Indecent: The Quintessential Ensemble Play Wins Best Ensemble

I was very fortunate to join the cast of Paula Vogel's Indecent for a run at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford, CT January 25–February 26, 2023. The play is devastating, vibrant, and thematically rich. A joyful surprise this summer was our being awarded Best Ensemble (as well as Best Director and Best Lighting Design) by the Connecticut Critics Circle for the 2023 season. What made this especially gratifying—apart from my belief that an ensemble award is the best award actors could hope to win, since we are by nature collaborative and social—is that the play is itself about an acting ensemble. The play begins with a ghostly company of actors coming to life to tell the story of Sholem Asch's play, God of Vengeance: how it was written, how it traveled, and how it wound up in the crosshairs of intolerance. It's hard to choose a single protagonist in Indecent—it could be any of several characters or the play within the play...In my opinion, it's the ensemble. Photo by Meredith Longo.