Vladimir
World Premiere
written by Erika Sheffer
directed by Daniel Sullivan
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OFF-BROADWAY AT
New York City Center Stage I
2024-2025 Season
This haunting world premiere unfolds in Moscow, where an independent journalist covering Putin’s first term struggles to maintain sanity and hope in increasingly hostile circumstances. She finds herself on the brink of an explosive story -- but as danger mounts for her and her sources, she questions whether her bravery will make any difference at all. Written by Erika Sheffer, Vladimir is about standing up to immorality no matter the cost, when you know your nation is headed for disaster. Directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan.
Creative
Erika Sheffer
Playwright
Erika Sheffer: Erika’s plays include Russian Transport (The New Group, Steppenwolf, subsequent regional and international productions), The Fundamentals (Steppenwolf commission and world premiere) and Vladimir. Honors include the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, TCG’s Edgerton Grant, and an Outer Critic’s Circle nomination. Her plays have been developed by MTC, South Coast Rep, The Geffen, The New Group, Steppenwolf, Ars Nova, SPACE on Ryder Farm and The Atlantic. She has held commissions from Steppenwolf, The Geffen Theater and Manhattan Theatre Club. Television and Film credits include Apple TV’s “Little America”, an upcoming feature co-written with Siân Heder, as well as an original series in development with Gaumont. She is published by Dramatist Play Service and received her BFA from Syracuse University.
Daniel Sullivan
Director
DANIEL SULLIVAN (Director) Manhattan Theatre Club credits include Summer 1976, The Nap, Saint Joan, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, The Country House, The Snow Geese, The Columnist, Lost Lake, Accent on Youth, Good People, Time Stands Still, Rabbit Hole, After the Night and the Music, Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, Psycopathia Sexualis, and Proof. Among other Broadway credits are Stories By Heart, Orphans, Glengarry Glen Ross , The Homecoming, Prelude to a Kiss, Julius Caesar, I’m Not Rappaport, Morning’s at Seven, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Ah, Wilderness!, The Sisters Rosensweig, Conversations with my Father, and The Heidi Chronicles. For the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park he has directed Coriolanus, Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline, King Lear, Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Among his Off-Broadway credits are If I Forget, The Night Watcher, Intimate Apparel, Far East, Spinning into Butter, Stuff Happens, Dinner with Friends, and The Substance of Fire. From 1981 to 1997, he served as artistic director of Seattle Repertory Theatre. Sullivan served as Swanlund Professor in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Illinois, Urbana for 25 years.
Erika Sheffer
Playwright
Daniel Sullivan
Director