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His play “The White Chip” is scheduled to reopen off-Broadway in February.

In Sean Daniels’s autobiographical “The White Chip,” the playwright’s problem is alcohol, something that cost him the top job at the Actors Theater of Louisville in 2011 after he showed up drunk to several events, including a board meeting to consider him for artistic director.

But, he said, the broader motivation for writing “The White Chip,” which opened Oct.

The play takes its name from the Alcoholics Anonymous sobriety-chip system; each of the many times Steven resolves to stop drinking, he gets a white chip.

Steven, the high-functioning, hard-core alcoholic at the center of Sean Daniels’s harrowing comedy “The White Chip,” is the kind of guy whose abundant scruffy charm allows him to get away with far too much.