Picnic Tickets

Reed Birney has been working in film, television, and theater for decades. Among his earliest credits are Albert Innaurato’s Broadway comedy Gemini in 1974 and Arthur Penn’s Four Friends in 1981. A celebrated member of the New York theatre community, Reed has won a Tony and numerous other awards and nominations for plays including The Humans, Casa Valentina, Man from Nebraska, Uncle Vanya, Blasted, and Circle Mirror Transformation. Most recently he starred opposite his son Ephraim Birney in Chester Bailey at Irish Rep, and in the highly successful run of Donald Margulies’ Lunar Eclipse at Shakespeare & Company. On television, he can be seen recurring opposite Kim Kardashian in the current season of American Horror Story. He was also recently seen in Peacock's Poker Face, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Other TV credits include HBO’s Succession and Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, as well as the Apple TV+ series Home Before Dark. He is also well known for his performance as Vice President Donald Blythe in the Netflix series House of Cards. In film, Reed received a Gotham Award nomination for his performance in the Bleecker Street feature Mass opposite Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs, and Martha Plimpton. The film’s cast was also honored with the Robert Altman award at the Independent Spirit Awards. Reed also appeared in The Menu opposite Ralph Fiennes. Other recent film credits include the Universal/Blumhouse thriller The Hunt and Netflix’s The Forty-Year-Old Version and Lost Girls, as well as Strawberry Mansion. Later this year he will be seen in Kevin Costner’s epic western, Horizon: An American Saga.  Reed lives in New York.

Elizabeth Marvel has appeared on Broadway in Picnic, Other Desert Cities, Top Girls, Seascape, An American Daughter, Taking Sides, and The Seagull. Off-Broadway credits include Almost an Evening(Atlantic Theatre Company); Dark Matters (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Hedda Gabler (Obie Award); A Streetcar Named Desire (Obie); Shopping and Fucking (New York Theatre Workshop); Thérèse Raquin (Obie, CSC); Misalliance (Obie, Roundabout Theatre Company); and Julius Caesar; Troilus and Cressida; King Lear; and Silence, Cunning, Exile (Public Theater). Regional: McCarter Theatre, Guthrie Theater, American Repertory Theater, Stratford Theatre Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Film and Television: Pretty Bird, Burn After Reading, The Dying Gaul, Ten Hundred Kings, True Grit, The Bourne Legacy, Lincoln, and Hyde Park on Hudson, House of Cards (Netflix), Homeland (Showtime), A Dog Year (HBO), The District (CBS), Kidnapped, Nurse Jackie, 30 Rock, The Newsroom, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Homicide. Training: Juilliard.

Mare Winningham is an actress and singer-songwriter with two Emmys and an Oscar nomination under her belt. The Arizona native starred in the off-Broadway drama Tribes and made her Broadway debut in 2013 in the revival of William Inge’s Picnic.

Cassie Beck  returns to Roundabout and Broadway after Picnic and The Humans (Tony Award Best Play, Drama Desk Ensemble Award). The Humans (Los Angeles, London). Off-Broadway: Classic Stage Company, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ars Nova, LAByrinth Theater, Atlantic Theater Co., Women’s Project Theater. Regional theatre: South Coast Repertory, Humana Festival, Huntington Theatre Co, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Long Wharf. Upcoming film: Good Joe Bell. Television: High Maintenance, Chicago Med, Elementary, Almost There and Shameless.

Broadway veteran Ellen Burstyn won a 1975 Tony and Drama Desk Award for her performance as Doris in the two-person play Same Time, Next Year. A successful film actress, Burstyn won an Oscar for Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and has been nominated five more times since 1972. She returned to Broadway in 2012 in Picnic.

Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, Picnic. Off-Broadway: Actually, We’re F**ked (Cherry Lane Theatre), Sex Lives of Our Parents (Second Stage), The Gingerbread House (Rattlestick Theatre/stageFARM). Ben is perhaps best known as the star of Outsourced (NBC) & For the People (Shondaland/ABC). Additional TV: Inventing Anna, Law & Order: SVU, Younger, Mr. Robot, Ozark, The Good Wife, Modern Love, Evil Monsterland, Blindspot, God Friended Me, & Elementary. Film: Hope Springs, The Brass Teapot, Better Off Single, Landing Up, and Ask for Jane. Training: The Juilliard School, where he received the Michel and Suria Saint-Denis Prize.

Maddie Corman is a prolific film, theater and television actress, recently appearing in Morning Glory and on TV in Smash. Corman made her Broadway debut in 2010 in Next Fall and appeared in the 2013 revival of William Inge’s Picnic.

Chris Perfetti is an up-and-coming actor who burst onto the New York theater scene in 2011 in off-Broadway’s Sons of the Prophet. The Rochester native made his Broadway debut in 2013 as Bomber in the revival of William Inge’s Picnic.

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