ShawshankRedemption

Lane Productions are delighted to announce cast details for the return of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION at the Gaiety Theatre from May 4th to 29th, 2010. Kevin Anderson will reprise his role as Andy Dufresne and John Jelks joins the cast as Red.

Kevin Anderson made his Off-Broadway debut in Steppenwolf's Orphans and has been a member of the ensemble since 1984. Kevin's subsequent returns to the stage have been as varying as they were lauded, from the world premiere of Sunset Boulevard in London to Death of a Salesman on Broadway (for which he was nominated for a Tony Award) to a heartbreaking turn in I Never Sang For My Father at Steppenwolf.

Since starring with Julia Roberts and Patrick Bergin in Sleeping with the Enemy, Kevin Anderson has continued to work alongside many Hollywood greats. Most recently he was directed by and starred alongside Al Pacino in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé at the Wadsworth Theater in LA. His impressive TV / film credits include In Country, Charlotte’s Web, A Thousand Acres, Rising Sun, Miami Vice, Miles from Home, Risky Business and many more. Among those Kevin has worked with are Michelle Pfeiffer, Colin Firth, Tom Cruise, Richard Gere, Bruce Willis, Joan Allen, Helen Hunt, Harvey Keitel and Joan Allen.

John Earl Jelks was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance as “Sterling” in August Wilson’s Radio Golf, which he also toured to the McCarter, Goodman, Center Stage, Seattle Rep., Mark Taper, and Yale Repertory theaters. Jelks also appeared with Felicia Rashad on Broadway in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean as “Citizen” (after runs at the Goodman, Huntington, and Mark Taper theaters, where he won an NAACP Theater Award and an L.A. Ovation Award.) In 2008, Jelks won an AUDELCO Award for his work in the off-Broadway revival of The First Breeze of Summer. Regional theater credits include Fetch Clay, Make Man at the McCarter Theater, Magnolia at the Goodman Theater, Joe Turner's Come and Gone at the Penumbra Theatre Company and the Missouri Repertory Theatre, The Piano Lesson at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre and Diary of a Black Man at the Union Square Theatre and the Shaw Theatre in London, England. Recently, Jelks appeared in Spike Lee's film Miracle at St. Anna.

Based on the novella ‘Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption’ by Stephen King, this iconic story inspired the award-winning film and was adapted by Owen O’Neill and Dave Johns. Produced by Lane Productions, the return of THE SHAWSHANK REDEPMTION is directed by Peter Sheridan and designed by Ferdia Murphy with sound by Denis Clohessy.