The American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA

Amy Brenneman (Private Practice, Judging Amy, Heat) and I co-created this piece, based on Amy's personal writings. It explores the ecstatic, excruciating, humorous dance between the sacred and profane in Amy's own life. Her spiritual curiosity has taken her from a Buddhist temple in Nepal to an Evangelical church in the Mississippi Delta to the red carpet in Hollywood. But it was in a recent hospital room that her beliefs were most powerfully tested. As it traces Amy's journey through a debilitating illness, the piece celebrates the sorrows and the joys of being human, finding divinity in surprising places and ways.

"I have known Sabrina Peck ever since she was a Harvard undergraduate and was electrifying the theatre community with her imaginative direction and choreography. She has since gone on to do some really dazzling professional work, the most recent that I saw being Amy Brenneman's deeply moving Mouth Wide Open. Sabrina is that rare thing, a theatre artist with her own vision, yet deeply attentive to the vision of others. I applaud her and her work."

—Robert Brustein, Founding Director, American Repertory Theatre

Mouth Wide Open was developed and first performed at The Yard Performing Arts Festival on Martha's Vineyard.

CREATED by Amy Brenneman and Sabrina Peck | WRITTEN by Amy Brenneman | DIRECTED bY Sabrina Peck | DRAMATURGY by Andrea Thome | SOUND DESIGN by Jill du Boff | LIGHTING DESIGN by Dan Scully (The Yard); Maruti Evans (A.R.T.) | VIDEO DESIGN by Jim Findlay (A.R.T.) | A.R.T. CAST: Amy Brenneman, Ashley Bryant, Page Leong and Robert Montano | YARD CAST: Amy Brenneman, Page Leong, Bernard White and Katherine E. Wood