Cunningham, Gerroll, McCabe, and Pourfar to Star in Second Stage’s The Dear Boy

T. Scott Cunningham, Daniel Gerroll, Dan McCabe, and Susan Pourfar will star in the world premiere of Dan O’Brien’s The Dear Boy, which will be the second play of the Second Stage Uptown season. The show, which will be directed by Michael John Garcés, will run August 1-27.

In The Dear Boy, James Flanagan (played by Gerroll), an English teacher near the edge of retirement, questions the life he didn’t live. O’Brien’s previous plays include Key West, Moving Picture, and Her Last Screen Test. He is the winner of the Osborn Award (presented by the American Theatre Critics Association), the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Comedy Playwriting Award, and the National AIDS Award for Playwriting.

Gerroll, the winner of a 1999 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence for his Off-Broadway work, has starred on Broadway in Enchanted April, High Society, The Homecoming, and Plenty. He also co-starred in the hit television series Sisters alongside his wife, actress Patricia Kalember.

Cunningham’s New York credits include Wintertime, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Tartuffe, Pterodactyls, and Fit To Be Tied. McCabe recently made his Off-Broadway debut in Trust, and he received the 2005 Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Debut in Kimberly Akimbo at Hartford TheatreWorks. Pourfar is currently appearing in Second Stage Theatre Uptown’s production of Swimming in the Shallows.

Garcés’ previous credits include the Off-Broadway productions of The Cook, Finer Noble Gases, Light Raise the Roof, and The Triple Happiness. The Dear Boy will have scenic design by Wilson Chin, costume design by Amela Baksic, lighting design by Ben Stanton, and sound design by Sunil Rajan.