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By Jeremy O. Harris
Directed by Robert O'Hara
2018/19 Season
November 19, 2018—January 13, 2019
This play contains nudity, sexual content, simulated sexual violence, and racially violent language. Recommended for ages 17+.
Run time: 2 hours with no intermission.
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Gary
Stage credits include: The Total Bent at The Public Theater (Drama League, Lucille Lortel nominations), Hair (Broadway and West End), Twelfth Night and As You Like It at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Transfers at Manhattan Class Company, Antigone in Ferguson at the Harlem Stage, the Foundry Theater’s production of O. Earth, Iphigenia in Aulis at Classic Stage Company and Lysistrata Jones. Film/TV: Spike Lee’s Black KKKlansman, The Kindergarten Teacher opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal, Detroit, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon), “She’s Gotta Have It” (Netflix) and “The Good Fight” (CBS). He is a 2017 recipient of the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship, a member of The Actors Center and holds a BFA from NYU and MFA from The Yale School of Drama.
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Dustin
Broadway: Six Degrees of Separation (dir. Trip Cullman). Off-Broadway: Nijinsky in World Premiere of Fire and Air by Terrence McNally (Classic Stage Company, dir. John Doyle); The Devil in The Soldier’s Tale featuring Michael Cerveris (Carnegie Hall, dir. Liz Diamond). Regional: KISS at Yale Repertory Theatre (CT Critics Circle Nominee, Best Featured Actor), Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Television: “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “The Path,” “Red Oaks,” “Blue Bloods,” “Time After Time.” Training: MFA, Yale School of Drama.
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Phillip
Sullivan was born and raised in the Bay Area and is a proud alumnus of Brown University and UCLA’s School of Theater. He is a recipient of the 2012 Princess Grace Award for Theater. Sullivan has appeared with The Denver Center (Frankenstein), Berkeley Repertory Theater (Head of Passes), Baltimore Center Stage (One Night in Miami…), Long Wharf Theater (Smart People), TheaterWorks (Clementine in the Lower 9), The African American Shakespeare Company (Twelfth Night, Cinderella), among others. He is currently starring in Epic Theatre Ensemble’s World Premiere production of The Winning Side in New York. On screen, Sullivan was most recently a series regular in this year’s acclaimed limited series “The Looming Tower” (Hulu). He has also appeared in “The Good Fight” (CBS), “House of Cards” (Netflix), “Parks and Recreation” (NBC), “Blue Bloods” (CBS) and “NCIS: New Orleans” (CBS).
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Teá
Chalia is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama’s MFA Acting program and is originally from Stockton, California. Theatre credits include: The Review or How to Eat Your Opposition (WP Theater), Cymbeline (Yale Repertory Theatre), and Romeo and Juliet (Actors Theatre of Louisville). TV credits include: “The Good Fight” and “Elementary” on CBS. Film credits include: The Future is Bright and Three Pregnant Men. The Future is Bright has been screened at many festivals including The Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival and the inaugural Smithsonian African American Film Festival. La Tour is also an alumna of the Actors Theatre of Louisville Professional Training Program and The British American Dramatic Academy. She is a proud member of Actors Equity Association. For more information on her work go to chalialatour.com
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Patricia
NYTW: Love and Information. Broadway: Wit. Off-Broadway: Orange Julius (Rattlestick), The Undertaking (BAM/Theatre de la Ville), King Liz (Second Stage Uptown), We Play for the Gods (Women’s Project), Estrella Cruz the Junkyard Queen (Ars Nova). Regional Credits include: El Huracán (Yale Rep), Bad Jews (Helen Hayes Nomination, Studio Theater DC), Pygmalion (Cal Shakes), Romeo and Juliet (Yale Rep), After the Revolution (Williamstown Theater Festival). Television: “The Americans” (FX), “Bartlett” (Amazon), “Madam Secretary” (CBS), “Gossip Girl” (CW), “Stranded in Paradise” (Hallmark), “Casi Casi” (HBO Latino). She is Co-Creator, Producer, and Actor for BUTS Webseries, a 2-time Imagen Award nominee and NBC Short Film Festival finalist. She is a graduate of Princeton University and The Yale School of Drama. Irene is a proud member of the Actor’s Center and a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Alana
Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf (Elevator Repair Service/ERS – NYC & Dublin Theatre Festival); Iow@ (Playwrights Horizons, Lortel Nomination); *GATZ (The Public); *The Sound and The Fury: April Seventh, 1928 (New York Theatre Workshop); We’re Gonna Be Okay (Humana Festival/Actors Theatre of Louisville); A Map of Virtue (13P); That Pretty Pretty; or The Rape Play (Rattlestick); God’s Ear (New Georges); Rapture, Blister, Burn (The Huntington); Nurses in New England (Half Straddle). Film & TV: Blue Jasmine; “Orange Is the New Black” (recurring); “The Knick;” “Mozart in the Jungle.” Clubbed Thumb, where she is an Affiliated Artist: The World My Mama Raised; The Tomb of King Tot; 41-derful; Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake; U.S. Drag. *National and international touring with ERS.
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Jim
Paul is a renowned Canadian actor who recently played the lead on Broadway in the new musical, Escape to Margaritaville. Previously, he starred in Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s original Broadway musical, Bright Star, for which he earned a 2016 Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Featured Actor. He was also an Outer Critics Circle nominee as Best Featured Actor for the Broadway musical, Doctor Zhivago. His Broadway career began with his debut in Jesus Christ Superstar, and he also starred as Billy Flynn in Chicago, one of the longest running Broadway musicals in history. This summer, Paul shot guest roles on both “Madam Secretary” and “Instinct.” This fall, he’ll be shooting a prominent role in the indie film, The Scottish Play. Additional credits include the Off-Broadway world premiere and cast album of the musical, Daddy Long Legs; The Who’s Tommy, West Side Story and As You Like It at the Stratford Festival; and the world premiere of the rock musical, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.
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Kaneisha
Teyonah recently completed production on Netflix’s Point Blank remake opposite Anthony Mackie, and is about to begin production on Sony’s 12 O’Clock Boys, written by Barry Jenkins and Sherman Payne. Parris can next be seen co-starring in the film If Beale Street Could Talk, directed by Barry Jenkins and adapted from the James Baldwin novel. The film had its world premiere to critical acclaim at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and will screen as part of the New York Film Festival before releasing this November. Parris made her film debut in James L. Brooks’ How Do You Know. She went on to receive critical acclaim and accolades for her leading film performances in Justin Simien’s Dear White People and Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq, including an NAACP Image Award nomination. On television, Parris had a memorable recurring role in AMC’s hit series “Mad Men,” where she and the cast received a SAG ensemble nomination. She was recently seen in an arc on Lee Daniels and Danny Strong’s “Empire” after she wrapped her series regular run on the popular series “Survivor’s Remorse.” In 2010, Parris made her professional stage debut on Broadway in the Lincoln Center Theater production of John Guare’s A Free Man of Color opposite Jeffrey Wright and Mos Def. Parris is a graduate of the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City.
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