Fire in Dreamland

Theatre

Name:	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater
Address:	425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003

Production Information

First performance date:	June 19, 2018
Opening date:	July 16, 2018
Closing date:	August 5, 2018
External Links:	Official Website

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Production Description

Rinne Groff (The Ruby Sunrise, Saved) returns to The Public with a dynamic and poignantly funny new play directed by Marissa Wolf, Associate Artistic Director/New Works Director at Kansas City Repertory.

On Coney Island, in the aftermath of 2012’s Superstorm Sandy, a disillusioned do-gooder named Kate meets Jaap Hooft, a charismatic European film-maker who sees in the devastation wrought by the storm an opportunity to make a work of art about another disaster that struck Coney Island some hundred years before: the 1911 fire that started in the amusement park known as Dreamland, burning it to ashes from which it never arose. As Kate throws herself into the vortex of Jaap’s visionary schemes, she finds beauty, pain and betrayal, and eventually herself.

Breaking the boundaries of time and narrative, Fire in Dreamland is a vibrant new play that explores the astonishing things we do when faced with devastation.

Originally commissioned by The Public Theater & Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Opening Night Credits

Production Credits

	Person/Company	Credit
	The Public Theater	Producer
	Oskar Eustis	Artistic Director
	Patrick Willingham	Executive Director

	Rinne Groff	Playwright
	Brendan Aanes	Original Music

	Marissa Wolf	Director
	Addie Gorlin	Assistant Director

	Susan Hilferty	Set Designer
	Susan Hilferty	Costume Designer
	Amith Chandrashaker	Lighting Designer
	Brendan Aanes	Sound Designer
	David Stein	Assistant Set Designer
	Sarita Fellows	Assistant Costume Designer
	S. Stolnack	Assistant Lighting Designer
	Ien DeNio	Assistant Sound Designer
	Lawrence Schober	Assistant Sound Designer

	Chris Waters	Stage Manager
	Buzz Cohen	Production Stage Manager

	Clare M. Kavanah	Prop Master
	Rachel Kenner	Assistant Prop Master

	Ron Carlos	Dialect Coach

Cast

	Actor	Role
	Kyle Beltran	Lance
	Enver Gjokaj	Jaap Hooft
	Rebecca Naomi Jones	Kate