WORLD PREMIERE
GOD'S SPIES
by BILL CAIN
directed by NATHAN WINKELSTEIN
Limited Off-Broadway Engagement
JANUARY 19 THROUGH FEBRUARY 14, 2027
59E59 THEATERS
59 East 59th Street, NYC
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What do you write after you’ve written the world’s greatest play? Hopefully, not another Timon of Athens. Fortunately for Shakespeare, he’s caught in the middle of the pandemic of 1603 and theaters are closed for a year. When he finds himself quarantined with a young Puritan lawyer and a mature streetwise prostitute, the plague has a way of opening his eyes to the mysteries of life and death. But is it possible to thrive creatively in lockdown? Will Shakespeare’s follow-up play be as disappointing as his last? Or will the next one be his masterpiece?
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
BILL CAIN is a writer for theater and television. His works for television have won the Peabody Award, the Writers’ Guild Award, the Humanitas Award, etc. His recent writing for television includes work for Netflix, "House of Cards," "Bloodlines," and Showtime, "Your Honor." His work for theater has won best play/best production awards across the country including Helen Hayes Awards in Washington DC, Ovation Awards in Los Angeles and the Joseph A. Callaway Award for his work on Broadway. He is the only writer ever to win back-to-back Steinberg/American Critics’ Awards. He founded and, for seven years, directed the Boston Shakespeare Company which performed the works of Shakespeare in year-long repertory. His most recent book – The Diary of Jesus Christ – was a best-selling title for Orbis books. His new book – The Book of Cain – was recently published – also by Orbis. Cain is a Jesuit priest.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
NATHAN WINKELSTEIN has been with Red Bull Theater for 11 years where he currently serves as Producing Director. Recent directing credits include Medea: Re-Versed (Red Bull Theater, Bedlam, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), Seascape (The Alley), Midsummer Nights Dream (American Shakespeare Center), and Romeo and Juliet (Lincoln Center, WHAT, White Heron), The Importance of Being Earnest (Monmouth), Love and Information and As You Like It (NYU grad). Nathan has also appeared as an actor in productions at Red Bull Theater, Lincoln Center, The Folger, and Shakespeare Theater company among many others. Dubbed 'The Pied Piper of Shakespeare' has taught for Red Bull, STC, LCT, TGS and Maggie Flanagan Studio. Nathan received his BA in Theater from the University at Buffalo and his MFA in Classical Acting from The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the UK. Nathan is a member of Actors' Equity and SDC.