Actress/playwright Ellen McLaughlin relishes working with Michael Kahn

Washington Blade
by Patrick Folliard
May 3, 2019

“When Michael Kahn asks you to do something, you do it. It’s that simple. 

And so, playwright/actor Ellen McLaughlin explains the genesis of her latest work, “The Oresteia” — not a translation of Aeschylus’ trilogy about revenge, murder and justice, but rather a new version freely adapted from the Greek classic. 

In the spring of 2016, Kahn and McLaughlin met for coffee in Manhattan. The out director confided that he planned to end his long and illustrious tenure as artistic director of D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company by directing a play based on the original and he wanted McLaughlin to write it…”