About the Play:

Omnium Gatherum has become a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues and Male Monologues.

Omnium Gatherum is a full-length dramatic comedy by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros. A New York dinner party goes awry when the guests of various backgrounds confront one another over the true causes of 9/11. This dramatic tour-de-force is a hilarious, disturbing, and challenging look at one of the most horrific days in American history.

Omnium Gatherum is a delicious gathering of people, opinions, food, and frenzy all swirling over the global implications of 9/11. Believing that lively, contentious debate is the heart and soul of a dinner party, a domestic artist and perfect hostess has invited an assortment of opinionated personalities to share a surreal meal. The guests at this exquisite feast of food and argument confront the global implications of September 11th and beyond in an urgent, impassioned and hilarious work. Written shortly after the attacks of 9/11, the play not only deals critically with the ideas and beliefs that made the events of that morning possible in the first place, but also offers moments of hope in order to move beyond it.

Omnium Gatherum premiered in 2003 at the famed Actors Theatre of Louisville as part of the annual Festival of New American Plays, an influential showplace for playwrights. It then opened at the Variety Arts Theatre off-Broadway in New York City and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2004.

Cast: 3 female, 5 male

What people say:

"A feisty feast of wicked wit ... Piping hot satire that sings and stings." — The New York Times

"Theatrical fireworks." — New Yorker

"Spirited, amusing and smart. A play that wants us to think as much as we feel." — Newsday

About the Playwright:

Theresa Rebeck is an American playwright, director, television writer, and novelist. She is the most Broadway-produced female playwright of our time. Her plays include Bad Dates, Omnium Gatherum (co-written, Pulitzer finalist), Spike Heels, and Mauritius, which won Boston's prestigious IRNE and Elliot Norton Awards. Her work in television includes NYPD Blue for which she has won the Peabody, the Writer's Guild, and the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar awards..

Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros is an American playwright and actor. Her plays include The Argument, Omnium Gatherum (co-written, Pulitzer finalist), and The Airport Play. She is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.