Casting Complete for the Public Theater’s Titus Andronicus, Starring Jay O. Sanders

Casting is complete for Titus Andronicus, which will be presented as part of The Public Theater’s Public Lab season. Jay O. Sanders (Sweet and Sad, Stuff Happens, Twelfth Night, Hamlet) will star as the title character in a production directed by Michael Sexton, which will run November 29-December 18 at the downtown venue.

In addition to Sanders, the complete cast for Titus Andronicus features Rob Campbell (Lucius), Patrick Carroll (Chiron/Voice of Quintus), Frank Dolce (Young Lucius), Jacob Fishel (Saturninus), William Jackson Harper (Demetrius/Voice of Martius), Sherman Howard (Marcus), Jennifer Ikeda (Lavinia), Ron Cephas Jones (Aaron), Hoon Lee (Bassianus/Publius/Aemilius/Nurse) and Stephanie Roth Haberle (Tamora).

Titus is Rome’s greatest general and the head of a noble Roman family. When his armies vanquish the Goths, their defeated queen unleashes a fury that rocks Titus’s city, devastates his children, and shatters his sense of self. The cycle of revenge is shocking, bloody, and all-encompassing, but expressed through poetry and theatricality as vivid, energized, and thrilling as anything in Shakespeare’s later works.

Titus Andronicus features scenic design by Brett Banakis, costume design by Cait O’Connor, lighting design by Mark Barton, and music and sound design by Brandon Wolcott.