David Cromer to Direct Cherrywood for Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company

David Cromer will direct Kirk Lynn’s ensemble work, Cherrywood for Chicago’s Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company in June 2010. Originally devised and created by Lynn and the Rude Mechanicals, the piece was written as a series of simple lines, a play without characters, allowing the actors to assemble their roles from the lines they chose to speak. Cromer is currently represented Off-Broadway by Our Town, and is also helming this season’s Broadway revivals of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound.

In related news, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company’s 2009-2010 season will open with Fin Kennedy’s How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, November 12-20, to be directed by Richard Cotovsky. The cast will include Shannon Clausen, Scott Danielson, James Eldrenkamp, Carlo Lorenzo Garcia, Kasia Januszewski, Kristina Johnson, Kevin Stark, and Britni Tozzi. The production designers will include Bill Anderson (set), Joe Court (sound), Matt Gawryk (lights), and Stefin Steberl (costumes).

The season will also include Andrew Case’s The Rant, February 2010, a dramatic exploration of racial bias and the path to justice. Exact dates, casting, and creative team information will be announced at a later date.

For more information, visit www.maryarrchie.com.