Sept. 12th-14th, 2025
David Ives (Playwright)
David Drew Herndon (Director)
Leah Pagan (Associate Director)
Cast:
Natalie Shershow … ‘Vanda Jordan’
Frank DiNovi … ‘Thomas Novachek’
After a grueling day holding auditions for his latest play, director/ playwright Thomas Novachek meets eccentric and ever-persistent actress, Vanda Jordan, and begrudgingly decides to let her audition. However, as they read, the lines begin to blur between text and reality, begging the question… Who is truly dominating the room?”
David Ives (Playwright) was born in Chicago in 1950 and educated at Northwestern University and Yale School of Drama. A 1995 Guggenheim Fellow in playwriting, he is probably best known for his evening of one-act comedies called All in the Timing, which ran for over 600 performances off-Broadway and was subsequently presented in many cities here and abroad. The show won the Outer Critics Circle Playwriting Award, was included in “The Best Plays of 1993-94,” and in the 1995-96 season was the most-performed play in the country after Shakespeare productions. It has been translated into German, French, Italian, Brazilian and other languages
VENUS IN FUR
Originally produced by Classic Stage Company, (Brian Kulick, Artistic Director; Jessica R. Jenen, Executive Director).
Originally produced on Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) by special arrangement with Jon B. Platt, Scott Landis and Classic Stage Company, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on October 13, 2011.