We Had a World
World Premiere
written by Joshua Harmon
directed by Trip Cullman
with Andrew Barth Feldman, Joanna Gleason and Jeanine Serralles.
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OFF-BROADWAY AT
New York City Center Stage II
2024-2025 Season
A dying woman calls her grandson and asks him to write a play about their family. “But I want you to promise me something,” she says. “Make it as bitter and vitriolic as possible." In this searing, funny and deeply personal play, the author of last season's Prayer for the French Republic recreates thirty years of family fights, monstrous behavior, enormous cruelty, and enduring love. Directing is Trip Cullman (Choir Boy, Murder Ballad).
Major support for Stage II is provided by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. Additional support is provided by the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater
Cast
Andrew Barth Feldman
Joshua
ANDREW BARTH FELDMAN won the 2018 National High School Musical Theater Award as a high school sophomore, going onto make his Broadway debut as the titular role in Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway, then starring as Percy in the film No Hard Feelings opposite Jennifer Lawrence. More Film/TV: Saturday Night, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, A Tourist’s Guide to Love, Poetic License (Upcoming). More Theatre: Rent: In Concert (Kennedy Center), Little Shop of Horrors (Westside Theatre). Andrew’s original album, Penn Station, can be streamed everywhere. And yes, that was him in Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical.
Joanna Gleason
Renee
Joanna Gleason has appeared in fifteen Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway shows, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods. She has three Drama Desks, and two Outer Critics Award nominations and wins. Additional Broadway credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Joe Egg, The Real Thing, I Love My Wife, and Nick & Nora. Joanna has performed Off-Broadway at The Public Theatre in The Normal Heart, at The Roundabout in Sons Of The Prophet, and at Manhattan Theatre Club with It’s Only A Play and Eleemosynary. Her film work includes Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors and Hannah and Her Sisters; as well as in Boogie Nights, Last Vegas, and The Skeleton Twins. Television credits include “The Affair,” “West Wing,” “The Newsroom,” “Friends,” “Bette,” “Murphy Brown,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Girls On The Bus,” and many more. Joanna has written and directed two films—Morning Into Night (a short), and the recently completed The Grotto (feature), which won Best Narrative Feature at the Heartland International Film Festival, along with four more prizes in Festivals around the U.S.
Jeanine Serralles
Ellen
For her work on stage in New York, Jeanine Serralles has been nominated on several occasions for Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel Awards, performing in productions at Lincoln Center, The Atlantic, BAM, Labyrinth, The Vineyard, Williamstown, Red Bull, Playwrights Horizons, and New York Theater Workshop, to name a few. On screen, Jeanine can currently be seen as Detective Camacho in the Peacock Limited Series “Apples Never Fall” and as Rachel in Season 3 of the Starz series “Hightown”. Other screen credits include opposite Timothée Chalamet in Hot Summer Nights, Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis, Gabriel Byrne in No Pay, Nudity, and Amy Adams and Gary Oldman in The Woman in the Window. She was also a series regular on Amazon’s “Utopia” created by Gillian Flynn. Jeanine is a graduate of Yale School of Drama.
Andrew Barth Feldman
Joshua
Joanna Gleason
Renee
Jeanine Serralles
Ellen
Creative
Joshua Harmon
Playwright
JOSHUA HARMON (Playwright) His plays include Prayer for the French Republic (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony nomination), Skintight, Admissions (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), Significant Other and Bad Jews. Musicals: The Bedwetter. He has been produced on Broadway and the West End; Off-Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Atlantic Theater Company; across the country at Geffen Playhouse, Huntington, Studio Theatre, Speakeasy, Theater Wit, Actor’s Express, and The Magic, among others; and internationally in more than a dozen countries. Honors include two MacDowell fellowships and a Guggenheim. Graduate of Juilliard.
Trip Cullman
Director
Trip Cullman (Director). Broadway: The Rose Tattoo, Choir Boy (Tony nom., Best Play), Lobby Hero (Tony nom., Best Revival), Six Degrees of Separation (Tony nom., Best Revival), Significant Other. Select Off Broadway: I Can Get It For You Wholesale (Best Revival, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle) (CSC); The Lonely Few, Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow, YEN, Punk Rock (Obie Award), A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Gynecologic Oncology Unit At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Of New York City (MCC); Days Of Rage, The Layover, The Substance of Fire, Lonely I’m Not, Bachelorette, Some Men, Swimming In The Shallows (Second Stage); Unknown Soldier, The Pain Of My Belligerence, Assistance, A Small Fire (Drama Desk nomination, Best Direction), The Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons); Choir Boy (MTC); Murder Ballad (MTC and Union Square Theatre); The Mother, I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Atlantic); Roulette (EST); The Hallway Trilogy: Nursing (Rattlestick); The Last Sunday In June (Rattlestick and Century Center); Dog Sees God (Century Center); US Drag (stageFARM); and several productions with The Play Company. London: The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh, PA (Tricycle). Select regional: Berkeley Rep, Geffen, Arena, Alliance, Old Globe, La Jolla, South Coast Rep, Bay Street, Williamstown Theater Festival.
Joshua Harmon
Playwright
Trip Cullman
Director