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The Half-God of Rainfall
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By Inua Ellams
Movement Direction by Orlando Pabotoy
Directed by Taibi Magar
A co-production with American Repertory Theater
2022/23 Season
July 14, 2023—August 20, 2023
CONTENT TRANSPARENCY: In an effort to care for our community, we're sharing details about this production that may be sensitive for members of our audience. The following information may reveal plot points.
The Half-God of Rainfall contains haze, fog, flashing lights, loud sounds and stages sexual and physical violence.
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Sàngó
Broadway: The Play That Goes Wrong. Off-Broadway: Crumbs From The Table of Joy (Keen Theater), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Audible Theater), Native Son (The Acting Co.), If Pretty Hurts… (Playwrights Horizons). TV/Film: “Blue Bloods,” “Madam Secretary,” “Elementary” (CBS); “Law & Order: SVU” (NBC); “The Good Fight” (Paramount Plus); Mother/Android, The Upside.
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Hera
NYTW debut. Broadway: Present Laughter. Off-Broadway: Mother of The Maid (The Public), Dracula (CSC), The Winter’s Tale (TFANA), Sense & Sensibility (Bedlam), Angels In America (Signature), & work with Red Bull, LAByrinth, The Acting Company. World Premiere Adaptation: The Oresteia (Shakespeare Theatre of DC). Film/TV: The Man Who Killed Hitler… “The Blacklist,” and currently HBO’s “The Gilded Age.” Awards: Emery Battis Award, Joe Callaway Award, NTC Emerging Professional Award, Drama League and Princess Grace Award Nominations.
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Demi
Mister Fitzgerald hails from Baltimore, MD. NYTW: On Sugarland. Broadway: Ohio State Murders (James Earl Jones Theater). Off-Broadway: A Raisin In The Sun (Public Theater), Exception To The Rule (Roundabout). Film: The Last Deal, Boogie, 30 Weeks. TV: “Power,” “FBI,” “The Blacklist,” “Godfather of Harlem.” Awards: Best Duo Performance (DTLAFF). BFA, FSC.
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Osún
Patrice Johnson Chevannes is an award-winning, Brooklyn-based actress, writer, filmmaker, educator, director and the executive producer of God-and-all-o-wee Productions and Ubigwitus Records. Broadway: Racing Demon and The Crucible directed by Sir Richard Eyre. Off-Broadway/Regional: Othello (Desdemona opposite Sir Patrick Stewart); Pericles with Sir Trevor Nunn (TFANA); Tamburlaine with Sir Michael Boyd (TFANA); Endgame (Irish Rep); I’m Revolting, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven with Stephen Adly Guirgis and John Ortiz (Atlantic Theater Company); runboyrun/In Old Age with Awoye Timpo and Loretta Greco (NYTW). Patrice garnered a 2023 Lortel Award nomination for her role as Nell in Endgame, 2020 Drama Desk and Drama League nominations for runboyrun/In Old Age, and an Audelco nomination for her role in Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven. TV: “Chambers,” “POSE,” “SHRILL,” “EVIL,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “The First Lady,” “The Good Fight.” Films written and directed by Patrice: Kings County, NY’s Dirty Laundry, Hill and Gully. Patrice is on the faculty of The New School, where she teaches acting in The School of Drama
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Zeus
Theater credits include Coal Country (The Public), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate (Signature), Talk Radio (Broadway). He is the playwright/performer of Krapp, 39 (Drama Desk nomination) which played Soho Playhouse, Tristan Bates Theater/London, Axis Ballymun/Dublin, and Pleasance Theater/ Edinburgh. He wrote and performed (opposite Annette O’Toole) Hamlet in Bed (published by Dramatists Play Service) which premiered at Rattlestick Theater (directed by Lisa Peterson), with a UK premiere at Pleasance Theater, Edinburgh. Also: Opus (Primary Stages), Desire Under the Elms (Broadway), The Morini Strand (Primary Stages), Samuel D. Hunter’s The Few (Old Globe and Rattlestick), Dael Orlandersmith’s Horsedreams (Rattlestick), Poison (Origin), Sam Shepard’s Tooth of Crime (Signature), Edgar Oliver’s Hands In Wartime (La MaMa), Good People (Huntington), Starbuck in The Rainmaker (Arena Stage), John Proctor in The Crucible (Hartford Stage), Eric Bogosian’s Humpty Dumpty (McCarter), Jean Genet’s Splendid’s (Theatre National de Paris/La Colline). TV: recurring roles on “Shades of Blue” (NBC), “The Blacklist” (NBC), “Damages” (FX), and Adult Swim’s “The Heart She Holler.” Also, “Prodigal Son” (FOX), “Evil” (CBS), “The Good Wife” (CBS), “L&O: SVU” (NBC), “Hit & Run” (Netflix), “Elementary” (CBS), “Person of Interest” (CBS), and “Dexter: New Blood.” (Showtime). Film: Can You Ever Forgive Me, Man on A Wire, The Last Thing Mary Saw, One For the Money, many indies. He is the author of the full length plays Cincinnatus (O’Neill/ National Playwrights Conference finalist 2022), The Escape Artist, and The Twilight Shopper. He wrote and directed the indie feature film Escape Artists. Graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts/ Experimental Theatre Wing.
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Elegba
NYTW: On Sugarland. Broadway: Ohio State Murders, Electra, Having Our Say, So Long on Lonely Street. Off-Broadway: Cullud Wattah, Passage, Brownsville Song, Trojan Women, Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death. Selected Regional: Our Daughters, Like Pillars, Skeleton Crew. Film/TV: Detroit, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” The Preacher’s Wife, “The Wire,” “Law & Order.”
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Modúpé
Theater: Merry Wives (The Public Theater); Yemanja (Kennedy Center); BDOTJ (Society Theatre); King John, Antony & Cleopatra, Hamlet (Stratford Festival). TV: “The Good Fight” (Paramount +), “Evil” (CBS), “Designated Survivor” (Netflix), “Golden City” (Marvel/Disney+). Upcoming: “Lady in The Lake” starring Natalie Portman (AppleTV+). SUNY Purchase (BFA) and NYU Grad Acting (MFA).
NEWS
Basketball Has the Hot Hand Off-Broadway
The New York Times
"Basketball hasn’t just been on the playgrounds of New York City this summer. Hoop dreams are also playing out onstage, highlighting a theater, ahem, crossover that has become more pronounced in recent years."
The Basketball Loving Poet
New York Times
Flash back to 2020 when The Half-God of Rainfall was first released. Inua goes in-depth on his family history growing up in Nigeria, England and Ireland, as well as his research for The Half-God of Rainfall and how the play gets its title.
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