Two-time Tony Award winner Cherry Jones will return to Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center – Stage I (131 West 55th Street) for the world premiere of When We Were Young And Unafraid, the new play by DG member Sarah Treem (House of Cards, In Treatment), directed by Tony Award nominee Pam MacKinnon (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Clybourne Park).
The limited engagement of When We Were Young And Unafraid will begin previews Tuesday, May 22, 2014 and open Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
Emmy and two-time Tony winner Cherry Jones (Doubt, “24”) returns to MTC for Sarah Treem’s (“House of Cards,” “In Treatment”) powerful new play that takes us inside an underground women’s shelter in the early 1970s… before Roe v. Wade, before the Violence Against Women Act, before women had places to turn in times of distress.
Treem’s A Feminine Ending premiered at Playwrights Horizons and went on to productions at South Coast Repertory and Portland Center Stage, among others. Her play The How and The Why premiered at the McCarter Theater starring Mercedes Ruehl (with Emily Mann directing) and went on to productions at Interact Theatre and Trinity Repertory among others. Treem’s other plays include Empty Sky, Orphan Island, Human Voices, and Mirror Mirror. She has been commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory, and Manhattan Theatre Club and developed work at the Sundance Theater Lab, Ojai Playwrights Festival, the Screenwriters Colony, Hedgebrook, and Yaddo. In addition to her theater career, Treem wrote and produced all three seasons of the acclaimed HBO series, In Treatment, for which she won a WGA award and was nominated for a Humanitas award. She was also a writer/producer for the HBO series How to Make it in America and the Netflix series, House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey. She currently has a new pilot called The Affair in production with Showtime. Treem has taught playwriting at Yale University, where she earned her B.A. and M.F.A. She recently moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles with her husband, Jay and their son, Henry.