Monday February 9, 7pm
home sick
by Jon Marans
Directed by Lee Brock
Monday February 9, 7pm
home sick
by Jon Marans
Directed by Lee Brock
Alice and Candace return to their family’s New Jersey home,
finally ready to deal with the horrific event that happened there.
Or did it?
When two strong-willed sisters return to their family’s empty, run-down New Jersey home,
the sisters begin to question the events of their horrific past – and present.
As these mysteries unravel, home sick is ultimately about memory:
what we remember, what we think we remember, what we've made up, what we conceal,
and what we may have chosen or need to forget for some greater good.
A.R.T. NY, 520 8th Ave. (Between 36th/37th St.),
Third Floor, NYC 10018, Monday at 7PM
RSVP@GroundUPproductions.org
Jon Marans/Playwright: Old Wicked Songs, Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama, has been produced throughout the U.S. and in over a dozen countries including England starring Bob Hoskins. His new script for the Lerner and Loewe musical Paint Your Wagon has been seen at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, Ordway and the MUNY. Other produced plays: The Temperamentals (nominated for the Lucille Lortel and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway play), A Strange and Separate People (2014 American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in Literature) Jumping for Joy, A Raw Space, book & lyrics for the musical The Irrationals, book for the musical Legacy. He was thrilled in 2020 to write the script for the 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics and Lyricists program honoring Yip Harburg. In film, Jon Marans was a story editor for Stonebridge Productions (Michael Douglas’ film production company) for three years and wrote for the New Carol Burnett show in 1991. Jon is a graduate of Duke University in mathematics with a minor in music and a recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship. Some directing credits include: Old Wicked Songs numerous times, Barrymore and The Gin Game at Bristol Riverside Theater, Art at Mile Square Theater. For over fifteen years Jon has been a private acting coach for numerous Broadway actors. His play The Cover Up is slated for a late 2026 NYC production.
Lee Brock/Director: Lee is the co-artistic director of the Barrow Group, an award-winning Off-Broadway theatre company and acting school in New York City, where she has nurtured the development of thousands of artists and students for over 29 years. Brock created FAB women, an organization dedicated to creating new theatrical works for, about, and by women. Additionally, Brock is a professional actor, director, teacher, and coach. She teaches acting, directing, script analysis, and monologue workshops at the Barrow Group School and is dedicated to inspiring actors to create and produce their own projects.
Johanna Day*/Alice: Broadway: Call Me Izzy, How I Learned to Drive, TheNap, Sweat (Tony Nomination), You Can’t Take It With You, August:Osage County, Lombardi, Proof (Tony Nomination). Theatre: Doubt (Hanover Theatre), Scene Partners (Vineyard), Des Moines (TFANA), Middletown (Vineyard), Floyd’s (Guthrie), Peace for Mary Francis (New Group), Peter and Jerry (Second Stage – Drama Desk Nomination) Appropriate (Signature – Obie Award, The Lilly Award), Poor Behavior (Mark Taper), Realistic Joneses (Yale Rep), Choice (Huntington), The Rainmaker (Arena Stage – Helen Hayes Award). Television: Bull, The Good Fight, Madam Secretary, For Life, New Amsterdam, The Blacklist, Escape at Dannemora, The Knick, The Americans, Masters of Sex. Film: Worth, The Post, Great Gilley Hopkins, How Far She Went, The Breatharian.
Karl Kenzler*/Jonah: Broadway: Oedipus, Fiddler On The Roof, You Can’t Take It With You, Mary Poppins, Twelve Angry Men, The Caretaker, Dinner At Eight, The Heiress. Off-Broadway: Life & Trust (Emursive), Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Signature, Lucille Lortel nomination), Peter & The Starcatcher (NYTW, NY premiere), All Our Children (Sheen Center), Usual Girls (Roundabout), Three Wise Guys and Beyond Therapy (TACT), Clinton: The Musical (NYMF). Hamlet and The Tempest (CSC), Spinning Into Butter (LCT), The Charity That Began At Home and Diana of Dobson’s (Mint Theater), Back From The Front (Working Theater), The Libertine (Theatre Row Theater). TV/Streaming includes: “How To Fix A Drug Scandal”, “FBI: Most Wanted”, “Marvels”, “The Blacklist”, “Blue Bloods”, “Madam Secretary”, “Suits”, “Mister Robot”, "House of Cards" (recurring), "Law & Order: SVU" (recurring), "Person of Interest", "Made in Jersey", "The Good Wife", Law & Order", “Darwin: The Series”. Film: Irresistible, Marvelous, The Woods, Neurotica, Red Flag. Regional theater includes: Two River Theater, Playmakers Rep, Bucks County Playhouse, Denizen Theatre, Williamstown, Barrington Stage, Guthrie, Shakespeare Theater, Old Globe, Chautauqua Theater Company. Training: University of Evansville (BFA), NYU Grad Acting (MFA). Visit: KarlKenzler.com
Kate Middleton*/Candace: Upcoming Summer 2026: 6-episode Miniseries, "Perfect Sundays". Broadway/Off-Broadway: Music City (Ground UP Productions), Women Without Men (Mint Theatre), Shear Madness, New York City Premiere (New World Stages), The Other Place (MTC), The Late Christopher Bean (TACT), Asymmetric (59E59), Pratfalls (Abingdon). Select Regional: The Goodman Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, The Huntington, St. Louis Rep., GEVA, Cape Playhouse, Dorset Theatre Festival, The Fountain Theatre, Triad Stage, Playmakers Rep.The Kennedy Center, , NJ Shakespeare, Weston Playhouse, Warehouse Theatre, Bickford Theatre. TV: “Chicago Fire”, “Elementary”, “Blacklist”, “FBI: Most Wanted”, “Orange is the New Black”, “Blue Bloods”, “Mercy”, “Law & Order”, “Law & Order: SVU”, and Comedy Central. Film: The Boston Strangler, The Tender Bar, Spoiler Alert, Set It Up, Noah Wise, 40th, Obits, Showing Up, T.I.C., April Flowers. Producing Artistic Director of Ground UP Productions.
www.KateMiddletonActress.com
Kristine Schlachter*/Stage Manager: Kristine is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has been seen throughout the United States and Canada. Recent: Off-Broadway: Avenue Q, Emperors Nightingale (Nom. Off-Broadway Alliance Award), The Brothers Paranormal (World Premiere), Memorial (NYTimes Critics Pick), Warrior Sisters of Wu (Nom. Drama Desk Award) Other Favorites: Rock of Ages, Jersey Boys, Million Dollar Quartet, Big River, Macbeth, The 39 Steps, The Secret Garden, Allegro, Cyrano De Bergerac, Waitress, The Wizard of Oz, Holiday Inn, White Christmas. I am enormously grateful to my friends and family for supporting my path as an artist and always embracing the weird stuff!
Josh Evans/Producer/Stage Directions:
Favorite credits include - Chris in Ground UP's new education outreach program TREATY, currenlty touring, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap (The Barnstormers Theatre), Post Concussive Syndrome (Abingdon Theatre), Rubber Ducks and Sunsets (Ground UP Productions), Marielle Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Fox Searchlight Pictures), “Gotham” (Fox), “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon Video), “FBI” (CBS, Dick Wolf), “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix), “The Blacklist” (NBC). He is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill and Michael Howard Studios, and a company member of Ground UP Productions. The work is dedicated to his parents and his wife. joshlevans.com