LUNAR ECLIPSE

Reed Birney has been working in film, television, and theater for decades. Among his earliest credits are Albert Innaurato’s Broadway comedy Gemini in 1974 and Arthur Penn’s Four Friends in 1981. A celebrated member of the New York theatre community, Reed has won a Tony and numerous other awards and nominations for plays including The Humans, Casa Valentina, Man from Nebraska, Uncle Vanya, Blasted, and Circle Mirror Transformation. Most recently he starred opposite his son Ephraim Birney in Chester Bailey at Irish Rep, and in the highly successful run of Donald Margulies’ Lunar Eclipse at Shakespeare & Company. On television, he can be seen recurring opposite Kim Kardashian in the current season of “American Horror Story.” He was also recently seen in Peacock's “Poker Face,” and “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” Other TV credits include HBO’s “Succession” and Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” as well as the Apple TV+ series “Home Before Dark.” He is also well known for his performance as Vice President Donald Blythe in the Netflix series “House of Cards.” In film, Reed received a Gotham Award nomination for his performance in the Bleecker Street feature Mass opposite Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs, and Martha Plimpton. The film’s cast was also honored with the Robert Altman award at the Independent Spirit Awards. Reed also appeared in The Menu opposite Ralph Fiennes. Other recent film credits include the Universal/Blumhouse thriller The Hunt and Netflix’s The Forty-Year-Old Version and Lost Girls, as well as Strawberry Mansion. Later this year he will be seen in Kevin Costner’s epic western, Horizon: An American Saga. Reed lives in New York.

LISA EMERY

Lisa Emery is an award-winning actress, best known for her role of Darlene Snell in Netflix’s crime drama “Ozark” alongside Jason Bateman and Laura Linney. Additional television credits include “The Walking Dead: Dead City,” “Blindspot,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Sinner,” “Jessica Jones,” and “Elementary.” She was last seen on stage in the Broadway revival of Six Degrees of Separation in 2017. She has also been seen in Second Stage Theater’s production of Lonely, I’m Not in 2012, following her role in Atlantic Theater Company’s double bill of The Collection & A Kind of Alaska: Two Plays by Harold Pinter in 2011, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.

BY DONALD MARGULIES

Donald Margulies won the Pulitzer Prize for Dinner with Friends and was a finalist twice before for Sight Unseen (Obie Award) and Collected Stories. Plays include Lunar Eclipse, Long Lost, The Country House, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, The Loman Family Picnic, Brooklyn Boy, Time Stands Still (Tony nomination) and The Model Apartment (Obie Award). Selected grants and honors: NEA, Guggenheim, NY Foundation for the Arts, two Hull-Warriner Awards, Sidney Kingsley Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, National Foundation for Jewish Culture Award in Literary Arts, PEN/Laura Pels Award, William Inge Award, Thornton Wilder Prize. Artists’ residencies: McDowell, The Hermitage. Professor in the Practice of English and Theatre & Performance Studies, Yale University. His screenplay for The End of the Tour, which premiered at Sundance, was nominated for the Film Independent Spirit and USC Scripter Awards. Proud lifetime member of both the Writers’ and Dramatists’ guilds.

DIRECTED BY KATE WHORISKEY

Kate Whoriskey is a prolific theater director whose work has been seen on Broadway, off-Broadway and regionally. On Broadway, she directed Clyde’s, Sweat and the revival of Miracle Worker. Off Broadway credits include The Apiary, Letters from Max, All the Natalie Portmans, Ruined, Songs for a New World, Her Requiem, How I Learned to Drive among others. She has directed acclaimed productions at theaters across the country including the Goodman, the Geffen, South Coast Rep, Sundance Theatre Lab, Shakespeare Theatre, the American Repertory Theatre, the Huntington, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, and Arena among others. Her opera direction has been seen at the Chatelet in Paris and Teatro Municipal in Brazil.