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A Map of the Soul: The Tricky Part & All The Rage

Written & Performed by Martin Moran
Directed by Seth Barrish

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For the first time, actor and writer Martin Moran will pair his Obie-winning performance The Tricky Part with his new show, All the Rage, winner of the 2013 Lucille Lortel Award. The two plays are being performed at Two River Theater under the umbrella title “A Map of the Soul.

WATCH

Preview Trailer

Inside the Rehearsal Room

Martin Moran Discusses Bringing His Plays to Two River Theater

Martin Moran Talks About What it Means to Perform "In Repertory"

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

Moran is a delight to get to know over the course of these plays

TRI CITY NEWS

Moran’s affable charismatic presence and his memory for sensory detail makes his story feel immediate and enveloping

THE STAR LEDGER

a harrowing, hard hitting –  hilarious, even – journey to forgiveness

ASBURY PULP

MEET THE ARTISTS

THE CAST

Martin Moran

Martin Moran was awarded a 2013 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Solo Show for his play All the Rage and a 2004 Obie Award and two Drama Desk nominations for his play The Tricky Part, based upon his memoir of the same title. His writing has appeared in Ploughshares, the Pushcart Prize anthology and The New York Times. As an actor, his Broadway credits include Spamalot, Cabaret, Titanic, Wicked, Bells Are Ringing, How to Succeed in Business…, and Big River. His Off-Broadway credits include O, Earth (The Foundry Theatre), Floyd Collins (Playwrights Horizons), A Man of No Importance (Lincoln Center Theater), Cider House Rules and 3 Kinds of Exile (Atlantic Theater), The Cradle Will Rock (City Center Encores!) and Brecht’s A Man’s a Man (Classic Stage Company). He has worked regionally at Long Wharf Theatre, The Old Globe, Two River Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Trinity Repertory Company, and the Intiman. Film/TV credits include: The Newsroom, The Big C, Z-Nation, Possible Side Affects, Private Parts, Law &Order; Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Dellaventura, Mary and Rhoda. He was a fellow at The MacDowell Colony and he wrote the Book and Lyrics for the 2012 solo musical, Borrowed Dust, with composer Joseph Thalken. His memoir, All the Rage, A Quest was released in 2016 by Beacon Press. He lives in New York City with his husband, Henry Stram. Visit: Alltherageplay.com

THE CREATIVES

Director

Seth Barrish
Seth Barrish

Seth Barrish directed the award-winning shows My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend (Lucille Lortel Award for Best Solo Show, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Solo Show), Sleepwalk With Me (Nightlife Award for Outstanding Comedian in a Major Performance), The Tricky Part (OBIE Award, Drama Desk nominations for Best Play and Best Solo Show), Pentecost (Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), Old Wicked Songs (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and Garland Award for Best Direction), and Good (Straw Hat Award for Best Direction), among dozens of productions spanning a 35-year career. Seth co-directed Mike Birbiglia’s feature film Sleepwalk With Me. He directed Waiting for Godot at Two River Theater. Other theaters he has worked with include the Intiman, New York Theatre Workshop, Long Wharf, McCarter, Geffen Playhouse, Sundance Theatre Lab, Promenade, Signature, Asolo Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Playhouse 91, La MaMa E.T.C., the Perry Street Theatre, Provincetown Rep, and The Barrow Group—a New York City theatre company where he is Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director. A professional acting and directing teacher, Seth recently served as a Master Teacher at the International Symposium for Directors in Spoleto, Italy. He is the author of the book An Actor’s Companion—99 Bits of Craft.  Seth was a producer on Mike Birbiglia’s most recent CD Sleepwalk With Me Live. As an actor, Seth appears regularly in film and on television.

Scenic Designer

Mark Wendland
Mark Wendland

Mark Wendland Broadway: Merchant of VeniceNext to Normal, Talk Radio, An Almost Holy Picture, Death of a Salesman. New York: The Great God Pan (Playwrights Horizons), Murder Ballad, Beauty of the Father, Iron (MTC), Lonely I’m NotBoy’s Life, Some Men (Second Stage), Rent (New World Stages), The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide…, Satellites, Fucking A, Pericles, A DybbukThe Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Cymbeline, Timon of Athens (Public Theater), Angels in AmericaHot-N-Throbbing (Signature), Distracted (Roundabout), UNCONDITIONAL (Labyrinth), A Midsummer Night’s DreamRichard III, Hamlet (CSC).

Co-Scenic Designer

Warren Karp
Warren Karp

Lighting Designer

Russel H. Champa
Russel H. Champa

Russel H. Champa Current and recent projects: The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters (Playwrights Horizons), Dear Elizabeth (Berkeley Rep and Yale Rep), Water By the Spoonful and Modern Terrorism (Second Stage), The Twenty-Seventh Man The Public Theater), The Grand Manner (Lincoln Center Theater). On Broadway, Mr. Champa has designed In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play at the Lyceum Theatre and Julia Sweeney’s God Said “Ha!” also at the Lyceum. Other New York theaters Mr. Champa has designed for include Manhattan Theatre Club, Classic Stage Company, New York Stage & Film. Regionally, Mr. Champa has designed for ACT, Wilma Theater, Cal Shakes, Trinity Rep, Mark Taper Forum, and The Kennedy Center. Thanks J + J. Peace.

Sound Designer

Leon Rothenberg
Leon Rothenberg

Leon Rothenberg For Two River: Present Laughter, Jitney. Select Broadway: The New One, The Waverly Gallery, Boys in the Band, A Doll’s House Part 2, Violet, The Realistic Joneses, The Nance (Tony Award), The Heiress, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony nomination). Regional: Arena, ACT, Geffen, Pasadena Playhouse, Huntington, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, La Jolla, Old Globe, Long Wharf, McCarter, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Stage and Film, others. Select New York/Off-Broadway: Second Stage, NYCC, MTC, Public Theater, Culture Project, Tectonic. International: Cirque du Soleil. Faculty: CalArts. http://klaxson.net

Projection Designer

Bart Cortright
Bart Cortright

Bart Cortright Recent designs includes: The Old Man and the Old Moon (Gym at Judson, Writers Theatre), La Brea, Baby Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb), Barbarous Nights (Invisible Dog), Party in the USA, Victor Frange Presents Gas (Incubator Arts Project), The Nightmare Story (Irondale), Illustrated Man (St. Ann’s Warehouse).  Animation and Assistant work includes Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder, Here Lies Love, Bring It On, Magic/Bird, and Newsies. bartcortright.com

Production Stage Manager

Kate Croasdale
Kate Croasdale

KATE CROASDALE (PRODUCTION STATE MANAGER) is delighted to return to Two River after stage managing Two Sisters and a Piano, Guadalupe in the Guest Room, The Tricky Part and All The Rage. Broadway: Sea Wall/A Life, Sunday in the Park with George, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Ghost The Musical, Dead Accounts and Relatively Speaking. Off-Broadway Credits include: Stargazers (Page 73), Mary Gets Hers (Playwrights Realm) and Mud/Drowning (Mabou Mines). Kate has also worked with: City Center Encores!, The Public Theater, NAATCO, EST, New York Stage and Film, Bay Street Theater and Kaimera Productions. She is proud to be a core teacher for the Peridance Certificate Program. 

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