Running Time: 75 minutes with no intermission.
Brooklyn Laundry
written and directed by
John Patrick Shanley
Now in performances through April 14.
OFF-BROADWAY AT
New York City Center Stage I
2023-2024 Season
John Patrick Shanley, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning author of Doubt and the Oscar®-winning writer of Moonstruck, returns to MTC with this world premiere of a new play. Sometimes big things start from little things; in this case, a bag of laundry. Shanley’s latest is about three sisters, a guy who runs a laundry in Brooklyn, and the sometimes savage tricks life plays on them. Tragic and funny by turns, this story will remind you what is important in life... and the sorrow and joy of fully embracing adulthood.
Support for Brooklyn Laundry is provided by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust and The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater.
“FOUR STARS! Cecily Strong is adorably moving. David Zayas shines with charisma.” – New York Stage Review
“QUIRKY, BUOYANT AND POSITIVELY REMARKABLE!” – Talkin’ Broadway
EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND! NOW THRU APRIL 14
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Click here for a seating chart. Stage I seats 300. All seats are on Orchestra level—all seating accessible by elevator. Stage I is accessible to people with disabilities and is equipped with both assistive listening and hearing-aid compatible devices. For more information on accessibility, please click here.
Run time is approximately 75 minutes with no intermission.
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Cast
Florencia Lozano
Trish
Florencia Lozano co-wrote and starred in LIFE AFTER YOU (Best Feature and Best Actress at NICE International Film Festival, Best Actress in Houston). Credits: HERE AFTER, CRYBABY BRIDGE, THE MINISTERS. ‘Claudia Messina’ (NARCOS) ‘Tea Delgado’ (ONE LIFE TO LIVE), BULL, GOSSIP GIRL, BLUE BLOODS, UGLY BETTY, LAW & ORDER SVU & CI, THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA, MADAM SECRETARY, KEVIN CAN WAIT, THE BLACKLIST and ENEMY WITHIN.
Wet Brain and Placebo (Playwrights Horizons), Shuttle, Spindle, Needle (Clubbed Thumb), Rinse Repeat (@ Signature), Devil of Choice (LAByrinth), Red Dog Howls (NYTW), And She Would Stand Like This (Movement Theatre Co), Winners (EST), Macbeth (Shakespeare in the Park), Privilege (Second Stage), Last Easter (MCC), Where’s My Money? (MTC/LAB), Dirty Story (LAB). Florencia is one of the original members of the LAByrinth Theatre Company and currently serves as LAB’s Literary Manager. EST member. Her play: underneathmybed, was produced at the Rattlestick Playwrights’ Theatre and won HOLA’s (Hispanic Organization of Latino Actors) Best New Play Award in 2010. Florencia got a full scholarship to attend NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, where she received her MFA. Her BA is from Brown University where she studied Comparative Literature. She is also a performance artist. Her latest offering was an immersive event: FUN WITH PANIC ATTACKS at INTAR
Cecily Strong
Fran
Cecily Strong is an actress and author best known for her work as a cast member on “Saturday Night Live” from 2012-22.
On “SNL,” Strong received back-to-back Emmy Award nominations in 2020-21 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, and a Critics Choice Award nomination. She entertained viewers with her standout “Weekend Update” character Cathy Anne, Michael Che’s wacky chain-smoking neighbor who offers her opinions on current events. Her recurring character Gemma, a British “singer” with various boyfriends, also quickly became a fan favorite. She earned rave reviews for her notable Judge Jeanine Pirro, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Melania Trump impressions. Strong co-hosted “Weekend Update” alongside both Seth Meyers and Colin Jost.
Strong recently starred in the second season of Apple TV+’s hit musical series, “Schmigadoon!,” on which she also serves as a producer. Her memoir, “This Will All Be Over Soon,” was released in 2021. That same year she made her New York stage debut at the Shed in “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe,” and returned to star in the production at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 2022. She also co-stars in the upcoming animated feature “Garfield.”
In Chicago, Strong improvised regularly at the iO Theater and served as an understudy for the Second City Main Stage and E.T.C. shows. She performed as a member of the Second City national touring company and has also appeared at the Chicago SketchFest, Chicago Just for Laughs, the New York Sketch Fest and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Strong has appeared in the films “The Female Brain” and Paul Feig’s reboot of “Ghostbusters,” as well as Melissa McCarthy’s “The Boss,” “The Bronze” and “The Meddler.” Additionally, Strong emceed the 2015 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Strong was raised in Oak Park, Ill., and has a B.F.A. in theater from the California Institute of the Arts.
Andrea Syglowski
Susie
Andrea Syglowski was last seen in ‘DIG’ at Primary Stages written and directed by Theresa Rebeck. Some of her credits include: Broadway: Pass Over, Off-Broadway: Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven by Stephen Adly Guirgis, (Atlantic) queens by Martyna Majok (Lincoln Center). Regional: Lost in Yonkers (Hartford Stage), Venus in Fur- IRNE, Elliott Norton Award, A Doll’s House (Huntington), Dear Elizabeth, Dig (Dorset Theatre Festival), Cry It Out (Humana), Of Good Stock (South Coast Rep), Film/TV: Blue Bloods, New Amsterdam, The Good Wife, HTGAWM, Elementary, Evil, and And Just Like That. Andrea was the recipient of the Robin Williams Scholarship and is a graduate of The Juilliard School.
David Zayas
Owen
David Zayas is best known for his role as Angel Batista on the Award winning series “Dexter”(Showtime). Selected television work includes “Shut Eye”(HULU), “Gotham” (Fox), “Bloodline” (Netflix), “Blue Bloods” (CBS), “FBI” (CBS), “Pose” (F/X), and “Next” (Fox). He has appeared in the films “The Interpreter”, “16 Blocks”, “Michael Clayton”, “The Expendables”, “Ride”, “Tallulah”, “Annie”, “Body Cam”, and “R#J”. David began his acting career with LAByrinth Theater Company in 1992. Productions include “In Arabia We’d All Be Kings”, “Jesus Hopped the A Train”, and “Our Lady of 121st Street” all written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. On Broadway, he appeared in the Pulitzer Prize winning “Anna in the Tropics” by Nilo Cruz and directed by Emily Mann. In 2022, he starred in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s “Cost of Living” for which he was nominated for a Tony.
Florencia Lozano
Trish
Cecily Strong
Fran
Andrea Syglowski
Susie
David Zayas
Owen
Adriana DeMeo
Understudy for Fran/Trish
Adriana DeMeo is a first generation Italian-American actress. She received a BFA in acting at Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts. Since then, she has worked on TV, film, commercials, voice over and theatre. Most notably, she played recurring roles on the Netflix limited series Seven Seconds and CBS’s Without A Trace. She proudly played Jennifer in the American Premiere of Terry Johnson’s Hitchcock Blonde and Puck in a rock and roll version of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Adriana is also the singer of an indie-electronic band called Ghost Guns. They plan to release their first album in 2024. If you ever find yourself in the town of Göreme in Turkey, Adriana suggests you stay at Koza Cave Hotel and hire Elif as your tour guide.
Alfredo Diaz
Understudy for Owen
Alfredo Diaz moved to New Jersey from Puerto Rico when he was 11 years old. Some of his
Television credits include Power on Starz, The Affair on Showtime, and All My Children in the
role of Vlad. He played Jerry in an off-Broadway production of At Home At The Zoo. In 2021 he
played Hector in John Patrick Shanley’s play Candlelight at the New Ohio Theater. His most
recent film credit is from an award-winning indie film called Rumba Love where he plays Bobby
Arenas, a charismatic music manager.
Janie Brookshire
Understudy for Susie/Trish
JANIE BROOKSHIRE: Broadway: The Philanthropist (Roundabout). Select Off-Broadway: The Mound Builders (Signature Theatre), Days to Come, Mary Broome, Wife to James Whelan (Mint Theatre Co.), Man and Superman (Irish Rep), The Misanthrope (Pearl Theatre Co & Molière in the Park). Select Regional: The Wanderers (World Premiere, Old Globe), Othello (Folger Shakespeare Theatre), Disgraced (Milwaukee Rep), A Delicate Ship (World Premiere, Cincinnati Playhouse), Cry It Out, Intimate Apparel, Dial “M” for Murder (Dorset Theatre Festival), Murder on the Orient Express, Angel Street (Rep Theatre of St. Louis); Select TV: Fallout, Blue Bloods, Forever, Louie, The Good Wife. MFA, UNC Chapel Hill
Adriana DeMeo
Understudy for Fran/Trish
Alfredo Diaz
Understudy for Owen
Janie Brookshire
Understudy for Susie/Trish
Creative
John Patrick Shanley
Playwright/Director
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY (Playwright and Director) is from The Bronx. His plays include Prodigal Son, Outside Mullingar (Tony nomination), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Savage in Limbo, Italian-American Reconciliation, Welcome to the Moon, Four Dogs and a Bone, Dirty Story, Defiance, and Beggars in the House of Plenty. His theatrical work is performed extensively across the United States and around the world. For his play, Doubt, he received both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In the arena of screenwriting, he has ten films to his credit, most recently Wild Mountain Thyme, with Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, and Christopher Walken. His film of Doubt, with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis, which he also directed, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. Other films include Five Corners (Special Jury Prize, Barcelona Film Festival), Alive, Joe Versus the Volcano (which he also directed), and Live From Baghdad for HBO (Emmy nomination). For his script of Moonstruck he received both the Writers Guild of America Award and an Academy Award for best original screenplay. In 2009, The Writers Guild of America awarded Mr. Shanley the Lifetime Achievement In Writing.
Santo Loquasto
Scenic Design
Santo Loquasto is an international designer for theatre, film, dance, and opera. He has earned four Tony Awards and 24 nominations. In film, he received three Academy Award nominations and won the BAFTA for Woody Allen’s Radio Days. Among his 80 Broadway productions designing sets and/or costumes, most notable are: The Cherry Orchard at Lincoln Center, American Buffalo, Cafe Crown, Grand Hotel, Fences, The Assembled Parties, Hello, Dolly! with Bette Midler, The Iceman Cometh, and The Music Man with Hugh Jackman. Brooklyn Laundry is his 34th production for MTC.
Suzy Benzinger
Costume Design
SUZY BENZINGER (Costume Design). Designed Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York, Deconstructing Harry, Celebrity, Blue Jasmine, Irrational Man, Whatever Works, Don’t Drink the Water, Wonder Wheel, etc. Broadway design includes Miss Saigon, Movin’ Out, Saturday Night Fever. For Franco Dragone of Cirque du Soleil she designed the water spectaculars Le Reve in Las Vegas and The House of Dancing Water in Macau. Designed for Elton John, Liza Minelli, Whitney Houston and Gloria Estefan. Dance design for A.B.T. and the Joffrey Ballet. As a child, worked as an assistant designer on John Patrick Shanley’s Moonstruck.
Brian MacDevitt
Lighting Design
BRIAN MACDEVITT (Lighting Design). For MTC: Love, Valour, Compassion, Kimberly Akimbo, Captains Courageous, among others. TONY awards: The Book of Mormon, The Coast of Utopia, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Pillowman, and Into the Woods Met Opera: The Enchanted Island and Doctor Atomic, among others. Awards: Tonys, Obie, Bessie, Outer Critics’, Hewes and Drama Desk, among others. Directing: Between Riverside and Crazy for Studio Theater in DC, Proof for Theater Three in NY and Spring Awakening at The Clarice Smith Center in Maryland. Member: Naked Angels, Father: Jacob and Georgie
John Gromada
Original Music & Sound Design
JOHN GROMADA (Original Music & Sound Design) 40+ Broadway productions, including Birthday Candles, All My Sons, Torch Song, The Elephant Man, Trip to Bountiful (Tony nomination), The Best Man (Drama Desk Award), Clybourne Park, Rabbit Hole, Prelude to a Kiss, Proof, Twelve Angry Men, A Few Good Men. Off-Bway include Drinking in America, The Cake, Ripcord, Old Hats, Orphans’ Home Cycle (Drama Desk Award, Henry Hewes Award), Shipwrecked! (Lucille Lortel Award), The Skriker (Drama Desk Award), Machinal (OBIE. His television and film include a score for the Emmy nominated “The Trip to Bountiful.”
Caparelliotis Casting & Kelly Gillespie
Casting
Kevin Bertolacci
Production Stage Manager
KEVIN BERTOLACCI (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: The Nap (MTC) Fun Home; Ain’t no Mo’; West Side Story; King Lear; Macbeth; Rocky; Scandalous; A Free Man of Color; Curtains; Caroline, or Change; The Woman in White; Come Fly Away; Julius Caesar; Tartuffe. Off-Broadway; The Public Theater, Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, MCC, Playwrights Horizons and Atlantic Theater Company.
Denise Cardarelli
Stage Manager
DENISE CARDARELLI (Stage Manager). Off-Broadway: Dan Cody’s Yacht, The Cake, Long Lost, and The Perplexed (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Red Bull/Fiasco Theaters), New Golden Age (Primary Stages), ReEntry (Urban Stages) and Dov and Ali (The Playwright’s Realm). Selected Regional: Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Two River Theater, The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Centerstage (Baltimore), Olney Theatre Center, and 16 seasons with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.
John Patrick Shanley
Playwright/Director
Santo Loquasto
Scenic Design
Suzy Benzinger
Costume Design
Brian MacDevitt
Lighting Design
John Gromada
Original Music & Sound Design
Caparelliotis Casting & Kelly Gillespie
Casting
Kevin Bertolacci
Production Stage Manager
Denise Cardarelli
Stage Manager
David Zayas, Cecily Strong in
Brooklyn Laundry (2023-2024)
Photo by Jeremy Daniel
David Zayas, Cecily Strong in
Brooklyn Laundry (2023-2024)
Photo by Jeremy Daniel
Cecily Strong, Florencia Lozano in
Brooklyn Laundry (2023-2024)
Photo by Jeremy Daniel
David Zayas in
Brooklyn Laundry (2023-2024)
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Andrea Syglowski, David Zayas, Cecily Strong, Florencia Lozano in
Brooklyn Laundry (2023-2024)
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Cecily Strong in
Brooklyn Laundry (2023-2024)
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Andrea Syglowski, Cecily Strong in
Brooklyn Laundry (2023-2024)
Photo by Jeremy Daniel
David Zayas, Cecily Strong in
Brooklyn Laundry (2023-2024)
Photo by Jeremy Daniel
Andrea Syglowski, Cecily Strong in
Brooklyn Laundry (2023-2024)
Photo by Jeremy Daniel