Pen Pals | A New Play by Michael Griffo

Friday, March 20, 6:30pm

Saturday, March 21, 4:30pm

Starring three-time Tony Award® nominee and two-time Emmy nominee for Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, Kate Burton, and Broadway (Outer Critics Circle nominee) and Television’s Sisters and thirtysomething, Patricia Kalember.

Two Women. Five Decades. One Extraordinary Friendship. 

The Smash Hit Comes to Aspen For A Strictly Limited Engagement! Pen Pals is the extraordinary story of two friends that unfolds over decades. Bernie and Mags live in two different countries, they’ve never met, and yet they’re best friends. Because they’ve been pen pals for over fifty years. Since they were teenagers, they’ve shared every aspect of their lives with each other. The trivial bits, the most intimate details, all the happiness, all the heartache. They’ve told each other things they wouldn’t dare tell another soul. Even though Bernie lives in New Jersey and Mags is from England, the women are closer to each other than anyone else in the world. Come witness the journey of their lifetime. In their own words. 

Tickets:

Standard Seating: $65

Premium Seating (Assigned Section) – $95
includes premium assigned seating in Paepcke Auditorium

Run Time for each performance is 90 minutes.

Online sales end 5:00pm day of performance, tickets may be available for purchase at the door. 

Kate Burton

KATE BURTON: Most recent: Kyoto at LCT (Stephen Daldry, Justin Martin). Tony Nominations: Hedda Gabler (Nicholas Martin, also Bay Street, WTF, Huntington), The Elephant Man (starring Billy Crudup, director Sean Mathias), The Constant Wife (Mark Brokaw). Other Broadway: Present Laughter 1982 (starring and directed by George C. Scott) and 2017 (starring Kevin Kline, director Moritz von Steulpnagel), Alice in Wonderland (Eva Le Gallienne), Doonesbury (Jacques Levy), Wild Honey (starring Ian McKellen, director Christopher Morahan), Jake’s Women (starring Alan Alda, director Gene Saks), Company (starring Boyd Gaines, director Scott Ellis), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Garry Hynes, also UK/Ireland tour), An American Daughter (Dan Sullivan), Some Americans Abroad (Roger Michell). Other theater: RSC: The Constant Wife (Tamara Harvey). West End: Three Sisters (with Kristin Scott Thomas, director Michael Blakemore). NYSF: Coriolanus and Cymbeline (Dan Sullivan). Old Globe: The Tempest (Joe Dowling). Irish Rep: Irishtown (Nicola Murphy Dubey), The Dead, 1904 (Ciaran O’Reilly). Second Stage: The Water’s Edge (Will Frears). CTG: Arcadia, The House of Blue Leaves, The Price, A Christmas Carol (Old Vic). Huntington: Aristocrats, The Cherry Orchard, The Corn Is Green, The Seagull. 20 summers at Williamstown Theatre Festival. TV: Emmy nominations for Grey’s Anatomy (Ellis Grey) and Scandal (Sally Langston); also Empire Falls, Homeland, FBI, Bull, NCIS: New Orleans, Veep, Grimm, 13 Reasons Why, The West Wing, The Good Wife, Rescue Me, 100 Centre Street, Law & Order. Film: Dumb Money, The Surrender (SXSW), Our Son (Tribeca FF), Violent Ends, Breaking, 2 Days in New York, Liberal Arts, The Ice Storm, 127 Hours, Celebrity, Unfaithful, August, Max Payne, and Big Trouble in Little China. Professor at Brown and USC. Actor’s Equity Councillor. Brown Honorary Doctorate. Graduate: Brown (BA) and Yale School of Drama (MFA).

Patricia Kalember

PATRICIA KALEMBER Films include Limitless, The Company Men, The Girl in the Park, Signs, Custody and Jacob’s Ladder. She was a series regular on Sisters, thirtysomething and Kay O’Brien. Other television credits include Power, Power Book II: Ghost, Power Book IV: Force, Orange is the New Black, Olive Kittridge, Coercion, Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, Gossip Girl and Path to War. She was last seen on Broadway in Lousing Louie and starred in Don’t Dress For Dinner at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago. She was in the original casts of The Nerd and The Foreigner (Outer Critics Circle nominee). Other NY credits include Sea of Tranquility at Atlantic Theatre Company, Y2K at Manhattan Theatre Club, From Above at Playwrights Horizons, and Loose Knit at Second Stage. She is married to the actor Daniel Gerroll. They have three children and live in Connecticut.

Hannah Ryan, Director

HANNAH RYAN: Broadway: Hamilton, An American in Paris, Curious Incident, Doctor Zhivago & 700 Sundays. Australia & Switzerland: An American in Paris. Regional: Gypsy, Love, Loss and What I Wore, Sally and Long Drive Home (Theatre Aspen) Carol of the Bells (Goodspeed) Vilna: A Resistance Story (The Ebell of Los Angeles) Spring Awakening (Cincinnati Conservatory of Music) Confidence and The Speech (Theatre Row) Roe (Post Theatre Co.) All Dressed Up (Redhouse) Riot Song (Joe’s Pub) Every Path (La Jolla Playhouse & Moxie Theatre) Sally (Alabama Shakespeare Festival) Still Life (Keller Gallery) The Guys (Davenport Theatre) Ascended (Zoetic Stage) Let’s Misbehave (Mr. Finn’s Cabaret) Cendrillon & Gianni Schicchi (Point Loma Opera) Member of SDC, Drama League Director’s Project, SDC Foundation Denham Fellow. Hannahmryan.com