| Someone Spectacular, a world premiere play by Domenica Feraud, will open July 31 at The Pershing Square Signature Center | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 10:21 am EDT 05/17/24 | |
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| someone spectacular THE WORLD PREMIERE OF A NEW PLAY BY DOMENICA FERAUD DIRECTED BY TATIANA PANDIANI WILL OPEN ON JULY 31, 2024 PREVIEWS BEGIN JULY 17, 2024 AT THE PERSHING SQUARE SIGNATURE CENTER (May 17, 2024 – New York, NY) – someone spectacular, the world premiere of a new play by Domenica Feraud (Rinse, Repeat – NY Times Critics' Pick), will open Wednesday, July 31, 2024 at The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street, Jim Houghton Way). The production, directed by Tatiana Pandiani, will begin previews on Wednesday, July 17. Tickets are on sale today at Telecharge.com. Once a week, six recently bereaved strangers gather for group therapy. It's a stable routine — until one day, their grief counselor is inexplicably MIA. The group's typical session quickly goes off the rails, offering an open-ended meditation on loss, with revelations that are at once beautiful, funny, and heartbreaking. Domenica Feraud's newest play examines the complicated emotions that accompany grief, while exploring universal and personal truths that are sure to stay with you for a lifetime. "My mother, Nathalie Feraud-Salame, was the love of my life. When she passed away suddenly two years ago, I thought living without her might kill me. Writing someone spectacular is how I survived," commented playwright Domenica Feraud. "I am honored to bring this play to life with such an incredible team, especially my director, Tatiana Pandiani. someone spectacular is a love letter to my mom, as well as for anyone who knows what it is to have loved and lost." Scenic design is by two-time Tony Award nominee dots (Broadway: Appropriate, An Enemy of the People), costume design is by Siena Zoë Allen (Broadway: Associate Designer for Hadestown, What the Constitution Means to Me), lighting design is by Drama Desk nominee Oona Curley (Off-Broadway: Dr. Ride's American Beach House), and sound design is by Tony Award nominee Mikaal Sulaiman (Broadway: Macbeth, An Enemy of the People). Casting is by Conrad Woolfe, CSA and Leigh Ann Smith, CSA. General Management is by Cheryl Dennis Productions. someone spectacular will be produced by B3-A12/Domenica Feraud, Paige Evans and Margaret Leigh. Tickets will be priced from $39 to $119, inclusive of a $3 facility fee. Special $49 preview pricing will be available for performances from July 17-30. A $25 student rush ticket will be available closer to the start of performances. Visit telecharge.com for more information. Casting will be announced in coming weeks. someone spectacular is not a production of Signature Theatre. BIOGRAPHIES Domenica Feraud (Playwright) is a first-generation Ecuadorian writer and actor from New York City. Her groundbreaking play Rinse, Repeat was developed at LAByrinth Theater Company and premiered at the Signature Theatre in 2019, where it was made a New York Times Critics' Pick. The play was published in 2021 and has been performed as far as Singapore, bringing more awareness to an illness society seems determined to continue ignoring. After the viral success of her essays, The Movie Star and Me and The 26-Year-Old Virgin, Feraud's debut book, You Are What You See, will be released next summer. Inspired by the sudden death of her mother, her play someone spectacular will be making its world premiere at Signature this summer. Representation: Untitled Entertainment and Folio Literary Agency. Tatiana Pandiani (Director) is a Latin-American writer, director & choreographer who works in English and Spanish. Originally from Buenos Aires, she grew up around milongas, antique stores and dance studios. Tatiana is the creator of bilingual musical AZUL (Jonathan Larson Winner 2024, NAMT 2021, O'Neill NMTC 2021, NYTW, NYC Women in Media Grant Winner 2020, Goodspeed Musicals 2020) which has had sold out shows at 54Below and Joe's Pub. Tatiana recently directed and choreographed the world premiere of Monet's Hurst Mendoza's Torera at the Alley Theatre, as well as Dallas Theatre Center's bilingual production of Our Town, with was accompanied with an innovative cast of live/simultaneous translation which made the production fully accessible for Spanish monologue audience, as well as bilingual audiences. Tatiana also co conceived, adapted, directed, and choreographed an original production of Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) for the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Selected Recent: Indecent (choreography for Perseverance Theatre, Alaska), Dial M for Murder (Alley Theatre and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park). Tatiana is also directing and developing Fish a new play by Melis Aker at Signature Theatre in New York City in Fall 2024. She recently received an Alcove commission from the Lucille Lortel Theatre for her first play, Hinge Baby, a climate change comedy set on a sinking condo in Miami Beach. Tatiana has previously developed projects at the Folger in DC, Long Wharf, Cleveland Playhouse, The Park (London), Miami New Drama, Urbanite and many others. Her first short film How to Fix Grief was a selection and award recipient for the Film in Focus 2024 and the NYFA Awards. Tatiana completed the MFA at Columbia University and has been on faculty at Yale, NYU, and The New School. She previously worked as an associate for directors Rachel Chavkin (Lempicka) Oliver Butler (What the Constitution Means To Me) and Sam Gold (The Glass Menagerie) and was a New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Fellow and National Directors Fellow (Kennedy Center & O'Neill Center). SDC Member. UTA & Brillstein Entertainment Partners. www.tatianapandiani.com / www.azulthemusical.com dots (Scenic Design) is an award-winning design collective based in NYC. Originally from Colombia, South Africa, and Japan, they are Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, Andrew Moerdyk, and Kimie Nishikawa. Recent highlights include the Broadway productions of An Enemy of the People (Tony Award nomination for Best Scenic Design of a Play); Appropriate (Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for Outstanding Scenic Design); The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window; and Oh, Mary! (upcoming). Recent awards include a 2024 Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in Design and a 2023 Henry Hewes Design Award. designbydots.com . Siena Zoë Allen (Costume Design) is a New York-based costume designer for theatre, opera, and film. Her work has been seen at Carnegie Hall, Boston Pops, La Mama, the cell, Irish Repertory Theater, 59E59, and more. Film and streaming credits include The Last 5 Years (Out of the Box Theatrics) and the upcoming release Long Pork (Madhouse Films, 2025). She is a Princess Grace Award Winner and has an MFA from NYU Tisch. More at sienazoeallen.com. Oona Curley (Lighting Design) is a lighting and scenic designer from New York City. Their work has been seen in New York (NYTW, BAM, The Public, ArsNova, Atlantic Theater Co., SohoRep, The Vineyard, The Cherry Lane, Clubbed Thumb, LCT3, Joe's Pub, JACK, La MaMa, The Bushwick Starr, The New Ohio, PlayCo), Philadelphia (The Arden Theatre, Opera Philadelphia, Curtis Opera, The Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Team Sunshine Performance Co., Theater Horizon, FringeArts), and regionally (The Guthrie, Long Wharf, Trinity Rep, People's Light, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas). Oona received their MFA from NYU/Tisch, where they were awarded the J.S. Seidman Award for Design Excellence and was NYU's nominee for a Princess Grace Award. They hold a BA from Brown University, where their designs earned the Zonta Award for Theatre Arts and the Weston Award for Theatre Design. In 2019, they were a recipient of the Lotos Foundation Prize. Oona is an associate artist with the Bearded Ladies Cabaret in Philadelphia and a company member of Lightning Rod Special, creators of the multiple-award-winning Underground Railroad Game, which they designed. Oona is also a proud member of USA 829. Mikaal Sulaiman (Sound Design) is a Tony Award-nominated multi-disciplinary artist who works across film, TV, and theatre. Mikaal is a writer, director, sound designer, and composer. As a writer, he was in the writer's room on a new episodic show for A24/Amazon created by Ramy Youssef called "#1 Happy Family USA." As theatre deviser he has received artist residencies at Groundfloor at Berkeley Rep, Mercury Store, Space on Ryder Farm in Upstate New York, UCross Foundation in Wyoming, as well as VoxFest at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. As a sound designer he has worked on award winning productions that include: Enemy of the People (Broadway), Doubt (Broadway), Primary Trust (Roundabout, Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama), pray (Ars Nova), Fat Ham (Broadway, Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama), Macbeth (Broadway),Thoughts of a Colored Man (Broadway), Sanctuary City (New York Theatre Workshop), Rags Parkland (Ars Nova), Fairview (Soho Rep, Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama), and Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova), among others. Nominations include Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, and Bay Area Theatre Critics. Recipient: Obie Award, Henry Hewes Design Award, Creative Capital Award, Theatre Bay Area Award, Audelco Award, CTG Sherwood Award. mikaal.com Leigh Ann Smith, CSA/Conrad Woolfe, CSA (Casting). Founded by Leigh Ann Smith, and Conrad Woolfe, Indigo Casting is an ambitious, inclusive office that values trust, integrity, and authenticity throughout the casting process. They have a combined 20+ years of experience and work in all mediums, including television, film, theater, commercials, and voiceover. Projects include Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (Paramount+), Wild Animals, Pickleback, Sueño . indigocasting.co Cheryl Dennis Productions (General Management) has worked as a general, company and theatre manager for 20 years on 40-plus distinguished and award-winning productions. Broadway theatre management highlights include American Buffalo, Oklahoma!, Once on This Island, Fun Home. Company manager highlights: Barefoot in the Park, Golda's Balcony, Metamorphoses, True West, tick...tick...BOOM!,The Last Five Years. B3-A12 (Producer) is committed to telling stories that have been overlooked, uplifting underrepresented voices, and making theatre more accessible. Our goal is to go where there is silence and make noise. Formed in honor of Nathalie Feraud-Salame, someone spectacular is our first production. Paige Evans (Producer) has commissioned, developed and premiered plays that have won Pulitzer Prizes and Tony, Lortel and Obie Awards, among other distinctions. As Artistic Director of Signature Theatre from 2016-2023, Paige brought Melis Aker, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Sam Hunter, Dave Malloy, Julián Mesri, Dominique Morisseau, Lynn Nottage, Sarah Ruhl, Anna Deavere Smith, Lauren Yee and The Mad Ones to Signature for residencies. During her tenure, Signature premiered Dave Malloy's Octet, Katori Hall's The Hot Wing King (Pulitzer Prize), Lauren Yee's Cambodian Rock Band, Sam Hunter's A Case for the Existence of God, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Everybody and The Comeuppance, among others. She also launched Signature's Education Program and the LaunchPad Residency for early career writers. From 2008-2016, she was the inaugural Artistic Director of LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater. During her tenure, LCT3 developed and produced more than 20 premieres, including David Adjmi's Stunning, Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles, Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced (Pulitzer Prize), Greg Pierce's Slowgirl , and Dave Malloy's Preludes. As Associate Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Club, Paige championed and developed David Auburn's Proof, John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, Lynn Nottage's Ruined, and David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole, and commissioned Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy. Margaret Leigh (Producer) is a proud mother, wife, and feminist who is humbled to be a part of someone spectacular. She is the founder of Turnkey Theatrical, a New York City general management firm specializing in readings, and passionate about her work with the nonprofit Open Stage Project. The Pershing Square Signature Center, the permanent home of Signature Theatre, is a three-theatre facility on West 42nd Street, Jim Houghton Way, designed by Frank Gehry Architects to host Signature's three distinct playwrights' residencies and foster a cultural community. The Center is a major contribution to New York City's cultural landscape and provides a venue for cultural organizations that supports and encourages collaboration among artists throughout the space. In addition to its three intimate theatres, the Center features a studio theatre, rehearsal studio, a bookstore, and the Signature Cafe+ Bar. For more information on renting the Center, please visit signaturetheatre.org/rent-our-space. |
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