RELEASE: March 27, 2008

REG ROGERS TO STAR IN THE WORLD PREMIERE OF TONY AWARD WINNER RICHARD GREENBERG’S THE INJURED PARTY

The Injured Party will be showcased during the 2008 Pacific Playwrights Festival

COSTA MESA, Calif. (March 26, 2008)—OBIE winner and Tony Award nominee Reg Rogers will star in The Injured Party, a new comedy by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg. Commissioned by SCR and directed by Trip Cullman, The Injured Party will receive its World Premiere at South Coast Repertory during the 11th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival. The show will run from April 20 through May 11, 2008 on the Julianne Argyros Stage. Low-priced previews are available from April 20 through April 24. Opening night is April 25. Press night is Saturday, April 26 at 7:45 p.m. Tickets to The Injured Party may be purchased online at www.scr.org, by phone at (714) 708-5555 or in person at the SCR box office.

Reg Rogers has previously appeared in the New York productions of Greenberg’s Hurrah at Last and The Dazzle (OBIE and Lucille Lortel Awards). On Broadway, Rogers appeared in Proposals, Holiday (Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations) and The Moliere Comedies. Recent stage credits include Richard III at California Shakespeare Theater and Uncle Vanya at Lake Lucille.

The Injured Party is set in a specific New York City moment — 2005, when the art installation Christo’s The Gates captured the imagination of city dwellers with its 23 miles of billowing fabric in Central Park. One of the viewers was Maxine, 94 years old and enormously rich. Her grandson Seth, who studiously avoided The Gates, is not so rich, hopelessly stalled—and determined that “redistribution must commence.”  A bevy of inimitable New Yorkers aid and/or hinder Seth in this ingenious new comedy about family, love, art, money and ambition.

The cast of The Injured Party also includes:

T. Scott Cunningham (Lawrence) previously appeared at SCR in Dinner with Friends. On Broadway he appeared in Love! Valour! Compassion! and Tartuffe. Off-Broadway credits include As Bees in Honey Drown, Fit to Be Tied, New England, Pterodactyls, The Stand In, It Changes Every Year, Wally’s Ghost and Don Juan in Chicago. His regional theater credits include Love! Valour! Compassion at Geffen Playhouse; Mr. Melancholy and Coq Au Vin at New York Stage & Film; A Fair Country, Six Characters in Search of an Author and The Miser at Seattle Repertory Theatre; and Angels in America at Alliance Theatre.

Cynthia Harris (Maxene) is the Co-Artistic Director and a Founding Member of The Actors Company Theatre and has appeared in over 30 productions with the company, most recently Watch on the Rhine, Dear Liar and Home. She has appeared on Broadway in Bad Habits, Company and Any Wednesday.

Marin Ireland (Becca) has appeared in Cyclone at Studio Dante,for which she won an OBIE Award. Her other credits include The Ruby Sunrise at the Public Theater, Far Away and Nocturne at the New York Theatre Workshop and American Repertory Theatre; The Glass Menagerie at Foothills Theatre Company; Jambulu at InterAct Theatre Company; Lysistrata at TheatEclipse and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

Caroline Lagerfelt (Bettina) has appeared on Broadway in Small Family Business, Lend Me a Tenor, The Real Thing, Betrayal, Otherwise Engaged, The Jockey Club Stakes, Four on a Garden and The Philanthropist. Off-Broadway appearances include The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at The New Group, Hamlet at Classic Stage Company, Guantanamo at Culture Club, Moonlight at Roundabout Theatre Company and Cloud 9 at Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Lorenzo Pisoni (Hans) has appeared in Henry IV at Lincoln Center Theatre; Last Dance at Manhattan Theatre Club; As You Like It at The Public Theater; Election Day at Second Stage Theatre; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at New York Philharmonic; Tuesdays With Morrie, The Great Gatsby and Clown, Clown, Clown… at Seattle Repertory Theatre; The Great Gatsby at The Guthrie; The Gamester at American Conservatory Theater; Pagliacci at San Francisco Opera and Shakespeare in the Park’sMuch Ado About Nothing at the Delacorte Theater.

The creative team for The Injured Party consists of (set design), Candice Cain (costume design), Ben Stanton (lighting design), John Gromada (original music/sound design), John Glore (dramaturg) and Kathryn Davies (stage manager).

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Richard Greenberg received the Tony Award for his play, Take Me Out. South Coast Repertory commissioned and presented the World Premieres of Greenberg’s A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, The Violet Hour, Everett Beekin, Hurrah at Last, Night and Her Stars, The Extra Man and Three Days of Rain, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was recently revived on Broadway. SCR has also produced his play The Dazzle. Greenberg’s other plays include Eastern Standard, Jenny Keeps Talking, The American Plan and The Maderati. A staged reading of the SCR-commissioned Our Mother’s Brief Affair was presented at the 2007 Pacific Playwrights Festival.

Director Trip Cullman's New York credits include Adam Bock’s The Drunken City at Playwrights Horizons, Gina Gionfriddo’s U.S. Drag at the StageFARM, Bob Farquhar’s Bad Jazz at The Play Company, Terrence McNally’s Some Men at Second Stage Theatre, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Dark Matters at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Arabian Night at The Play Company, Bert V. Royal’s Dog Sees God at Century Center, Glen Berger’s The Wooden Breeks at MCC Theater, Sarah Schulman’s Manic Flight Reaction at Playwrights Horizons, Adam Bock’s Swimming in the Shallows at Second Stage Theatre Uptown Festival, Paul Weitz’s Roulette at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Jonathan Tolins’s The Last Sunday in June at Century Center and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Brooke Berman’s Smashing at The Play Company, Rinne Groff’s Of a White Christmas at Clubbed Thumb, Gary Sunshine’s Sweetness and Brooke Berman’s Sam and Lucy at Summer Play Festival in 2004 and The Wau Wau Sisters at Ars Nova. Regional credits include The Petersons Project and Keith Huff’s A Steady Rain at New York Stage & Film, Lauren Weedman’s Rash at Empty Space Theatre in Seattle. Cullman received his training from Yale School of Drama and is an Associate Artist at The Play Company.

The Injured Party is one of two World Premieres to be presented on SCR’s main stages during the nationally renowned Pacific Playwrights Festival which will take place May 2 through May 4, 2008. The World Premiere of Kate Robin’s What They Have will be presented on the Segerstrom Stage from April 4 through May 4. In addition to the two fully produced plays, the weekend festival showcases five new plays commissioned by South Coast Repertory in readings and workshops and attracts audiences and theater professionals from across the country. This year’s Festival features a workshop production of Sunlight by Sharr White and staged readings of By The Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage, Emilie – The Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life at the Petit Théâtre at Cirey Tonight by Lauren Gunderson, Goldfish by John Kovenbach and You, Nero by Amy Freed.

TICKETS to The Injured Party can be purchased online at www.scr.org, by phone at (714) 708-5555 or by visiting the box office at 655 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa. Performances begin on April 20 and continue through May 11. Ticket prices range from $20 to $62. Low-priced preview performances are available from April 20-24. Performance times: Previews: Sunday, April 20 at 2:00 p.m.; Tuesday, April 22, Wednesday, April 23 and Thursday, April 24 at 7:45 p.m. Regular Performances: Tuesday through Sunday evenings at 7:45 p.m., Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m. Discounts are available for full-time students, patrons 25 years of age and under, educators, seniors and groups of 15 or more. There will be a “Pay-What-You-Will” performance on Saturday, April 26 at 2:00 p.m. (Suggested Price: $10; $7 minimum) and an ASL-interpreted performance on Saturday, May 10 at 2:00 p.m.

LOCATION: South Coast Repertory is located at 655 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa, at the Bristol Street/Avenue of the Arts exit off the San Diego (405) Freeway in the Folino Theatre Center, part of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Parking is available off Anton Blvd. on Park Center Drive.

CALENDAR: Culture Clash in AmeriCCa (3/16-4/6), NewSCRipts: futura (3/31), What They Have (4/4-5/4), The Injured Party (4/20-5/11), Pacific Playwrights Festival (5/2-4), Taking Steps (5/16-6/15), Imagine (5/30-6/15).

PHOTO EDITORS: Digital images of South Coast Repertory productions are available at www.southcoastrepertory.com/photos.html.

Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory, under the artistic direction of David Emmes and Martin Benson, is widely recognized as one of the leading professional theaters in the United States. Founded in 1964, SCR is committed to theater that illuminates the compelling personal and social issues of our time, not only on its stages but through its education and outreach programs. While its productions represent a balance of classic and modern theater, SCR is renowned for its extensive new play development program, including the Pacific Playwrights Festival. Of SCR’s more than 400 productions, 107 have been World Premieres with subsequent stagings achieving enormous success across America and around the world. SCR-developed works have garnered eight Pulitzer Prize nominations with Margaret Edson’s Wit winning the prize in 1999 and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole in 2007. Located in Costa Mesa, California, in 2002 SCR opened the Folino Theater Center, an expanded three-theater complex that includes the 507-seat Segerstrom Stage, the 336-seat Julianne Argyros Stage and the 94-seat Nicholas Studio.

BIOGRAPHIES

T. SCOTT CUNNINGHAM (Lawrence) previously appeared at SCR in Dinner With Friends. On Broadway he was in Love! Valour! Compassion!, Design for Living and Tartuffe. His Off-Broadway credits include As Bees in Honey Drown and Music From a Sparkling Planet at Drama Dept.; Wintertime and The Dear Boy at Second Stage Theatre; Pterodactyls and The Eros Trilogy at The Vineyard Theatre; Fit to Be Tied at Playwrights Horizons and New England at Manhattan Theatre Club. He was recently in the national tour of Twelve Angry Men and the West Coast tour of Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out. He also appeared in The Kennedy Center's Cat on a Hot Roof with George Grizzard. His regional work includes Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe (Greenberg's The Violet Hour), Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Stage & Film, Portland Stage Company, Utah Shakespearean Festival (title role in Hamlet) and several others. Films include Serendipity, The Out of Towners, Our Very Own, People I Know and The Boys of Sunset Ridge. Television credits include "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Maximum Bob" and "Central Park West." He was most recently in the Las Vegas production of Mamma Mia.

CYNTHIA HARRIS (Maxene) is making her SCR debut. New York theater credits include Home, Long Island Sound, Bad Habits, Company, Any Wednesday, Natural Affection, Second Avenue Rag, Cloud Nine, Jules Feiffer's Hold Me, The Beauty Part, White House Murder Case, Mystery Play, American Hurrah and The Serpent (Member of the Open Theatre), Merry Wives of Windsor, Too Much Johnson and My Mother Said I Never Should (New York Stage & Film), Selected Shorts (Symphony Space) and Food for Thought (Lunchtime Theatre). Regionally, she has appeared in Light Up the Sky (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Shadow Box (Premiere-originating the role of Beverly- Mark Taper Forum), Make or Break (The Kennedy Center) and Scenes From American Life. Film credits include I Do & I Don't, The Distinguished Gentleman, Reuben, Reuben, Mannequin: On the Move, 3 Men and a Baby, Up the Sandbox and Isadora. She is the Co-Artistic Director and Founding Member of the Actors Company Theatre where she has appeared in 30 productions with the company, most recently Watch on the Rhine, Dear Liar and Home.  Episodic television and movies of the week include “Rescue Me,” “Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman,” “Now and Again,” “Mad About You” (five seasons), “Law & Order,” “Edward & Mrs. Simpson” (BAFTA Nominee for Best Actress), “L.A. Law” (three seasons), “Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story,” “Ask Me Again” (PBS), “Harrison: Cry of the City,” “Passion” (adapted from Edith Wharton's The Reef) and An American Daughter by Wendy Wasserstein.

MARIN IRELAND (Becca) is making her SCR debut. New York theater credits include Cyclone at Studio Dante for which she received a 2006 OBIE Award; Bad Jazz with the Play Company; The Ruby Sunshine at The Public Theater; The Beebo Brinkers Chronicles at 37 Arts; Far Away and Nocturne at New York Theatre Workshop; The Harlequin Studies at Signature Theatre Company, and productions with Primary Stages, Classic Stage Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Daryl Roth Theatre and Second Stage as well as the Royal Court Theatre’s American tour of 4.48 Psychosis. Regional credits include Mauritius at Huntington Theatre Company, Heartbreak House at Goodman Theatre and The Bells at McCarter Theatre. Film and television work includes the “Law & Order” trifecta, I Am Legend, Dancing with Shiva, Suburban Girl, The Understudy, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond and others.

CAROLINE LAGERFELT (Bettina) is making her SCR debut. On Broadway she appeared in Small Family Business, Lend Me a Tenor, The Real Thing, Betrayal, Otherwise Engaged, The Jockey Club Stakes, Four on a Garden and The Philanthropist. Off-Broadway appearances include The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at The New Group, Hamlet at Classic Stage Company, Guantanamo at Culture Club, Moonlight at Roundabout Theatre Company, Phaedra Britannica and The Creditors at Classic Stage Company, Quartermain’s Terms at Playhouse 91, The Workroom at American Jewish Theatre and Cloud 9 at Lucille Lortel Theatre. Film appearances include Poseidon, All the King’s Men, Homecoming, Mrs. Harris, Minority Report, Glam, Father of the Bride Part II, Bye Bye Love and The Iron Eagle. Television credits include series regular roles on “Red Skies,” and “Nash Bridges,” a recurring role on “Beverly Hills, 90210” and guest starring roles on “How I Met Your Mother,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Frasier,” “The Agency,” “First Monday,” “Six Feet Under,” “The X Files,” “Any Day Now,” “Chicken Soup for the Soul” and “Snoops.”  She also appeared in the made-for-television-movies Atticus, No Way Back and Home at Last.

LORENZO PISONI (Hans) is making his SCR debut. On Broadway he appeared in Henry IV (Lincoln Center Theater) and Off-Broadway in The Devil’s Disciple (Irish Repertory Theatre), Election Day (Second Stage), Last Dance (Manhattan Theatre Club), As You Like It (The Public Theater), Much Ado About Nothing (New York Stage & Film and The Public Theater) and Troilus and Cressida (Theatre for a New Audience). Regional theater credits include The Great Gatsby (Guthrie and Seattle Repertory Theatre), Tuesdays with Morrie (Seattle Repertory Theatre), The Tempest (McCarter Theatre Center), The Illusion (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare and Co.), The Gamester (American Conservatory Theater) and Arms and the Man (Barrington Stage Company). Film credits include Company Retreat, South of Pico and Read You Like a Book. Other credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Lincoln Center Theater and The New York Philharmonic, The Pickle Family Circus and Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man.

REG ROGERS (Seth) is making his SCR debut. On Broadway he appeared in Proposals, Holiday (for which he was nominated for a Tony Award and A Drama Desk Award)and The Moliere Comedies. Off-Broadway appearances include The Pain and The Itch and Lobster Alice at Playwrights Horizons, Bach at Leipzig at New York Theatre Workshop, Miss Julie at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Dazzle (Lucille Lortel Award) and Hurrah at Last at The Roundabout Theatre Company, Unwrap Your Candy at The Vineyard Theatre, Cellini at Second Stage Theatre, Look Back in Anger at Classic Stage Company and Four Dogs and a Bone at Lucille Lortel Theatre. Regional theater credits include Ridiculous Fraud at McCarter Theatre Center; Bach at Leipzig, The Dazzle, Intrigue With Fay and Cellini at New York Stage & Film and Dealer’s Choice at Long Wharf Theatre. Film credits include Analyze That, Igby Goes Down, Runaway Bride, ‘Till There Was You and Primal Fear. Television credits include series regular roles on “Them,” “If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Right Now,” “Uncommon Sense” and “Eyes,” recurring roles on “Miss Match,” “Ed” and “Friends” and guest starring roles on “Law & Order: Criminal Intent," “Touched by an Angel,” “Chicago Hope” and “Law & Order.”

FACT SHEET

THE INJURED PARTY
By Richard Greenberg
Directed by Trip Cullman

CAST: T. Scott Cunningham (Lawrence), Cynthia Harris (Maxene), Marin Ireland (Becca), Caroline Lagerfelt (Bettina), Lorenzo Pisoni (Multiple Roles) and Reg Rogers (Seth).

CREATIVE TEAM: David Korins (set design), Candice Cain (costume design), Ben Stanton (lighting design), John Gromada (original music/sound design), John Glore (dramaturg) and Kathryn Davies (stage manager).

SYNOPSIS: The World Premiere of a new comedy about family, love, art, money and ambition by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg.

TICKETS: $20-$43 previews; $28-$62 regular performances.

RUNS: April 20 – May 11, 2008

PREVIEWS:
April 20 SUN at 2:00pm
April 22 TUES at 7:45pm
April 23 WED at 7:45pm
April 24 THUR at 7:45pm
OPENING NIGHT: April 25 FRI at 7:45pm
REGULAR PERFORMANCES:
April 26 SAT at 2:00pm (Pay-What-You-Will)
April 26 SAT at 7:45pm (Press Night)
April 27 SUN at 2:00pm
April 27 SUN at 7:45pm
April 29 TUE at 7:45pm (Post-Show Discussion)
April 30 WED at 7:45pm (Post-Show Discussion)
May 1 THU at 7:45pm
May 2 FRI at 7:45pm
May 3 SAT at 2:00pm
May 3 SAT at 7:45pm
May 4 SUN at 2:00pm
May 4 SUN at 7:45pm
May 6 TUE at 7:45pm
May 7 WED at 7:45pm
May 8 THU at 7:45pm
May 9 FRI at 7:45pm
May 10 SAT at 2:00pm (Inside the Season) (ASL-interpreted)
May 10 SAT at 7:45pm
May 11 SUN at 2:00pm
May 11 SUN at 7:45pm

POST SHOW DISCUSSIONS:
Tuesday, April 29 and Wednesday, April 30 Discuss the play with members of the cast following the performance.

INSIDE THE SEASON:
Saturday, May 10, 10:30am–12:30pm
A 2-hour comprehensive class featuring creative personnel from the current production. Tickets: $12.

BOX OFFICE WINDOW HOURS: 10am to showtime Tuesdays through Saturdays; noon to showtime Sundays; 10am to 6 pm Mondays and non-performance days. American Express, VISA and MasterCard accepted. (714) 708-5555. www.scr.org.

LOCATION: Folino Theatre Center, 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa CA 92626. One block east of South Coast Plaza at the Bristol Street/Avenue of the Arts exit off the San Diego (405) Freeway.