Bobby Cannavale, T.R. Knight, Michael McGrath, Michael Park, Aaron Tveit, et al. Set for AracaWorks Reading Series

AracaWorks has announced preliminary casting for a a five-day, five-play series celebrating new plays, to be offered December 6-10 at 7pm at The Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. Each evening, the group will present a reading of a new play at an early stage of development, free of charge.

The series will begin on December 6 with Greg Kotis’ Lunchtime, which has this description in an official press release: “Somebody’s dirtying up the salad bars of New York. It’ll take a dirty cop to find out who.” Kotis will direct his script, which will feature Michael McGrath, Michael Park, Matthew Maher, Betty Gilpin, and Luisa Strus.

The series will also include Andrew Hinderaker’s dark comedy about office politics, Suicide, Incorporated (December 7), to be directed by Doug Hughes and feature T.R. Knight, Aaron Tveit, I.N. Sierros, Bobby Cannavale, Tobias Segal, and Josh Charles.

Aaron Simon Gross and Kerry O’Malley are slated to appear in Catherine Trieschmann’s How the World Began (December 8), about a Manhattanite who accepts a job teaching biology in Plainview, Kansas

Lucie Tiberghien will direct Robert Zander’s look at a nine-year-old’s fantasies about becoming a noble cowboy, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (December 9), which will have a cast that includes Chris Coffey, Kally Duling, and Jake O’Connor.

The final offering will be Ayad Akhtar’s look at an affluent Muslim-American lawyer who has to confront what he has denied in himself, Disgraced (December 10). The company for this piece, to be directed by Will Frears, will include Annie Parisse, Aasif Mandvi, Eisa Davis, and Bill Camp.

Seating is limited and reservations are suggested and may be made online at www.aracaworks.com.