Indian Summer at Playwrights Horizons

by Gregory S Moss

May 13, 2016 – June 26, 2016

Mainstage Theater

Abandoned by his wayward mom, Daniel is consigned to spend summer with granddad in a Rhode Island beach town, where the locals don’t look kindly on city kids. But his hapless vacation turns around when he meets Izzy: tough-acting, back-sassing, beguiling, and taken. Gregory S. Moss’s feisty romantic comedy follows a passing fling that could last a lifetime — as impossible and charmed as an indian summer.

Cast & Creative

Owen Campbell — Daniel

Playwrights Horizons debut. NYC Theater: Recall, Nocturnes, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Grippe of October, Macbeth. Film: As You Are (Sundance 2016; named one of Variety’s “Breakthrough Performers” of the festival), Very Good Girls, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Conviction. TV: “The Americans,” “The Following,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Law & Order: SVU.”

Jonathan Hadary — George

Playwrights Horizons: Assassins, Gemini (also Broadway), Coming Attractions. Broadway: Gypsy (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC nominations),Golden Boy, Spamalot, Awake and Sing, All Shook Up, The Best Man,Guys and Dolls, As Is (Obie Award), Torch Song Trilogy. National tour:Angels in America (Jeff, Hayes awards). Off-Broadway: Incident at Vichy; Jules Verne; The Destiny of Me; Lips Together, Teeth Apart. TV: “As Is,” “Louie.”

Elise Kibler — Izzy

Playwrights Horizons debut. Broadway: The Heidi Chronicles, This Is Our Youth. Off-Broadway: London Wall. Other NYC Theater: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare in the Square). Playwrights Horizons Theater School: Suburbs/Anarchy. Television: “Daredevil,” “The Affair.”

Joe Tippett — Jeremy

Playwrights Horizons: Familiar. Broadway: Airline Highway. New York City: Ashville, Fish Eye, Seven Minutes in Heaven, Happy Birthday, A Thick Description of Harry Smith. Regional: Familiar (world premiere),Waitress, Bull Durham: the Musical, The May Queen, Picnic, Three Sisters, The Corn is Green, Peter and the Starcatcher, Equus. Film:License Plates, Damascus Road, All Saint’s Day. Television: “The Blacklist,” “Boardwalk Empire.”

Carolyn Cantor – Director

Playwrights Horizons: Fly By Night, The Great God Pan, After the Revolution (Callaway Award), and Essential Self-Defense. Other NY Theater: Regrets and Pumpgirl (Manhattan Theatre Club); In A Dark Dark House (MCC Theater); Arlington (Vineyard); Something You Did (Primary Stages); The Talls (Second Stage); Core Values (Ars Nova); Orange Flower Water, Now That’s What I Call A Storm, Living Room in Africa, Stone Cold Dead Serious, and Life is a Dream (Edge Theater); EVE-olution (Cherry Lane); and Kitty Kitty Kitty (SPF). Regional: The Violet Hour (Old Globe); Rabbit Hole (Geffen, Garland Award); Diary of Anne Frank (Papermill); Not Waving and King Stag (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Vera Laughed and Get What You Need (NYS&F); After Ashley and Finer Noble Gases (Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference); and Nocturne (Ojai Playwrights Conference). Carolyn is the recipient of the Kanin-Seldes Award from the Theater Hal of Fame, both the Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Fellowships from the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and a Drama League Directing Fellowship. She was the founding artistic director of the Obie Award—winning Edge Theater and is a graduate of Dartmouth College. (As of 2/2/15)

Scenic Design: Dane Laffrey

Playwrights Horizons: sets for Iowa, The Christians. Broadway: set and costumes for Deaf West’s Spring Awakening, set for Fool for Love. Recent Off-Broadway: set and/or costumes for The Glory of the World (BAM Harvey), Cloud Nine (Atlantic), and work at Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout, Second Stage, Vineyard, Lincoln Center, MCC, Soho Rep., Rattlestick, Transport Group, many others. Regional work at Humana Festival, Mark Taper, Old Globe, Huntington, Goodspeed, Denver Center, Center Stage, Dallas Theatre Center, New York Stage & Film, others. International work: Tokyo, Oslo, Osaka, throughout Australia. Nominations for a Drama Desk Award and four Henry Hewes Awards.
Costume Design: Kaye Voyce

Playwrights Horizons: The Great God Pan; Detroit; After the Revolution; Inked Baby; Fabulation; Mud, River, Stone. Broadway: The Real Thing, The Realistic Joneses, Shining City. Ms. Voyce’s designs for theater, opera, dance, and performance have been seen around the world. Recent work includes Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Soho Rep.), Signature Plays (Signature), Ironbound(Rattlestick/Women’s Project), Significant Other (Roundabout), Il Turco in Italia (Festival d’Aix, Teatro Regio Torino), and Richard Maxwell’s The Evening Part 1 (Walker Art Center, the Kitchen, Warhol Museum) and The Evening Part 2 (Museum of Contemporary Art Buenos Aires).
Lighting Design: Eric Southern

Play-wrights Horizons: Pocatello. Other New York credits include Steve (New Group); Rimbaud in New York(Civilians, BAM); The Correspondent (Obie Award), The Few, (Rattlestick);Buyer & Cellar (London, New York, national tour); Judy (Page73);Collected Stories with David Lang (Car-negie Hall); Play/Pause with Susan Marshall and David Lang (BAM Next Wave Festival); and Paul’s Case, Good Swimmer (Prototype Festival). Exten-sive work internationally with the award-winning 600 Highwaymen. Also: Atlantic, Guthrie, Balti-more Center Stage, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Virginia Opera, Long Wharf, Huntington, Clubbed Thumb, Dallas Theater Center. BFA, MFA: NYU.
Sound Design: Stowe Nelson

New York: Iphigenia in Aulis (Classic Stage Company); The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, The Wayside Motor Inn (Signature Theatre); Buyer & Cellar (Barrow Street Theatre, national tour). Regional: Future Thinking (South Coast Rep), Ropes (Two River Theater Co.), 4000 Miles (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Clarkston(Dallas Theater Center). As a company member of The Mad Ones, he has designed sound for The Tremendous Tremendous, The Essential Straight & Narrow, and Samuel & Alasdair (NY IT Award, Drama Desk nomination). More info: www.wingspace.com/stowe.
Production Stage Manager: Kyle Gates

Playwrights Horizons: Placebo; Fly By Night; Mr. Burns, a post-electric play; Assistance; Milk Like Sugar; Go Back to Where You Are; A Small Fire; Clybourne Park; This.Broadway/Tour: Fool for Love (Friedman), The Country Girl (Jacobs), The Seafarer (Booth), Shining City (Biltmore), Brooklyn (1st national). Off-Broadway: MTC, Atlantic Theater Company, Roundabout, Second Stage, Signature Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Soho Rep., Public, more. Kyle is a new father with his amazing wife, Gudbjörg. Thank you, Colleen and Rachel.