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Guthrie Announces Full Cast for Burial at Thebes

Front: Marcela Lorca and J.D. Sttele
Back: Prentiss Standridge, Stephen Yoakam,
Sun Mee Chomet, and Greta Oglesby
(© George Byron Griffiths)
Front: Marcela Lorca and J.D. Sttele
Back: Prentiss Standridge, Stephen Yoakam,
Sun Mee Chomet, and Greta Oglesby
(© George Byron Griffiths)

The Guthrie Theater has announced complete casting for its upcoming production of The Burial at Thebes, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone. Marcela Lorca will direct the production on the McGuire Proscenium Stage, September 24 – November 6.

Sun Mee Chomet will star as Antigone, with the cast also including Greta Oglesby (Tiresias), Regina Marie Williams (Eurydice), Stephen Yoakam (Creon), Ansa Akyea (the Messenger), Ernest Bentley (Haemon), Prentiss Standridge (Ismene), Brian Sostek (Guard), Robert Robinson (Vocalist), Lee Mark Nelson (Chorus), Richard Ooms (Chorus), T. Mychael Rambo (Chorus), and Joe Nathan Thomas (Chorus), as well as Morgan Guinta and Ryan McCormick who share the role of Tiresias’ Boy.

The production team will include J.D. Steele (composer), Monica Frawley (set designer), Elizabeth Caitlin Ward (costume designer), Christopher Akerlind (lighting designer), and Scott W. Edwards (sound designer).

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