Written by Lucy Prebble

Directed by Rupert Goold

Inspired by the real-life financial scandal of 2001, ENRON uses music, dance and video to explore one of the most infamous scandals in financial history, reviewing the tumultuous 1990s and casting a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world currently finds itself.

 
Directed by Rupert Goold, ENRON starred Tony Award Winner Norbert Leo Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Emmy and Tony Award nominee Gregory Itzin (President Charles Logan on FOX’s “24”), Three Time Tony nominee Marin Mazzie (Kiss Me, Kate, Ragtime, Passion), and Tony award nominee Stephen Kunken (Rock ‘n Roll, Frost/Nixon).

Jordan Ballard, Brandon J. Dirden, Rightor Doyle, Anthony Holds, Ty Jones, Ian Kahn, January LaVoy, Tom Nelis, Madisyn Shipman, Jeff Skowron, Lusia Strus, Mary Stewart Sullivan, Noah Weisberg, Ben Hartley, and Ellyn Marie Marsh completed the cast.

ENRON, was commissioned by Headlong Theatre and premiered in the summer 2009 at the Minerva Theatre Chichester before moving for a six-week run at the Royal Court Theatre where it played through November 8, 2009. The play transferred to the West End’s Noel Coward Theatre in January 2010.

Category: Play, Drama, Original, Broadway
Setting: Houston, Texas, between 1992 and the present day.
1^st Preview Performance: April 8, 2010
Opening Night Performance: April 27, 2010
Final Performance: May 9, 2010
Total # of Performances: 16
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2010 Tony Award^® Best Original Score– Adam Cork & Lucy Prebble (nominee)
2010 Tony Award^® Best Featured Actor in a Play – Stephen Kunken (nominee)
2010 Tony Award^® Best Lighting Design of a Play – Mark Henderson (nominee)
2010 Tony Award^® Best Sound Design of a Play – Adam Cork (nominee)
2010 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Sound Design – Adam Cork (nominee)

Opening Night Production Credits 

Opening Night Cast
Norbert Leo Butz (Jeffrey Skilling)
Jordan Ballard (Employee, News Reporter, Analyst)
Brandon Dirden (Security Guard, Trader)
Rightor Doyle (Board Member, Lehman Brother, Trader, Employee)
Anthony Holds (Lehman Brother, Trader, Arthur Andersen, Police Officer)
Gregory Itzin (Kenneth Lay)
Ty Jones (Lawyer, Trader)
Ian Kahn (Lawyer, Trader)
Stephen Kunken (Andy Fastow)
January LaVoy (Employee, News Reporter, Prostitute, Hewitt)
Marin Mazzie (Claudia Roe)
Tom Nelis (Senator, Trader, Analyst, Judge)
Madisyn Shipman (Daughter - Alternate)
Jeff Skowron (Court Officer, Trader, Analyst)
Mary Stewart Sullivan (Daughter - Alternate)
Lusia Strus (Sheryl Sloman, Congresswoman, Irene Grant)
Noah Weisberg (Ramsay, Trader, Analyst)

Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization (Phillip J. Smith: Chairman; Robert E. Wankel: President)

Produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Matthew Byam Shaw, ACT Productions, Neal Street Productions, Beverly Bartner & Norman Tulchin, Lee Menzies, Bob Boyett, Scott M. Delman, INFINITY Stages, JK Productions, The Araca Group, Jamie deRoy, Mallory Factor, Michael Filerman, Ian Flooks, Ronald Frankel, James Fuld, Jr., Dena Hammerstein, Sharon Karmazin, Cheryl Lachowicz, Ostar Productions, Parnassus Enterprise, Jon B. Platt, Judith Resnick, Daryl Roth, Stein and Gunderson Company, Anita Waxman, The Weinstein Company, Barry & Carole Kaye, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley, Barry & Fran Weissler and The Shubert Organization (Phillip J. Smith: Chairman; Robert E. Wankel: President); Associate Producer: Jeremy Scott Blaustein

Originally produced by Headlong Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and The Royal Court Theatre

Written by Lucy Prebble; Music Composed by Adam Cork

Directed by Rupert Goold; Choreographed by Scott Ambler; Associate Director: Sophie Hunter; Assistant Choreographer: Ben Hartley

Scenic Design by Anthony Ward; Costume Design by Anthony Ward; Lighting Design by Mark Henderson; Sound Design by Adam Cork; Video and Projection Design by Jon Driscoll; Associate Scenic Design: Christine Peters; Associate Costume Design: Patrick Bevilacqua; Associate Lighting Design: Michael Jones; Associate Sound Design: Chris Cronin

General Manager: Richards / Climan, Inc.; Company Manager: Mary C. Miller

Technical Supervisor: Hudson Theatrical Associates; Production Stage Manager: Barclay Stiff; Stage Manager: Matthew Farrell

Advertising: Serino Coyne, Inc.; Interactive Marketing: Situation Interactive; Casting: Telsey + Company; Press Representative: Jeffrey Richards Associates, Irene Gandy and Alana Karpoff

"AN ASTONISHING THRILL RIDE THROUGH THE HIGH-FLYING NINETIES, and a chilling precursor to everything that would follow. Lucy Prebble's writing and the production dreamed up by director Rupert Goold are stunning, providing steady wonder, involvement and delight. The semi-factual drama will appeal to those familiar with the case and knowledgeable about its most esoteric aspects. The rest of us can revel in the racy dialogue, remarkable visuals and frequent humor delivered by a virtuosic ensemble. As Jeffrey Skilling, Norbert Leo Butz gives the performance of two lifetimes. One part is a cool scoundrel of the most thoroughgoing duplicity, the other is the good father and boy genius afloat on the childlike glee of his own Machiavellianism."
- John Simon, Bloomberg.com 

"OUTRAGEOUSLY ENTERTAINING, INCREDIBLY FASCINATING, RIVETING THEATRE! Bravo to the entire company. Gregory Itzin as Ken Lay, Stephen Kunken as Andy Fastow and Marin Mazzie as Jeff Skilling's fictional rival are all excellent. But Norbert Leo Butz is brilliant, dominating the stage."
- Roma Torre, NY-1

“Drawing from a deep bag of theatrical tricks and riffling through found text, news videos and observed gestures, Prebble and Goold supply Broadway theatergoers with the sort of play they demand—a sharp-witted and rollicking business thriller to dazzle the eye and tickle the brain. IF ENRON’S STOCK WERE STILL CIRCLING THE TICKER, MY ADVICE WOULD BE TO BUY, BUY, BUY”
- David Cote, TimeOut NY

"THIS IS ONE HELL OF A PLAY! An utterly thrilling and deeply theatrical experience. Playwright Lucy Prebble and director Rupert Goold have delivered a surprising and remarkable creation. Together they take the seemingly dry subject matter and with a clever, tightly constructed script and dark, menacing, inventive staging, produce a vibrant deeply theatrical experience. Norbert Leo Butz is charming, smarmy, defiant and excellent. Marin Mazzie is sexy and commanding."
- Jesse Oxfeld, The New York Observer

"A WHIP-SMART EDGE OF YOUR SEAT RIDE THAT RIVALS ANYTHING AT SIX FLAGS! Director Rupert Goold and playwright Lucy Prebble make the financial sleight of hand and power struggles both easy to follow and unabashedly flashy, making financial management as entertaining as pulp fiction. NORBERT LEO BUTZ gives a tour de force performance as the business school visionary who drinks his own Kool Aid and loses touch with reality, along with any kind of moral compass."
- Elisabeth Vincentelli, NY Post

"A FRENETIC KALEIDOSCOPE OF GREED, FRAUD AND GENIUS! This magnificently orchestrated multimedia extravaganza is one of the most vibrant offerings on Broadway this season.
- Charles McNulty, The LA Times 

NORBERT LEO BUTZ (Jeffrey Skilling). Broadway: Speed-the-Plow, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama League Award winner, Best Actor, Musical), Is He Dead?, Wicked (original Cast, Fiyero), Thou Shalt Not (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics nominations), Rent (original cast, Broadway debut). Off-Broadway: Fifty Words, Buicks (Drama Desk nomination), The Last Five Years (Drama Desk, Lortel nominations, Drama League Award), Juno and the Paycock, Saved. National tour: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Cabaret (Helen Hayes, Jefferson, Dora and Ovation Awards). Regional: Catch Me If You Can (5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle), Alabama Shakespeare Festival (four seasons), Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Film: Fair Game, Dan in Real Life. Television: “The Deep End” (ABC), “The Associates” (ABC), “Playing Chicken” (FOX), “Comanche Moon” (CBS miniseries). BFA, Webster University; MFA, Alabama Shakespeare Theatre.

GREGORY ITZIN (Kenneth Lay) was Emmy nominated for his portrayal of President Charles Logan on “24” and returns to the show this year after appearing for two seasons as Agent Virgil Minnelli on “The Mentalist.” Itzin received Tony and Drama Desk nominations for The Kentucky Cycle (Broadway, Kennedy Center). He trained at the American Conservatory Theatre before beginning his career in film (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Law Abiding Citizen), television (“Something Wilder,” “Star Trek(s),” “The Practice,” “Murder One”) and stage (Romeo and Juliet, Shipwrecked!: South Coast Repertory and Geffen Playhouse) and Psycopathia Sexualis (Mark Taper). He won  numerous awards for his performances in The Homecoming, The Birthday Party and Waiting for Godot at the Matrix Theatre. He dedicates this show to his family, especially his father, M.J. Itzin.

MARIN MAZZIE (Claudia Roe). Broadway: Kiss Me, Kate (Tony, Drama Desk noms., Outer Critics Award; Olivier nom., West End); Ragtime (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics noms.); Passion (Tony nom.); Spamalot (also West End); Man of La Mancha; Kismet and Out of This World (Encores!); Camelot (NY Phil/PBS); Sondheim: The Birthday Concert (NY Phil/PBS). Marin recently played Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire at Barrington Stage Company. TV: “Still Standing,” “Without a Trace,” “Numb3rs,” “Jake in Progress,” “Stacked,” “Pryor Offenses.” Concerts: Marin has sung with every major pops orchestra and numerous symphonies across the country. Recordings: Opposite You with husband Jason Danieley; numerous cast albums. Marin holds an honorary doctorate and has a musical theatre scholarship in her name from her alma mater, Western Michigan. Marinmazzie.com, MarinandJason.com

STEPHEN KUNKEN (Andy Fastow). Broadway: Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, Frost/Nixon (Outer Critics Circle and Drama League nominations), Festen, Proof. National tour: Proof. Off-Broadway: Stage Manager in David Cromer’s Our Town (Barrow Street), Our House (Playwrights Horizons), A Very Common Procedure (MCC, Drama League nomination), Fabulation (Playwrights Horizons), Journals of Mihail Sebastian (Keen Co.), The Story (Public Theater), A Dybbuk (Public Theater), Arrangements (Atlantic Theater Co.), Henry VIII (NYSF), Misalliance (Roundabout Theater). Regional: Quartermaine’s Terms, True West, Three Sisters (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Mister Roberts (Kennedy Center). Television: “Gossip Girl,” “The Unusuals,” “New Amsterdam,” all the “Law & Order(s),” “The Sopranos,” “Spin City,” “Far East,” “Mary and Rhoda.” Film: All Good Things (2010), Taking Woodstock, The Girl in the Park, Wait ‘til This Year, Light/Sufferer, Bamboozled. Multiple honors from Juilliard’s Graduate Acting Program. 2004 Fox Fellowship recipient.

JORDAN BALLARD (Employee/News Reporter/Analyst) returns to Broadway after a two-year engagement as one of Bette Midler’s famed Harlettes. Other credits include: Broadway: Hairspray. National tour: Hairspray; Rent; tick, tick…BOOM!; Footloose. Concert: Liza’s Back (Beacon Theatre). TV: “Reno 911” (guest star), “ER” (guest star), “Oprah,” ”Tonight Show.” Film: Sex and the City 2. Endless gratitude to BT, all at Telsey + Co. and as always, EF. For my Fam.

BRANDON J. DIRDEN (Security Guard/Trader). Broadway: Prelude to a Kiss (Roundabout, Daniel Sullivan, dir.). Off-Broadway: The First Breeze of Summer (Signature Theatre, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, dir.), 52nd St. Project. Regional: South Coast Rep, Huntington Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Playmakers Rep, Georgia, Utah and North Carolina Shakespeare Festivals. Training: MFA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; BA, Morehouse College.

RIGHTOR DOYLE (Lehman Brother/Trader/Employee/Board Member). Broadway Debut. New York: The Nosemaker’s Apprentice, Bully to You, Peter and the Starcatchers (Disney Theatricals workshop), Two Gents. London: The Lightning Field. Williamstown: Knickerbocker, Trouble Tales (for boys and girls), The Prophet Muhammad: A Musical, Help Yourself. TV/film: “Law & Order: SVU,” “True Blood” expose (Bloodcopy/HBO). Education: Bard College. WHO DAT.

ANTHONY HOLDS (Lehman Brother/Trader/Arthur Andersen/Police Officer). Broadway: Monty Python’s Spamalot, Pal Joey, Dracula. Sir Galahad on first national tour of Spamalot. Off-Broadway: The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Steve Jobs in Nerds (‘05 NYMF). Regional highlights: Company (Bobby), The Full Monty (Jerry), The Last Five Years (Jamie), Titanic (Andrews). TV: “Law & Order.” Former naval officer and Annapolis graduate. Love and thanks to Mom and Dad. www.anthonyholds.com

TY JONES (Lawyer/Trader). B’way/Off- B’way: The Blacks (Obie Award), Julius Caesar, Henry IV, Judgment at Nuremberg. Classical Theatre of Harlem: Macbeth, The Trojan Women, King Lear. Regional: American Shakespeare Theatre Company: Hamlet; Baltimore Center Stage/MSC: Six Degrees of Separation; Guthrie: Fences. Film/TV: The Taking of Pelham 123, The International, Redacted, My Normal, “Law & Order” (Al l ! ) . Writing credits : Emancipation (Sundance finalist). Named “One of 25 to Watch” by Time Out Magazine.

IAN KAHN (Lawyer/Trader). Theatre: Still Life (MCC), Arsenic and Old Lace (Baltimore), My Fair Lady (Media), The Importance of Being Earnest (Arena), Long Day’s Journey (Alley), The Tempest (McCarter), The Glass Menagerie (St. Louis), Arcadia (Wilma), Ghosts (Hartford). Film: The Box, Brooklyn Lobster. TV: “The Unusuals,” “Dawson’s Creek,” “Bull,” “Sex and the City,” all “Laws” & all “Orders,” the upcoming Lifetime movie “Secrets in the Walls.”

JANUARY LaVOY (Employee/News Reporter/Hewitt). Broadway: debut. Off-Broadway: Coraline (MCC); Two Trains Running, Home (Signature); Joy. Regional: Denver Center, Shakespeare NJ, City Theatre, Pittsburgh Public, Wilma, CATF. TV/film: Noelle Ortiz on “One Life to Live,” “Law & Order,” “3 lbs.,” “Guiding Light,” “All My Children,” War of the Worlds. MFA, National Theatre Conservatory; BA, Fairfield University. Thanks to Hartig Hilepo and Telsey + Co. For Mom, Dad and MLC.

TOM NELIS (Senator/Trader/Analyst Judge). Broadway: Caine Mutiny Court- Martial, Aida. Also: SITI Company, Suzuki Company of Toga, Royal Shakespeare Company, Martha Graham Company, Hot Mouth, Public Theater, Signature, New York Theatre Workshop, BAM, City Opera, Playwrights Horizons, Anne Bogart, Laurie Anderson, Richard Foreman, Tina Landau, Jerry Zaks, John Doyle, Joanne Akalaitis, Mark Lamos, Des McAnuff, Les Waters, Bill T. Jones, Chuck Mee, Stephen Sondheim, Obie Award, MFA UCSD. 

MADISYN SHIPMAN (Daughter) is excited about her Broadway debut! Television: “Sesame Street,” “SNL,” “Umizoomi.” She collects American Girl dolls. Special thanks to Mom, Dad, the Shirley Grant Management team and God!

JEFF SKOWRON (Trader/Analyst/Court Officer). Broadway: The Lion King (Ed, Timon, Zazu), Beauty and the Beast (Lefou), High Society (Stanley), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (u/s The Grinch). Off-Broadway: Debbie Does Dallas, Zombie Prom. Film: New York City Serenade, The Narrows, How to Seduce Difficult Women, The Good Shepherd, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Premium, Chapter 27.Webseries: The Burg, Greg and Donny.

LUSIA STRUS (Sheryl Sloman/Congresswoman/ Irene Grant). Chicago born and bred. Credits include The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons); numerous plays at Goodman, Chi c ago Shakespeare , Steppenwolf (including her commissioned solo show – L.A. Weekly Award), Humana Festival and Henry IV (Royal Shakespeare Company). TV: pilots (NBC, FOX), “Crossing Jordan,” “Early Edition.” Films include Stir of Echoes, 50 First Dates, Miss Congeniality 2 and Gus Van Sant’s upcoming Restless. Proud member of the Neo-Futurists.

MARY STEWART SULLIVAN (Daughter), eight years old, is making her Broadway debut. She enjoys reading, singing, dancing, acting and sports. She has appeared in commercials, print, vocal recordings and local theatre. Thanks to God, Mom, Dad, Clay and Shirley Grant Management for making my dreams come true!

NOAH WEISBERG (Trader/Analyst/ Ramsay). Broadway: South Pacific, Legally Blonde. Other NY: F#@king Up Everything, Shakespeare in the Park, Awesome 80’s Prom. Tours: Big, Grease. TV: “Law & Order,” “The Good Wife,” “Law & Order: CI,” “Cashmere Mafia,” “Love Monkey,” “Team Umizoomi,” “Kenny the Shark,” “JoJo’s Circus.” Film: Across the Universe, And Then Came Love, Nightmare, DOONCE! Graduate NYU (CAP21). Founder: www.ImAnActor.com. Also: www.CastNoah.com.

LUCY PREBBLE (Playwright) is the creator of the television series “Secret Diary of a Call Girl,” starring Billie Piper in the title role. “Secret Diary” is now entering its third season on the Showtime network. She won the George Devine Award forMost Promising Playwright for her debut play The Sugar Syndrome in May 2004, followed by the TMA Award for Best New Play. Enron, her second play, won the TMA Award for Best New Play 2009 and has been  nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Best Play.

RUPERT GOOLD (Director) is artistic director of Headlong Theatre and an associate director of the Royal  Shakespeare Company. Credits for Headlong include Earthquakes in London (National Theatre); Enron (winner, Best Director Olivier Award and Evening Standard Award 2010); Six Characters in Search of an Author (West End); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Almeida); King Lear (Young Vic); Rough Crossings, Faustus, Restoration and Paradise Lost (national tour). Other credits include Time and the Conways (National Theatre); Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); No Man’s Land (Gate Theatre Dublin/West End; winner, Best Director, Irish Times); Macbeth (Chichester/West End/Broadway; winner, Best Director, Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle and Olivier Awards); The Glass Menagerie (West End); Speaking Like Magpies, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet (RSC); Scaramouche Jones (Dublin/world tour); Sunday Father, Gone to L.A. (Hampstead); The Colonel Bird (Gate). Opera includes Turandot (English National Opera); Le Comte Ory (Garsington Opera); L’Opera Seria, Gli Equivoci and Il Pomo d’Oro (Batignano). From 2002-5 Rupert was artistic director of the Royal and Derngate theatres in Northampton, where he directed Arcadia, Summer Lightning, The Weir, Waiting for Godot, Othello and Hamlet. He was associate artist at Salisbury Playhouse from 1996-97 during its reopening under Jonathan Church, directing Travels With My Aunt and The End of the Affair. This year his film of Macbeth with Patrick Stewart will be broadcast on PBS.