The Old Globe Brings "The Blameless" to the Stage

The Old Globe announced the complete cast and creative team of the world premiere of Nick Gandiello’s touching and timely drama The Blameless, which was developed in a reading in the Globe’s Powers New Voices Festival last year. Gaye Taylor Upchurch (The Last Match, Bethany) returns to the Globe to direct. The Blameless will play February 23rd – March 26th, 2017 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Previews run February 23rd – March 1st. Opening night is Thursday, March 2nd at 8:00pm. Tickets start at $29 and are on sale now to the general public.

The Blameless is a compassionate and moving look at the power of familial bonds in the most extraordinary of circumstances. The boisterous Garcia family has always tackled their days with warmth, humor, and tough love. But today is no ordinary day. Struggling to recover from a painful event in their past, they must find a way to hold everything together as they welcome to dinner the one man who might help them heal—or reopen their wounds.

Nick Gandiello (Playwright) is a playwright, screenwriter, and teaching artist based in New York. Gandiello was the 2015 Page 73 Productions Playwriting Fellow and was the winner of the 2016 Marin Theatre Company David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize. He received his M.F.A. from The New School for Drama.

Gaye Taylor Upchurch (Director) made her Globe debut in 2014 directing Laura Marks’s Bethany, and earlier this year she directed Anna Ziegler’s The Last Match. Upchurch has directed the Off Broadway productions of Nancy Harris’s Our New Girl, and Simon Stephens’s Harper Regan and Bluebird with Simon Russell Beale (Atlantic Theater Company), Bethany (Women’s Project Theater, Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Play), and Lucy Thurber’s Stay (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater). 

The Blameless is supported in part through gifts from Leading Sponsors Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine and Elaine Lipinsky Family Foundation.

Tickets to The Blameless start at $29 and can be purchased by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE [234-5623], or by visiting the Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park. Discounts are available for full-time students, patrons 29 years of age and under, seniors, military members, and groups of 10 or more.

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