We Have To Hurry
a new play by Dorothy Lyman
directed by Katie McHugh
We Have to Hurry streamed live from our website on March 25th and 28th.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Dorothy Lyman
Dorothy Lyman is a two-time Emmy@ Award winning actress for her work as Opal Gardner on ABC’s ALL MY CHILDREN. She co-starred with Vicki Lawrence and Carol Burnett on MAMA’S FAMILY for 126 episodes. After a fifty year career, she has a long resume of guest starring roles on television series and in films. As a theatre director, Ms. Lyman produced and directed the original Off-Broadway production of John Ford Noonan’s A COUPLA WHITE CHICKS SITTING AROUND TALKING starring Susan Sarandon and Eileen Brennan, and the subsequent national tour starring Susan Anton and Elizabeth Ashley. She founded a waiver theatre space in Los Angeles, and produced three seasons of new American plays there. She directed Fran Drescher’s THE NANNY for 75 consecutive episodes, and is also a filmmaker of two independent films and one documentary about aging. Ms Lyman wrote her first play, A RAGE IN TENURE, in 1995. She wrote her second play, SOFT LANDING, 20 years later. Now there are two more, IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER, which is a prequel to WE HAVE TO HURRY. “I am the oldest ‘emerging’ playwright in America, I am sure!” Lyman laughs. “You CAN teach an old dog new tricks! Seriously, though, I started to write to create good roles for me and my friends. I really wasn’t seeing much opportunity for us older gals, so I created some.” ENEMY, Lyman’s adaptation of Ibsen’ ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, set in modern day Desert Hot Springs was produced by The Gottliebs company, Players’ Workshop, in San Miguel D’Allende., Guanajuato, Mexico. That production began a long and fruitful collaboration every winter for five wonderful years with Michael and Jill and Katie McHugh in a great town for theatre down Mexico way. Sadly, the Pandemic put a stop to all that. “I am so happy to see Michael and Jill and Katie again, virtually over ZOOM. And so happy that Jack and Megan could join up from France! I am forever grateful to all of them for their commitment to my words.”
Katie McHugh
Katie McHugh is a New York based director, teacher and producer of theatre and film with a B.A. in Theatre from Florida State University and an MFA in directing from The New School for Drama. She is the Founding Director of the Southeastern Teen Shakespeare Company, Co-Founder of the Teen Shakespeare Conservatory at the Actors Movement Studio, and Co-Artistic Director of Les Exportables, theatre company in New York and Quebec. Katie is an award-winning director who specializes in devised and experimental theatre.
Jill Gottlieb
With a BA in theatre arts, Jill has worked professionally in Los Angeles and San Francisco. More recently, in San Miguel de Allende Mexico, she appeared in more than 20 English language stage productions including By the Waters of Babylon, The Other Place, Other Desert Cities, Enemy and A Rage in Tenure. Jill is thrilled to have the honor of working on We Have to Hurry, her fourth go 'round with a Dorothy Lyman play.
Michael Gottlieb
A veteran of 150+ productions in the United States and Mexico, Michael's most recent work includes RED, The 39 Steps, Three Hotels and Dorothy Lyman's A Rage in Tenure. This is the 20th+ show he's worked opposite his partner of 40+ years, actress Jill Gottlieb. Michael is the author of the award winning short story I.R.E.N.E. and the theatrical novel The Fourth Wall.
Jeanne Lauren Smith
Jeanne Lauren Smith is thrilled to be part of the exciting development of We Have to Hurry. NY credits: Electronic City (Falk Richter, dir. Ildiko Nemeth, NYIT Award Outstanding Performance Art Production), Gladstone Hollow (Dorothy Lyman, dir. Bram Lewis), Dead Therapist (Cate Allen, dir. Emily Tetzlaff), According to the Chorus (Arlene Hutton, dir. Christopher Goutman), In the Bleak Midwinter (Dorothy Lyman, dir. Katie McHugh) and Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide (Charles Ludlam, dir. Everett Quinton). Jeanne has worked as an actor & performer throughout NYC at venues including New York Theatre Workshop, La MaMa, Theatre for the New City, New Stage Performance Space, Columbia Stages, Governor's Island, Chashama's Performance Window, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum, Central Park and Dixon Place, among others. She twice traveled to San Miguel de Allende to perform in Ms. Lyman's original plays A Rage in Tenure and Soft Landing (dir. John Tillinger). Marymount Manhattan graduate.
Verte Creative
Live-stream and sound engineer and operator.