Director Scott Schwartz's cast(s) will feature David Bishins as Jack Jerome, Bonnie Black as Blanche Morton, Sloan Grenz as Stanley Jerome, Austyn Myers Eugene Jerome, Allie Trimm (Broadway's Bye Bye Birdie) as Nora Morton, Julia Vanderwiel as Laurie Morton and Karen Ziemba as Kate Jerome in Brighton Beach Memoirs, and David Bishins as Jack Jerome, Bonnie Black as Blanche Morton, Howard Green as Ben Epstein, Joseph Parks as Stanley Jerome, Brandon Uranowitz as Eugene Jerome and Karen Ziemba as Kate Jerome in Broadway Bound.
Ziemba won her Best Featured Actress Tony Award for Contact. Her Broadway credits also include Never Gonna Dance, Curtains, Chicago, Steel Pier and more.
"Performed in repertory, Simon's semi-autobiographical plays follow the life of Eugene Morris Jerome from the foibles of youth in late-1930s Brooklyn to a career as a comedy writer for radio," according to Old Globe.
The two plays will run in the Old Globe Theatre Sept. 14-Nov. 7. (Broadway Bound previews begin Sept. 17.)
The newly announced production team includes Ralph Funicello (scenic design), Alejo Vietti (costume design), Matthew McCarthy (lighting design), Paul Peterson (sound design), Michael Holland (original music), Jan Gist (dialect coach) and Diana Moser (stage manager). Scott Schwartz directed last season's hit Old Globe production of Lost in Yonkers. Brighton Beach Memoirs opens Sept. 22 at 7 PM. Broadway Bound opens on Sept. 24 at 7 PM.
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