ALL THAT I WILL EVER BE

Text – Alan Ball
Direction – Jo Bonney

Scenic Design – Neil Patel
Costume Design – Emilio Sosa
Lighting Design – David Lander
Sound Design – Darron L West
Production Stage Management – Larry K. Ash

Cast (in alphabetical order):
Patch Darragh
Kandiss Edmundson
Austin Lysy
Peter Macdissi
David Margulies
Victor Slezak

Company biographies

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Description:
Alan Ball is the creator of HBO's Emmy Award-winning "Six Feet Under" and the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of American Beauty. All That I Will Ever Be is a darkly funny tale of cultural provocation and our eternal search for belonging as seen through the relationship of two young men in contemporary Los Angeles: Dwight, a privileged native Angeleno, and Omar, an enigmatic immigrant from the Middle East. All That I Will Ever Be is directed by Jo Bonney (The Seven at NYTW, the recent revival of subUrbia).

production history

Dates:
First preview, Wednesday, January 17; opening night, Tuesday, February 6; final performance, Sunday, March 11.

Performance schedule:
Tuesday at 7:00pm; Wednesday – Friday at 8:00pm; Saturday at 3:00pm and 8:00pm; Sunday at 2:00pm and 7:00pm.

Exceptions:
Saturday, January 20, no 3:00pm performance
Sunday, January 21, no 2:00pm performance
Saturday, February 3, no 3:00pm performance
Monday, February 5, added performance at 8:00pm
Wednesday, February 7, no performance

Audience Discussions:
Tuesday, January 30, post-performance
Tuesday, February 13, post-performance
Wednesday, February 21, post-performance

Running time:
approximately two hours with one intermission

About the artists:
Alan Ball is an Academy Award and Emmy Award winning writer and director. He recently completed shooting his feature film directorial debut, based on his adaptation of the novel Towelhead by Alicia Erian, starring Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Toni Collette, Peter Macdissi and newcomer Summer Bishil. Ball was the creator and Executive Producer of “Six Feet Under,” the critically acclaimed drama series on HBO. The series garnered many awards including three Golden Globes (including Best Drama Series), seven Emmy awards and a George Foster Peabody Award. Alan was awarded an Emmy and a DGA award for directing the pilot of “Six Feet Under,” his television directorial debut. Alan’s first produced feature film screenplay was American Beauty, for which he received the 1999 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America award for Best Original Screenplay, and the Golden Globe award for Best Screenplay, among others. His other television credits include “Oh Grow Up,” “Cybill” and “Grace Under Fire.” Prior to moving to Hollywood, he was a noted comedic playwright in New York. Among his numerous credits are Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, which premiered February 1993 at Manhattan Class Company, starring Thomas Gibson, Ally Walker and Allison Janney; The M Word, which premiered at the inaugural Lucille Ball Festival of New American Comedy in 1991; Made For a Woman; Bachelor Holiday; The Amazing Adventures of Tense Guy; and Your Mother's Butt. Born in Atlanta, Ball was raised in Marietta, Georgia. He attended Florida State University, where he majored in theater, with an emphasis in acting and playwriting. After college, he moved to New York, where he first worked as an art director for various trade publications.

Jo Bonney's recent directing credits include Eric Bogosian’s subUrbia (Second Stage); Will Power’s The Seven (New York Theatre Workshop); Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Play (Second Stage); Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Christopher Shinn's On the Mountain (Playwrights Horizons); Neil LaBute's Fat Pig (MCC); Lisa Loomer's Living Out (Second Stage); and Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics (Arena Stage, Washington, DC). Other credits include Universes' Slanguage (New York Theatre Workshop/Mark Taper Forum); Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July (Signature Theatre, NYC, Lucille Lortel Award); Jose Rivera's Adoration of the Old Woman (La Jolla Playhouse) and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (The Public Theater); Eric Bogosian's Humpty Dumpty (McCarter Theater); subUrbia (Studio Theatre, Washington, DC); FunHouse; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead and Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (USA/Britain); Diana Son's Stop Kiss and Anna Deavere Smith's House Arrest (The Public Theater); Jessica Goldberg's Good Thing (The New Group); John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (Classic Stage Company); Danny Hoch's Some People and Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop (USA/Britain). Bonney is the recipient of a 1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Direction and the editor of Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century (TCG).

Upholstered sofa and chair for ALL THAT I WILL EVER BE provided by ABC Carpet & Home.



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