Written and Directed by: Stephan Morrow

This play is about the brutal invasion of Ukraine. It is the story of several people caught up in it so it follows the story of a Russian commander who is disillusioned enough to go over to the Ukranian side, is captured and is condemned to death as a traitor. When he is suddenly released a saga follows that involves his ex-flame, the CIA and Number One. We see it as a wish fulfillment for the Ukranian people while we also grieve for the Russian conscripts as well as the Ukranian dead involved in this uncalled for military adventure.

We are very privileged to have reassembled several veterans from our past outings in Dream Up and other productions. Cast : Emilie Bienne, George Lugo, Joe Marshall, Liam McGowan, Stephan Morrow, Aida Thomas, Aaron Watkins, Justin Thomas.

Stephan Morrow - Writer and Director:
Stephan is a proud veteran of the Off Off Bway arena. Over the last ten years at TNC: He just finished acting in and directing “Sometime Child” by Richard Bruce. In 2018 as Dramaturg and director - Anne Lucas' 'Recovery' was submitted for The Pulitzer Prize by Crystal Field, Executive Director of TNC. In 2019 he acted, wrote and directed '**The Assassination of J. Kaisaar and the Rise of Augustus – the Sopranos meet Mad Max – **a retelling of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. It won its first award in The American Filmatic Arts Awards (Feb '22) and has been screened by 1900 plus viewers on you tube:  *
https://youtu.be/tKk1tqyrDeU

* Over seven years he directed six productions for Mario Fratti (author of ‘Nine’) that included ‘Trio’( Oct. 2010), ‘Quartet’, 'Duo', 'The Suicide Club and Three Sisters and a Priest', ‘The Vatican Knows – about that young woman’, ‘Six Passionate Women’ ,‘The Women' and 'The Academy’ ( in which he also acted the lead). He has had a long relationship with Mr. Fratti : The first play he acted in was in Fratti's acclaimed production of 'The Cage' at The Manhattan Theater Club. In 2014 he adapted John Steppling's dark
play 'Dogmouth' from his TNC stage production into an independent film: Official Selection of ten film festivals. Seven awards. Swept The Bergenfield Film Festival: Best Writer - John Steppling. Best Producing -
Rob Hunkele and Best Actor - Stephan Morrow. (available on vimeo). *

* In May (2012) he directed Claudio Angelini’s satiric musical comedy ‘Obama in Naples’ at The June Havoc Theater which was greatly honored to be staged at The Italian Embassy in Washington D.C. He directed a second Angelini production – ‘My Wife in a Chador’ at TNC. At '59 E 59St Theaters' he directed J. Gilhooley's 'Triangle' in the centennial year of the Shirtwaist Triangle fire tragedy in a sold out run. He also worked with Murray Schisgal ('Tootsie') on two satires: 'Wall St Fandango' and 'The Japanese Foreign Trade Minister' directing several staged readings of them. In 2009 he portrayed Marion Faye and directed a month long run of ‘performances on book’ of ‘The Deer Park - or Hollywood Goes to Hell’ by Norman Mailer at The Nuyorican Poets Café and was invited by Mr. Mailer to co-direct and act in a film of it. His long collaboration with Mr. Mailer began with his performance as Rod, ‘stuntman extraordinaire’, in** '**Strawhead - A memory play of Marilyn’ **at The Actor’s Studio written and directed by Mr. Mailer and he can be seen in Mailer’s cult classic **‘**Tough Guys Don’t Dance’* *co-starring opposite Ryan Oneal. *

*He is now a frequent moderator of the PD Unit of The Actor's Studio. (he was mentored into the unit by Elia Kazan). **As Artistic Director and founder of The Great American Play Series he has had the pleasure of resurrecting neglected American classics in ‘performances on book’ such as ‘After the Fall’ by A. Miller with Rebecca De Mornay, Mark Rydell, Barry Primus, Lyle Kessler and Sally Kirkland, ‘The Price’ with Paul Mazursky and Judith Light and has had the honor of being personally backed by Arthur Miller for his work on ‘Incident at Vichy’ - a four year mission to get it to a major venue staging four ‘performances on book’ with casts that included F. Murray Abraham, Richard Dreyfuss, Austin Pendleton, David Margulies, Fritz Weaver, Peter Weller and Fisher Stevens among others. His adaptation of Tenn.Williams' 'Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (plus One)' included Betsy Von Furstenberg and Larry Block. One of his favorite outings was a 'performance on book' of **Tony Kushner's 'A Bright Room Called Day' **with legendary Judith Malina (founder of the Living Theater). *