Jason Bourne and Django Unchained Actor Ato Essandoh to Star in The Seagull/Woodstock, NY Off-Broadway | Playbill

Off-Broadway News Jason Bourne and Django Unchained Actor Ato Essandoh to Star in The Seagull/Woodstock, NY Off-Broadway

Thomas Bradshaw's adaptation of the Chekhov play will make its world premiere beginning next month via The New Group.

Ato Essandoh

Ato Essandoh (Jason Bourne, Django Unchained) will complete the cast for the upcoming world premiere of Thomas Bradshaw's The Seagull/Woodstock, NY. Previews begin February 7 for The New Group production, which will open February 28 at Off-Broadway's The Pershing Square Signature Center's Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre. Performances are slated through March 26.

The film and television actor joins the previously announced David Cale (Lillian), Patrick Foley (Circle Jerk), Hari Nef (Transparent), Daniel Oreskes (Oslo), Parker Posey (Waiting for Guffman), Bill Sage (Aunt Dan and Lemon), Aleyse Shannon (Beauty), Amy Stiller (The King of Queens), and Nat Wolff (The Fault in Our Stars).

Adapted from Chekhov and directed by Scott ElliottThe Seagull/Woodstock, NY follows a group of New York theatre people as they retreat to a house in the Hudson Valley hoping to get away from it all. But no matter what they wish for, they can’t seem to escape the ambitions, rivalries, and fragile egos that follow them everywhere. The work reunites playwright Bradshaw and director Elliott, who previously collaborated at The New Group on Intimacy and Burning.

The production will feature scenic design by Derek McLane, costume design by Qween Jean, lighting design by Cha See, sound design by Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen, fight and intimacy direction by David Anzuelo, and casting by Judy Henderson. The production stage manager is Valerie A. Peterson, and the assistant stage manager is Stephen Michael Varnado.

Visit TheNewGroup.org.

 
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