{"id":330392,"date":"2026-08-26T18:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330392\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:54:16","slug":"casting-revealed-for-mona-pirnots-i-became-we-at-atlantic-theater-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330392\/","title":{"rendered":"Casting Revealed For Mona Pirnot’s I Became We at Atlantic Theater Company"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casting has been revealed for the Atlantic Theater Company<\/a>\u00a0of Obie Award winner\u00a0Mona Pirnot<\/a>‘s\u00a0I Became We<\/a>.\u00a0Obie Award winner Sarah\u00a0Benson will direct the world premiere, running October 16 through November 15 at the Off-Broadway theatre. An official opening night is set for October 27.<\/p>\n

The play, a first-person monologue performed by a 16-person choir, centers on\u00a0a woman in her mid-30s wrestling with one of life\u2019s most important decisions. The work will feature\u00a0plainspoken, contemporary language sung in the stylings of classical choral music.\u00a0Pirnot and Jack D. Coen<\/a> wrote the lyrics.<\/p>\n

The cast will include\u00a0Alison Cheeseman, Paul Chew MinChul, Oliver Holt, Heather Jones, Helen Karloski, Chad Kranak, Katie McCreary, Neil Netherly, Logan Pitts, Carrie Quarquesso, AnnMarie Sandy, Michael Steinberger, Gergorio Taniguchi, Tyler Tejada, Elizabeth van Os, and Jen Wu, with further\u00a0casting to be announced.<\/p>\n

The production will feature sets\u00a0by Mimi Lien<\/a>, costumes by Louisa Thompson<\/a>, lights by Tuce Yasak, sound by Palmer Hefferen, choral casting by Margery Daley<\/a>, and musical direction, orchestrations and arrangements by Jack D. Coen. Tyler Crow will serve as the production stage manager. <\/p>\n

For tickets and more information, visit here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casting has been revealed for the Atlantic Theater Company\u00a0of Obie Award winner\u00a0Mona Pirnot‘s\u00a0I Became We.\u00a0Obie Award winner Sarah\u00a0Benson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-330392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}