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My Name is Asher Lev
by Aaron PosnerAdapted from the novel by Chaim Potok
My Name is Asher Lev
by Aaron PosnerAdapted from the novel by Chaim Potok
Set in post-war Brooklyn, Asher Lev must be a painter at all costs even though against the will of his family, community, and tradition.
Based on a best-selling novel, this new American play tells the powerful story of a boy prodigy.
Smart, honest theater
Cast
Nathan Kaufman
Naama Potok
Ben Rosenbach
NATHAN KAUFMAN (Aryeh Lev, Jacob Kahn, and others) is thrilled to be making his FST debut. Stage credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Julius Caesar, Galileo, As You Like It, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Coriolanus, Pericles, Harvey (The Texas Shakespeare Festival); The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet (The Human Race Theatre Company); The Cmplete Wrks of Wllm Shkspr Abridged (Shadow Lawn Stage); Beyond Therapy, Time Flies (Bohemian Archaeology). Television Credits include ABC’s What Would You Do? and The View as well as Discovery Family’s American Icons. Nathan received his BFA in Acting from the Purchase College Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film and lives in New York City. www.nathankaufman.com
NAAMA POTOK (Rivkeh Lev and others) was last seen as Christine in Two Mothers at a Roadside Cafe (Schreiber Shorts Festival of Short Plays). Earlier credits include Rivkeh Lev, Anna Schaeffer, and Rachel in My Name is Asher Lev at Penguin Rep Theatre and in the Off-Broadway production, Eileen Rafferty in Slides (dir. Geraldine Fitzgerald), Scheherazade in Arabian Nights (dir. Mary Zimmerman), Greek Princess in Mirror of the Invisible World (Goodman Theatre), Katherine in Henry IV, and Manke in God of Vengeance (A Contemporary Theatre). Film credits: Christie, Waiting for Marilon Cotillard (Mediane-Art &Communication); The Chosen (20th Century Fox); Carol, Reindeer Games.
BEN ROSENBACH (Asher Lev) is very excited to be making his FST debut playing Asher Lev. This is Ben’s second Potok/Posner show, his first was while playing Danny Saunders in the Barrington Stage Company production of The Chosen. Other credits include: Laughter on the 23rd Floor at the Flat Rock Playhouse; South Pacific at the Engeman Theatre on Long Island; Rent at the Harbor Lights Theater Company on Staten Island. Very grateful for this extremely “worthwhile” experience.
Creative
Director | Jason Cannon
Stage Manager | Rebekah Small*
Scenic Designer | Bruce Price
Lighting Designer | Tom Hansen
Costume Coordinator | Donna Riggs
* Denotes member Actors’ Equity Association. The Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.