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Obie Award winner David Greenspan will star in the title role of the Peculiar Works Project benefit reading of William M. Hoffman and Anthony Holland's Cornbury: the Queen's Governor at Greenwich House Music School on Monday, November 26 at 8pm. The benefit is directed by Julie Hamberg, with musical direction by Marcia Golata.

The play is the story of Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon-Lord Cornbury, who was Royal Governor of New York and New Jersey in the early 1700s. He is widely acknowledged to have been horribly corrupt, almost certainly the worst colonial governor in history, and quite possibly a transvestite.

The cast will also feature Carolyn Baeumler, Susan Bernfield, Lucas Burns, Dylan Carusona, Tim Cusack, Catherine Porter, Rebecca Servon, and Nomi Tichman. Greenspan's many stage credits include Some Men, The Boys in the Band, and The Argument.

Tickets are $25 in advance and $35 at the door and include a pre-show reception at 7:30pm with the cast.