US EditionAdrien Brody, Tessa Thompson to Make Broadway Debuts in 'The Fear of 13'
The play highlights wrongful conviction and justice through Nick Yarris’s story, with over 250 exonerees helped by the Innocence Project, a production partner.
- Producers announced today that Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson will make their Broadway debuts in The Fear of 13, with previews starting March 19 at the James Earl Jones Theatre and opening April 15.
- Originating at London's Donmar Warehouse last fall, Lindsey Ferrentino adapted David Sington's 2015 documentary into a two-person play starring Adrien Brody.
- David Cromer will direct the Broadway staging of The Fear of 13, with Tessa Thompson playing Jackie, the prison volunteer opposite Nick, produced by Seaview, Wessex Grove and Gavin Kalin Productions.
- The Independent gave the London staging three stars and praised Adrien Brody's powerful performance after his Olivier nomination.
- Amid discussions about justice and wrongful conviction, The Fear of 13 partners with The Innocence Project and dramatizes themes of justice, belief, and true freedom versus illusion through Nick Yarris's prison visits.
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Oscar-winning actor Adrien Brody is set to make his Broadway debut in 'The Fear of 13', a searing play about a wrongly convicted death row prisoner. He will debut alongside actress Tessa Thompson.
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