November 1 - 30, 2013 ,

Venus in Fur

written by David Ives
directed by Laura Kepley

The traditional power dynamic of an audition shifts as an up-and-coming director learns that it’s impossible to play with fire and not get singed. Blurring the line between fantasy and reality, this electrifying and seductive comedy was lauded by The New York Times as “seriously smart and very funny.”

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Michael Brusasco as Thomas and Vanessa Wasche as Vanda in the Cleveland Play House Production of Venus in Fur, in the Second Stage, November 1-24, 2013. Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni.

Artists

Michael Brusasco

(Thomas) is grateful to be back at CPH after appearing in Venus in Fur. This last year he has been with the Alley Theatre Company in Houston, Texas. Plays include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hand to God, Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web, Cleo, All The Way, and A Christmas Carol. more

David Ives

(Playwright) is perhaps best known for his evening of one-act plays called All in the Timing (he has had work included in the “Best Short Plays” series seven times), and for his drama Venus in Fur, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. His plays more

Vanessa Wasche

(Vanda) appeared off-Broadway in Killers and Other Family at The Axis Theater produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and in The Pillowbook, 59E59. Regional credits include Motherf**ker With the Hat at TheaterWorks in Hartford, Conn.; Major Barbara and A Christmas Carol at The Guthrie Theater; Black Coffee at Arts Center more

Michael Boll

(Lighting Designer) is a Cleveland-based Lighting Designer. His Cleveland Play House designs include Where Did We Sit on the Bus?, Pipeline, Native Gardens, An Iliad, The Invisible Hand, The Good Peaches, The Little Foxes, Venus in Fur, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, In the Next Room or the more

John Godbout

(Stage Manager) was Cleveland Play House's resident stage manager from 2001 to 2008 and returned to CPH in the fall of 2011. "Most recently, John stage managed A New Brain at Barrington Stage Company. John has also stage managed at North Shore Music Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, The more

Laura Kepley

(Director) (she/her) became Artistic Director of Cleveland Play House in 2013, and has directed numerous CPH mainstage productions, including The Crucible; Sweat; The Diary of Anne Frank; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; Into the Breeches!; Every Brilliant Thing; and the world premieres of Tiny Houses, The more

Whitney Locher

(Costume Designer) is a NYC-based Costume Designer. Her work was last featured at Cleveland Play House in Venus in Fur. Recent Off-Broadway designs include Dead Dog Park (59E59 Theatres), Into the Woods (Roundabout Theatre Company) and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Theatre for a New Audience). Recent regional designs more

Cameron Caley Michalak

(Scenic Designer) is thrilled to be back with CWRU MFA Program! Regional Theatrical design credits include: Cleveland Play House productions of These Mortal Hosts, Venus in Fur, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour and A Soldier’s Tale with Catch and Release. CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program’s design credits include Passage, She more

James C. Swonger

(Sound Designer) has designed sound for many Cleveland Play House productions including The Good Peaches (world premiere), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Breath and Imagination, Good People, The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, Bell, Book and Candle, The Game’s Afoot (world premiere), Bill more