Animal Farm Press Kit
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George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a fable with a sting that feels sharper and more relevant today than ever. What begins as a joyous revolution—animals emancipating themselves from the cruel mastery of their human owner—darkens into a chilling portrait of power, propaganda, and the corruption of ideals. It’s a story that asks a terrifyingly modern question: what happens when the truth is whatever those in charge say it is?
In this gripping staged dramatic reading, you will meet beasts whose prototypes dominate our own news cycles. The animals’ triumphant dream is twisted into a nightmare, ruled not by a farmer, but by the even more ruthless and cunning pigs. Blending sharp humor with harrowing drama, Animal Farm is an emotional journey that unfolds in a mythical barnyard, but its warning about the fragility of freedom and the manipulation of language could be happening right in our own backyard. This powerful allegory will leave you shaken, and thinking, long after the performance ends. When Animal Farm was completed in 1944, it was met with immediate resistance. At the time, the Soviet Union was a key ally of Britain in the war against Nazi Germany, and publishers were wary of a book that so blatantly satirized the Soviet experiment. As a result, the manuscript was rejected by several publishers before finally being released in 1945. Despite the initial controversy, the book was a commercial success and has since been recognized as a timeless and essential work of political literature, solidifying its place as a classic of the 20th century. The mind behind this masterpiece was George Orwell, the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair. Orwell was a man of profound social conscience, and his work is characterized by its lucid prose, its sharp social criticism, and its staunch opposition to totalitarianism in all its forms. His experiences, from serving as a police officer in Burma to fighting in the Spanish Civil War, gave him a unique and unflinching perspective on the nature of power and injustice. This production brings Orwell's powerful and prescient vision to life on stage, reminding us why his voice continues to resonate so strongly in our own turbulent times. |
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Animal Farm Cast
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Christopher Michael Bauer* (Actor 4/Snowball, Frederick)
Off B’way: NYSF. Regional: Slam!, Studio Theatre-Helen Hayes Award Recipient, Olney Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Hartford Stage Co., McCarter Theatre Center, Arizona Theatre Co., Arena Stage, Washington Stage Guild. TV: As the World Turns. Independent Films: Welcome to Purgatory; Honey. Alum of NYU’s Grad Acting Program.
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Susan Case* (Actor 5/Mildred, Mollie, Squealer)
A founding member of OotB, Susan has worked in some capacity on every production. Recent roles include Kitty in The Butter and Egg Man, Goldie in Hello from Bertha, Ida in The Cemetery Club, and Sunny Jacobs in The Exonerated with OotB and Mrs. Bent in VHRP LIVE!’s Mlle Modiste. She has also performed with the Shaw Project, LOONY, Opera Northeast, and NYGASP
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Bob Greenberg (Actor 2/Napoleon)
Toured as “Morty” in Old Jews Telling Jokes at George Street Playhouse, Bucks County Playhouse, Trinity-Rep., Penn’s Landing Playhouse, etc. Films: Tango Shalom, The Tailor (Short), Glow Ropes, Heartbreak Hospital, Big Money Hu$tla$ and Maid In Manhattan. TV: Crashing The System, A Very Merry Toy Store, VINYL, The Characters, Saturday Night Live, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Nite with Conan O'Brien, and Law & Order. Bob won New York Theater Festival's Best Actor Award two years in a row for Jimmy Breslin: How To Read The Newspaper... (2022) and The Stella (2021). Bob was part of the Ensemble that won Chain Film Festival's Best Ensemble in a Short Award: Mosholu Parkway (2022). www.instagram.com/bobgreenbergactorcomic/ |
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Kathleen Huber* (Actor 7/Clover, Cat)
Kathleen has performed in New York and Regional Theatre for half a century, with a special fondness for the classics. Her short stories are published in most of the top children’s magazines. Most recently she appeared in My Fair Lady at Riverside Theatre and The Dead with Irish Repertory Theatre 
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Alvin Keith* (Actor 6/Boxer, Pilkington).
Alvin has performed on Broadway and many other NY stages. He has played theaters across the country—Guthrie Theater and Shakespeare Theater Company DC amongst his favorites. He can be seen on Lifetime, Hallmark. Netflix, Amazon, and multiple network stations. Thanks so much, Jeffrey |
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Darrie Lawrence* (Actor 1, Narrator)
OOTB: The Constant Wife. Broadway: Come Back, Little Sheba, Steel Magnolias, Buried Child. Tour: Doubt. Off-Broadway: Tales from Red Vienna, The Other Side, Children. Regional: Age of Innocence, The Foreigner, Lettice & Lovage, Appoggiatura, Retreat from Moscow, Three Tall Women, Dancing at Lughnasa. Film/TV: August Rush, Kettle of Fish, Hitch, The Night Before, Breath In,New Amsterdam, New Chicago Med. |
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Roumel Reaux* (Actor 8/Benjamin, Moses)
Roumel 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, Little Ham, Harry Belafonte in Concert and Out of the Box Theatre’s The Constant Wife |
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John Robert Tillotson* (Old Major, Farmer Jones)
John is a globe-trotting playwright, director, and actor. He has appeared on TV and film, on Broadway, off-Broadway, internationally, and in regional theaters throughout the US. Favorite roles have included Big Daddy, Bottom, Estragon, Orgon, Dvornichek in the US premiere of Rough Crossing, and as himself in his autobiographical solo play, Residual Effects |
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Jeffery V. Thompson’s (Director) involvement at OOTB has transitioned quickly from being the director of The Constant Wife in ’23, to advisory board member in ’24, and finally to his current positions as director of this production as well as having recently been elected as OotB’s new Artistic Director. Other NYC area directing credits are 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.