The Fountain Theatre
in association with in association with Nassim Soleimanpour Productions
WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT
by Nassim Soleimanpour
Nassim Soleimanpour is an Iranian-German playwright and theatremaker. His plays have been translated into over 40 languages and were performed thousands of times by some of the biggest names in the industry all around the globe.
He is best known for his cold-read plays in which a new unrehearsed actor performs the plays sight-unseen in front of a live audience.“
Theatre includes: White Rabbit Red Rabbit (& Westside Theatre New York City/International Tour), BLANK (& Summerhall/International Tour), NASSIM (& Bush/ Traverse/New York City Center/International Tour); Blind Hamlet (&Actors Touring Company/LIFT); COOK (&Copenheagen Grob/ Bush/International Tour); Mr. K and The Flowers (Audible), ECHO (&The Royal Court/LIFT)
Awards include: Dublin Fringe Festival Best New Performance (White Rabbit, Red Rabbit), Summerworks Outstanding New Performance Text Award (White Rabbit, Red Rabbit), The Arches Brick Award (White Rabbit, Red Rabbit), Fringe First Award (NASSIM), Off-Broadway Alliance Awards (NASSIM).
Executive Producers
The Fountain Theatre Board of Directors
Produced by
Cate Caplin & Fariba Ghaffari
STARRING
(in chronological order)
• Sunday, May 11 at 7 p.m.: Sandra Tsing Loh (NPR’s The Loh Life)
• Monday, May 12 at 8 p.m.: Dr. James Mellon (founding spiritual director of Global Truth Center)
• Friday, May 16 at 8 p.m.: Paul Raci (Academy Award nominee for Sound of Metal)
• Saturday, May 17 at 8 p.m.: Jonathan Slavin (Santa Clarita Diet, Dr. Ken, Better Off Ted)
• Sunday, May 18 at 2 p.m.: Kurt Fuller (Evil)
• Monday, May 19 at 8 p.m.: Guillermo Cienfuegos (artistic director, Rogue Machine)
• Friday, May 23 at 8 p.m.: Candy Clark (American Graffiti)
• Saturday, May 24 at 8 p.m.: Theo Perkins (Founder and Artistic Director of the Elizabeth Youth Theater Ensemble (EYTE, Fountain Theatre Board Member, Actor, Educator)
• Sunday, May 25 at 2 p.m.: Ellen Geer (artistic director, Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum),
• Monday, May 26 at 8 p.m.: Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue)
• Friday, May 30 at 8 p.m.: Maddox K. Pennington (nonbinary writer, professor, stand-up comic)
• Saturday, May 31 at 8 p.m.: Jeanne Sakata (actor and playwright)
• Sunday, June 1 at 2 p.m.: Ben Palacios (Running Point, Palm Royale, Tyler Perry’s SISTAS)
• Monday, June 2 at 8 p.m.: Pam Trotter (Abbott Elementary)
• Friday. June 6 at 8 p.m.: Bernard K. Addison (Fountain Theatre, Antaeus, A Noise Within)
• Saturday, June 7 at 8 p.m.: Joshua Malina (The West Wing)
• Sunday, June 8 at 2 p.m.: Rabbi Anne Brener (psychotherapist, author, public speaker)
• Monday, June 9 at 8 p.m.: Brian Kite (Dean, UCLA’s School of Theater Film and Television)
• Friday, June 13 at 8 p.m.: Behzad Dabu (How to Get Away With Murder),
• Saturday, June 14 at 8 p.m.: Simone Missick (Luke Cage)
• Sunday, June 15 at 8 p.m.: Bill Brochtup (NYPD Blue)
• Monday, June 16 at 8 p.m.: Ava Lalezarzadeh (The Morning Show, Before on Apple TV+, Wild Life on HBOMax)
• Friday, June 20 at 8 p.m.: Chris Renfro (Queer as Folk, Broadway’s Oh, Mary)
• Saturday, June 21 at 8 p.m.: Harry Groener (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek, Tony-nominated Broadway actor)
• Sunday, June 22 at 8 p.m.: Sufe Bradhaw (Veep)
Our Funders
Fountain Theatre Board of Directors
Miles Benickes · Rabbi Anne Brener · Diana Buckhantz · Carrie Chassin
Lois Fishman · Erin Aubrey Kaplan · Karen Kondazian · Noelle Messier
Dick Motika · Theo Perkins · Margaret Phillips · David L. Volk
Dorothy Wolpert · Donald Zachary · Jason Zelin
When the price of standing up for a core principle is certain death - what would you do?
Corktown ’39 is a political thriller about a little known Irish Republican Army (IRA) plot to assassinate the king of England, and the tragic romance between the assassin and the woman in whose home he is being sheltered.
Inspired by true events.
FOUNTAIN THEATRE STAFF
Deborah Culver Lawlor | Founding Artistic Director (in loving memory) | |
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Stephen Sachs | Founding Artistic Director (emeritus) | |
Raymond O. Caldwell | Artistic Director | |
Simon Levy | Producing Director | |
James Bennett | Producer | |
Scott Tuomey | Technical Director | |
Barbara Goodhill | Director of Development | |
Lucy Pollak | Public Relations | |
Nathan James | Theatre Education Manager / Social Media Manager | |
Terri Roberts | Costume Maintenance / Cafe | |
Peter Carrisoza | Accountant | |
Terri Roberts | Café / Costume Maintenance | |
Liz Aguilar | Box Office | |
Melina Young | Box Office | |
Harout Chrakian | Parking Attendant | |
Jennifer Brasuell | House Manager |