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“[I]t's sheer relief to celebrate the return of a rambunctious and witty play about wayward teenagers and post-adolescents that doesn't turn youthful travails into plastic rap” —NY Times
In meticulous, hilarious, and agonizing detail, This Is Our Youth follows forty-eight hours of three very lost sould in the big city at the dawn of the Reagan Era. It's 1982, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, where the wealthy, articulate hippie teenagers who were small children in the 60's have emerged as young adults in a country that has just resoundinly rejected everything they were brough up to believe in.
Dennis Zeigler - graham wardle
Warren Straub - Timothy johnston
Jessica Goldman - Kirsten kilburn
“[Timothy] Johnston's performance as Warren is really splendid; he paints a charming, credible picture of a young kid struggling to figure it all out...and encourages us to hope his character will come through it all. It's an interesting journey that Warren takes and Johnston leads us along with skill and sensitivity”
- Jo Ledingham, Vancouver Courier
“As Jessica, [Kirsten] Kilburn’s defensiveness the day after the champagne-hotel room “event”, contrasted nicely with her flirty persona of the previous day, and she looked prim and perky, 80s style, in both her outfits, a green cinch-waist dress, and a bright red mini”
- Gillian Lockitch, immediatetheatre.com
Kenneth Lonergan is a playwright, screenwriter and director.
This Is Our Youth, was first produced by The New Group at The INTAR Theatre in New York City in October 1996 where it earned a Drama Desk Best Play nomination. His most current play, Lobby Hero , earned him another Drama Desk Best Play nomination, an Olivier Award nomination for Best Play as well as the Outer Critics Circle Best Play award. His other play, The Waverly Gallery , was a 2001 Pulitzer Prize runner-up.
This Is Our Youth and Lobby Hero have both received productions on London's West End.
His first film, “You Can Count On Me”, which he wrote and directed, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. It also won the Sundance 2000 Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, the NY Film Critics Circle, LA Film Critics Circle, Writers Guild of America and National Board of Review awards for Best Screenplay of 2001, the AFI award for Best Film and Best New Writer. He also co-wrote the film, “Gangs Of New York “, which garnered him another Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay.
producer & director - sabrina evertt
production manager - ellen bayley
stage manager - candice rider
assistant stage manager - vera ha
assistant stage manager - caitlin birdsall
production designer - josh hallem
costume & graphics designer - serena susjnar
marketing/publicity consultant - sarah gordon