Directed by two-time Obie Award winner Lileana Blain-Cruz, Fefu and Her Friends tells the story of a group of articulate, idiosyncratic women who gather in Fefu’s New England country house in 1935 to rehearse for a charity event. Are you passionate about the arts? Casting "Fefu and Her Friends." Do you like to have fun and meet new people? “Fefu and Her Friends,” perhaps the finest work of the Cuban-American director and playwright María Irene Fornés, is finally getting a New York revival. All hail Theatre for a New Audience. Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. Fefu and Her Friends was first produced by the New York Theatre Strategy at the Relativity Media Lab, New York City, on May 5, 1977. It was directed by the author. Casting Equity actors for the Theatre For A New Audience 2019-2020 Season. Season includes: “Why?” (Peter Brook and Marie Helene Estienne, writer-dirs. Play: Fefu and Her Friends Maria Irene Fornes Author's Note: Fefu is pronounced Feh-foo. Making her American directorial debut with John Ford’s The Broken Heart, Selina Cartmell is an award-winning British director who has made a splash in Irish theatre, where she makes her home.. Synopsis: Fefu and her seven friends gather at Fefu's house to rehearse a presentation for their charity toward school education. Theatre for a New Audience presents Fefu and Her Friends, one of the most beloved plays of the late, nine-time Obie Award-winning Cuban-American playwright and director María Irene Fornés. Learn more. Theater News Amelia Workman and More to Star in TFANA's Fefu and Her Friends Lileana Blain-Cruz will direct this new production of the late María Irene Fornés's play. Theater News Amelia Workman and More to Star in TFANA's Fefu and Her Friends Lileana Blain-Cruz will direct this new production of the late María Irene Fornés's play. Lights by Candice Dunn. Their conversations evolve and become intimate dialogues and commentary on gender, sex, psychology and class. Rehearsals Original cast: Designing the Undesignable Set: Behind the Scenes of Off-Broadway’s Fefu and her Friends. Fefu and Her Friends Off-Broadway, Fefu and Her Friends Original Cast List, Original Cast, Current Cast November 16 through December 8 at Theatre for a New Audience's Polonsky Shakespeare in Brooklyn, NY. Lileana Blain-Cruz directs a stellar, multi-racial, all-female cast in the first major revival in forty years of Fefu and Her Friends, María Irene Fornés’ quietly revolutionary avant-garde play. Theatre for a New Audience produces for audiences Off-Broadway and has also toured nationally, internationally and played on Broadway. Costumes by Lana Fritz. TFANA's production is the first Off-Broadway revival of Fefu and Her Friends since American Place Theatre's 1978 production. Set design by Linda Conaway. Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. In 2013, after more than three decades of award-winning and internationally-acclaimed productions, Theatre for a New Audience opened Polonsky Shakespeare Center in the heart of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. November 16 through December 8 at Theatre for a New Audience's Polonsky Shakespeare in Brooklyn, NY. Join Brooklyn√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Dreamers for exclusive parties with each of our spring productions, Othello and Hamlet.See the production, then gather for cocktails and apps with members of the cast. Cast Brittany Bradford, Juliana Canfield, Helen Cespedes, Ronete Levenson, Jennifer Lim, Lindsay Rico, Amelia Workman, Carmen Zilles María Irene Fornés has been called the greatest and least-known dramatist of our time. Designing the Undesignable Set: Behind the Scenes of Off-Broadway’s Fefu and her Friends.