Tony Nominee Maria Dizzia and Greg Keller to Star in Cradle and All at MTC

Tony nominee Maria Dizzia and Greg Keller will star in Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere production of Daniel Goldfarb’s Cradle and All. The play, which had been previously announced under the title The Extinction Method, will begin previews at New York City Center Stage I on May 10 and open on May 25, directed by Tony nominee Sam Buntrock (Sunday in the Park with George).

In Cradle and All, Annie and Nate have a baby who won’t sleep. Claire and Luke are losing sleep over the decision to get married and start a family. In adjacent Brooklyn Heights apartments, Daniel Goldfarb’s look at love, sex, commitment and parenthood unfolds, and no one will rest until the truth between each of these couples is spoken.

Dizzia, who will play the dual roles of Annie and Claire, received a 2010 Tony nomination for In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play. Her off-Broadway credits include The Hallway Trilogy, The Drunken City, Eurydice, The Wooden Breeks, Pullman Car Hiawatha, Apparition, Alice the Magnet, Cause for Alarm and Gone Missing.

Keller, who will play Nake and Luke, has appeared on Broadway and at L.A.’s Ahmanson Theatre in 33 Variations. Off-Broadway credits include The Seagull, Smudge, That Pretty Pretty, Reborning, Telethon, Steve & Idi and six plays at the Flea Theater as a member of The Bats.

The creative team for Cradle and All includes Neil Patel (scenic design), Mattie Ullrich (costume design), Ken Billington (lighting design) and Jill BC DuBoff (sound design).

Cradle and All will follow MTC’s hit off-Broadway production of The Whipping Man, which has been extended at New York City Center Stage I through April 10. The company is currently represented on Broadway by David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.