The Department Party

An Irons in the Fire Project

December 10, 2021 @ 4:00pm

Written by Sam Marks
Directed by Morgan Green

This venue is wheelchair accessible.
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Synopsis

Left alone in a New England apartment during a severe snowstorm and visited by a strangely inquisitive neighbor, a graduate student having an affair with a professor starts to understand the structural and generational imbalance of the relationship. The Department Party  takes place in real time, gradually building to that sudden, irreversible moment when we realize the story we have told ourselves about love is a lie, and how we adapt once the new reality comes into focus. 

Performed By

Purva Bedi
Greg Keller
Sanaya Bedi Stoler
Madeline Wise

Stage Manager: Hannah Sgambellone

Playwright

SAM MARKS [he/him] is a playwright. World Premieres include The Delling Shore (Humana Festival), The Old Masters (Steppenwolf), The Joke (Studio Dante directed by Sam Gold). Other NYC productions include: Brack’s Last Bachelor Party (Babel Theater Co), Nelson (Partial Comfort Productions), and Craft (The Flea). In the TV space, Sam completed a pilot for HBO produced by Steve Buscemi and Stanley Tucci’s Olive Productions. Sam has sold three series and developed a project with Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Sam is currently writing the book for a musical based on Steve Earle’s album Washington Square Serenade. He attended the 2016 Sundance Theater Lab in Morocco to present his play, White Lightning. His play Cells, directed by Oliver Butler, was presented as a Huntington Summer Workshop. He collaborated with Simon McBurney and Theater Complicite on their most recent show, The Kid Stays in the Picture. He is under commission from Playwrights Horizons, and is a playwriting fellow at the Huntington Theater. He was the 2015 recipient of the A.R. Gurney playwriting award. His plays have received workshops at The Atlantic, MTC, NYTW, NYSF, The Rattlestick, and many other theaters. His work is available from Samuel French and Playscripts, Inc. He teaches playwriting at Harvard University. www.twitter.com/samwmarks

Director

MORGAN GREEN [she/her] is a theater and film director. In 2012 Morgan co-founded New Saloon with Madeline Wise and Milo Cramer. In 2016, Morgan received the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Director for her work on New Saloon’s Minor Character: Six Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time which was seen most recently at the 2018 Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater. In 2017, Morgan was the Associate Director for Pam Mackinnon on Amelie, A New Musical on Broadway. In 2017, Morgan lead a director-driven season at The Sharon Playhouse, in Sharon, Connecticut. Morgan has been an artist in residence at Baryshnikov Art Center, Mabou Mines, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and New Georges. She was part of the Williamstown Theater Festival Directing core and the Bob Moss Directing Fellowship at Playwrights Horizons. She hails from the San Francisco Bay Area and now calls Brooklyn her home.

Poster Art by Sean Devare