Kathleen Chalfant to Star in Red Dog Howls at New York Theatre Workshop

Tony nominee Kathleen Chalfant will lead the cast of Alexander Dinelaris' Red Dog Howls at off-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop. Directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, the production opens the theater's 2012-13 season and will begin performances September 4. Full casting will be announced at a later date.

In Red Dog Howls, a box of old letters and a father’s dying wish leads Michael Kiriakos to dig up the buried memories of his hidden family history. After meeting Rose, his father’s now-elderly, Armenian pen pal, Michael slowly learns of a past he never knew existed, one of exile, sacrifice and, ultimately, redemption. Red Dog Howls explores the horrors of human atrocities, the enduring strength of the human spirit, and how the choices we make as husbands, sons, wives, and daughters will—for better or worse—reverberate for generations.

Chalfant received a Tony nomination for Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and won multiple awards for creating the role of Vivian Bearing in Margaret Edson’s Wit. Her other off-Broadway credits include Talking Heads, Family Week, Dead Man’s Cell Phone and Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell.