Carolyn Cantor will direct Gerard Canonico (Spring Awakening), Timothee Chalamet (Burning Blue), Shannon Esper (Cherry Orchard), Lauren Holmes, Michael Oberholtzer (Incident at Vichy and Raft of The Medusa), Peter Rini (Proposals) and Christa Scott-Reed (The Pitman Painters).
Opening night is Aug. 15.
"The Clarke family is dealing with some very tall problems," according to Second Stage. "Just ask 17-year-old Isabelle Clarke [played by Shannon Esper]. Negotiating Catholicism, politics and virginity in the 1970s can make the tallest girl feel really small. A comic drama about coming of age when life's lessons come in all sizes."
The creative team for The Talls includes scenic designer Dane Laffrey, costume designer Jenny Mannis, lighting designer Japhy Weideman and sound designer M.L. Dogg.
Kerrigan is a playwright, screenwriter and director based in New York City. She most recently wrote and directed "Five Days Gone," an independent feature film which recently premiered at the 2011 Brooklyn Film Festival where it was awarded the Certificate of Outstanding Achievement for Screenplay. A graduate of Stanford, she joined the Ensemble Studio Theater's Youngblood Playwrights group in 2009. Her plays have been produced in New York and at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Director Cantor's New York directing credits include After the Revolution (Playwrights Horizons), Pumpgirl (Manhattan Theatre Club), In A Dark Dark House (MCC Theater), Something You Did (Primary Stages), Essential Self Defense (Playwrights Horizons) and Orange Flower Water (Time Out NY Ten Best of the Year), among others.
Tickets are $50 and can be purchased by calling the Second Stage Theatre Box Office at (212) 246-4422 or going online at www.2ST.com.
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Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series was "created as a program to help develop and provide exposure for the voices of a new generation of theatre artists. [It] seeks to develop the skills of emerging playwrights, to provide early-career artists with the support of a major artistic institution, and to create new plays for the American theatre. Each show has a limited rehearsal period, as well as a streamlined budget."
Christopher Burney is associate artistic director and curator of the Uptown series.
The series has helped launch and advance the careers of several up-and-coming playwrights, including Rajiv Joseph (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo), Leslye Headland (Bachelorette), Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Good Boys and True, HBO's "Big Love"), Adam Bock (A Small Fire, The Drunken City) and Brooke Berman (Hunting and Gathering).
