LOBBY HERO
August 21 - September 5
A SMART & RIVETING TONY AWARD-WINNER
By Kenneth Lonergan
Directed by M. Bevin O’Gara
ABOUT THE PLAY
In the lobby of a Manhattan apartment building, nothing ever happens — until everything does.
When a murder investigation entangles a young security guard, his rule-bound supervisor, and two very different police officers, the lobby becomes a pressure cooker of secrets, loyalties, and shifting truths. As personal feelings collide with professional duty, each must decide: Do you protect your principles, your partner… or yourself?
Jeff, a well-meaning but adrift security guard, gets pulled into the mess when his boss’s troubled brother is arrested. Meanwhile, a rookie cop finds herself forced to challenge her seasoned partner — and question the thin line between justice and convenience.
Smart, funny, and crackling with tension, Lobby Hero is a riveting comedy-drama about moral gray areas, everyday heroism, and the lies we tell — especially to ourselves. From Academy Award winner Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea), this Tony Award–winning play is as gripping as it is human.
“a play about the way we justify ourselves to ourselves.”
SCHEDULE
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 - 7:30 PM (PREVIEW)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 - 7:30 PM (OPENING NIGHT)SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 - 2:00 PM
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26 - 2:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26 - 7:30 PMTHURSDAY, AUGUST 27 - 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 - 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 - 2:00 PM
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 - 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 - 2:00 PM
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 - 2:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 - 7:30 PM
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 - 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 - 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 - 2:00 PM (CLOSING)
MEET THE CAST
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Tobias most recently appeared on stage in Chisa Hutchinson’s Amerikin (Primary Stages). He will be appearing in Tim Blake Nelson’s upcoming film The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd. Theatrical credits include From up Here (MTC), The Miracle Worker (Broadway), and Sam Mendes’ The Bridge Project (BAM, The Old Vic, World tour). Film and Television include John Wick Chapters 2 & 3, Atlanta, Sneaky Pete and Mindhunter.
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Ugo was recently seen in Primary Trust at the Mark Taper Forum theater in Los Angeles. Other credits: Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! (Soho Rep), Usus (Clubbed Thumb), Lunch Bunch (Play Company), Do You Feel Anger? (The Vineyard), What To Send Up When It Goes Down (The Movement Theater), [PORTO] (Bushwick Starr/WP Theater) and the Broadway National Tour of Oklahoma! TV/Film: Holiday Touchdown: A Buffalo Bills Love story (Hallmark), The Night Agent, Inventing Anna (Netflix) and the pilot Driven (TriBeCa film festival premiere. He has also appeared in commercials for Statefarm (SuperBowl spot) Spectrum Mobile, Uber Eats, and Liberty Mutual. Ugo is also a teaching artist with New Victory Theater. IG: @ugolessinsta. www.ugochukwuactor.com
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Broadway: A Soldier's Play, Angels in America, The Big Knife, and The Normal Heart. Broadway tour: Cabaret. Off-Broadway: This World of Tomorrow with Tom Hanks, Indian Ink, Gabriel, The Lady from Dubuque. He has also performed at regional theatres across the country including the Old Globe, the Westport Country Playhouse, the Huntington Theatre, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, the Barrington Stage Company, the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ford’s Theatre, and the Bucks County Playhouse. On-screen credits include Harlan Coben's Shelter, FBI and FBI: International, Law & Order: SVU, American Horror Story, Emily in Paris, Blue Bloods, and many more. As a producer and archival consultant, he has contributed to documentaries for Netflix, HBO, and PBS. He has also been a proud volunteer with the 52nd Street Project for more than twenty years. MFA: NYU Graduate Acting. leeaaronrosen.com.
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Carmen Flood is thrilled to be performing in her first season at DTF. She is proudly from the mountains of Topanga Canyon, California and based in NYC. Her tv/film credits include: Long Slow Exhale (Charter/ Spectrum), Brews Brother (Netflix), Sex Lives of College Girls (HBO), God of Tides, and more. Most recently she was awarded best short film at the Easter Seals Disability Film Challenge. Her creative endeavors extend to photography and a tune or two on the guitar as well. She is a graduate from Carnegie Mellon University.
ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
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Coming Soon…
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M. Bevin O’Gara is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Boston Conservatory in Directing and Musical Theatre. She was the Producing Artistic Director at the Kitchen Theatre and spent most of her career at the Huntington Theatre Company in a variety of roles.
As a Director credits include: Huntington Theatre Company, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Cleveland Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Kitchen Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage, Company One, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Lyric Stage Company, Central Square Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Boston Conservatory, Emerson College, and others.
Bevin is the proud recipient of the Lois Roach Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Boston Theatre Community. She holds a BFA from Boston University. mbevinogara.com
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Alexander is a multi-hyphenate, designer, educator, and artist for live performance in theatre, opera, and dance with credits all over, including seven seasons at the Dorset Theatre Festival, the world and Broadway premier of The Sound Inside, and of the ballet Their Eyes Were Watching God. Alexander is the head of Scenic Design at Dartmouth College and serves on the faculty of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. As a designer and educator Alexander is an avid proponent for advancing arts advocacy, exploring all aspects of our medium as a form for social change & a tool to shape the environment around us. Alexander is a member for the acclaimed Colt Coeur theatre company, and in recent years has served on the executive board for Wingspace, a non profit organization that promotes conversation on design and community, and furthers activism within the industry. MFA Yale. USA 829. Instagram @alexanderwoodwarddesign and alexanderwoodward.com.
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3 productions of STILL (Colt Coeur Theatre & Dorset Theatre Festival.) Other designs include Morning’s At Seven, The Show-Off (Peccadillo Theatre), Crumbs From the Table of Joy (Juilliard School), It’s a Wonderful Life, Child’s Christmas in Wales (Irish Repertory), Theresa Rebeck’s Way of the World, Outside Mullingar, Mousetrap, Dial M For Murder (Dorset Theatre Festival), A Thousand Pines (Westport Country Playhouse), The Saintliness of Margery Kempe (Duke Theatre), Doctor’s Dilemma (Peterborough Players), Disgraced, Venus Rising (Northern Stage), Widowers’ Houses, Heartbreak House (Gingold Theatrical), Soldier (HERE Theatre), Trip to Bountiful, The Seafarer, Driving Miss Daisy (Capital Repertory), Clybourne Park (Barrington Stage), Tenderly, To Kill A Mockingbird, Raisin in the Sun (Weston Playhouse). She designed 43 shows at Pearl Theatre Company (NYC) which included Taste of Honey, Uncle Vanya, Figaro, Vieux Carre, Bald Soprano and is a recipient of a Princess Grace Award. www.barbarabellcostumedesign.com
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Dorset Theatre Festival Debut: Lobby Hero. Wen Ling is based in the Bay Are. Her works can be seen across USA including Old Globe Theater, Center Theater Group, McCarter Theater Company, American Conservatory Theater, Hartford Stage, Theaterworks Silicon Valley, Denver Performing Arts Center, People’s Light Theater, Marin Theater Company, California Shakespeare Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, Dallas Theater Center, Huntington Theater Company, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Magic Theater, Center Repertory and San Francisco Playhouse. She got her BA from National Taiwan University and her MFA from University of California, San Diego. Website: wenlingliao.com
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M.L. Dogg has designed for such companies as On the Boards, Second Stage Theatre,Seattle Children’s Theatre, UW School of Drama, Pony World Theatre, Swim Pony, Seattle Rep, Feast, Alley Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Primary Stages, Actors TheatreOf Louisville, MTC Theatre, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, New Group, Women’s Project,Signature Theatre, New York Stage And Film, Huntington Theatre, Playwright’s Realm, Page 73 Productions, Playwright’s Horizons, American Repertory Theatre, Waterwell Productions, Colt Coeur, MCC Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company, Royal National Theatre, Debate Society, Ars Nova, South Coast Repertory, Pearl Theatre, Public Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, 13P, Classic Stage Company, Shakespeare and Company, and Nicholas Ward Productions. Broadway: Becky Shaw; Gutenberg! The Musical!; Here Lies Love; Straight White Men; Oh, Hello On Broadway; The Pee-wee Herman Show. Lortel, fringeNYC awards; Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, IRNE, and IT nominee. Assistant Professor at the University of Washington.
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Joe Gery has worked extensively in theater with Caparelliotis Casting since 2014, as well as with Meredith Tucker Casting in film & television. His most recent theater credits include the Broadway productions of Good Night and Good Luck, Grey House, Ohio State Murders, Sam Gold's Macbeth, and The Minutes, as well as off-broadway productions at Signature Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Vineyard, and Ars Nova. Television credits include all three seasons of The White Lotus (HBO), Godfather of Harlem (EPIX), Ray Donovan (Showtime), and the final season of The Bold Type (Freeform).
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Other Desert Cities (Dorset Theatre Festival); King Lear (La MaMa); Calf Scramble (Primary Stages), Choreomania 1518 (Playwrights Realm); Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector, Escaped Alone (Yale Rep); Three Sisters, Dindin, Buried Child, Liv at Sea (Harbor Stage Company). MFA, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. Thank you to Megan for marrying me.
ADVISORY: TBA
RUNTIME: Approximately 2 hours and 25 minutes (including 15-minute intermission)
LOBBY HERO is produced by Dorset Theatre Festival.
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Support for the 49th season is provided by Legacy Donors, the Rodgers Family Foundation, The James H. & Irene M. Hunter Charitable Trust, The Shubert Foundation, and the members of the Festival’s World Premiere Circle.
LOBBY HERO is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Dramatists Play Service. www.concordtheatricals.com
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