HEATHER LIND JOINS THEATER STAGE DEBUT OF “THE STREETCAR PROJECT” AT AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER
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SAG AND THEATER WORLD AWARD WINNER
HEATHER LIND JOINS
“THE STREETCAR PROJECT”
COMPLETE CASTING ANNOUNCED
FOR THEATER STAGE DEBUT OF
SENSATION-CAUSING, SITE SPECIFIC VERSION OF
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’S
“A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE”
AT SAN FRANCISCO’S AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER
JANUARY 21-FEBRUARY 1, 2026
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New York, NY (December 4, 2025) – Co-creators Nick Westrate and Lucy Owen today announced complete casting for The Streetcar Project at American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.), including Screen Actors Guild and Theater World Award-winner Heather Lind. After much discussed and perpetually sold-out productions of Tennessee Williams’s landmark play A Streetcar Named Desire in unconventional spaces around the country, The Streetcar Project will make its proscenium stage debut at A.C.T.’s historic Toni Rembe Theater from January 21 to February 1, 2026.
In addition to Lind, the cast of The Streetcar Project at A.C.T. will include previously-announced Brad Koed, James Russell, and Lucy Owen, under the direction of Nick Westrate. Tickets are available now at act-sf.org/streetcar, with press night scheduled for January 22.
An airplane hangar, a church, a bar, a warehouse, a dining hall, a movie theater, a factory, a library, a boutique, a barn…for the past two years The Streetcar Project has toured Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire, to unconventional spaces around the country — and now they bring it, for the first time, to a theater.
“After years of taking this project to spaces unusual and unfamiliar, we couldn’t be more excited to have this team joining as we bring it to a classic stage for the first time,” said Westrate and Owen. “Stripping this iconic play down to its beating heart of language has always been our guiding light, and we can’t wait to bring the A.C.T. audience into Streetcar like never before.”
In A.C.T.’s historic Toni Rembe Theater, the ghosts of Blanche, Stella, Mitch and Stanley will haunt San Francisco for 14 performances from January 21st-February 1st, 2026. Come see the landmark site-specific production reimagine how this beautiful art-deco theater can hold a play. You’ve never seen A Streetcar Named Desire like this before, and you never will again.
Nick Westrate (Director/Designer/Co-Creator) is a theater and film artist based in New York City. His credits on Broadway as an actor include: Bernhardt/Hamlet, Casa Valentina, and A Moon for the Misbegotten. Recent: Ibsen’s The Wild Duck directed by Simon Godwin at Theatre for a New Audience (NYC), Victor Frankenstein in Emily Burns’ new version of FRANKENSTEIN for The Shakespeare Theater in Washington D.C. and Prior Walter in Angels in America for Jánosz Száz at The Arena Stage in Washington D.C. Off-Broadway he has starred in Tribes at The Barrow Street Theater, A Delicate Ship for Playwrights Realm, Galileo and Unnatural Acts for Classic Stage Company, Love’s Labor’s Lost at the Public, Ivo Van Hove’s The Little Foxes for NYTW, The Boys in the Band (Drama Desk nomination, 2010) for Transport Group. On television he is best known as Robert Townsend on AMC’s Turn: Washington’s Spies, and also for Todd Haynes’ HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce, and Bruno Barreto’s HBO miniseries The American Guest. Currently, he can be seen as Edwin Booth in the Apple TV+ miniseries Manhunt. On film he stars in the feature American Insurrection and in Jonathan Demme’s Ricki & the Flash opposite Meryl Streep. He is the recipient of his own special Drama Desk Award for his versatility in performance Off-Broadway in 2012, and is a graduate of the Juilliard School.
Lucy Owen (Blanche DuBois/Co-Creator/Designer) is an actor and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Her recent television credits include Showtime’s The Loudest Voice where she recurred as Suzanne Scott, the current CEO of Fox News opposite Naomi Watts and Russell Crowe; and Sandy on Craig Zobel’s CBS All Access series, One Dollar. Film credits include Miss Sloane, opposite Jessica Chastain, directed by John Madden, Jonathan Demme’s Ricki and the Flash, Kelly and Cal, The Sounding, Higher Ground, The Mend and most recently in Oday Rasheed’s If You See Something opposite Reed Birney. On stage Lucy has been seen in Cloud Nine at the Atlantic, and The Village Bike (opposite Greta Gerwig) at MCC. Lucy’s film, Fit Model, which she co-wrote and stars in premiered at the New York Film Festival and can currently be streamed on The Criterion Channel.
Brad Koed (Stanley Kowalski, original company) is best known for his work as a series regular on PBS’s Mercy Street. Brad also appeared on Broadway opposite Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Mike Nichols’ production of Death of a Salesman and in the world premiere of Aaron Posner’s Stupid Fucking Bird which earned him a Helen Hayes nomination for Best Actor. He played Mercutio at the Folger Theater, starred in Unnatural Acts at Classic Stage Company, and also recurred on TBS’s hit comedy Search Party. This performance is dedicated to the memory of Rodney Hudson.
Heather Lind (Stella, A.C.T.) won a Theater World Award for Best Broadway Debut for Merchant of Venice, in which she starred opposite Al Pacino. She originally played the role in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in The Park, where she also starred as “Desdemona” in Othello. Other Broadway credits include The Nap. She starred as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion at The Williamstown Theater Festival and in Incognito at The Manhattan Theater Club. She won a SAG Award for Boardwalk Empire and starred in Turn: Washington’s Spies for AMC. She currently appears opposite Jon Hamm on Your Friends & Neighbors for Apple. She earned an MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program.
James Russell (Harold Mitchell, Los Angeles ‘24, Tour: 25/26) Off Broadway: Philadelphia Here I Come, A Touch of the Poet, Lady Gregory, The Shadow of a Gunman, Neil Pepe’s Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, The Dead, 1904, Shining City, Port Authority, Charlotte Moore’s Juno and the Paycock, and The Freedom of the City (Irish Rep). His other credits include Hamlet (Tim Carroll’s The Factory), Major Barbara (Shaw Project), Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Liar, Playboy of the Western World (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). Internationally, he performed in The Flood (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Cymbeline (Shakespeare’s Globe, London). In film, he appeared as Brahm’s Heelshire in The Boy (Lakeshore Ent, STX), Free/Lance (Pegalo), What’s Left Behind; on TV James plays ADA Polson in Law and Order: Organized Crime (NBC), Eddie Lyman in FBI (CBS), Unforgettable (A&E), Forever (ABC), Deception (NBC), Infamous (NBC), and Blue Bloods (CBS).
Claire Siebers (Associate Director): On stage, selected credits include Mary Gets Hers (Playwrights Realm/MCC) New Golden Age (Primary Stages), Georgia Mertching is Dead (EST), Events (The Hearth), Agnes (Lesser America), The Workshop (softFocus, dir. Knud Adams), LA Party (Under The Radar & Austin Fusebox), and Tribes (Actors Theater of Louisville). As a writer/director, her plays Chinese Food Delivery Shoe and Something About Burning were selected as finalists for the Leah Ryan Fund and her screenplay Drinking Games was a finalist for the Almanack Screenwriters October Colony. Associate Producer of Lesser America 2014-2016; Founding Member of Veronica Writers’ Group; New Georges Affiliated Artist. She is a graduate of Yale University and earned a graduate degree in acting from the Juilliard School.
Learn more about The Streetcar Project at www.thestreetcarproject.com.
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