Creative Team
Written by Christina Gorman
Christina’s plays have been produced and/or developed at The Public Theater, Alley Theatre, American Blues Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Hangar Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, Prospect Theatre Company, Samuel French Short Play Festival, New Harmony Project, Troy Foundry Theatre, NYC’s Summer Play Festival, Stageworks/Hudson, Playwrights Foundation, Lark Play Development Center, Stella Adler Studios, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Luna Stage, |the claque|, Theatre Artists Studio, and the University of Notre Dame.
Christina is an inaugural member of The Public Theater Emerging Writers Group. She is a former New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, Ensemble Studio Theatre New Voices Fellow, Stella Adler Studios Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence, and Women’s Project Playwright Lab member. She is an Artistic Affiliate at American Blues Theater. She is published by Samuel French. www.christinagormanplaywright.com
Directed by Michelle Tattenbaum
Michelle Tattenbaum (Director, Roan @ the Gates) directed the world premiere of the musical NOBODY LOVES YOU at the Old Globe (San Diego Theatre Critics Circle nomination: Best Director) and the NY premiere at Second Stage. Most recently, she directed MS. ESTRADA by the Q Brothers Collective (world premiere, The Flea). She has directed Itamar Moses’s plays LOVE/STORIES (world premiere, The Flea) and THE FOUR OF US (Los Angeles premiere, Firefly: Theater & Films). She directed and co-produced THE SUBLET EXPERIMENT, a site-specific touring production that played to sold-out crowds in NYC for over six months. New Media: several fiction podcasts for kids, including the Peabody Award Winning podcast THE UNEXPLAINABLE DISAPPEARANCE OF MARS PATEL and the web series BABYPROV. Regional: O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference, Hangar Theatre, Williamstown, Goodspeed and Shakespeare Theatre of NJ. Tattenbaum worked for Manhattan Theatre Club for three years, developing new work. Member: SDC. Two-time Drama League Directing Fellow. www.michelletattenbaum.com
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Synopsis
Would you buy a sofa without consulting your partner? How about a car? Change your job? Could you commit a crime and say nothing? And could you still love your partner if she followed her conscience but kept you in the dark? Nat is an outspoken civil rights attorney. Roan, the quiet one, is an NSA Analyst who isn’t even allowed to tell her wife the location of her next business trip. In this topical and thought-provoking new play, a long-time couple confronts questions about their marriage they never thought to ask as their personal relationship collides with national security.
Cast
Katie Flahive (Roan)
Originally from Chicago, Katie has been working and living in NYC for the past ten years. She is currently recurring on the Hulu series, Looming Tower as well as a recent guest star role on Law and Order: SVU. She has been seen on stage at The Public (Fidelis), Steppenwolf, Atlantic, Northlight, Victory Gardens, Theater on the Lake, Griffin Theater Company and Perry Mansfield New Play Festival Reading Series. Other recurring and guest role appearances include: Nurse Jackie, The Affair, Chicago PD, Feed the Beast and Law and Order: SVU. Katie is also a long time volunteer and mentor with The 52nd Street Project- a community based arts organization for kids in Hells Kitchen, NYC. This summer she is traveling to Greece to work with The Campfire Project and NGO I Am You to bring aid and the arts to refugees living at Ritzona. More information can be found at http://campfire-project.org.
Lynnette R. Freeman (Nat)
Lynnette R. Freeman is a Jamaican-American actress, dancer, writer, and teaching artist, raised in East Cleveland, OH. Brown/Trinity MFA ; Member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, and The League of Professional Theatre Women. She has performed in theaters all over the US. Favorite previous roles have included Lydia Namandu in “Human Rites”, Letitia in “On The Outs”, Ruth in “A Raisin in the Sun”, Reheema Abu-Salaam in “In A Daughter’s Eyes”, Jenny/ Marge in “Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play”; Esther Mills in “Intimate Apparel” and Pretty Mbane in “The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane”. She believes in the divine healing power of storytelling.