New Podcast! A LITTLE PART OF ALL OF US by Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Eisenberg is both playwright and actor in this satirical short play about an anxious young hipster absurdly co-opting the tragedy of September 11th for his own personal narrative. Justin Bartha plays his old college buddy. A LITTLE PART OF ALL OF US features Jesse Eisenberg (The Spoils, The Social Network, The Revisionist) and Justin Bartha (The Hangover, National Treasure). Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation between our Artistic Director, Claudia Catania and the cast.

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Lloyd Suh

Episode:
OFF MY CHEST: Happy Birthday Mr. Abernathy, 

Lloyd Suh is originally from Indianapolis, Indiana.  His play American Hwangap was supported by the Lark Play Development Center and the Andrew P. Mellon Foundation through its “Launching New Plays Into the Repertoire” Initiative, and produced at Magic Theatre in San Francisco, Ma-Yi/The Play Company in New York, and with Tanghalang Pilipino in Manila, Philippines. Great Wall Story was developed in the Denver Center New Play Summit and subsequently produced on their mainstage in 2011.  His play Jesus in India premiered at Magic Theatre in San Francisco and will be seen in 2013 at Ma-Yi Theatre Company in New York. Other plays include The Children of Vonderly (Ma-Yi), Happy End of the World (NEA Arena Stage New Play Development Grant, Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis), Masha No Home (Ensemble Studio Theatre, West Coast premiere at East West Players), and several shorter plays including Happy Birthday William Abernathy, Not All Korean Girls Can Fly and With a Hammer & A Nail (Ensemble Studio Theatre). He has received additional grants, awards and fellowships from the Dramatists Guild, the Jerome Foundation, the Lark Play Development Center, Second Generation, Pan Asian Repertory and the National Asian American Theatre Company. Additionally, he served on the National Steering Committee in creating the first National Asian American Theatre Conference and the first National Asian American Theatre Festival.  He served as an official artist delegate to the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya and the inaugural US Social Forum in Atlanta. Named one of “50 to Watch” by the Dramatists Guild, he is currently serving as Resident Artist for Second Generation and Director of Onsite Programs at the Lark Play Development Center. Formerly, Lloyd served as Co-Director of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the largest resident company of Asian American playwrights ever assembled.  He is a former member of Youngblood and the Lark Playwrights Workshop, and a lifetime member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Actors Studio.  BA, Indiana University; MFA, New School for Social Research.

Jacquelyn Reingold

Episodes:
BEATING THE ODDS: Dear Kenneth Blake
LIKE NO BUSINESS I KNOW: I Know
OFF MY CHEST: A Very Very Short Play
THE BIRDS AND THE BEES: 2B OR NOT 2B 

Jacquelyn Reingold writes for theatre, television, and film. Her plays include I Know in Ensemble Studio Theatre’s One Act Marathon, Up and Down for Christine Jones’ Theatre for One, A Story About A Girl and String Fever at Ensemble Studio Theatre starring Cynthia Nixon and Evan Handler, as well as many shorts for Ensemble Studio Theater. Television work includes NBC’s “Smash” and the Emmy-award winning season of HBO’s “In Treatment.” Her awards include a NYFA playwriting grant, Joe Callaway Award and Whitfield Cook Award, and the Roger Stevens Award. Learn more about her at jacquelynreingold.com

Ken Leung

Episode:
OFF MY CHEST: Happy Birthday, Mr. Abernathy by Lloyd Suh

Broadway: Thoroughly Modern Millie; Off-Broadway: Corpus Christi (MTC), Ghost in the Machine (Barrow Group); Other: Flipzoids (Ma-Yi: NY, Amherst, Manila), The Road Home (NY, Hague Appeal for Peace). Film: Sucker Free City, Keeping the Faith, Rush Hour. TV: Person of Interest, The Good Wife, Lost, Sopranos. Board Member, USCRI (refugees.org).

Justin Bartha

Episode:
OFF MY CHEST: A Little Part of All of Us by Jesse Eisenberg

Justin Bartha’s theater credits include Lend Me A Tenor (Music Box) and Asuncion (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Production).  He has appeared on Fox’s “The New Normal” and NBC’s “Teachers,” as well as in numerous films, including The Hangover trilogy and National Treasure series, New York I Love You, Holy Rollers, Dark Horse, The Rebound, andFailure to Launch.

Richard Kind

Episode:
OFF MY CHEST: A Very Very Short Play by Jacquelyn Reingold

Broadway: The Big Knife, The Producers, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Sly Fox, Tale of the Allergist’s Wife. Other theater – Hollywood Bowl: The Producers, Williamstown: The Front Page, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Big Knife, Bay Street:Rough Crossing, The Lady in Question, Mamet’s Romance, Enter Laughing–The Musical, Guthrie: Once in a Lifetime, LA: The Seagull, Adam Baum and the Jew Movie, TV: “Luck,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Spin City,” “Mad About You.” Movies: Argo, A Serious Man, The Hereafter, and voices in A Bug’s Life, Cars, Toy Story 3.

Jesse Eisenberg

Episodes:
TWO HOLIDAYS AND A BLIZZARD: The Blizzard by David Ives
OFF MY CHEST: A Little Part of All of Us by Jesse Eisenberg
A DOG AND A CAT: The Final Interrogation of Ceaucescu’s Dog by Warren Leight

Jesse Eisenberg most recently wrote and starred in the play Asuncion at the Cherry Lane Theatre, for which he was nominated for a Drama League Award.  He has appeared in the films The Social Network (Oscar nomination), Zombieland, Adventureland (BAFTA nomination), The Squid and the Whale, and Roger Dodger.  He is also a contributing writer for McSweeney’s and his humor essays have appeared in Harper’s and The New York Times.  His play The Revisionist, which he starred in opposite Vanessa Redgrave and Daniel Oreskes, premiered at the Cherry Lane Theatre in spring 2013.

Hope Davis

Episode:
OFF MY CHEST: A Very Very Short Play by Jacquelyn Reingold

Hope Davis’ filmography includes Real Steel, Genova, Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Bartlett, The Hoax, Infamous, The Matador, The Weather Man, Proof, Dumas, American Splendor (Golden Globe Nomination), The Secret Lives of Dentists (Best Actress, NY Film Critics), About Schmidt, Hearts of Atlantis, Mumford, The Imposters, Arlington Road, Next Stop Wonderland, and Daytrippers. Television credits include “The Newsroom,” “The Special Relationship” (Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Nominations), “In Treatment” (Primetime Emmy Nomination) and “Six Degrees.”

Stage credits include the Broadway production of God of Carnage (Tony Award Nomination for Best Leading Actress, Tony Award Win for Best Play), Midsummer Night’s Dream with the New York Philharmonic; Spinning Into Butter, Ivanov andTwo Shakespearean Actors at Lincoln Center; Off-Broadway in The Food Chain, The Iceman Cometh and Speed the Plow.

Len Cariou

Episode:
OFF MY CHEST: Happy Birthday, Mr. Abernathy by Lloyd Suh

Len Cariou is an award-winning actor and a pre-eminent interpreter of Sondheim. Broadway: Applause (Tony nom., Theatre World Award), A Little Night Music (Tony nom.), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tony & Drama Desk), Nightwatch, Cold Storage, Teddy and Alice, Dance A Little Closer, The Speed Of Darkness, The Dinner Party andProof. Off-Broadway: Mountain, Papa, The Persians, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, The Master Class, and Measure for Measure. He served as Artistic Director of the Manitoba Theatre Center and Associate Director of the Guthrie Theatre. Television: “Blue Bloods,” “Damages,” “Brotherhood,” “Murder She Wrote,” “CSI,” “Numb3rs,” “ED,” “Law and Order,” “The Outer Lands,” “The Practice” and “The West Wing.” Feature film: One Man (Genie Award), The Four Seasons, Flags Of Our Fathers, 1408,Executive Decision, Lady in White, Thirteen Days, About Schmidt, Secret Window, and The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club. His voice narration for documentary The Johnstown Flood helped win the film’s Academy Award.