'The Walking Dead' Star to Appear in Adult Play in Midtown

Staff Report

Atlanta’s own Daniel Thomas May, well known for his recurring role on The Walking Dead, is back onstage between film and television projects to star in Synchronicity Theatre’s “In the Next Room, (or the vibrator play).” Winner of 2 Suzi Bass Awards and a 6-time Suzi Award nominee, May focused his career on the stage for fifteen years, acting in local and national theatre, before shifting his focus to film and television. May returns to play his first stage role in four years: Dr. Givings, a practical, Victorian-era physician whose newfangled electrical devices revolutionize his treatment of female “hysteria” and arouse the insatiable curiosity of his young wife. May’s wife in real life, Rachel May, directs the production.

“About In the Next Room, (or the vibrator play)“

Welcome to the 1880s. Chester Arthur is in the White House. Women are wearing bustles and corsets, and men drive horse-drawn carriages. The invention of the light bulb and a handy new instrument to treat “hysteria” in women has Dr. Givings’ patients all aglow and his young wife very curious. Sarah Ruhl’s brilliant comedy about intimacy and equality, in the vein of a British farce. Contains adult themes. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and 3 2010 Tony Awards, including best play.

A remount of Synchronicity’s 2011 production, In the Next Room is directed by Rachel May and features an all-star cast boasting more than 20 Suzi Bass nominations. Tony Larkin and Doyle Reynolds return from the 2011 cast, joined by In the Next Room newcomers Daniel Thomas May, Bryn Striepe, Wendy Melkonian, Maria Rodriguez-Sager and Danielle Mills. The play opens September 25 and runs through October 18.