Tony Award nominee and recent Reasons to be Pretty star Marin Ireland has joined the cast of Roundabout Theatre Company’s American premiere of Patrick Marber’s After Miss Julie. The play, adapted from Strindberg’s Miss Julie and directed by Mark Brokaw, begins performances at the American Airlines Theatre on September 18, with opening set for October 22. The limited engagement runs through December 6.
Ireland joins previously announced stars Sienna Miller (Miss Julie) and Jonny Lee Miller (John) as Christine. After Miss Julie is a radical reimagining of August Strindberg’s 1888 play about sex and class. Marber’s take on the classic relocates Strindberg’s story to an English country house of the eve of the British Labour Party’s historic landslide election victory in 1945. The play originally debuted at London’s Donmor Warehouse in November 2003, starring Kelly Reilly, Richard Coyle and Helen Baxendale and directed by Michael Grandage.
In addition to her Tony nominated Broadway debut earlier this season in Reasons to be Pretty, Ireland has appeared on the New York stage in off-Broadway’s Blasted, Cyclone, The Beebo Brinker, Bad Jazz, The Ruby Sunrise, The Harlequin Studies, The Triple Happiness, Manuscript, Fighting Words, Far Away and Nocturne, among others. Regionally, she has been seen in Mauritius (Huntington Playhouse), Heartbreak House (The Goodman Theater) and The Injured Party (South Coast Rep). Her film and television credits include Law & Order, I Am Legend, The Understudy, Suburban Girl and Rachel Getting Married.
The design team for After Miss Julie includes Allen Moyer (sets), Michael Krass (costumes), Mark McCullough (lights) and David Van Tieghem (original Music & sound). The show will be produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Sonia Friedman Productions and Ostar Productions.