Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
by Taylor Mac
directed by RJ Tolan
July 29 – August 19 | Previews July 28 and 28
Content Advisory: This production contains adult humor, and simulated vomit and gore. Parents are strongly cautioned that some content may not be suitable for children.
Please be sure to credit Michael & Suz Karchmer for all production images used. Thank you!
CAST
Carol – Lacy Allen
Janice – AJ Clauss *
Gary – Layla Khoshnoudi*
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
CREATIVE TEAM
Production Stage Manager Katie Scarlett Graves*
Ass’t Stage Manager Rebecca Berger*
Scenic and Costume Designer Jacob A. Climer
Lighting Designer John Salutz
Sound Designer & Original Music Grace Oberhofer
Lacy Allen (Carol) Past W.H.A.T. shows: Five Times in One Night and Lenin’s Embalmers. Some NYC credits: NY Times Critics Pick: Inanimate (The Flea), Puffs (New World Stages). She’s currently figuring out LA and the world of TV/Film. www.thelacyallen.com
AJ Clauss (Janice) is a current member of Youngblood, the Obie award-winning playwright group at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in NYC. Some of AJ’s plays include: RAT JAW, HENRY MAKES A BIBLE (Sloan/EST Commission), WHEN YOU WERE SMALL, & SALTY. Traveling the country as both a writer and performer, AJ has created the Stomping Ground Theatre Project, producing plays in Small-Town America using a hybrid of local and professional artists.
Layla Khoshnoudi (Gary) MFA, Brooklyn College. Select Theater: 7 Minutes (Waterwell); Men on Boats (Clubbed Thumb); Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons); Bull in a China Shop (Lincoln Center); Dido of Idaho (Ensemble Studio Theater); Wyoming (Lesser America); I am Gordafarid (Noor Theater). TV: Instinct (CBS); FBI (CBS); All Hail Beth (BricTV), My Ex is Trending (YouTube). FILM: Long Nights, Short Mornings; Bad at Birthdays, Nadia Jaan; Androgen; Bookends.
R.J. Tolan (Director – he/him) Previously at WHAT: Five Times in One Night, Lenin’s Embalmers. R.J. has been co-Artistic Director of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s OBIE-winning Youngblood program for early-career playwrights since 2003, directing dozens of mainstage productions, workshops, short plays and readings. Other credits include shows at Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater, the Cherry Lane Alternative, and The Brick. R.J. lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife Lisa and their sons Max and Charlie.