Heist

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Written by Canadian playwright Arun Lakra, Heist is a whip-smart, high-stakes thriller that plays with time, memory, and perception—like Ocean’s Eleven meets Inception.
After premiering in Canada in February 2024, ATC gives Heist its US premiere with a theatre-bending spectacle unlike any production we’ve had on our stages before.
Lakra is also an eye surgeon and screenwriter — his previous play Sequence won numerous awards, including the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play.

Special Dates

Tucson

November 30 – Teacher Preview
December 2 – Second Preview
December 3 – Third Preview, Community Night & Pre-Show Conversation with Director Matt August
December 4 – Opening Night
December 5 – Pride Night

Tempe/Phoenix

January 10, 12 PM – Teacher Preview
January 10, 7:30 PM – Opening Night
January 14 – Community Night
January 16 – Pride Night

Heist Cast

Matthew Floyd Miller

ATC: Enchanted April. BROADWAY: The Cottage dir. by Jason Alexander (Helen Hayes), Not About Nightingales dir. by Trevor Nunn (Circle in the Square), and The Invention of Love dir. by Jack O’Brien (Lincoln Center). OFF-BROADWAY: Another Part of the Forest (Peccadillo Theatre Co.) and Letters From Cuba (Signature Theatre Co.). REGIONAL (selected): War of the Worlds, […]

Jessica Fishenfeld

ATC debut. OFF-BROADWAY: Brunnhilde in Das Barbecü, New York: Leah in Stonewall (Lincoln Center), Clara in The Light in the Piazza (Skirball Center), and Jenny Lind in Barnum’s Bird (Circle in the Square). REGIONAL: Joel Grey’s Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene/The Soraya Center), Margot Bell in the L.A. premiere of […]

Ethan Henry

ATC debut. REGIONAL: Fat Ham (Old Globe Theater San Diego), The Meeting (Theater 68, The Odyssey Theater, and The Zephyr Theater – NAACP Award Winner), Fences (M-Ensemble Theater), A Raisin in the Sun (Palm Beach Dramaworks), Sunset Baby (Primal Forces Theater), and The Piano Lesson (M-Ensemble Theater). TV: Big Shots, Criminal Minds, and Genius: Aretha. […]

Brandon Ruiter

ATC debut. CHICAGO THEATRE (select): Berlin (Court Theatre), Punk Rock (Griffin Theatre), and Rose and the Rime (The House Theatre). L.A. THEATRE: Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole and Sex with Strangers (Geffen Playhouse), Failure: A Love Story (Center Theatre Group/Coeurage Theatre), and Big River (Rubicon Theatre Company). FILM/TV: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life […]

Jynx Zavala

ATC: Martha Cratchit in Scrooge! (2024). FAVORITE ROLES: Velma Kelly in Chicago, the Queen of Hearts in Alice by Heart, Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Noel Gruber in Ride the Cyclone. AWARDS: Finalist in the 2024 Monte Awards and winner for Best Solo Musical at the International Thespian Festival for her […]

Valerie Perri

ATC debut. BROADWAY/NATIONAL: Title role in Evita, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, and Indecent. OFF-BROADWAY: Diamonds (Circle in the Square), Angry Housewives (Minetta Lane), and On the Swing Shift (Manhattan Theater Club). REGIONAL: Ruth Bader Ginsburg in JUSTICE (Ensemble Theater Company), If I Forget (Fountain Theater — LA Drama Critics nom.), Golde in Fiddler on the Roof […]

Arun Lakra

ATC debut. Arun’s first play, SEQUENCE, won the Alberta Playwriting Competition Grand Prize, Joanne Woodward/Paul Newman Award, Betty Mitchell Award, and has been produced across North America. Arun is also the recipient of the Blacklist/Warby Parker Writer’s Vision Grant (LA) and is appreciative of the support in developing HEIST. Arun is grateful to Chad Rabinovitz […]

Matt August

is the Kasser Family Artistic Director. He is a theatre, opera, and film director and educator whose productions have broken boxoffice records on Broadway (Grinch) and played in London, across the UK, Off-Broadway, in major Regional theatres, at festivals, on national tours, at the Grand Ole Opry, and for three holiday seasons at Madison Square […]

James Noone

ATC: Dial M for Murder. BROADWAY: Sunset Boulevard, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, A Time to Kill, Match, A Bronx Tale (play), A Class Act, Jekyll and Hyde, The Rainmaker, The Sunshine Boys, The Gin Game, Inherit the Wind, and many others. OFF-BROADWAY: The Boys in the Band, In Masks Outrageous and Austere, White Chocolate, Frankie and Johnny in The Clair de Lune, Ruthless!, Full Gallop, Fully […]

Kish Finnegan

ATC: Bob & Jean: A Love Story, Barefoot in the Park, The Glass Menagerie, Justice, American Mariachi, King Charles III, Romeo and Juliet, Hair, and many others. REGIONAL: The Yellow Boat, Neverending Story, and Go Dog Go (Childsplay); Seussical (Phoenix Theatre Company); Million Dollar Quartet and Joan, the world premiere story of comedian Joan Rivers (South Coast Repertory); […]

Mike Billings

ATC: Bob & Jean: A Love Story. WEST END: Dreamworks’ The Prince of Egypt. OFF-BROADWAY: Vanities and Becoming Dr. Ruth. REGIONAL: Bay Street Theater, Rubicon Theatre Company (three-time L.A. Ovation Award-nominee), Geva Theatre Center, Berkshire Theatre Group, CCAE Theatricals (San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award), Ensemble Theatre Company, Laguna Playhouse, Flint Repertory Theatre, Bucks County Playhouse, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Pittsburgh […]

Daniel Perelstein Jaquette

ATC: Blues in the Night, Dial M for Murder, Intimate Apparel, Private Lives, and Nina Simone: Four Women; Arizona Theatre Company’s 2025-2026 Resident Artist. Freelance sound designer, composer, and musical director; professor of sound design (theatre) at Arizona State University since 2019. RECENT DESIGNS/ORIGINAL MUSIC: Opera Philadelphia, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Actors’ Theatre […]

Sven Ortel

ATC debut. Designs projections and imagery for immersive storytelling events in theatre, opera, dance, musicals, and beyond. BROADWAY (recent): Thoughts of a Colored Man, Parade, Once Upon A One More Time, and creative direction for NHWK4220 at New York’s Artechouse. AWARDS: TONY award nomination (Disney’s Newsies, 2012) and Drama Desk Award nominations (Julie Taymor’s Midsummer, […]

Amber R. Dettmers

ATC: True West (SM). THEATRE CREDITS (select): Come From Away, Cats, and Peter and the Starcatcher (SM, Paramount Theater); Frozen and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (ASM, Paramount Theater); Star Choir (SM, The Industry LA); Grownup (SM, The Associates Theatre); Cirque Dreams Holidaze (SM, Cirque du Soleil); and The Mountaintop and First Deep Breath (ASM, Geffen Playhouse). EDUCATION: MFA in Stage Management from UC […]

Mollie Heil

ATC: 10+ shows and five consecutive seasons. ATC FAVORITES: Bob & Jean: A Love Story, Master Class, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Nina Simone: Four Women, and Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End. REGIONAL (select): Bonnie & Clyde, Top Hat, JCS, Newsies, Jersey Boys, A Chorus Line, and State Fair (The REV Theatre Co.); Dear Jack, […]

Michael Donovan Casting

principal Michael Donovan is the recipient of nine Artios awards, presented by the Casting Society of America for Outstanding Achievement in casting; his colleague Richie Ferris has three Artios awards. They have cast more than 1,000 shows produced at such venues as the Hollywood Bowl, the Ahmanson Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, Pasadena Playhouse, the Kirk […]

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