2009 NHP alum Keith Bunin’s play The Coast Starlight will open Milwaukee Rep’s 24/25 season.

Direct from Lincoln Center where it left both critics and audiences stunned, the intensely funny and resonant play is about a young man armed with a secret that can land him in terrible trouble as he boards the Coast Starlight, the long-distance train that runs from Los Angeles to Seattle. With the help of his fellow travelers, all of whom are reckoning with their own choices, he has one thousand miles to figure out a way forward.

Directed by Artistic Director Mark Clements,The Coast Starlightcast features Jack Ball (The Book of Mormon, Broadway) as TJ, Emily S. Chang (Domesticated, Steppenwolf Theatre) as Jane, Yadira Correa (My Broken Language, Signature Theatre) as Anna, Kelley Faulkner (Things I Know To Be True, Milwaukee Rep) as Liz, Justin Huen (Junk and One House Over, Milwaukee Rep) as Noah and Jonathan Wainwright (Dial M For Murder and Junk, Milwaukee Rep) as Ed.

The Coast Starlight creative team includes set design by Jason Fassl (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Run Bambi Run, Milwaukee Rep), costume design by Destiny Harris (What the Constitution Means to Me, Milwaukee Rep), sound design by Josh Schmidt (The Chosen, Milwaukee Rep), choreography by Jenn Rose (Run Bambi Run, Milwaukee Rep), voice and dialect coaching by Jill Walmsley Zager and stage managed by Kimberly Carolus.