The Constant Wife Press Kit
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“Stories about culture wars, feminism, a woman’s bodily autonomy, the Equal Rights Amendment, financial empowerment, infidelity, the other woman/side piece, sisterhood and the modern woman certainly are daily news staples,” said Jeffery V. Thompson, director of the production. “But I’m not talking about the news of 2023. I am talking about the news headlines of New York City in 1920s, the period that The Constant Wife takes place!”
Moving the setting of the play to Manhattan (and adding music), this production takes place in to the fashionable Park Avenue home of Constance and John Middleton. The “happy couple” are dealing with consequences that often arise when two is company but three is a bit messy at best. In a world where everybody has an opinion about what’s best for her, Constance proves to be more than up to all the challenges that her changing world presents—and doing it with intelligence, wit, style, and with the keen vision of the “new woman.” This production of W. Somerset Maugham’s classic play is a journey back through time to an exciting New York City of 1926. Maugham’s comic and engaging characters find themselves where the Victorian Golden Age rubs elbows, and occasionally bumps heads, with the changing world of the new Jazz Age; where Park Avenue meets Sugar Hill; where laughter is definitely the best medicine; and where, even after one hundred years everything new is old again. |
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The Constant Wife Cast
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Nick Denning* (Bernard Kersal)
Nick is honored to be working again with cast member Cary Gant (The Tooth of Crime at La MaMa), and dir. Jeffery Thompson (Class at John Jay College). Recent credits: Pennywise in S#IT: The Musical (Parody of Steven King’s IT). TV: The Blacklist, FBI, Power: Book III, Law & Order. Thanks to my parents for always coming to see my shows!
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Cary Gant (Bentley)
Cary has performed with and is a member of the Great Jones Rep. Co. of LaMama. Productions include Oedipus, Antigone, 7 Against Thebes, Herakles, and others. Tours of Ain't Misbehavin, Dreamgirls, Jesus Christ Superstar, and others. Former Artistic and Musical director of Motown Cafe NYC, Las Vegas, Orlando, and Tokyo. [email protected]
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Elizabeth Hayden* (Martha Culver)
In addition to several film roles, Elizabeth has starred in such musicals as Evita, Cabaret, I Do I Do!, and A Chorus Line. She has sung with orchestras and performed her cabaret act across the country. Elizabeth spent many years in Los Angeles casting and producing for film, television, Off-Broadway and Broadway and doing set design. Most recently, she directed Jeff Passero’s Casting Aspersions in NYC, Seattle, Pittsburgh, and L.A. Click here for Elizabeth's IMDB page. 
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Darrie Lawrence* (Mrs. Culver)
Broadway: Come Back, Little Sheba, Steel Magnolias, Buried Child. National Tour: Doubt. Off-Broadway: Tales from Red Vienna, The Other Side (MTC); Children (Clurman). Regional: Age of Innocence (McCarter); The Foreigner, Lettice & Lovage (Salt Lake); Appoggiatura (Denver); Retreat from Moscow, Three Tall Women (St. Louis); Dancing at Lughnasa (Cincinnati); Seascape (Cleveland). Film: August Rush, Kettle of Fish, Hitch, The Night Before, Breath In. TV: New Amsterdam, Chicago Med.
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Grant Machan* (John Middleton)
AEA/SAG AFTRA, is appearing in his fifth production with Out of the Box. He is an actor, playwright, director, and loves nothing more than singing and strumming a guitar. A member of Polaris North Theatre Co-op for 18 years! (PN is always looking for theatrically minded people.) He has worked in all media and on stages in 17 states.
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Roumel Reaux* (Mortimer Durham)
Roumel Reaux has worked on numerous Broadway, Off-Broadway, Regional Theater, and Touring productions including Bob Fosse’s Big Deal, Five Guys Named Moe, Radio City Music Hall’s Porgy and Bess, Crucifer of Blood, The Wiz, Three Mo’ Tenors, Church & State, Fuerza Bruta, and Harry Belafonte in Concert.
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Gloria Sauvé* (Barbara Fawcett)
Gloria started in Toronto, Canada. Some credits are Broadway’s Comin’ Uptown, several Having Our Says, Bertha in Hello from Bertha in OotB’s Five by Tenn last year. TV: New Amsterdam, NYC 22, Damages, Nurse Jackie, several Law & Orders, August the First, HBO’s The Corner with Charles Dutton (dir.) & David Simon (won 3 Emmys). Numerous commercials, print modeling, and voice-overs. www.gloriasauve.com
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Vanessa Shaw (Marie-Louise Durham)
Jeffery Passero has a successful feature film casting career of over 60 movies. He began acting at the Roundabout Theatre before taking over the casting there for two seasons. Producing/upcoming: 2 new musicals, Kiki Baby (NYMF-2011) with writer/director Lonny Price and Under Fire (NYMF-2009) written by Grant Sturiale and Barry Harman. Both won best musical at NYMF. Passero wrote and performs in Casting Aspersions, his solo play about his life as a casting director.
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Jenny Tucker* (Constance Middleton)
Jenny (AEA) moved to NYC last year. She previously appeared with OotB as Roxie Hart in last fall’s Chicago. Favorite roles: Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Violet Weston in August: Osage County, Mama Rose in Gypsy. Jenny is a vocal coach with 10+ years of experience, currently accepting new students. www.jennytucker.net—seeking representation! www.jennytucker.net—seeking representation! Resumé: https://resumes.actorsaccess.com/JennyTucker
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Jeffery V. Thompson (Director)Jeffery recently directed productions of Sarah Sings a Love Story (Crossroads Theatre Co.); My Harlem, ’Tis Of Thee (Aaron Davis Hall); Ice Out: Shackled and Chained (National Black Theatre); and Shot: Caught a Soul (Pulitzer Center). National directing credits include The King and Me, starring Emmy award–winner Keith David; Paul Robeson, starring Tony award–winner Chuck Cooper; The Shaneequa Chronicles, starring Stephanie Berry; Welcome Home, Marian Anderson, starring Vanessa Shaw; Gorilla, My Love (Lincoln Center Institute); Coriolanus (Take Wing and Soar); and The Souls of Black Folks: A Centennial Celebration, starring Danny Glover, Phylicia Rashad, Geoffrey Wright, Nora Cole, Peter Jay Fernandez, and Keith David. As an actor, Mr. Thompson has appeared in critically acclaimed productions On and Off-Broadway and in regional theaters across the United States. His scripts have been produced on Broadway as well as at theaters in New Jersey; Philadelphia; Washington, DC; Florida; Arkansas; and Ohio.
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* Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors' Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.