Curse of the Starving Class

The New Group credits: Intimacy, Aunt Dan & Lemon. Other Off-Broadway: Shared Sentences (Houses On The Moon Theater); Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven (Labyrinth); Fish Men, Se Llama Cristina (Intar). Regional: Manning (Portland Stage), Mother Road (Arena), Oedipus El Rey (Woolly Mammoth), Frost/Nixon (St. Lous Rep), The Mother#cker With The Hat (Kitchen Theater), Stand-Up Tragedy (Body Politic, Joseph Jefferson Award for best supporting actor). TV: “The Americans,” “Succession,” “Blue Bloods,” "White Collar,” “Deadbeat,” “Elementary,” Law & Order CI,” “Mercy,” “The Sopranos.” Film: A Walk Among The Tombstones, Remember Me, A New York Christmas Wedding, You Won’t Miss Me.

Broadway: The Cherry Orchard, In The Heights (& First National Tour). Off-Broadway: A Case for the Existence of God (Signature, Drama Desk & Lortel noms), Find Me Here (Clubbed Thumb), Lessons In Survival (Vineyard), Blue Ridge (Atlantic), Fire In Dreamland (Public), Tin Cat Shoes (Clubbed Thumb), The Amateurs (Vineyard), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Public), Head of Passes (Public), The Flick (Barrow Street), Gloria (Vineyard), The Fortress of Solitude (Public), Choir Boy (MTC, AUDELCO Award), 10 Things to Do Before I Die (2ST). Regional: Williamstown, Goodman, Dallas Theater Center, Steppenwolf, Yale Rep, The Old Globe. TV/Film: Ramon Fisher on American Rust: Broken Justice (Prime), American Horror Story (FX), Inventing Anna (Netflix), Olga Dies Dreaming (Hulu, pilot), American Rust (Showtime), David Makes Man (OWN/Max), The Shivering Truth (Adult Swim), Horace and Pete (Pig Newton), The Big C (Showtime), Unforgettable (CBS). BFA in Drama, Carnegie Mellon.

Cooper Hoffman burst onto the scene starring as Gary Valentine in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Licorice Pizza. His performance earned nominations for both Critics’ Choice and Golden Globe Awards. Cooper can be seen in Saturday Night, directed by Jason Reitman. Cooper recently filmed Lionsgate’s The Long Walk, for director Francis Lawrence, where he holds the lead role. Cooper can also be seen in the feature Wildcat, directed by Ethan Hawke, which premiered at the 2023 TIFF to rave reviews. Cooper just wrapped Gregg Araki’s new film, I Want Your Sex, opposite Olivia Wilde. He is currently shooting Maude Apatow's Poetic License.

The New Group: Evanston Salt Costs Climbing. Broadway: Oslo. Off-Broadway: Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Obie Award), Oslo (Obie Award), The Sister. Select regional: Frozen (Barrymore Award), The Aliens, True West, Mr. Marmalade, Recent Tragic Events. TV: Mare of Easttown, Mindhunter, The Undoing, Marvel’s The Punisher, One Dollar, For Life, Outsiders, Boardwalk Empire, The Good Fight, and more. Film: Armageddon Time, The Creator, Hell House LLC, Funny Bunny, Animal Husbandry. Jeb is a founding member of the Obie Award-winning New Paradise Laboratories (Philadelphia, PA) with whom he has co-created and performed in 15 original works. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech and studied at Teatro Piccolo Orologio (Reggio Emilia, Italy) and Circle in the Square (NYC).

Film: Redux Redux, When We Were Old, Astrophysics. Theatre: The Mound Builders (Theatre Row). Stella is a graduate of the William Esper Studio where she studied for two years with Suzanne Esper. Stella would like to thank Suzanne, Mary Louise Parker, Patrick Murray, and Bruce McCarty. And her family!

Golden Globe winner Christian Slater has led an impressive career spanning film, television, stage, and producing. He will next star as Harry Morgan in the prequel series Dexter: Original Sin, for Paramount+. Recently, Slater appeared in Zoe Kravitz’s Blink Twice and Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted. Best known for his role in Mr. Robot, Slater won Critics Choice and Golden Globe Awards for his work. Other notable TV credits include Dr. Death, and his film work includes The Wife, Nymphomaniac, Heathers, and True Romance. On Broadway, he starred in The Glass Menagerie and on the West End, he starred in GlenGarry Glen Ross and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, among many others.

Sam Shepard's first New York plays, Cowboys and The Rock Garden, were produced by Theatre Genesis in 1963. For several seasons, he worked with Off-Off-Broadway theater groups including La MaMa and Caffe Cino. Eleven of his plays won Obie Awards, including Chicago, The Tooth of a Crime, and Curse of the Starving Class. Other award-winning plays include Fool for Love, True West, A Lie of the Mind, and Buried Child, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979. In 1986, Shepard was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy in 1992. He was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame two years later. As a writer and director, he filmed Far North and Silent Tongue. As an actor, he appeared in numerous films, including The Right Stuff, Days of Heaven and Resurrection. His final works of prose, The One Inside and Spy of the First Person, were published in 2017, the year of his death.

Scott Elliott is the founding artistic director of The New Group theater and New Group Off Stage, a multi-media division of the company. He most recently directed Jessica Goldberg’s Babe, featuring Arliss Howard, Gracie McGraw and Marisa Tomei.  Other recent productions include the world premieres of The Seven Year Disappear by Jordan Seavey, The Seagull/Woodstock, NY by Thomas Bradshaw, and the musical Black No More by John Ridley and Tariq Trotter.

New Group shows include: Sabbath's Theater, The Fever, one in two. Broadway: Buena Vista Social Club, Real Women Have Curves, Dead Outlaw, Yellow Face, Home, A Strange Loop (Tony nominee), Topdog/Underdog, Trouble in Mind. Off-Broadway: Atlantic, CSC, Lincoln Center, MCC, MTC, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Roundabout, Second Stage, Signature, Soho Rep. Regional: Alley Theatre, A.R.T., Berkeley Rep, CTG, Guthrie, Steppenwolf, Woolly Mammoth. Obie Sustained Excellence in Set Design, Princess Grace Faberge Theater Award, Lucille Lortel Award recipient and multiple nominee, Drama Desk nominee, Henry Hewes Design Award nominee. IG: @arnulfo.maldonado.design arnulfomaldonado.com

Broadway: Moulin Rouge (Tony Award, Olivier Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), Mrs. Doubtfire, My Fair Lady (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), Oslo, War Paint (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), The King & I (Olivier Award, Tony Award), Fiddler on the Roof, Golden Boy, South Pacific (Tony Award), The Coast of Utopia (Tony Award), The Light in the Piazza (Tony Award), Awake and Sing! (Tony Award), The Royal Family (Tony Award), Gigi (Drama Desk Award). Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto, Porgy & Bess, Il Barbieri di Siviglia, Les Contes d’Hoffman, Comte Ory, L’elisir d’Amore, Otello, Dr. Atomic, Roméo et Juliette. 2016 Induction: Theater Hall of Fame.

The New Group: more than 15 shows including: The Seven Year Disappear, Sabbath’s Theater, Black No More, Jerry Springer: The Opera, Sweet Charity. Broadway: Gutenberg The Musical, Cost of Living, Freestyle Love Supreme, Bandstand, Falsettos, Holiday Inn, Something Rotten, Penn&Teller, Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Disaster, Jekyll and Hyde, Next Fall, among others. Off-Broadway includes: Night of the Iguana, The Fears, Only Gold, Hyprov, Beyond Babel, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Tiny Beautiful Things. Received Tony, Hewes, Bass awards, and Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lortel, NAACP, Ovation, IRNE, and AUDELCO nominations. Jeff is a producer of Light Humor and has been the designer for Jennifer Muller The Works for 25 years.

NYC: Mary Jane (Broadway – Tony Nomination) My Broken Language and Night is a Room (Signature), Log Cabin, Antlia Pneumatica, Grand Concourse, The Big Meal and Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons), Mary Jane and The Invisible Hand (New York Theater Workshop), The Harvest, Slowgirl, and What Once We Felt (LCT3), Cardinal (Second Stage), Scene Partners and God’s Ear (The Vineyard), Saved (TFANA) and more.  Regional: ACT, Guthrie, Long Wharf, Berkeley, Yale Rep, ART, Intiman.  Honors:  Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Sound Design (Mary Jane and Slowgirl).  Connecticut Critics Circle Award (January Joiner), NEA/TCG Career Development Program.

Jackson Berkley is a freelance props designer and artisan. He has designed and fabricated props for theatrical productions including Ghost of John McCain, Titanique, Strategic Love Play, The Seven Year Disappear, All of Me, Babe, Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern, and Hip Hop Nutcracker, and has constructed sets for clients including LinkedIn, Bravo TV, Adidas, Barstool Sports, MSG Networks, Fiverr, and others.

Member of UnkleDave’s Fight-House. Broadway: Appropriate, Merrily We Roll Along, Uncle Vanya, The Great Society. NY: Seagull/Woodstock NY and The Seven Year Disappear (The New Group); Jordans, Comedy of Errors, and Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Public); Light in the Piazza, Oliver! (Encores!); Good Enemy (Minetta Lane); NERO (KPB); The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic); Lockdown, The Siblings Play (Rattlestick); Leap and the Net Will Appear (New Georges); Manhood (NBT). Regional: View From The Bridge (Long Wharf); Living and Breathing, The Hombres (Two River); Wait Until Dark (Dorset); Maggie, Billy Elliot, Oklahoma! (Goodspeed). Member of AEA and playwright.

Christine Pitcairn and Ryan Peterson have been avid animal enthusiasts for their entire lives.  With an exceptional connection to animals and a dedication to caring for them, they have grown a great partnership with their animals over the years. This has allowed them to do incredible things in the entertainment industry. From the Metropolitan Opera to Radio city’s Christmas Spectacular, to films such as The Pale Blue Eye, The Instigators and most recently the hit TV show Fallout, Christine and Ryan have provided a variety of animals for over 60 titles and productions, always with a positive reinforcement style of handling.

Five OHM is a New York City-based production company specializing in live event management, audio/visual solutions, design, and skilled labor for Off-Broadway theater, corporate events, and immersive installations. We're thrilled to be back working with The New Group as they kick off their 30th anniversary season!  As the Production Supervisor for Curse of the Starving Class, Five OHM collaborated closely with The New Group to ensure seamless production logistics and technical execution. Please visit us at www.fiveohm.com for more! Congratulations, New Group, on 30 years!

Judy Henderson has been honored as one of the top 20 US Film Casting Directors. Highlights: Emmy Award, 6 Artios Awards. 9 Artios nominations. Select Film credits: L.I.E. (6 Spirit Award Nominations), Before Sunrise. Select TV credits: Homeland (Emmy Award and 2 Artios Awards), City On A Hill. Broadway: Barefoot In The Park, Anna Karenina (4 Tony Nominations). Off-Broadway: Forever Plaid (MAC Award for best cast album), Invasion (Obie Award), Lie of the Mind, The Kid (5 Drama Desk Nominations), Hurlyburly and "Daddy". Member of CSA and the Teamsters Theatrical Union. New Group CD since the beginning.

This is Valerie’s 26th season with The New Group. Babe; The Seven Year Disappear; Sabbath’s Theater; The Seagull/Woodstock, NY; Black No More; The Fever; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice; Happy Talk; The True; Peace for Mary Frances; Good for Otto; Downtown Race Riot; The Whirligig; Evening at the Talk House; Sweet Charity; Buried Child; Steve; Mercury Fur; The Spoils; Rasheeda Speaking; Sticks and Bones; Annapurna; Intimacy; Clive; The Jacksonian; Bunty Berman Presents…; A Lie of the Mind; The Kid; Things We Want; Rafta, Rafta…; Marie and Bruce; Abigail’s Party; Hurlyburly; Aunt Dan; and Lemon. Broadway: Barefoot in the Park and The Women.

Francesa Sabel has directed and developed work at Classic Stage Company, Atlantic Theater Company, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, BEDLAM, and New York City Center. Most recently, she was the Associate Director to Neil Pepe on Kenneth Lonergan’s Hold on to Me Darling at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. She has also been an associate/assistant to directors including Caitlin Sullivan, Sam Pinkleton, Steve H. Broadnax III, and Knud Adams, among others. Francesca is a member of the Roundabout Directors Group, an alum of The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, and former Creative Producer for Studio Theatre. BA: Brown University. www.francescasabel.com