Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain and Tony nominee Arian Moayed to star in “A Doll’s House” on Broadway, which is directed by Jamie Lloyd.
The Jamie Lloyd Company announced that Oscar winner Jessica Chastain will portray Nora Helmer in Lloyd’s radical new production of Henrik Ibsen’s landmark drama “A Doll’s House” in a new version by Amy Herzog.
Chastain will be joined by Arian Moayed, a Tony and Emmy nominee nominee, who will play Torvald Helmer, Jesmille Darbouze as Kristine Linde, Tasha Lawrence as Anne-Marie, Michael Patrick Thornton as Dr. Rank, and Grammy winner Okieriete Onaodowan as Nils Krogstad.
They will be joined by understudies Franklin Bongjio, Carey Rebecca Brown, Melisa Soledad Pereyra, and Jose Joaquin Perez.
The design team will include two-time Tony Award nominee Soutra Gilmour (scenic
design and costume co-design), Enver Chakartash (costume co-design), Tony
Award winner Jon Clark (lighting design), Drama Desk Award winners Ben and Max
Ringham (sound design), with music from Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto,
Jennifer Rias (choreographer), Jim Carnahan Casting, CSA and Alexandre Bleau,
CSA (casting directors), Frank Lombardi (production stage manager), Brandon
Allmon-Jackson (stage manager), and 101 Productions (general management).
The creative team also includes Jonathan Glew (associate director), Michael
Carnahan and Wilson Chin (associate scenic design), Ricky Lurie (associate
costume design), Domino Mannheim (associate lighting design), and Chris Cronin
(associate sound design).
This strictly limited 16-week engagement will play Broadway’s Hudson Theatre with preview performances beginning Monday, February 13, 2023, ahead of a Thursday, March 9, 2023 opening night.
A Doll’s House thrust drama firmly into the modern age when it premiered in 1879.
Now, nearly a century-and-a-half later, Tony Award nominee Jamie Lloyd and
acclaimed playwright Amy Herzog will make freshly relevant a story that shocked
audiences and brought forth a new era of theater.
One of the most acclaimed actors of her generation, Jessica Chastain will inhabit one of the theater’s most iconic roles, re-energizing the play for a whole new generation.
This spring, The Jamie Lloyd Company will celebrate its 10th anniversary. The
company has created some of the most thrilling theater of the last decade including 2013’s Olivier Award-winning revival of Macbeth which starred James McAvoy and Claire Foy, and the landmark 2018 “Pinter at the Pinter” season, a celebration of the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s work, which culminated in the critically lauded production of Betrayal starring Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox.
The Jamie Lloyd Company production of A Doll’s House is produced on Broadway by Ambassador Theatre Group, Gavin Kalin Productions, and Wessex Grove.
Jessica Chastain
Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain (will play Nora Helmer) has received numerous nominations and accolades for her work. She is returning to Broadway after a decade.
She can currently be seen in her Golden Globe-nominated performance as country music legend Tammy Wynette in Showtime’s limited series “George & Tammy,” opposite Michael Shannon as George Jones.
This limited series will chronicle the country music power couple and their
complicated relationship, based on the book “The Three of Us: Growing Up with
Tammy and George,” written by the couple’s daughter, Georgette Jones.
Chastain’s starring role in 2021 as the incomparable Tammy Faye in “The Eyes of
Tammy Faye” earned her the award for Best Actress at the Screen Actors Guild
Awards, Critics Choice Awards, and the Academy Awards. Produced by Freckle
Films, the film also won the 2022 Oscar for “Best Makeup and Hairstyling.”
Her recent work includes Netflix’s “The Good Nurse,” HBO’s “Scenes From A
Marriage,” Universal’s The 355, and Roadside Pictures’ “The Forgiven.”
Previously, she could be seen in the on-stage theater production of Salome, It Chapter 2, Molly’s Game, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Interstellar, Tree of Life, and Zero Dark Thirty, which earned her the 2013 Critics’ Choice Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and an Academy Award nomination.
In addition to her acclaimed work as an actor, Chastain launched Freckle Films, a
New York based film and television production company, in 2016. Freckle Films is currently developing a series adaptation of the novel His & Hers written by Alice Feeney as well as The School For Good Mothers written by Jessamine Chan.
Arian Moayed
Arian Moayed will play Torvald Helmer in this production. He is an Iranian-born Emmy and Tony Award nominated actor, writer, and director and the co-founder of Waterwell, as well as a partner at the for-profit Waterwell Films.
Moayed received an Emmy nomination for his work as ‘Stewy’ in the HBO series “Succession.” Additional television credits include “Inventing Anna,” “Love Life,” and “Ms. Marvel.” As part of Waterwell Films, Moayed wrote and directed the digital series “The Accidental Wolf.” The thriller has three seasons currently streaming on Topic (from First Look Media).
To learn more about “A Doll’s House” on Broadway, check out its official website.
