In what the Washington Post calls "the
most absorbing new play of the season," playwright Neena Beber
tackles the ultimate reality film in JUMP/CUT. Aspiring
director Paul (Thomas Sadoski, Reckless), his girlfriend
Karen (Michi Barall), and his lifelong buddy Dave
(Luke Kirby, "Slings & Arrows", Mambo
Italiano) embark on a filmmaking adventure that captures the complications
of the human heart and the ethics of ambition. JUMP/CUT is
a darkly humorous drama that puts obsessions, betrayals, and Steely
Dan into the line of focus.
Neena Beber (Playwright) Neena Beber's plays include Jump/Cut at Woolly Mammoth, Hard Feelings at Women's Project, Thirst at The Public, The Dew Point at the SPF/ Summer Play Festival, A Common Vision at Magic Theatre and Tommorowland at New Georges. She has received commissions from Actors Theatre of Louisville (Humana Festival of New American Plays), Playwright's Horizons (Amblin), and Otterbein College, among others. Her one-acts have been included in the anthologies The Best American Short Plays 1996-1997 and Facing Forward. Ms. Beber has received the A.S.K. Exchange to the Royal Court Theatre, Distinguished Alumni Award from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and Paulette Goddard and MacDowell Colony Fellowships. She has written extensively for film and television, receiving several Emmy and Ace-Award nominations for her writing for children's television and contributed articles to American Theatre, Theatre, and Performing Arts Journal. Her fiction has been published in The Sun and the film Bad Dates (Touchstone) was based on her one-act, Food. Neena graduatated magna cum laude from Harvard University, with a B.A. specializing in Latin American Literature. She holds an M.F.A.from N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts, where she was a Paulette Goddard Fellow and recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award. Leigh Silverman (Director) At 31, Leigh will be the youngest director on Broadway later this season when she will helm Lisa Kron’s Well opening March 30 th at the Longacre Theatre. She has staged plays for The Public Theatere and ACT. Leigh directed the world premiere of Jump/Cut for the Woolly Mammoth Theatre and Theater J co-production. Her recent credits include: Oedipus at Palm Springs written by The Five Lesbian Brothers at New York Theatre Workshop, Wit on London¹s West End and at the Geffen Theatre (Los Angeles), Bad Dates at the Cleveland Playhouse, Big Times with Women’s Expressive Theatre, How I Learned to Drive at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan at Theatre J, as well as shows at the Adirondack Theatre Festival, EST and Rattlestick. Workshops include: Sundance Theatre Lab (2001 and 2003), Baltimore Center Stage, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, New York Stage and Film, New Dramatists, Dixon Place and Epic Theatre. She holds a duel degree in directing and playwriting from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Michi
Barall: Off-Broadway: A Few Stout Individuals (Signature), Carson
McCullers (Women's Project/Playwright's), Ivanov (Mint), Saved
or Destroyed (Rattlestick), Sueno (MCC), Tartuffe (NYSF/Delacorte), Unwrap
Your Candy (Vineyard), wAve (Ohio). Regional: Arena,
ART, Berkeley Rep, Brava!, Cleveland Playhouse, Hartford Stage,
Intiman, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf, McCarter, Portland Stage,
Seattle Rep, Sundance, and Williamstown. Film and television credits
include independent features I will Avenge You, Iago (opposite
Giancarlo Esposito and Larry Pine), Personal Velocity, Pursuit
of Happiness, and Welcome to Purgatory. Appearances on ATWT, Cosby,
Law and Order, Third Watch and One Life to Live. Michi holds an
AB from Stanford University and an MFA from NYU. Fox Fellow 1999.
She wishes to thank Neena, Loretta and Leigh (all 3 are saints).
