limited engagement
following a sold out run @ 59E59 Theaters!
running october 17 - november 9, 2019
theatre one @ theatre row
410 W 42nd street
only four weeks to see it!
So engrossing and philosophically lively...exquisite.”
- Rollo Romig, The New Yorker
Imagining Madoff is an outstanding piece of theatre....an excellent and intriguing play...superb acting talents.”
- Marina Kennedy, Broadway World
Photos by Jody Christopherson @redheadjody
From the sold out run @ 59E59 Theaters, May 2019
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Margolin’s master stroke, in fact, is to not portray Madoff as a simple sociopath.”
Elysa Gardner
New York Stage Review
As written by Deb Margolin and fluidly directed by Jerry Heymann, this is a small peek into the enormous tsunami that hit in 2008 of the largest financial fraud in U.S. history.”
Sandi Durell
Theater Pizzazz
Beautifully written and artfully executed...Jeremiah Kissel, Jenny Allen, and Gerry Bamman are absolutely superb.”
Alan Miller
A Seat on the Aisle
Anyone telling me that Kissel’s performance isn’t one of the absolute best on a Manhattan stage right now will have an argument on his or her hands.”
David Finkle
New York Stage Review
Jeremiah Kissel swaggering in a power suit gleefully gives us the ballsy Madoff we desire ...Gerry Bamman is drolly commanding ...Jenny Allen is entrancing.”
Darryl Reilly
TheaterScene.net
Obie-winning Deb Margolin's brainy take on the greatest financial swindler of our times...sharply directed by Jerry Heymann.”
Samuel Leiter
Theater Pizzazz
Bamman and Kissel have great chemistry together and succeed at creating a sense of pathos.”
Ken Kaissar
Theatre Is Easy
Check out Imagining Madoff in The New York Times
'The Week in Arts'
meETcreatives
Jeremiah Kissel as Bernard Madoff
Gerry Bamman as Solomon Galkin
Jenny Allen as A Secretary
Written by Deb Margolin
Directed by Jerry Heymann
Scenic Design by Brian Dudkiewicz †
Costume Design by Kara Branch
Lighting Design by Michael O'Connor †
Sound Design by Andy Evan Cohen †
Prop Design by Leila Ben-Abdallah †
Stage Management by Caitlyn Dominguez*
Assistant Stage Management by Emma Burns & Linda Elizabeth
Costume Assistant by Paul Haesemeyer
Casting by TBD Casting
Press Representation by Karen Greco
† indicates NLTP company member - click on name for more info
Imagining Madoff finds Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff in prison, determined to control his own narrative for history as he dictates to a visiting biographer stories about his childhood, his family, women, money and an all-night meeting he had with Holocaust survivor and poet, Solomon Galkin. Considered both “intriguingly exercised” (Washington Post) and “rich with dramatic tension” (Tampa Bay Times), the play explores themes of greed, willful blindness to the truth, and the beauty and danger of absolute faith, either in God or in men.