BYRON JENNINGS, LAURA LINNEY,
ANA REEDER, & BEN SHENKMAN

AT THE BILTMORE THEATRE
(261 West 47th Street)

PREVIEWS BEGIN THURSDAY, MAY 6
OPENING NIGHT TUESDAY, MAY 25

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) is pleased to announce that Byron Jennings, Laura Linney, Ana Reeder, and Ben Shenkman will star in the Broadway production of SIGHT UNSEEN at the Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street). The play is written by Pulitzer® Prize winner Donald Margulies and will be directed by Tony® Award winner Daniel Sullivan.

The production will open on Tuesday, May 25, 2004. Previews will begin on Thursday, May 6, 2004. The limited run is scheduled to end on Sunday, July 11, 2004

SIGHT UNSEEN was first presented Off-Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club on January 7, 1992, where it won the Obie® Award for Best New American Play, was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer® Prize. Jonathan Waxman (Ben Shenkman) is a celebrated artist who, despite immense popularity, yearns for something more in his life. His soul-searching leads him to visit Patricia (Laura Linney), his former lover whom he selfishly dismissed over a decade before.

Linney previously starred in the 1992 Off-Broadway production as Grete, a German television interviewer. In the upcoming production Grete will be played by Ana Reeder, while Patricia’s new lover Nick will be played by Byron Jennings.

Sets are by Douglas W. Schmidt, costumes by Jess Goldstein, lighting by Pat Collins, and original music and sound by John Gromada.

Tickets ($81 - $26) for SIGHT UNSEEN are available by calling TeleCharge.com at 212-239-6200 or at www.telecharge.com or at the Biltmore Theatre box office (261 West 47th Street).

BIOGRAPHIES

Donald Margulies (Playwright) was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner with Friends, which also won the Outer Critics, Lucille Lortel and Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner awards and was nominated for the Drama Desk award. His other plays include Two Days (Long Wharf Theatre); God of Vengeance (based on Sholem Asch’s 1906 Yiddish classic; Williamstown Theatre Festival and A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle); Collected Stories (HB Studio/Lucille Lortel Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, South Coast Repertory, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, L.A. Ovation Award, Drama Desk nominee, Dramatists Guild/Hull-Warriner finalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist); The Loman Family Picnic (MTC, Drama Desk nominee); What’s Wrong with this Picture? (MTC, Jewish Rep, Brooks Atkinson Theatre); Found a Peanut (New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre); Broken Sleep; Three Plays (Williamstown Theatre Festival); July 7, 1994 (Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival); Pitching to the Star (West Bank Café). He received the 2000 Sidney Kingsley Award for outstanding achievement in the theatre by a playwright. Instructor, Yale University. Council member, Dramatists Guild of America.

Daniel Sullivan (Director) has directed in theatres both nationally and abroad. On Broadway, he directed Retreat from Moscow, Proof, A Moon for the Misbegotten, I’m Not Rappaport, Conversations with My Father, The Heidi Chronicles and Lincoln Center’s Ah, Wilderness!, The Sisters Rosensweig, An American Daughter and Morning’s at Seven. Most recent Off-Broadway credits include Intimate Apparel, In Real Life, Far East, Psychopathia Sexualis, A Fair Country, London Suite, The Substance of Fire, Ancestral Voices and Dinner with Friends. From 1982 to 1997, Mr. Sullivan served as artistic director of Seattle Rep’s new play program, developing new works by Jon Robin Baitz, Herb Gardner, A.R. Gurney, William Mastrosimone, Arthur Miller, Wendy Wasserstein and Charlayne Woodard, among others. Mr. Sullivan’s film and television credits include The Substance of Fire and “Far East”. He teaches in the theatre department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and serves as an associate director at Lincoln Center Theater.

Byron Jennings (Nick). Broadway: Noises Off; The Man Who Came to Dinner and A Month in the Country (both for the Roundabout); Henry IV, Dinner at Eight, The Invention of Love, Carousel, and Ancestral Voices (all for LCT). Off-B’way: Dealer’s Choice (MTC); Waste (TFANA); Merchant of Venice, On the Open Road, Pericles (NYSF/Public); The Underpants (CSC); The Waiting Room (Vineyard). Film: Hamlet, Civil Action, The Ice Storm, A Time to Kill, A Simple Twist of Fate, Quiz Show.

Laura Linney (Patricia) was last seen at Manhattan Theatre Club in the original production of Sight Unseen in 1992 playing Grete alongside Deborah Hedwall, Dennis Boutsikaris, and Jon De Vries, for which she won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk nomination. Other theatre credits include The Crucible with Liam Neeson, dir. by Sir Richard Eyre (Tony nomination); Uncle Vanya; Honour; Holiday; Hedda Gabler; The Seagull; Six Degrees of Separation; Beggars in the House of Plenty (MTC); and Fortinbras. Television: “Frasier”; “Wild Iris” with Gena Rowlands (Emmy Award); Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City”, “More Tales of the City”, and “Further Tales of the City”; “The Laramie Project”; “Blindspot”; and “Love Letters”. Film: Kinsey (directed by Bill Condon) with Liam Neeson and P.S. directed by Dylan Kidd (upcoming); Mystic River; Love, Actually; The Life of David Gale; You Can Count on Me (Academy Award, Golden Globe nomination, NY Film Critics Award); The Mothman Prophecies; The House of Mirth; Lush; Maze; The Truman Show; Absolute Power; Primal Fear; A Simple Twist of Fate; Congo; Dave; Searching for Bobby Fischer; Lorenzo’s Oil. Laura sings on Sandra Boynton’s children’s album Philadelphia Chickens and reads the Nancy Drew books on tape. Training: The Juilliard School.

Ana Reeder (Grete). New York theatre: Small Tragedy (Playwright’s Horizons); Humble Boy, An Experiment with an Air Pump (MTC); The Time of the Cuckoo (Lincoln Center); Some Voices (The New Group); Killers and Other Family (Rattlestick Theatre); Maid (Lincoln Center Festival); Fire Eater (New York Stage and Film); Henry VIII (Delacourt Theater); Macbeth (The Public). London: The Distance from Here (Almeida Theatre). Washington D.C.: The Tempest (The Shakespeare Theatre). TV: “Law & Order”, “Katie Joplin”. Upcoming: “The Jury”. Film: Diary of a City Priest, Acts of Worship (Independent Spirit Award nomination; Best Actress, Santa Barbara Film Festival), Marie and Bruce. MFA: NYU.

Ben Shenkman (Jonathan Waxman) originated the role of Hal opposite Mary-Louise Parker in the Broadway hit Proof, directed by Daniel Sullivan (Tony® nom.). His other New York stage credits include Peter Hedges’ Baby Anger, The Deep Blue Sea, Antony and Cleopatra and Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus. He has appeared in the independent movies Personal Velocity, Roger Dodger, Requiem for a Dream, Jesus’ Son and Pi, and in Mike Nichols’ movie of “Angels in America” for HBO (Golden Globe nom.).