Circus Theatricals opens its 3010 Season with the West Cost Premiere of "More Lies About Jerzy" by Davey Holmes, directed by David Trainer. Producing is Jeannine Stehlin. The production stars acclaimed, award-winning actor, Jack Stehlin. The production opens Saturday, May 15 at Circus Theatricals at the Hayworth.
It's early 1970s. World-famous media darling and controversial author Jerzy Lesnewski causes a scandal that rocks New York and Hollywood - after a journalist accuses him of fabricating key points in his autobiography about his childhood during the Holocaust and plagiarizing parts of his best-selling novels. The work is inspired by the life of Polish author Jerzy Kosinski.
Award-winning playwright/television writer Davey Holmes received a WGA Award in 2008 for his work on "In Treatment" and was nominated in 2007 for "Damages." "More Lies About Jerzy" premiered in New York at the Vineyard Theatre after a workshop at New York Stage & Film, with a subsequent production in London at the New End Theatre. Other plays, including "Montezuma," "The Chafing Wheel" and "What Big Eyes," were performed and developed at South Coast Repertory Theatre, the Atlantic Theater Company and The New Group. His writing for television includes "Worthy", his new pilot currently at FOX, "In Treatment", "Pushing Daisies", "Damages," "Happy Town" and "Law & Order."
David Trainer directed Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy and Keith Carradine in "Foxfire" on Broadway and at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. He staged the original Playwrights Horizons production of "The Dining Room" by A. R. Gurney in New York and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. He has directed at The Long Wharf in New Haven, the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, and the Williamstown Theater Festival, among many others. On television he directed "Designing Women", "Grace Under Fire", "Cybill", and all eight seasons of "That ‘70s Show."
Jack Stehlin's extensive New York and Regional stage credits include "Salome" with Al Pacino, and nine productions at New York's Public Theatre including, "Richard II" with Steven Berkoff, "Henry V" with Kevin Kline, "Henry IV, I" with Mandy Patinkin, and "Julius Caesar" (w/ Al Pacino and Martin Sheen). In Los Angeles, Stehlin has appeared in myriad Circus Theatricals productions, including Shem Bitterman's "Harm's Way" (LA and Off-Broadway), which won the prestigious Pen USA Award for Drama. Stehlin may be best known on television as DEA captain Roy Till on the popular Showtime series, "Weeds." In June 2010 he can be seen in the season premiere of "Dark Blue" with Dylan McDermott. He has two films coming out in 2010: "Wilde Salome" directed by and starring Al Pacino, and "The Chicago 8" with Danny Masterson, Gary Cole and Phillip Baker Hall.
"More Lies About Jerzy" also features, Chet Grissom, Jordan Lund, Kristin Malko, CameRon Meyer, Neil Vipond, and Adam Stein.
