By Crystal Finn
Directed by Emily Young
A Co-Production with WP Theater
January 30 - February 28, 2027
The Stand In
Emily Young and Crystal Finn
Best friends, Claire and Claudia, try to make it BIG in the movies. But is there room for two stars? Or will one of them always have to be just…. “The Stand In?” An absurdist romp through the madness of the artist’s journey and the toll it can take on what one holds dear.
The Stand In
Written by Crystal Finn
Directed by Emily Young
A Co-Production with WP Theater
WP Theater
2162 Broadway (between 76th & 77th)
New York, NY 10024
Regular Tickets
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Crystal Finn (Playwright) is an actor and writer. Her plays include Ms. Lilly, produced for Clubbed Thumb’s directing fellowship and directed by Josiah Davis, Find Me Here, also with Clubbed Thumb, directed by Caitlin Sullivan, The Faire produced by Fault Line Theater, and Becoming Liv Ullman, which was a hit at the NY Fringe Festival and went on to the New Ground Theater Festival at Cleveland Playhouse. Much of Crystal’s writing is inspired by the many new plays she has been fortunate enough to perform in, including over twenty world premieres. For WP theater, Crystal was seen in Munich Medea: Happy Family by Corinne Jaber, directed by Lee Sunday Evans. She is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb where she has been developing and performing new work consistently for over a decade, including most recently Derangements by Nadja Leonhard-Hooper, Cold War Choir Practice by Ro Reddick, Deep Blue Sound by Abe Koogler, and Plano by Will Arbery. Crystal won a Theater World Award for her Broadway debut in Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel award for her performance in Cold War Choir Practice. She is a recipient of the NYSCA arts grant with Fiasco Theater and is currently writing a commission for the company. She is originally from Grass Valley, California.
Emily Young (Director) is an original company member of Fiasco Theater, with whom she has appeared in numerous productions, and now directs and co-directs. Directing credits with Fiasco include: Bartleby (The Old Globe), The Knight of the Burning Pestle (co-director, co-pro Fiasco/Red Bull); The Stand In (workshop at BAX), The Lucky Chance (Fiasco reading series), Sight Unseen (Fiasco reading). Regionally: Palimpsest (In the Works, In the Woods/Forestburgh Playhouse), Spring Awakening (Ohio Northern University). As an actor, Broadway: How I Learned to Drive (u/s), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Off-Broadway with Fiasco and others: The Verge, The Comedy of Errors, Orlando, Pericles, Merrily We Roll Along, The Servant of Two Masters, Twelfth Night, Into the Woods, Measure for Measure, Cymbeline; Regionally: The Old Globe, Folger Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf, Menier Chocolate Factory. Film/television: Living with Yourself, The Knick, God of Love. Education: MFA, Brown/Trinity Consortium.