Jeff Cohen, in addition to being a masterful director, has a keen eye for talent. He is known for unearthing unknown people, as he did with Laura Linney when she had her New York Stage debut in the 1990 production of his adaption of The Seagull. Additionally, he has helped launch the careers of such highly touted young playwrights as Christopher Shinn (Four), Hilary Bettis (American Girls) and Tristine Skyler (The Moonlight Room), and actors Michael Ealy (Barbershop), Ella Joyce (Roc) and Kathryn Hahn (“Crossing Jordan”).
In Cohen's upcoming Tartuffe he is doing it again: Christina DeCicco, playing sexy, flapper-wife Elmire, was Glinda in the National Tour of Wicked and has won a Barrymore Award and a “Philly” Award, is making her NY stage debut. Cohen has called DeCicco the "prize of the production". She has an impressive pedigree but is yet unknown by NY critics.
Keith Buterbaugh as Orgon, the rich man who gets swindled, was in the hit Broadway revival of Company and was also in Broadway’s Phantom of the Opera. And, finally, playing the swindler Tartuffe is the hilarious Tom Ford (not the fashion designer) whose credits include the Broadway and National Tour production of By Jeeves.
In the intimate setting of @Seaport, see these actors' raw talent first hand.
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