PS122/New Ohio Theater; directed by Will Davis) and also The Tear Drinkers (the kitchen area). television: Orange Could Be the New Ebony.
Heidi is really a performer and writer staying in Brooklyn. Her other performs consist of Grand Concourse, which debuted at Playwrights Horizons, Steppenwolf and theaters throughout the nation in 2014-15 and ended up being a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a Lily Award. Other performs, including Creature, There Are No longer Big Secrets as well as The Consultant, have now been produced by Berkeley Rep, longer Wharf, Page73, Seattle Public Theatre, brand brand New Georges, Rattlestick, and much more. Heidi has commissions from the Atlantic Theatre business, Manhattan Theatre Club, and South Coast Repertory Theatre and contains been a fellow that is writing the Clare Tow Foundation, Soho Rep therefore the Sundance Theatre Lab. Heidi’s tv writing includes “I adore Dick,” “Billions” pretty brides website and “Nurse Jackie,” and she actually is having a television show with Amazon predicated on Patricia Lockwood’s Priestdaddy. As a star, Heidi has done at Berkeley Rep, Roundabout Theatre, MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Shakespeare in the Park, Clubbed Thumb and Two-Headed Calf and on television in “Nurse Jackie,” “Billions,” “Law & Order: SVU” and “The Good Wife.” She is the receiver of two Obie honors, a Drama Desk, as well as the Theatre World Award.
NYTW debut. Is a senior at William Cullen Bryant H.S. in Queens thursday. She’s got done a number of debates at Brooklyn Law class and NYU through the Legal Outreach Program. She recently completed her internship that is judicial at Civil Supreme Court through the Sonia & Celina Sotomayor Judicial Internship Program. She’s presently an explorer as well as regarding the Youth Community Council for the 103rd Precinct.
Heidi Schreck / Playwright
HEIDI SCHRECK is really an actor and writer staying in Brooklyn. Her latest plays consist of exactly What the Constitution Means if you ask me personally, produced by Clubbed Thumb and True Love productions, and Grand Concourse, which debuted at Playwrights Horizons and Steppenwolf Theatre in 2014-15. Grand Concourse had been a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn award, and champion of both a Claire Tow Fellowship and a Lily Award. Other performs, including Creature, There Are No further Big Secrets and The Consultant, happen created by longer Wharf Theatre, Page73, Seattle Public Theatre, ART, SpeakEasy, brand brand brand New George, Rattlestick Theatre Company and much more. Heidi has commissions through the Atlantic Theatre business, Manhattan Theatre Club and Southern Coast Repertory Theatre and has been a fellow that is playwriting the Claire Tow Foundation, Soho Rep plus the Sundance Theatre Lab. Heidi’s tv writing includes “I adore Dick,”“Billions” and “Nurse Jackie,” and she’s presently having a brand new television show with Annapurna images and Amazon. As a star, Heidi has done at Berkeley Rep, Roundabout Theatre, MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Shakespeare into the Park, Clubbed Thumb and Two-Headed Calf and on television in “Nurse Jackie,”“Billions,”“Law & Order: SVU”and“The Good Wife.” Heidi is the receiver of two Obie prizes, a Drama Desk Award as well as the Theatre World Award.
Oliver Butler / Director
OLIVER BUTLER’s directing credits consist of Jordan Harrison’s The Amateurs (Vineyard); Christopher Shinn’s An Opening in Time (Hartford Stage); Daniel Goldfarb’s Legacy (Williamstown); plus the premiere of Will Eno’s The Open home (Signature) which is why the play won the Lortel Award for Best Enjoy and he received the OBIE Award for Direction. In Australia, he directed the premiere of Lally Katz’s Timeshare during The Malthouse in Melbourne. Oliver is really a co-Founder and co-Artistic Director associated with the Debate community, A brooklyn-based ensemble theater business, with who Oliver has co-created and directed nine full-length performs since 2004 such as The Light Years (Playwrights Horizons); Jacuzzi (Ars Nova); bloodstream Play (out of stock runs at The Bushwick Starr, The Public’s Under the Radar Festival, and Williamstown); Buddy Cop 2 (Critic’s Pick with in The ny days, periods brand brand New York and Backstage); Cape frustration (PS122); You’re greeting (The Brick); The Eaten Heart (The Ontological Incubator); The snowfall Hen (Charlie Pineapple Theater); and a seriously considered Raya (Red place, The Brick, The Ontological Incubator). This autumn he’s directing a fresh manufacturing of Will Eno’s Thom soreness (Signature Theater Company) featuring Michael C. Hall. He’s a Sundance Institute Fellow and a Bill Foeller Fellow (Williamstown).
Rachel Hauck / Scenic Design
NYTW: Hadestown, An Iliad. Broadway: Latin History for Morons. With Heidi Schreck: Grand Concourse (Playwrights Horizons), Creature (P73). Recently in NYC: Othello, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare within the Park), The Ones that is lucky Nova); You’ll Nevertheless Call Me By title (Sonya Tayeh, Jacob’s Pillow); Princess Grace, Lilly Awards. Obie for Sustained Excellence.
Michael Krass / Costume Design
NYTW: Hadestown, The Waves, View associated with Dome, Emerald City, Light Shining. Broadway: Noises Off (Tony nom), Machinal (Tony nom), The Wife that is constant nom), Twelve Angry Men, Charlie Brown, Hedda Gabbler. Off-Broadway: World premieres by Albee, Guare, Durang, Lonergan, Eno, The Debate Society, devised work by Built for Collapse and ballets for Eliot Feld.
Jen Schriever / Lighting Design
NYTW first. Broadway: Lifespan of a Fact, Eclipsed, Ghetto Klown. NYC: Collective Rage, School Girls (MCC); Dan Cody’s Yacht, in the human body of the World (MTC); Bobbie Clearly, in The Exhale (Roundabout); The Amateurs (Vineyard); Strange Interlude (transportation Group); The Moors (Playwrights Realm); Eclipsed, ToasT an additional potential (Public); evening is really a place (Signature).
Sinan Zafar / Sound Design
NYTW first. exactly What the Constitution Means to me personally (Berkeley Rep, Clubbed Thumb); peerless (Yale Repertory Theater); Hamlet (Waterwell); Richard in 9 Poses (Clubbed Thumb); Intimate Apparel, Detroit, The Champion (TheatreSquared); Midsummer (Tiltyard); Wingspace. MFA: Yale Class of Drama. sinanzafar.com
Sarah Lunnie / Dramaturg
NYTW first. Broadway: A Doll’s home, role 2. NYC: Miles For Mary (The Bushwick Starr, Playwrights Horizons), just exactly exactly What The Constitution Means in my experience (Clubbed Thumb), The fundamental directly & Narrow ( brand New Ohio). Regional: Humana Festival premieres of The Christians, Death Tax and SITI Company’s Under Construction, among many more.
Noah Silva / Stage Manager
NYTW debut. NYC: Othello (NYSF), Hangmen (Atlantic), Relevance (MCC), exactly exactly exactly What the Constitution Means to Me (Clubbed Thumb), The Treasurer, The Profane, Rancho Viejo, Aubergine (Playwrights Horizons). Graduate of Hofstra University with a BFA in Stage Management.