About
Matthew Libby’s suspenseful new play DATA pulls back the curtain on Silicon Valley’s darkest ambitions. When a brilliant young programmer learns his own algorithm is the key to a massive AI surveillance project, he’s forced to challenge the tech world he once dreamt of joining. Confronting today’s most controversial headlines, this subversive thriller follows the terrifying choices at our fingertips—and the high cost of disrupting a system that tracks your every move.
Cast
RISHI GOLANI (Understudy) he/
LEXI LAPP (Understudy). Selected Theater: Ghosts, Nantucket Sleigh Ride (Lincoln Center Theater); Pushkin (American Vicarious); Alligator (New Georges/The Sol Project); STET (Abingdon Theatre Company); Luna Gale, I Will Be Gone, That High Lonesome Sound (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Mary’s Wedding (Portland Center Stage). TV/Film: “FBI,” “Law & Order: SVU,” Cut Shoot Kill.
About the Playwright
MATTHEW LIBBY Off-Broadway debut. Matthew is a writer based in Brooklyn, by way of Los Angeles. Productions include Data (Arena Stage; Helen Hayes Award nomination) and Sisters (Northern Stage). Work developed with Roundabout, Alliance Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, New York Stage and Film, Pioneer Theatre Company, and others. Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow, Theater Masters Visionary Playwright, Kendeda Award winner, Neukom Award winner, three-time Princess Grace finalist, and five-time O’Neill semifinalist. BS (Cognitive Science): Stanford. MFA: NYU Tisch.
About the Director
TYNE RAFAELI directs for stage and screen. Recent stage productions include Brian Watkins’ Weather Girl (St Ann’s Warehouse & Soho Theatre London), Em Weinstein’s Becoming Eve (New York Theatre Workshop); Brian Watkins’ Epiphany (Lincoln Center Theatre); Jen Silverman’s Spain (Second Stage); Keith Bunin’s The Coast Starlight (Lincoln Center Theatre); Sylvia Khoury’s Selling Kabul (Playwright’s Horizons). Recent TV directing includes The Beast in Me (Netflix) and Tell Me Lies (Hulu). Multiple Drama Desk, Drama League, Lucille Lortel nominations.
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LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE
Executive Director
George Forbes
Artistic Director of New Play Development
Caridad Svich
Artistic Director of New Musical Development
Michael Heitzman
Operations Manager
Zebulon Brown
Head Treasurer
Maya McCullough
Artistic Director of High School Playwriting Fellowship
Kimille Howard
Senior Director
Nancy Elaine Hurvitz
Senior Director
Jeffrey Shubart
Digital Designer
John Hayek
Press
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General Manager
Alana Canty-Samuel
General Manager
Mau Le Viness
General Manager
Karla Liriano
Marketing Associate
Rascher Alcasid
Development
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Programs supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
The Lortel Theatre’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
We gratefully acknowledge our Lucille Lortel Off-Broadway Champions.
PRODUCERS
Brigitte Vosse
BENEFACTORS
Cynthia & Herbert Fields
Ira Gilbert
Michael Hecht
Stephanie Rabinowitz
LEADERS
Anonymous (4)
Priscilla Almodovar & Eric Dinallo
Louis Antonelli
Eileen Begg
Leslie Bhutani
Kathleen Chopin
Rick Swift & Megan Flanigan
Friedman Family Foundation
Magalie Lussier-Valade
PATRONS
Anonymous (2)
Daryl Boren
Ana & Eric Cantor
David & Peri Clark
Cason Crane
Cathy Dault
Katharine English & Paul Wood
Roberta Garza
Kevin Hansen
William S. Hoover, MD
Gregory & Zainab Ahmad Jensen
Donna Karan
Michael Kors & Lance Le Pere
Diana Krall
Ann Miner
Sheila Nevins
Laura & Gerry Rosberg
Amy & David Scharlin
Ann Kottler & Richard Schindler
Michael Stern/The Bigwood Foundation Inc.
Wendy Vanden Heuvel
Christina Weiss Lurie
and many others!
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Our theatre lives on the island of Manhattan.
Manhattan has always been a gathering and trading place for many Indigenous peoples, where Nations intersected from all four directions since time immemorial. It was a place to gather and sometimes to seek refuge during times of conflict and struggle. The staff and trustees of New York Theatre Workshop, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Sinking Ship, and Theater in Quarantine pay respect to all of their ancestors past, present, to their future generations.
We acknowledge that our theatre, and our work, is situated on the island of Manhattan (Menohhannet— On the Island), traditional lands of the Munsee Lenape, the Canarsie, Unkechaug, Matinecock, Shinnecock, Reckgawanc and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
We respect that many Indigenous people continue to live and work on this island and acknowledge their ongoing contributions to this area.
We encourage each of you to honor the Indigenous communities that first inhabited the land on which you’re now standing.
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