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WORLD PREMIERE COMEDY

Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes

Feb 18 - Apr 12, 2020
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Live performances of Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes have been cancelled, and the streaming video is no longer available.

The latest Heidi Thomas Writers’ Initiative is a surprising comedy about opening your home, occasionally your wallet, and always your heart.

Marian, the matriarch of a far-flung Jewish family, had happily settled into retirement life with her new husband Richard. However, when a pregnant niece, the troubled boy next door and a distressed daughter with a secret show up at her door, Marian’s empty nest ends up a little fuller than she imagined.

This firecracker play by DC area playwright Dani Stoller takes the dysfunction, puts it back in the family, then gives it a hilarious—and subversive—stir.

By Dani Stoller
Directed by Stevie Zimmerman

Performance Information

  • Run Time

    Running time is approximately 1 hour and 34 minutes.

  • Content Warnings

    Contains an onstage sex scene, partial nudity and cigarette smoking (herbal).

  • GalaPro

    Closed Captioning available at every performance of our mainstage shows via the free GalaPro App

Content Warnings

Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes contains an onstage sex scene between a person who has recently turned 18 and someone much older, partial nudity, language some would consider profanity, and depictions of smoking with herbal cigarettes.

Cast Members

John Austin

Bobby

DC AREA: Arena Stage: Right to Be Forgotten, Kleptocracy; Round House: Oslo; Olney: National Players: Othello, Alice in Wonderland, The Great Gatsby; Constellation: Melancholy Play (Helen Nomination, Best Ensemble; Helen Award, Outstanding Production). REGIONAL: Tutto Theatre Company: Zeus in Therapy (B. Iden Payne Award, Outstanding Young Performer); Austin Shakespeare: Pride and Prejudice. EDUCATION: Boston University, BFA Acting, Summa Cum Laude, Dean’s Award, Bette Davis Scholarship, Bette Davis Prize; LAMDA, Certificate in Classical Acting. @johnaustinactor. www.johnaustinactor.com

Shanara Gabrielle

Lee

NYC: The Wild Party, American Girls Revue, War Bonds, Twelfth Night. NATIONAL TOUR: In the Mood. DC AREA: Arena Stage: Junk; Shakespeare Theatre: Comedy of Errors, Romeo & Juliet; Imagination Stage: Charlotte’s Web. REGIONAL: Guthrie Theatre: She Loves Me; Actor’s Theatre of Louisville: A Christmas Carol; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: Clybourne Park, Macbeth, Comedy of Errors; Great Lakes Theatre: Blithe Spirit; Stages: They’re Playing Our Song; The Black Rep: Black Pearl Sings; Northern Stage: Guys and Dolls, Lend Me A Tenor. TV/FILM: Chicago Fire, The Enemy Within, House of Cards, Conan, Conviction, Guiding Light, indie films, many commercials. EDUCATION: BFA, Musical Theatre, Webster Conservatory. OTHER: Princess Grace Foundation Award, AEA, SAG-AFTRA. Twitter: shanarag, Instagram: shanaragabrielle www.shanaragabrielle.com

Susan Rome

Marian

DC AREA: Folger: Love’s Labor’s Lost; Arena Stage: Indecent  (Helen Hayes ensemble nomination), The Great Society,  All the Way; Studio Theatre: If I Forget (Helen Hayes nominations), Hand to God (Helen Hayes ensemble nomination); Theater J: Edward Albee’s Occupant, Roz and Ray, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Helen Hayes Award), After the Revolution (Helen Hayes nomination), many other plays; Olney Theatre Center: The Diary of Anne Frank; Baltimore Center Stage: Indecent, After the Revolution, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Mud Blue Sky,  An Enemy of the People. REGIONAL: Kansas City Repertory Theatre: Indecent, Mark Taper Forum: The Substance of Fire; others. TV/FILM: Fishbowl, My One and Only,  A Dirty Shame, House of Cards, The Wire. www.susanrome.com

Jordan Slattery

Jordan Slattery

Kitty

SIGNATURE: Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes. DC AREA: Studio Theatre: John Proctor is the Villian (Helen Hayes Award Winner “Best Ensemble”); The Academy of Classical Acting: The Cherry Orchard. REGIONAL: Greenbrier Valley Theater: A Midsummer’s Night. INTERNATIONAL: University College of Dublin: Bonnie and Clyde. EDUCATION: The Academy of Classical Acting, George Washington University MFA

John Leslie Wolfe

John Leslie Wolfe

Richard

SIGNATURE: Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes, Passion, Titanic, West Side Story, The Threepenny Opera. BROADWAY: Parade, Passion, Evita, Sarava. NY CITY OPERA: Brigadoon, A Most Happy Fella. NATIONAL COMPANIES: Bright Star, The Phantom of the Opera (Las Vegas), Parade, Martin Guerre, Evita, Cabaret. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Passion, Golden Child; Ford’s Theatre: 1776, Elmer Gantry, Captains Courageous, To Kill a Mockingbird, Christmas Carol; Round House Theatre: Our Town; Olney Theatre Center: Oh Coward. REGIONAL: Goodspeed Opera House: Heartbeats; Austin Musicals: Annie; Penn Center Stage: Sweeney Todd; Syracuse Stage: Closer Than Ever. FILM: The Invasion, Invincible, Step Up, Distinguished Gentleman. TV: Netflix: House of Cards; HBO: Something The Lord Made, The Wire, Homicide; NBC: The West Wing.

Creative Team

Dani Stoller

Dani Stoller

By

SIGNATURE: Ragtime (Helen Hayes nomination Best Supporting Performer), Which Way to the Stage, Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes (playwright) SIS playwright. DC AREA: Theater J: This Much I Know, Hester Street Arena Stage: My Body, No Choice (Helen Hayes Nomination best-supporting performer); Olney Theatre Center: The Joy That Carries You (Charles MacArthur Award best new play) The Humans, Thanksgiving Play, The Crucible, The Diary of Anne Frank, Annie; Folger Theatre: Midsummer, District Merchants, As You Like It; Keegan Theatre: Airness, Hair, Dogfight; 1st Stage: Bat Boy (Helen Hayes Nomination), Blithe Spirit, The Good Counselor, The Italian – American Reconciliation; Round House Theatre: Girlhood (Playwright). EDUCATION: BFA Ithaca College MFA Romeo School at CUA. Upcoming: Prayer for the French Republic at Theater J.

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