Company members Maggie Siff and Kelly AuCoin continue in their roles of Wendy Rhoades and ‘Dollar’ Bill Stearn in Season 6 of Billions, premiering January 23 on Showtime. As Mike Prince takes his place on the Axe Cap throne, Chuck Rhoades is determined that no one should have that much wealth – or that much power. With stakes higher than ever, all the power players seek out new alliances as kingdom goes up against kingdom.
The critically acclaimed Netflix series Ozark returns for a fourth and final extended season with the first half released January 21. Company member Damian Young becomes a main cast member in Season 4, continuing his character Jim Rattelsdorf from Seasons 2 and 3. The series stars Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, and Julia Garner, and has received a total of thirty-two Emmy Award nominations.
Company member Gian-Murray Gianino performs in SITI Company’s production of The Medium at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, January 22 through February 13. The show, first created in 1993, is based on the writings of Marshall McLuhan, and explores the effect of media and emerging technologies on our perceptions, our psyches, and our personal lives. “Nearly thirty years later, the play seems even more relevant to the world that we inhabit today than it did when we first created it,” says SITI Company’s Anne Bogart.
Company member Madeline Wise is in the new half-hour dramedy Single Drunk Female, from writer/producer Simone Finch and starring Sofia Black-D’Elia. The series follows Sam, a 20something writer struggling to maintain her sobriety after an explosive public meltdown. The cast includes Ally Sheedy, Rebecca Henderson, Sasha Compère, Lily Mae Harrington, and Garrick Bernard. Maddie appears in four episodes as Stephanie (“Stef-AH-nee”) the wife of Sam’s sponsor Olivia and the founder of a girl-power athleisure company.
Company member Benja Kay Thomas is currently understudying Phylicia Rashad in MTC’s production of Skeleton Crew, written by Dominique Morisseau and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
Company member Emma Ramos joins the cast of The Collision and The Martyrdom – a pair of plays presented by Two Headed Rep – running through February 5 at 59E59. The plays were created in response to Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim’s Dulcitius, a 10th century comedy about three Christian virgins who triumph over the devil. The cast also includes Lizzie Fox, Halima Henderson, and Layla Khoshnoudi. Written by Nadja Leonhard-Hooper, new text by Amanda Keating, and a new translation by Lizzie Fox. Direction by Lily Riopelle and Molly Clifford.
Company Member Ato Blankson-Wood plays Edmund in a new production of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night running Off-Broadway, January 18-February 20, at the Minetta Lane Theatre. Directed by Robert O’Hara, the cast includes Bill Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, and Jason Bowen. An audio version will subsequently be released on Audible.
Wayne Duvall takes on the role of Captain in the world premiere of Swept Away, a new musical at featuring the music of The Avett Brothers. The production at Berkeley Rep runs through March 6, directed by Michael Mayer with choreography by David Neumann, and a book by John Logan. Swept Away tells the story of four survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1888, also starring John Gallagher Jr, Stark Sands, and Adrian Blake Enscoe.
Company member Heather Alicia Simms plays Yvette King in the new series, The Kings of Napa, now airing on OWN. Created by Janine Sherman Barrois, the series focuses on a picturesque Napa Valley vineyard owned by the Kings, a family whose wealth and status land them on the pages of design magazines and society pages. The wine business has brought the family success and acclaim, but following the patriarch’s sudden exit from the company, his three children must grapple for the reins to the kingdom — to their own power, wealth, and legacy.
Company member Mark H. Dold performs in The Messenger, a new play by Jeff Talbott, presented January 14-29 by Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, UT. Using Henrik Ibsen’s classic An Enemy of the People as a departure point, this brand-new play examines our relationships with the press, our community, and each other.