Birds of a Feather Press Kit
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"Birds of a Feather is a program of two one act plays written 100 years apart yet strikingly unified in theme," said David Edwards, artistic director of Out of the Box Theatre and director of the production.
"'Trifles,' by Susan Glaspell, is a revered early feminist play telling its story with mystery and suspense, while 'The Greenhouse' is a brand new play by award-winning playwright Robert Karmon, using surreal and comic elements, both depicting difficult issues between men and women. This program continues Out of the Box Theatre’s continuing dedication to classic plays combined with an experimental venture into a world premiere work. "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell "Trifles" begins as the county attorney, the sheriff, Mr. Hale, Mrs. Peters, and Mrs. Hale enter the Wrights' empty farm house. On prompting from the county attorney, Mr. Hale recounts his visit to the house the previous day, when he found Mrs. Wright behaving strangely and found her husband upstairs with a rope around his neck, dead. Mr. Hale notes that, when he questioned her, Mrs. Wright claimed that she was fast asleep when someone strangled her husband. Often hailed as one of the quintessential feminist plays, "Trifles" earned Glaspell a Pulitzer Prize and renewed literary recognition. ------- "The Greenhouse" by Robert Karmon A surreal, dark comedy, which finds two strangers meeting on a perhaps blind date in a restaurant, and the power struggle that ensues. |
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Playbill
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Press Release
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Production Photos
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Birds of a Feather Cast
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Cameron Bowen* (County Attorney/George Henderson/Waiter)
Cameron is honored to work with David Edwards and this cast. He is a composer as well as a performer. Film music credits: The Studio Upstairs and Katoya. Cameron was last seen in a staged reading in Johnny Culver’s play New Year’s Eve at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House.
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Tish Brandt* (Mrs. Peters/Janice)
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Last of the Thorntons, A Texas Trilogy, Bad Breath, A Social Event, Lord Byron’s Love Letter (Staged Reading w/Lois Smith and Kathleen Chalfant), Getting Out, ’Dentity Crisis, For Whom the Southern Bell Tolls, Shear Madness, The Exonerated (B. Iden Payne Award nom.), Acting Lessons. Film: Charliebird, Delivery, Bobby Mortal, Kings of the Evening
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Jeff Burchfield* (Lewis Hale)
Last seen at OotB in Five by Tenn, TheaterScene’s Best Show of 2022. This year he was featured in The Goldberg Variations at Theater for the New City, as the Cardinal/Magistrate in Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera, and in the upcoming season 3 of HBO’s And Just Like That
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Steve Quimby* (Sherriff Henry Peters/Nick)
NYC: Mr. West in Layon Gray’s The Girls of Summer, understudy for Major Roberts in Black Angels over Tuskeegee at the Actor’s Temple Theatre. Favorite roles over 45 years include Leo in Little Foxes, Victor in Kidnapping of a Fish (Philip A. Ramos dir.), Sgt. King in No Time for Sergeants, Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Kim Yancey* (Mrs. Hale/Woman)
Kim was last seen onstage in the International Human Rights Arts Festival at The Tank in Viable as The Mother. She was last seen Off-Broadway at 59 E 59 in According to the Chorus understudying Karen Ziemba and eventually taking over the role of Audrey. Voice of Wanda in the iHeart podcast Supreme: The Battle for Roe starring Maya Hawke and William H. Macy. kimyancey.co
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David Edwards (Director/Artistic Director)
David started as a child in the Broadway musical The Rothschilds. He has performed on Broadway and tour in The Producers and By Jeeves, and in hundreds of productions Off Broadway and regionally. He directed last season’s Fallen Angels for OotB. Directing credits include The Seafarer (Florida Rep), The Unexpected Guest (Gretna Theatre), By Jeeves (Meadow Brook Theatre—Wilde Award nom.), South Pacific and Man of La Mancha (Ivoryton Playhouse—Connecticut Critics Circle noms.), Meshuggah-Nuns (Gateway), The Producers (Westchester Broadway Theatre), title of show (Playhouse on Park), Souvenir (New London Barn), Bittersuite (Centenary Stage), Rumors and Showboat (Surflight). |
* Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors' Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.