Rob Campbell
	Merritt Janson
	Lisa Joyce
	Christina Rouner

Michael Rudko

Jonathan Franzen (Author)

Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels-- Freedom, The Corrections, The Twenty-Seventh City, and Strong Motion--and three works of nonfiction; Farther Away, How to Be Alone, and The Discomfort Zone, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Franzen is a National Book Award Winner, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and has had works appear on the New York Times Best Books of the Year list. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.

Daniel Fish (Director)

Daniel Fish is a director based in New York City. Recent work includes Tom Ryan Thinks He’s James Mason… (Incubator Arts Project/St. Mark’s Church). Known for his productions of Shakespeare and Moliere, he has in recent years made new work from sources as varied as Nicholas Ray's film Bigger Than Life, Elliott Smith's album From a Basement on a Hill, and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!. In New York City his work has been produced by Signature Theatre, Classic Stage Company, The Juilliard School, HERE, and The Zipper. He has also created work for Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, The Royal Shakespeare Company, American Repertory Theatre (Paradise Lost), The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Yale Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre (Hamlet), The Shakespeare Theatre/Washington DC, and California Shakespeare Theater.

ORIGINAL MUSIC BY Polly Pen 

MUSICAL DIRECTOR Katya Stanislavskaya

SENIC DESIGN Laura Jellinek 

LIGHTING DESIGN Thomas Dunn 

COSTUME DESIGN Therese Wadden

SOUND DESIGN Daniel Kluger 

VIDEO PROJECTIONS Andrew Lazarow

CASTING Jack Doulin 

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Neveen Mahmoud 

PRODUCTION MANAGER Pope Jackson

STAGE MANAGER Theresa Flanagan 

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Alexandra Kuechler-Caffall

REVIEWS

TimeOut New York - 10/24/2012

"House for Sale is a fascinating exercise...[that] delivers the essay word for word, embracing its inherent literariness."

"As you marvel at...Fish's underlines and highlights of...Franzen's savory, self-lacerating text...the words themselves hold your attention."

"As House for Sale moves forward, the actors shed layers of neutral clothing to reveal costumes underneath, suggesting the way characters on a page gradually take firmer shape in our minds."

Capital New York - 10/24/2012

"unexpected, exciting, and haunting."

"The five actors breathe new life into Franzen's piece that deals with family, coping, middle age, and the lie of the American Dream. The acting is transfixing."

"It's a hefty piece on paper, but House For Sale works beautifully on stage."

"It's a credit to the skill of Daniel Fish and his cast that the show is a work of art. It also provides a nice distraction for those of us who are impatiently waiting to see what the "Great American Novelist" will be releasing next."

Associated Press - 10/24/2012

"Fish has created a successfully light-hearted tribute."

"Daniel Fish directs a kaleidoscopic production."

"Transport Group's...enjoyable new work based on Jonathan Franzen's quirky essay, House for Sale, [is an] eccentric and fun theatrical presentation."

"A successfully light-hearted tribute...[to] Franzen's thoughtful, eminently relatable reflection on family ties."

NYTheatre.com - 10/21/2012

"[Stage] image[s] suggest a mixture of manufactured happiness, disappointment, and loss that compliment Franzen's prose."

TheatreMania - 10/24/2012

"lyrical."

"a worthwhile ride."

"[a] mordant ode to the death of the American Dream for Generation Xers who have reached middle age, as well as a melancholic tribute to the Baby Boomers who bore them."

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