"Oh, Mary!" Talkback Event

Join us for an event with Tony Award®-winning director Sam Pinkleton alongside original cast members Hannah Solow and Bianca Leigh as they discuss Cole Escola’s hit Broadway play Oh, Mary! This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

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Oh, Mary! is a dark comedy about a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Unrequited yearning, alcoholism, and suppressed desires abound in this 80-minute one-act play that finally examines the forgotten life and dreams of Mrs. Lincoln, through the lens of an idiot (playwright Cole Escola).

Declared “one of the best comedies in years” by The New York Times, Oh, Mary! received Tony Awards for Best Leading Actor in a Play (Cole Escola) and Best Direction of a Play (Sam Pinkleton), Drama League Awards for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Direction of a Play, as well as a special citation from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. It was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Photo credit: Marc J Franklin

Sam Pinkleton (Director of Oh, Mary!) received a Tony Award and a Drama League Award for his work on Oh, Mary!. As a director, his work includes Josh Sharp: ta-da!,Morgan Bassichis: Can I Be Frank?, You Will Get Sick (Roundabout), The Wizard of Oz (A.C.T.), Elizabeth Swados’ Runaways (Encores!/Shakespeare in the Park), Head Over Heels (with Jenny Koons, Pasadena Playhouse) and Untitled DanceShowPartyThing (with Ani Taj, Virgin Voyages). As choreographer: Stephen Sondheim’s final musical Here We Are (The Shed/ National Theater UK); Jeanine Tesori and David Henry Hwang’s Soft Power (The Public/CTG); and seven Broadway shows including Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Proud SDC Member.

Photo credit: Corinne Louie

Hannah Solow ("Mary Todd Lincoln" and "Mary's Chaperone" Standby) made her Broadway debut in Oh, Mary! National Tour: Oklahoma!, directed by Daniel Fish. As a comedian, her original characters and songs have been performed in every basement in New York City. Former house performer at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. BFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Photo credit: Robb Sapp

Bianca Leigh ("Mary’s Chaperone/Bill," Original Broadway Company). Previous credits include Waxy Bush in The Nap (u/s, performed) at MTC, Frannie Halcyon in Tales of the City: The Musical, in concert at the Music Box Theatre, Time/Wind in Taylor Mac’s The Lily's Revenge, Tatiana in Trans Scripts, Part 1: The Women, Mary Ellen in the groundbreaking film Transamerica, and Dr. Rachel Sandow on Law & Order: SVU. Her writings include "Orla" in Overheard: Fourteen Monologues commissioned by the Breaking the Binary Festival. She is featured in Laverne Cox’s documentary Disclosure on Netflix, and can be heard on Audible’s recording of Chonburi International Hotel and Butterfly Club.

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