“And I’d just sit there in the dark until… until I’d fall asleep, just too scared to open my eyes until morning.”

THE THIN PLACE

by Lucas Hnath
directed by Philip Lehl and Kim Tobin-Lehl
October 13 - November 5, 2022

Everyone who ever died is still here, just in a different part of here. Linda can communicate with them. And if you believe, she can make you hear them, too — in the "Thin Place," the fragile boundary between our world and the other one. Hnath’s play bristles with disquieting suggestion, probing the most timeless questions about reality, the impressionability of the mind, and the omnipresence of death as we float through life. Ever gifted at taking the pulse of the world around him, Hnath matches these universals with a timely resonance, distilling collective feelings of national chaos—and our political and spiritual vulnerabilities therein—to a chillingly personal scale.

About the Play

  • Faith Fossett as Hilda

    Carolyn Johnson as Linda

    Philip Lehl as Jerry

    Courtney Lomelo as Sylvia

  • Stage Manager | Kalin Menzel

    Set Design | Stefan Azizi

    Lighting Design | Christina Giannelli

    Sound Design | Robert Leslie Meek

    Costumes & Props | Samantha Hyman

    Scenic Production | Santiago Sepeda

    Crew | Allen Edwards

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  • Lucas Hnath is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dramatic Writing. He holds both a B.F.A. and M.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

    Hnath’s work as a playwright includes A Doll’s House, Part 2; Hillary and Clinton; Red Speedo; The Christians; A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney; Isaac’s Eye; and Death Tax. His work has been produced nationally and internationally, including at Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival of New Plays, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Steppenwolf Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Royal Court Theatre, and on Broadway at the John Golden Theater. He is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and a resident of New Dramatists. His plays are published by Dramatists Plays Service, Playscripts, Nick Hern Books, Overlook Press, and Theatre Communications Group.

    Hnath is a recipient of an Obie, Guggenheim Fellowship, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, Whiting Award, Kesselring Prize, two Steinberg citations from the American Theatre Critics Association, and a 2017 Tony nomination for Best Play. At NYU, Hnath has previously served as a Language Lecturer in the Expository Writing Program. Additionally, he has taught at Rutgers, University of Rochester, and the Southampton Writers Conference.

“The Thin Place” was presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com