THE RECEPTIONIST

Katie Finneran is an acclaimed actress who has twice won the prestigious Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for her breakout performances on stage. She won her first Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of Noises Off and received her second Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for the revival of Promises, Promises. Her other Broadway performances include revivals of Annie, The Iceman Cometh, Cabaret, The Heiress, In The Summer House, On Borrowed Time, and It's Only a Play, as well as the original productions of The Thanksgiving Play, Mauritius, Proposals, My Favorite Year, and Two Shakespearean Actors. Off-Broadway appearances include At Home at the Zoo, A Fair Country, You Never Can Tell, Arms and the Man, Bosoms and Neglect, Pig Farm. Katie was most recently seen on television in Hulu's “Up Here”, Disney+’s “Secret Invasion” and HBO's “The Gilded Age”. Her previous television appearances include Paramount+'s “Why Women Kill”, IFC's “Brockmire”, Hulu’s ”The Looming Tower”, and Netflix’s ”Bloodline”, as well as ”Murphy Brown”, ”The Michael J. Fox Show”, ”I Hate My Teenage Daughter”, ”Wonderfalls”, ”Sex and the City”, ”OZ”, and ”Frasier”.  She has appeared on film in Welcome to the Fishbowl, Freaky, Night of the Living Dead, You’ve Got Mail, Liberty Heights, Miss Congeniality 2, Bewitched, Broken Bridges, and opposite Neil Patrick Harris and Patti LuPone in the filmed version of Stephen Sondheim's Company with the New York Philharmonic. Katie made her directing debut for Apple TV+ with ”Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story”, a multi-part scripted podcast starring Sebastian Maniscalco.

MALLORI JOHNSON

She will be seen in the Amazon MGM/Orion feature Is God Is written and directed by Aleshea Harris based on her critically acclaimed stage play. Along with Kara Young, she leads an All-Star cast, including Sterling K. Brown, Janelle Monae, Vivica A. Fox, Mykelti Williamson, Erika Alexander. It will be released on May 15, 2026. She recurs opposite Rachel Weisz in the upcoming Netflix Series “Vladimir,” set to debut on March 5, 2026. She premiered at TIFF as the lead, with Angourie Rice, in the acclaimed Filmmaker Clement Virgo’s feature Steal Away. Mallori is the lead of the FX Series “Kindred.” She landed the role after graduating from the Juilliard School. The Series is based on the seminal novel by Octavia E. Butler and adapted by Creator/Showrunner Branden Jacob-Jenkins. Janicza Bravo directed the Pilot. Darren Aronofsky, Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg executive produced. Her credits include the Hulu Series “Genius: MLK/X,” as Malcolm X’s former love interest; the Apple+ Series “WeCrashed,” opposite Anne Hathaway; the Feature "The Other Zoey," with Josephine Langford and Drew Starkey. On Stage, she co-starred in the Roundabout’s acclaimed The Refuge Plays written by Nathan Alan Davis and directed by Patricia McGregor. 

NAEL NACER

NAEL NACER (Edward Raymond) is thrilled to return to Second Stage after appearing in Meet the Cartozians this past fall. Broadway: Prayer for the French Republic (MTC). Off-Broadway: The Orchard (BAC/Arlekin). Regional: Leopoldstadt (STC); Triumph of Love, A Doll’s House, Bedroom Farce, Come Back, Little Sheba, Our Town (The Huntington); The Moderate, Mrs. Warren's Profession (Central Square Theater), Angels in America (Bedlam/CST); Winter's Tale, Macbeth, The Tempest (Comm Shakes); People, Places & Things, Small Mouth Sounds (SpeakEasy Stage); The Merchant of Venice (Actors' Shakespeare Project); The Ding Dongs (Kitchen Theatre); Tiny Beautiful Things, The Flick (Gloucester Stage); Intimate Apparel, Mr. Burns: a post-electric play (Lyric Stage); A Number, Lungs, The Kite Runner (New Rep) Shear Madness (Charles Playhouse). Awards: Elliot Norton, IRNE. Resident acting company member of Actors’ Shakespeare Project and private monologue coach with My College Audition. www.naelnacer.com Socials: @naelnacer 

WILL PULLEN

Will can currently be seen in Ridley Scott and Peter Craig’s Apple limited series “Dope Thief”, opposite Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura, as well as Angus MacLachlan’s acclaimed feature A Little Prayer, opposite David Strathairn, Celia Weston, and Anna Camp, which premiered at Sundance 2023 and holds a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. He will next reprise his role in the sequel to Aaron Schneider’s feature Greyhound, opposite Tom Hanks, for Apple. Previously he was seen in Nora Fingscheidt's Netflix feature The Unforgivable, opposite Sandra Bullock, as well as in a recurring role in the Peabody Award winning Apple series Dickinson, opposite Hailee Steinfeld. He starred on stage as “Jem” in Scott Rudin’s Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird, adapted by Aaron Sorkin, for director Bartlett Sher. Additional credits include his Broadway debut in the Pulitzer-prize winning production of Lynn Nottage’s Sweat for director Kate Whoriskey, a recurring role in FX’s spy drama The Americans, opposite Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, Andrew Neel’s feature Goat, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and Jenji Kohan’s HBO pilot “Devil You Know”, directed by Gus Van Sant. 

BY ADAM BOCK

Adam Bock’s other plays include Before The Meeting, A Life, A Small Fire, The Drunken City, The Thugs, The Typographer’s Dream, and Swimming in the Shallows – and have been produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Clubbed Thumb, and Second Stage Uptown in NYC; and all over the US, in Canada, Australia and the UK and Argentina. He has received the Obie, the Guggenheim, a NEA, a Clauder Prize, the Bay Area Theatre Critics, Glickman, and Heideman Awards, and been nominated for multiple Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards.

DIRECTED BY SARAH BENSON

Sarah Benson is an Obie award-winning director. Credits include: Teeth by Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs (Playwrights Horizons & New World Stages); The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood (The Atlantic); Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury (Soho Rep, TFANA & Berkeley Rep); In The Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks (Signature); Samara by Richard Maxwell, music by Steve Earle (Soho Rep); Futurity by César Alvarez/The Lisps (ART, Walker Arts Center and with Ars Nova); An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Soho Rep, TFANA); ...Walt Disney by Lucas Hnath; Blasted by Sarah Kane, Elective Affinities by David Adjmi. Recipient of two Obie Awards, Vilcek Prize, Callaway Award and multiple nominations from the Drama Desk, Drama League and Lortels. Benson was a Director of Soho Rep from 2007 - 2023. Upcoming: Minor Music... by Saidiya Hartman at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and Tartuffe in a new version by Lucas Hnath at NYTW. 

Scenic Design by dots
Costume Design by Enver Chakartash
Lighting Design by Stacey Derosier
Sound Design by Bray Poor
Casting by Daniel Swee, CSA