About Tales From The Tunnel

Tales From The Tunnel is a stage play by Troy Diana and James Valletti. The show
made its debut as an invite-only Actors’ Equity Association Staged Reading at
Manhattan Theatre Club Studios last summer.

Borne of a concept hatched in the 2006 Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab and developed
over three years by Diana and Valletti, Tales From The Tunnel is a series of pieces
based on extensive research and hundreds of interviews with riders and subway
workers who have something to say about their travels throughout the veins of NYC.

This is the first collaboration between Diana, whose writing or performing credits
include Storia (2007 Midtown International Theatre Festival/London’s South Hill Park),
Stressed, Depressed and Repressed (Pulse Theatre), and Take This Job (Zipper
Theatre), and Valletti, whose Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include Fiddler on
the Roof, The Phantom of the Opera, Little Women, The Times They are A-Changin',
Altar Boyz (Assistant Director) and pre-Broadway/readings of 9 to 5 and Ring of Fire.