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The House That Will Not Stand
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By Marcus Gardley
Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
2017/18 Season
July 11, 2018—August 19, 2018
This production includes haze,
strobe lighting and gunshots.
Runtime: Approximately 2 hours and
15 minutes including one intermission.
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ODETTE ALBANS
New York: The Good Negro (Public Theater). Regional: Sunset Baby (City Theatre), Seven Guitars (Actors Theater of Louisville), The Mountaintop (Geva Theatre), Seven Guitars (No Rules Theater Company), The House That Will Not Stand (Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Yale Repertory), Stick Fly (Arden Theatre), A Raisin in the Sun (Palm Beach Dramaworks), Slippery as Sin (Passage Theatre), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Huntington Theatre Company), Gem of the Ocean (Hartford Stage), The Piano Lesson (Yale Rep and Delaware Theatre Company), The Good Negro (Dallas Theatre Center), Mama’s Gonna Buy You (William Inge Theatre Festival), Dirt Rich (NY Summer Stage), Stick Fly and The Overwhelming (Contemporary American Theatre Festival), False Creeds (Alliance Theatre Company), Breath, Boom (Synchronicity Performance Group) and The Doll Play’s (Actor’s Express). Television: “Instinct,” “Blindspot,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Orange Is the New Black,” “Show Me a Hero,” “Luke Cage.” Training: Clark Atlanta University; MFA–University of Iowa.
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MAUDE LYNN ALBANS
Juliana recently starred in the Theater for a New Audience production of He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, in what the The Hollywood Reporter called an “affecting performance,” New York Magazine lauded it as “luminous,” and The New York Times hailed as “perfect.” She followed that with a performance in the Fourth Street Theater’s production of Zürich, opposite Paul Wesley, that The New Yorker called “especially good.” Juliana recently shot a recurring role on the highly-anticipated upcoming HBO series “Succession,” opposite Brian Cox and Kieran Culkin, and directed by Adam McKay. She graduated with an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
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MAKEDA
Broadway: Amelie, Amazing Grace, The American Plan, Mamma Mia and Once on This Island. Off-Broadway: X or Betty Shabazz vs The Nation, Rimbaud in New York (BAM), On the Levee (AUDELCO nomination) and Crowns (AUDELCO Award). Original Cast recordings: Amelie, Amazing Grace, Inside Out, Lone Star Love and Reunion. Regional: Nina Simone: Four Women (as Nina Simone – Arena Stage); Ella: First Lady of Song (DTC); MotherFreakingHood! (NYMF – Outstanding Individual Performance Award); The House That Will Not Stand (Yale Rep, Connecticut Critics Award Nomination; Berkeley Rep, Theatre Bay Award); dance of the holy ghosts (Yale Rep); Breath and Imagination (ArtsEmerson); LMNOP (Goodspeed); Ambassador Satch (Dubai); The Women of Brewster (Helen Hayes Nomination), Polk County (Helen Hayes Nomination) and The Piano Lesson (Arena Stage); Reunion (Ford’s Theater – Helen Hayes Nomination); and Seven Guitars (Center Stage). Film: Winter’s Tale, Collateral Beauty. Television: “Welcome to the Wayne,” “Orange Is the New Black,” “Rescue Me,” “Law & Order: SVU,” and “Law & Order.” BFA in Acting – Howard University “WGATAP!”
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BEARTRICE ALBANS
Lynda has Broadway credits including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (with James Earl Jones), Doubt (understudy), King Hedley II (understudy) and 45 Seconds from Broadway. Off-Broadway credits include This Flat Earth, Skeleton Crew (Drama League Nomination), The Hummingbird’s Tour, Zooman and the Sign, King Hedley II (AUDELCO Award), Miss Witherspoon and Intimate Apparel. Regional credits include Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Arena Stage, GEVA, Indiana Rep), A Raisin in the Sun (Westport, GEVA, Hartford Stage—Connecticut Critics Circle Award), Crowns (Arena Stage—Helen Hayes Award), Second Stage (AUDELCO Award) and The Widow Lincoln (Ford’s Theatre). Her TV credits include “The Good Wife,” “30 Rock,” “Person of Interest,” all “Law & Orders,” “Elementary,” “Sex and the City” and “Odyssey.” Film: Roman J. Israel, Esq. (with Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell), Delivery Man and The Bounty Hunter, among others. Gravátt has three AUDELCO awards and a Distinguished Alumni award from her alma mater, Howard University. She is a founding faculty member of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC. She is a member of all the performing unions and has participated in many festivals and summer theater programs: Sundance, Lincoln Center, Chautauqua and New York Theatre Workshop.
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AGNÈS ALBANS
On Broadway, Nedra appeared in Marvin’s Room at the Roundabout directed by Anne Kauffman. Off-Broadway credits include Adam Bock’s A Life and Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns… (Playwrights Horizons), and Lost Lake (MTC). Regional: Good People (The Old Globe) and Fairfield (Cleveland Playhouse). Nedra recurs as Sylvia Guillen in upcoming Season 6 of “Orange Is the New Black” and on HBO in Terrence Nance’s “Random Acts of Flyness.” Other TV credits include “Jessica Jones,” “Bull,” “Elementary,” “Instinct,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Blue Bloods” and “30 Rock.”
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LA VEUVE
Marie Thomas recently returned from the Goodman Theatre in Chicago playing Sadie Delaney in Having Our Say. She played Nina Dubois in Charles Smith’s Knock Me a Kiss in New York at the New Federal Theater, the National Black Theater Festival in Winston Salem, NC, and at Crossroads Theater in New Brunswick, NJ. She received the Audelco Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. Also at Crossroads Theater, she was Sister Moore in the Amen Corner and Dorabelle in The Disappearance with Ruby Dee. Other Theater credits include The Summer House at The Passage Theater in Trenton, NJ; Goneril in King Lear, starring Avery Brooks, at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Connecticut; Samm-Art William’s The Dance on Widow’s Row at the New Federal Theater in New York and The National Black Theater Festival. She was Pam in Richard Wesley’s, The Talented Tenth in New York and in Atlanta at the National Black Arts Festival. She received an Audelco Award for Best Actress for her performance of Pam and an Audelco nomination for her performance in An Evening with Josephine Baker Off-Broadway and at the National Black Arts Festival. She has appeared on Broadway in the musical Don’t Bother me I Can’t Cope and at Lincoln Center in The Duplex and Antigone. Television and film credits include “The Cosby Mysteries,” “L.A. Law,” “Knots Landing,” “Amen” and on the daytime dramas “The Doctors,” “One Life To Live,” “As The World Turns” and the film Hot Shots.
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MARIE JOSEPHINE
Michelle Wilson is best known for her Tony-nominated performance in the Pulitzer-Prize winning play Sweat. Wilson played long-time factory worker Cynthia, a role she originated off-Broadway at the Public Theatre before the show transitioned to Broadway with incredible reviews. In 2017, Sweat received three Tony award nominations including Best Play, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role for Wilson. Wilson’s other notable theater credits include A Raisin in the Sun, Detroit ’67, Follow Me to Nellie’s, Fahrenheit 451, Two Trains Running, The People Before the Park and more. Wilson also had memorable turns on the small screen in “The Good Fight,” “Blue Bloods” and “E.R.,” as well as in indie films Nehemiah, Sink and The Bicycle. Wilson can be seen next in the indie film The True Adventures of Wolfboy alongside Jaeden Lieberher and John Turturro. The film is currently in production.
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