Fully Committed

Becky Mode

Playwright

Becky Mode's (Playwright) first play, Fully Committed, opened at the Vineyard Theatre in 1999 and ran Off-Broadway for a year and a half at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Time Magazine named it one of the ten best plays of 2000, and since 2001 it has been one of the ten most produced plays in the United States, with extended commercial runs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, London and Paris. The play has traveled to Finland, Japan, South Africa, Brazil, Australia, Sweden, Estonia and Poland. In 2016, Fully Committed had a limited run on Broadway at the LyceumTheater starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson, directed by Jason Moore. 

Becky is currently in pre-production on "Until the Wedding," a pilot she wrote for ABC. Most recently, she was a writer and co-executive producer on “Unbelievable,” a limited series for Netflix. Before that, worked as a consulting producer on "SEAL Team" for CBS and “Feed The Beast” on AMC and created/executive produced the pilot of “Four Stars” for CBS. 

She has also worked as a consulting producer for “Smash” (NBC) and “A Gifted Man” (CBS) and as a writer on “Cosby,” “Little Bill,” “Out of the Box,” and HBO’s “A Little Curious.” She has developed and produced pilots for HBO, ABC, CBS, and NBC. 

Before becoming a writer, Becky worked as an actor. She went to graduate school at the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard. Favorite roles include Ann the librarian in Daisy Mayer’s cult classic Party Girl, Susan Walker in Ann Bogart’s Once in a Lifetime, and the young Jane Seymour in A&E’s “I Remember You,” opposite Clark Gregg and Daniel J. Travanti. She also spent many years waitressing, coat checking and taking phone reservations at some of New York’s finest restaurants.

Becky lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and their two children, Leo and Katie.

Appears in

• Fully Committed

David Saint

Director

David Saint (Artistic Director) is in his 24th season as Artistic Director of George Street Playhouse. He has directed 43 mainstage productions at GSP, having recently helmed Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise. His time here has been marked by collaborations with such artists as Keith Carradine, Tyne Daly, Rachel Dratch, Sandy Duncan, Boyd Gaines, A.R. Gurney, Uta Hagen, Jack Klugman, Dan Lauria, Kathleen Marshall, Elaine May, Anne Meara, David Hyde Pierce, Chita Rivera, Paul Rudd, Stephen Sondheim, Marlo Thomas, Eli Wallach, and  including a remarkable partnership with Arthur Laurents. In addition, many new award-winning works have begun their life here during his tenure such as The Toxic Avenger, Proof, The Spitfire Grill, Joe DiPietro’s Clever Little Lies, and It Shoulda Been You. In July 2016, he directed a two-night concert performance of West Side Story at the legendary Hollywood Bowl. He also has directed on Broadway, off-Broadway and regionally at Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, Primary Stages, McCarter, Williamstown, Seattle Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Pittsburg Public, Long Wharf and, many others by such writers as Aaron Sorkin, Wendy Wasserstein, Peter Parnell, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Joe DiPietro and Jonathan Larson.  He is the recipient of the Alan Schneider Award, Helen Hayes Award, L.A., Drama Critics Award, several Drama-Logue Awards and is the President of The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation.

Appears in

• Buyer and Cellar
• Outside Mullingar
• Sex With Strangers
• Ken Ludwig's Dear Jack, Dear Louise
• American Son
• Mama's Boy
• The Trial of Donna Caine
• Conscience
• American Hero
• Midwives
• Fully Committed
• Kathleen Turner in An Act of God
• I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
• Tiny Beautiful Things
• Tales from the Guttenberg Bible
• Conscience: Virtual Version