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Abbi Jacobson, Zoë Winters, More Will Star in Jonathan Spector's Birthright Off-Broadway
The new work from the Eureka Day playwright is headed to MCC Theater.
April 13, 2026 By Logan Culwell-Block
Off-Broadway's MCC Theater has found casting for its upcoming New York premiere of Jonathan Spector's Birthright, set to play the company's Newman Mills Theater June 5-July 12, opening June 24. Teddy Bergman is directing.
The cast will feature Hale Appleman (The Magicians), Molly Bernard (Younger), Eli Gelb (Stereophonic), Abbi Jacobson (Broad City), Liz Larsen (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), Nate Mann (Masters of the Air), and Zoë Winters (Succession). Casting is by The Telsey Office.
The work is about a group reuniting nearly two decades after a shared Birthright trip to Israel. The work was commissioned and premiered by Miami New Drama, and MCC’s run is being produced by special arrangement with Jenny Gersten, Fourth Wall Theatricals, and Sonia Friedman Productions.
The staging will feature scenic design by Scott Pask, costume design by Clint Ramos, lighting design by Natasha Katz, sound design by Lee Kinney, projection design by David Bengali, wig, hair, and makeup design by Robert Pickens and Katie Gell, intimacy coordination by Alicia Rodis, voice and text coaching by Gigi Buffington, and prop supervision by Samantha Shoffner. Charles M. Turner III will serve as production stage manager, and Nicole Johnson of Harriet Tubman Effect is the DEI consultant.
“Birthright is ambitious, intimate, and deeply personal—a play that courageously grapples with identity, responsibility, and belief in ways that are provocative, piercing, and deeply illuminating,” said Friedman and Gersten in an earlier joint statement. “Jonathan and Teddy have created something sensitive and powerful, and MCC is the ideal home for its New York debut. MCC has always championed bold new writing that provokes conversation and builds community, and we’re proud to support them in premiering this urgent and resonant work.”
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