Cast Announced for Emmy Winner Axler's Smudge Off-Broadway

By Adam Hetrick
01 Dec 2009

Cassie Beck, Greg Keller and Brian Sgambati have been cast in Emmy Award winner Rachel Axler's parental drama Smudge, which will begin performances Off-Broadway Jan. 3, 2010.

The Women's Project presents the dark comedy that will be directed by Pam MacKinnon. Smudge officially opens Jan. 11, 2010 and will play a limited engagement through Feb. 7, 2010.

Beck (Prayer for My Enemy, Drunken City), Keller (Uncle Vanya, The Seagull) and Sgambati (Landscape of the Body, The Coast of Utopia) will inhabit the work "about the changing face of the American family and the limits of love and cheesecake, as a hopeful young couple gives birth to a smudge," according to press notes.

Smudge will have scenic design by Narelle Sissons, costumes by Clint Ramos, lighting by Russell Champa and sound by Asa Wember.

Axler earned an Emmy Award for her writing on "The Daily Show with John Stewart" and is currently a staff writer on NBC's "Parks & Recreation." Her play Archaeology premiered at the Kitchen earlier this year. She is at work on commissions for South Coast Rep and Lincoln Center Theater.

For further information on the Women's Project, located at 424 West 55th Street in Manhattan, visit WomensProject.