Round Table

An Irons in the Fire Project

October 28, 2017
Hex & Company

A new play by Liba Vaynberg
Directed by Geordie Broadwater

Seating is extremely limited.
E-mail info@faultlinetheatre.org for more information or to reserve a seat

Synopsis

Zach is a medieval scholar and devotee of LARP (Live Action Role Playing); Laura ghost-writes romance novels. They meet at the crossroads of the competing realities they create and live in. Round Table is a comedy about pretending to be what you already are.

Featuring

Erin Capistrano
Molly Carden
Vichet Chum
Craig Wesley Divino
Aaron Rossini
Amy Berryman (stage directions)


Playwright

Liba Vaynberg is an actor and writer. She has performed and originated roles in New York at Classic Stage Company, Women's Project, HERE, NY Int'l Fringe Festival, La MaMa, the Lark, Primary Stages, Fault Line Theatre, New Dramatists and New York Theatre Workshop. She has recurred on Madam Secretary (CBS), appeared on Billy & Billie (DirecTV) and will be in David Simon’s upcoming series The Deuce (HBO). Regionally, she has developed new work at Yale, the Williamstown Theater Festival, Penguin Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre, and Miami New Drama. Her one-woman show Scheiss Book premiered at the United Solo Festival at Theatre Row where it won Best One-Woman Show as well as the Backstage Magazine Audience Choice Award. Scheiss Book was produced by Dixon Place this year. She is bilingual in English and Russian. She received her BA from Yale in Molecular Biology & International Studies at Yale. libavaynberg.com

Director

Geordie Broadwater is an NYC based director and writer who most recently directed Fault Line Theatre's production of Bekah Brunstetter's The Oregon Trail. While pursuing his MFA in directing at the Brown / Trinity Consortium, Geordie founded the Babel Theatre Project, a company devoted to the development and production of new plays. He has directed dozens of New York productions and workshops of new work by some of the brightest playwrights of the day (including but not limited to: Bekah Brunstetter, Chloe Moss, Dan LeFranc, Lauren Yee, Sam Marks, Andy Bragen, Cory Hinkle, Julia Brownell, Jennifer Haley, Greg Moss, and Michael Mitnick). Original adaptations include a spaghetti-western infused adaptation of Sartre’s The Flies on the A.R.T. mainstage (with the HRDC), as well as And to the Republic, a reimagining of Shakespeare’s roman plays with the Guerrilla Shakespeare Project. He has taught at Harvard, Brown and NYU and in addition to his MFA has a BA in English from Harvard.

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