Rose byrne, bobby cannavale set for ‘medea’ at new york’s bam; adaptation taps true-life murder case

Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale will star in Simon Stone’s contemporary rewrite of the Euripides’ tragedy _Medea_ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in January. Originally staged in 2014 by

Amsterdam’s International Theater Amsterdam (formerly Toneelgroep Amsterdam), _Medea_ will pair real-life couple Byrne and Cannavale, with additional cast to be announced. Stone’s adaptation

of the Medea story uses the true-life crime case of American Debora Green, who poisoned her cheating husband and killed two of her three children in 1995. The adaptation played London’s

Barbican in 2019, where it starred Marieke Heebink and Aus Greidanus Jr. Byrne, whose performance on FX’s _Damages_ earned her an Emmy nomination, is currently in production for FX’s limited

series Mrs. America, the nine-episode drama in which she plays Gloria Steinem (set for a 2020 premiere). She’ll next be seen in comedy _Hostile Makeover (f_ormerly _Limited Partners_)

opposite Tiffany Haddish and Salma Hayek (Paramount releases January 10, 2020), and she currently voices the titular robot in the Netflix sci-fi thriller_ I Am Mother_. She was recently cast

in Jon Stewart’s upcoming campaign trail comedy _Irresistible_ opposite Steve Carell, and in _Lexi_, a new comedy by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Byrne made her Broadway debut in 2015 in _You

Can’t Take it With You_, playing the lead role opposite James Earl Jones and Kristine Neilsen. The following year she returned to the stage in the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of

David Mamet’s _Speed-the-Plow_. WATCH ON DEADLINE Cannavale was seen on Broadway last fall in _The Lifespan of a Fact,_ co-starring Daniel Radcliffe and Cherry Jones. His many stage credits

include the Tony-nominated _Mauritius, The Motherf*cker With The Hat, The Hairy Ape, Glengarry Glen Ross, HurlyBurly_, and others. He’s a member of the Labyrinth Theater Company. Upcoming

films include _The Irishman, Superintelligence, _and_ Motherless Brooklyn._ Director/writer Stone made his mainstage London debut with the Olivier Award-winning revival of Federico García

Lorca’s _Yerma_ (the production played New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2018). In 2016, Stone adapted Woody Allen’s _Husbands and Wives_ for the International Theater Amsterdam. “I’m excited

to welcome writer/director Simon Stone following his enormous success with _Yerma_,” said BAM Artistic Director David Binder, “and look forward to having the incredible actors Rose Byrne

and Bobby Cannavale in lead roles on our stage.” _Medea_ will be produced in Brooklyn by International Theater Amsterdam, BAM, and David Lan, who will serve as BAM’s Theater Associate.