Marianna Bassham*

MARIANNA BASSHAM* (Dr. Dolan) is so happy to return to SpeakEasy, having appeared last season in POTUS and The Band’s Visit. Additional SpeakEasy acting credits include People, Places and Things; Small Mouth Sounds; Hand to God; Admissions; A Future Perfect;In the Next Room(or the Vibrator Play); Reckless; and Blackbird. Marianna is also a director, with recent work including Heroesof the Fourth Turning (SpeakEasy), Romeo and Juliet (Actors’ Shakespeare Project) and The Mad Ones (Boston Conservatory). Other acting credits include roles with Playwrights’ Horizons, The Huntington, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and others. Marianna teaches acting at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. mariannabassham.com

Shows

PRU PAYNE

Oct 18 – Nov 16, 2024

by

Steven Drukman

directed by

paul daigneault

East Coast Premiere! Prudence “Pru” Payne is a contemporary Dorothy Parker: a sharp-tongued intellectual and critic who recently signed on to share her extraordinary life in an eagerly-awaited autobiography. But when Pru’s memory starts to fade, her son sets her …

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POTUS

Written by

Selina fillinger

directed by

paula plum

“The likelihood that you will laugh until your face hurts is one of near certainty”– Entertainment Weekly Direct from Broadway! It’s 9 to 5 meets Veep in this riotously funny comedy that celebrates the women who keep things running behind …

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The Band’s Visit

Nov 10 – Dec 17, 2023

music & LYrics

David Yazbek

Book by

Itamar moses

based on the screenplay by

eran kolirin

directed by

paul daigneault

chroeography by

daniel pelzig

music direction by

josé delgado

a co-production withthe Huntington Performing at:The Huntington Theatre264 Huntington Ave. In this Tony Award-winning, feel-good musical, an Egyptian band of musicians is stranded in a small Israeli town after a transportation mix up, and with no lodgings available, the locals …

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People, Places & Things

Jan 28 – Feb 5, 2022

Written by

Duncan Macmillan

Directed by

David R. Gammons

New York Times Critic’s Pick! Boasting! critically acclaimed, sold-out runs in both London and New York, People, Places & Things is an exhilarating new play about surviving in the modern world. The story focuses on Emma, a thirty-something actress who thinks she is …

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