Orlando’s adventures begin as a young man, when he serves as courtier to Queen Elizabeth. Through many centuries of living, he becomes a 20th-century woman, trying to sort out her existence. An adaptation of the “longest and most charming love letter in literature,” written by Virginia Woolf for her lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a theatrical, wild, fantastical trip through space, time, and gender.
This production contains strobe lights and haze.
Run time: 1 hour and 40 minutes, including a 10-minute intermission.
Creative Team: Arnulfo Maldonado (Scenic Design), Oana Botez (Costume Design), Barbara Samuels (Lighting Design), Brendan Aanes (Sound Design), Ann C. James (Intimacy Coordinator), Matt Carlin (Props Supervisor), Krystal Balleza & Will Vicari (Hair, Wig, & Makeup Design), Caparelliotis Casting (Casting), Blake Zidell & Associates (Press), Kasson Marroquin (Production Stage Manager).
“A GIFT to the Queer community.” - Diep Tran, Playbill
“A production that can only be described as PURE JOY.” - Pete Hempstead, TheaterMania
“Ruhl’s script is a JEWEL.” Sara Holdren, Vulture / New York Magazine
“A STELLAR ensemble, all with an irresistible playfulness.” - Austin Fimmano, New York Theatre Guide
Taylor Mac gives a "Tour-De-Fierce performance." Raven Snook, Time Out New York
About the Playwright
Sarah Ruhl is an award-winning American playwright, author, essayist, and professor. Her plays include Letters from Max; The Oldest Boy; Dear Elizabeth’ Stage Kiss; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2010); The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2005; Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2004); Passion Play (PEN American Award, Fourth Freedom Forum Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center); Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play); Melancholy Play; Demeter in the City (nine NAACP Image Award nominations); Scenes From Court Life; How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday; Eurydice; Orlando; and Late: a cowboy song. Her plays have been produced on Broadway and across the country as well as internationally, and translated into fourteen languages. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University, where she studied with Paula Vogel. She is the recipient of a Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a PEN Center Award for mid-career playwrights, a Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, and a Lilly award. She is a member of 13P and New Dramatists and won the MacArthur Fellowship in 2006. She teaches at Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Photo by Rebecca Greenfield
