THEATERLAB PRESENTS
a one-night only benefit with Playhouse Creatures Theater Company
The Two-Character Play
Tennesee WilliamsÂ
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Directed by Anthony Biggs
Featuring Irene Glezos* and Joseph W. Rodriguez*
The show must go on, even if it’s just for you. A claustrophobic duel between two minds breaking apart.
In this one-night only benefit performance, Irene Glezos* and Josephe W. Rodriguez* reprise their roles in the Anthony Biggs directed, Tennessee Williams departure from reality.Â
 Playhouse Creatures Theater Company (PCTC) in association with Well Played Artistic Collective, Moon Lake Productions, and Theaterlab present the critically acclaimed Tennessee Williams’ THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY as benefit performance for Theaterlab and PCTC.
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PCTC is a NYC-based, mission-driven, off-Broadway theatre company dedicated to strengthening the legacy of the American theatre, while serving the communities where we produce (both on and off stage). Since 2009, PCTC has produced 17 mainstage productions, seven new works series, 45 staged readings, four Tennessee Williams festivals, a world premiere of a Tennessee Williams play (“The Recluse and His Guest”), and several NYC premieres. PCTC has won and/or been nominated for 23 theatre awards, and received The Nazareth Housing 2018 Community Service Award.
*Actor appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association
Image by Kelly Schmidt, graphic designer
PERFORMANCES
Tuesday, January 20th @ 7:30pm Â
TICKETS
General Admission: $50.00Â ($55.00 with fees)
MEET THE ARTISTS
IRENE GLEZOS (Clare)
Irene Glezos is an award-winning actress, writer and producer. She has pursued a career that includes stage, screen and television. She has appeared as Lady Torrance in (numerous) productions of Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending (NYC, Provincetown, Mississippi and New Orleans) and for which she was nominated Best Actress by the Big Easy Entertainment Awards. Other favorite theatrical credits include Maria in Terrence McNally’s Master Class winning her the award for Outstanding Actress by the Connecticut Critics Circle in 2025, Fairouz in the U.S. premiere of Naomi Wallace’s In the Heart of America (directed by Tony Kushner at the Long Wharf Theatre), and Georgie in Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg directed by Austin Pendleton at TheaterLab in NYC. Her work in television includes appearances on numerous episodes of the various Law and Orders, FBI, The Blacklist, And Just Like That (as well as the OG Sex in the City) and upcoming streaming series The Artist with Mandy Patinkin and Janet McTeer. She’s appeared in many films including Woody Allen’s Celebrity, Gravitas Ventures’ Delusional now streaming on Amazon and in Tony’s Auto Garage as mob boss mom Belle which opened the SoHo Film Festival. She’s the producer of Moon Lake Productions with Brenda Currin. Endless love to Julie and Hugo. www.ireneglezos.com
JOSEPH W. RODRIGUEZ (Felice)
Joseph W. Rodriguez* is an actor, writer, and Producing Artistic Director of Playhouse Creatures (where he has acted in and produced over thirty plays). For PCTC: The Return of Benjamin Lay (2025, The Sheen Center, NYC, Quintessence Theater, Philadelphia), Via Dolorose (2024, Casa Clara, NYC), STILL LIFE (with Ancram Opera House), EXECUTION OF JUSTICE, The Two-Character Play ( 2017 New York/ The Duo Theatre), New Orleans (2018 Southern Rep); Mrs. Packard (with Bridge Rep), One Flea Spare, More Stars Then There Are In Heaven, Hunter/ Gatherers, Charlotte The Destroyer, Love Song, 6xTenn, Closer, The Libertine (The Kirk, Theatre Row), and The Libertine (with Bridge Rep – IRNE Nomination, Best Actor). Other NYC: Buffalo Hair with Jeffrey Wright (The Public Theater); The Normal Heart with Bobby Cannavale (The Duo Theatre); Richard III with Austin Pendleton, Macbeth – title role (New Perspectives); Linnehan’s Daughter (Naked Angels); Landscape of the Body, Hurlyburly (T. Schreiber Studios); Innocent Erendira – world premiere with Miriam Colon (Repertorio Espanol). Regional: Hamlet with Mark Rylance, King Lear with F. Murray Abraham (A.R.T.); Iphigenia (The Huntington); Children of the Sun (The Kennedy Center); A Streetcar Named Desire, American Buffalo, Safe Sex, A Christmas Carol (The New Ehrlich Boston); Vieux Carre, Breaking the Code – Best Supporting Actor, Boston Herald (The Triangle Theatre); The Boys Next Door with
Lance Reddick (Worcester Forum Theatre). TV/FILM: Glory, The Opposite of Sex, Desolation
Angels, Against the Law, Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Another World, the titular character
in Sci-Fi Channel’s Cameron Grant. He is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.
ANTHONY BIGGS (Director)
Anthony is Artistic Director of Well Played and was previously Artistic Director of Jermyn Street Theatre and The Playground Theatre. He trained as an actor, working in regional theatre and the West End, before receiving his MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck, University of London. Following roles with Watford Palace Theatre, The Globe, and Theatre503, he became Associate Director of Jermyn Street Theatre, directing critically-acclaimed revivals of Ibsen’s Little Eyolf and Charles Morgan’s The River Line, and the first UK stage production of Beckett’s All That Fall with Michael Gambon and Eileen Atkins (Associate Director to Trevor Nunn – West End and 59E59). As Artistic Director of JST, credits include John Van Druten’s First World War classic Flowers of The Forest, Lillian Hellman’s The Autumn Garden, and the UK Premiere of Lee Tannen’s I Loved Lucy (West End and New York).
In 2024 Anthony founded Well Played Arts Collective, to bring together his passion for both professional and community arts projects on a local and international scale. First projects include Execution of Justice, a celebration of LGBTIA+ culture and history, with special guest, writer and director Emily Mann, a NYC site-specific production of David Hare’s Via Dolorosa in partnership with Playhouse Creatures, and Well Said, a series of community playreading workshops in partnership with local libraries, supported by Royal Court Theatre and NT.
BRENDA CURRIN (Assistant Director)
Brenda Currin, Co-Producer of Moon Lake Productions, She most recently played Alice
B. Toklas to Kathleen’s Turner’s Gertrude Stein in David Kaplan’s epic staging of Stein’s play, Listen to Me. Her career while at the University of Kansas when she was cast as Nancy Clutter in the film of In Cold Blood. She went on to play Pooh Percy in The World According to Garp with Robin Williams. Other films include Taps, Reds, and the cult classic C.H.U.D and more currently, Daughter of the Bride, and the just released Grounded in Love. Brenda has worked extensively in the theater, receiving an OBIE Award for her work in Wendy Kesselman’s My Sister in this House. She is acclaimed for her performances based on Eudora Welty’s stories, “Sister and Miss Lexie” and “A Fire Was In My Head,” adaptations developed in collaboration with director and co-adapter, David Kaplan. Always drawn to the work of Tennessee Williams, along with scads of Williams’ one-acts and short story adaptations, she played Violet Venable in Suddenly Last Summer, Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, Cornelia Scott in “Something Unspoken.” Working with Irene Glezos in Orpheus Descending and the Jane Bowles play, In the Summer House led to joining forces in the formation of Moon Lake Productions. Together they produced The Rose Tattoo at the Provincetown TW Festival, Heisenberg and A Perfect Ganesh at Theaterlab. Working behind the scenes to support artists such as Irene and Joseph (Rodriquez) and director Anthony Biggs, is continuation of utter pleasure.