WINDOWS
A special, STAR STUDDED two-performance-only engagement.
SHOW INFO
Windows, a new play by New York Times bestselling author Tawni O’Dell, directed by Tony Award nominee Mitchell Maxwell and featuring an extraordinary company of Broadway and television stars, will be filmed in front of a live audience at the Temple of Music and Art.
Fear, hilarity, anger, loss, and love unfolding behind curtains, blinds, broken glass, and bars. Whether navigating the self-reflection of isolation, or the unease of a chance meeting between strangers in need, or the simple realization of how much we value our most basic connection with others, Windows delves into the devastation and new beginnings found in a world forced to face an abyss together but alone. What we each endured as individuals when time suddenly stood still may have differed, but we were all changed by the experience. Our characters reshaped. For better or worse.
CAST
Bryan Batt (The Writer) was born on March 1, 1963 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor, author and producer, known for Mad Men, 12 Years a Slave and Jeffrey. In 2010, Batt published a memoir about his mother entitled She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mother. She died in December 2010. In 2011, he published a second book, Big, Easy, Style, which focuses on interior design and home furnishings. On September 28, 2014, Batt married his long-time partner Tom Cianfichi, an event planner. Winner of multiple Actor Awards for Mad Men and several nominations for The Palooka and more, Batt is not an actor you want to miss out on live.
Pete Bradbury (The Drinker) is an actor of both stage and screen. He starred in over 25 Broadway and Off-Broadway productions including A Christmas Carol, Patriots, and Hangmen, also appearing in the play The Elephant Man starring Bradley Cooper. He has also had television roles in Boardwalk Empire, Homeland, House of Cards, and more. Among his many narration credits are Douglas Perry’s Eliot Ness, Ice Trap by Kitty Sewell, and The Convict Trail by Ralph Compton.
Robert Cuccioli (The Protester) is a Tony-nominated actor and director best known for originating the title roles in Broadway’s Jekyll & Hyde, earning Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and FANY Awards for his performance. He returned to Broadway as Dr. Norman Osborn and the Green Goblin in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and made his Broadway debut as Javert in Les Misérables. His extensive stage credits include Camelot, And the World Goes ’Round, The Rothschilds, Rothschild and Sons, Caesar & Cleopatra, The White Devil, and leading roles in Shakespeare classics including Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra. Cuccioli has also appeared in numerous musicals and plays at major regional theatres across the country, earning Joseph Jefferson, Helen Hayes, IRNE, and Offie Award recognition. His screen credits include The Sinner, Elementary, White Collar, All My Children, One Life to Live, The Guiding Light, and the films Celebrity, Impossible Monsters, and The Rest of Us.
Jeffrey Donovan (The Soldier) is an accomplished actor and director best known for starring as Michael Westen in the hit television series Burn Notice, which ran for 111 episodes. He previously led the crime drama Touching Evil as FBI investigator David Creegan and later starred as con artist Charlie Haverford in Shut Eye. Donovan earned further recognition for his recurring role as mobster Dodd Gerhardt in the acclaimed second season of Fargo. His career spans film and television, with roles ranging from crime dramas and thrillers to action series. In addition to acting, Donovan has worked behind the camera, directing the Burn Notice spin-off film Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe.
Priscilla Lopez (The Neighbor) is a Tony Award-winning actress, singer, and dancer best known for originating the role of Diana Morales in the landmark Broadway musical A Chorus Line, where she introduced “What I Did for Love” and “Nothing.” She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine. Her extensive Broadway credits also include Company, Pippin, Nine, Anna in the Tropics, In the Heights, Grand Horizons, and The Skin of Our Teeth. Off-Broadway, Lopez has appeared in productions including The Oldest Profession, Beauty of the Father and The Gardens of Anuncia, earning Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominations during her career. Her screen credits include Law & Order, L.A. Law, B Positive, Center Stage and Maid in Manhattan.
Alyssa Melani (The Fledgling) is a bi-coastal actor and producer working in New York City and Los Angeles. Her acting work has earned festival recognition, including a Best Lead Actor nomination at the 2025 Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival and a Best Actress win at the 2024 LA Indies. She has also appeared in commercial and print work, including a campaign for Premier Protein. In addition to performing, Melani develops projects through her production company, LuBird Media, with an emphasis on stories featuring strong female characters. Her producing credits include the Telly Award-winning documentary See Memory, which has been broadcast nationally on PBS.
Jesse Nager (The Performer) is an actor and singer whose Broadway credits include Mamma Mia!, Good Vibrations, Mary Poppins, Scandalous, and Motown: The Musical. He originated roles in several of these productions and later portrayed Smokey Robinson in the First National Tour of Motown: The Musical. His stage work also includes Fame on 42nd Street, Once on This Island, A Little Princess, and Stephen Sondheim’s Being Alive, directed by Billy Porter. Nager has participated in developmental workshops for productions including Rocky the Musical, Leap of Faith, and Aladdin. In addition to his theatrical work, he has performed with artists including Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, Jason Mraz, Debbie Gibson, and Patti LaBelle.
Gayle Samuels (The Owner) is an accomplished stage and screen actress whose Broadway credits include Ohio State Murders, Children of a Lesser God, Sunset Boulevard, Grind, Dancin’, and Dreamgirls. Her Off-Broadway work includes Chiaroscuro, Sistas, Little Shop of Horrors, and The Dark Star from Harlem, in which she portrayed Josephine Baker. Regionally, she has taken on major roles including Lena Younger in A Raisin in the Sun, Rose in Fences, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, and Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, which earned her a Connecticut Critics Circle Best Actress nomination. Her television credits include appearances on Bull, Queens, The Equalizer, Girls5eva, The Flight Attendant, Blue Bloods, Madam Secretary, and The Americans. Samuels has also appeared in films including Equity, Black Nativity and American Wisper, earning a Best Supporting Actress Award for the latter.
Cheryl Stern (The Grandmother) is a Broadway veteran actress whose credits include La Cage aux Folles, The Women, Laughing Room Only, Fiorello, and Candide. Her Off-Broadway work includes A Letter to Harvey Milk, Being Audrey, 27 Rue de Fleurus, and First Lady Suite, for which she received a Drama Desk nomination. She has toured nationally in Funny Girl, La Cage aux Folles, Les Misérables, Evita, and Fiddler on the Roof, and won an IRNE Award for her performance as the Old Lady in Candide. Her television credits include And Just Like That, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Unforgettable, Guiding Light, All My Children, and As the World Turns. Stern has also appeared in films including Brooklyn Lobster, This Is Where I Leave You, and Can’t Let It Go.
Rachel York (The Wife) is an award-winning actress and singer known for her Broadway performances in City of Angels, Les Misérables, Victor/Victoria, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sly Fox, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Disaster! and Head Over Heels. She received a Drama Desk Award for Victor/Victoria and a Helen Hayes Award for her performance as Reno Sweeney in the national tour of Anything Goes, a role she later reprised in London. Her extensive stage credits also include Kiss Me, Kate, Camelot, Grey Gardens, The King and I, Hello, Dolly!, Into the Woods, Dessa Rose and Putting It Together. On television, York portrayed Lucille Ball in the CBS film Lucy and has held recurring roles on FBI: Most Wanted, Prodigal Son and Filthy Rich. Her additional screen credits include Elementary, Power, Frasier, Hannah Montana, One Fine Day, Billy Bathgate and It Had to Be You.
Rachel Zatcoff (The Mommy) is a Broadway actress and classically trained soprano known for her work in musical theatre and opera. She made her Broadway debut as Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera and her New York City Opera debut in Candide, directed by Hal Prince. Zatcoff toured internationally as Maria in West Side Story, including a West End engagement at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre. She originated the role of Tsaytl in the acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, directed by Joel Grey, and continued with the production through its subsequent New York transfers. Her stage career spans Broadway, Off-Broadway, opera, and international productions, showcasing her work as both an actress and soprano.
CREATIVE TEAM
Tawni O’Dell (Playwright) After nearly two decades at the forefront of critically acclaimed literary fiction, New York Times bestselling novelist Tawni O’Dell has spread her writing wings to include film, podcasts, and live theatre. Her play, When It Happens to You, opened Off-Broadway in October 2019. Based on her personal experience, the theatrical memoir is about a mother’s struggle to help restore a sense of safety and wholeness to her family after her daughter was the victim of a brutal attack. Her 2023 comedy/drama, Pay The Writer, played New York’s Pershing Square Signature Center starring Ron Canada, Marcia Cross, and Bryan Batt. Focusing on the complicated relationship between a legendary literary agent and his best friend-turned-most-successful client, O’Dell’s socially intuitive play explored how an artist’s life is controlled by their calling and talent. Tawni is the bestselling author of six novels including her latest, the coal town thriller, Angels Burning. Her first novel, Back Roads, was an Oprah Winfrey Book Club selection and was made into a film with a screenplay adapted by O’Dell. She also wrote and co-produced the popular audio drama, Rewrites. Her novels have been published in over 40 countries, and her writing has appeared in anthologies, magazines, and newspapers throughout the world.
Mitchell Maxwell (Director) is a multiple Tony and Drama Desk Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize-winning Producer, Director, Author and Entrepreneur. His stage producing credits include the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Damn Yankees, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies, and the award-winning Oleanna by David Mamet. He is well known for the acclaimed novel Little Did I Know, subsequently developed as a Broadway musical and the first Broadway podcast to appear on Apple. Most recently, Maxwell has headed productions of three new plays, When It Happens To You, Pay the Writer, and Windows. Maxwell has produced over 50 stage productions in the US, on London’s West End, and on tours throughout the U.S. and the Far East. Maxwell has produced seven major motion pictures. He has worked in all mediums, including stage, screen, publishing, podcast production, and as a serial entrepreneur and investor. MMaxwell Media, LLC will adapt to the ever-growing assortment of platforms for our projects in various and expansive mediums.