august wilson's piano lesson
JAN 23-FEB 23
Christopher V. Edwards, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Jen Babcock Davis, MANAGING DIRECTOR
Lindsay Williams, DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION
AUGUST WILSON'S THE PIANO LESSON
DIRECTED BY Christopher V. Edwards
FEATURING
Anthony T Goss*, Jade Guerra*, Jonathan Kitt*, Brittani J. McBride, Ariel Phillips, "ranney"*, Daniel Rios Jr.* AND Omar Robinson*
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
Adele Nadine Traub*
SCENIC DESIGNER
Jon Savage^
PROPS MANAGER
Isaac West
ASST. PRODUCTION MANAGER
Matt Pierce
COSTUME DESIGNER
Nia Safarr Banks^
DRAMATURG
Regine Vital
MUSIC DIRECTOR
R. M. Lawrence
PRODUCTION ELECTRICIAN Molly Beall
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Jake Mariño*
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Isaak Olson SOUND DESIGNER
INTIMACY DIRECTOR
Olivia Dumaine
DIALECT COACH
Rachel Finley
James Cannon
PRODUCTION MANAGER/ TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Danielle Ibrahim
WARDROBE MANAGER
Christian Scott Jones
ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR Tre Tyler
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States ^Member IATSE United Scenic Artists Local 829“August Wilson's The Piano Lesson” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Originally Produced on Broadway by Yale Repertory Theatre (Lloyd Richards, Artistic Director; Benjamin Mordecai, Managing Director), Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre (Gordon Davidson, Artistic/Producing Director), Gordon Davidson and Jujamcyn Theaters (James H. Binger, Chairman; Rocco Landesman, President); produced in association with the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, Huntington Theatre Company (Peter Altman, Producing Director; Michael Maso, Managing Director), Goodman Theatre, Old Globe Theatre (Jack O’Brien, Artistic Director; Thomas Hall, Managing Director) and Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Managing Director); associate producer, Stephen J. Albert.
Originally mounted in 1987 by Yale Repertory Theatre (Lloyd Richards, Artistic Director; Benjamin Mordecai, Managing Director) and Huntington Theatre Company (Peter Altman, ProducingDirector; Michael Maso, Managing Director)
Originally presented at National Playwright’s Conference of The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.
Presented in Partnership with HIBERNIAN HALL 184 Dudley St, Boston, MA 02119
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PICTURED: Ariel Phillips and Omar Robinson in rehearsal
FROM THE DIRECTOR
Let me tell you something about The Piano Lesson. This play isn’t just words on a page or actors on a stage—it’s history brought to life. It’s the story of Pittsburgh’s Hill District in 1936, carved out of the lives and struggles of African Americans who fled the Jim Crow South. August Wilson had a gift—he could take the everyday lives of Black folks and transform them into poetry, music, and something majestic. This play is the fourth in his American Century Cycle, a series of ten plays that chronicle African American life across each decade of the 20th century.
Since its premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre in 1987, The Piano Lesson has made quite the journey. It stopped here in Boston on its way to Broadway, where it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1990. Fast forward to today, and it’s still making waves: the recent revival won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play and shattered Broadway box office records as the highest-grossing revival in history. And if that weren’t enough, you may have seen trailers for Denzel Washington’s Netflix adaptation, continuing Wilson’s legacy for a new generation.
Now, let me tell you why this play sticks with me. I thought I knew my history—thought I had it all figured out. But The Piano Lesson opened my eyes to how much I don’t know, how much has been buried or erased about Black and Indigenous people in this country. And it’s still happening today—through legislation, through silence. Wilson didn’t write this as a history lesson, but every line is steeped in the struggles and triumphs of our past. This play is about family, legacy, and what we carry with us versus what we leave behind.
At its heart, The Piano Lesson asks: How do we move forward while carrying the weight of slavery and Jim Crow? Boy Willie wants to sell the family piano—to turn it into land and opportunity. Berniece? She clings to it like it’s her lifeline, a memorial to their ancestors who suffered so much. That piano isn’t just an object; it’s their entire history carved into its surface. And that’s where the tension lies—between honoring where we come from and finding a way to move ahead. Can we do both?
But this play isn’t just about struggle—it’s about love. Love for family, for community, for those who came before us, and those still to come. Wilson captures it all: life under Jim Crow, the fight for land ownership, debt slavery, single motherhood, and even the exploitation of Black artists. Yet through all that pain shines resilience, laughter, and hope.
So welcome to The Piano Lesson. Sit back, listen close, and let Wilson’s words wash over you like a song you didn’t know you needed to hear.
CHRISTOPHER V. EDWARDS
PICTURED: Daniel Rios Jr. and Jade Guerra in rehearsal
ANTHONY T GOSS* HE/HIM
LYMON
BRITTANI J. MCBRIDE SHE/HER GRACE
DANIEL RIOS JR.* HE/HIM
AVERY BROWN
*Member
JADE GUERRA* SHE/HER BERNIECE
ARIEL PHILLIPS SHE/HER MARETHA
OMAR ROBINSON* HE/HIM BOY WILLIE
JONATHAN KITT* HE/HIM DOAKER CHARLES
"ranney"* HE/HIM WINNING BOY
PICTURED: August Wilson
ABOUT AUGUST WILSON
August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) authored Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars, Fences, Two Trains Running, Jitney, King Hedley II, and Radio Golf. These works explore the heritage and experience of African-Americans, decade-by-decade, over the course of the twentieth century. His plays have been produced at regional theaters across the country and all over the world, as well as on Broadway. In 2003, Mr. Wilson made his professional stage debut in his one-man show, How I Learned What I Learned. Mr. Wilson’s works garnered many awards including Pulitzer Prizes for Fences (1987); and for The Piano Lesson (1990); a Tony Award for Fences; Great Britain’s Olivier Award for Jitney; as well as eight New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, Two Trains Running, Seven Guitars, Jitney, and Radio Golf. Additionally, the cast recording of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom received a 1985 Grammy Award, and Mr. Wilson received a 1995 Emmy Award nomination for his screenplay adaptation of The Piano Lesson. Mr. Wilson’s early works included the one-act plays The Janitor, Recycle, The Coldest Day of the Year, Malcolm X, The Homecoming and the musical satire Black Bart and the Sacred Hills
Mr. Wilson received many fellowships and awards, including Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellowships in Playwrighting, the Whiting Writers Award, 2003 Heinz Award, was awarded a 1999 National Humanities Medal by the President of the United States, and received numerous honorary degrees from colleges and universities, as well as the only high school diploma ever issued by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. He was an alumnus of New Dramatists, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a 1995 inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and on October 16, 2005, Broadway renamed the theater located at 245 West 52nd Street - The August Wilson Theatre. Additionally, Mr. Wilson was posthumously inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2007. Mr. Wilson was born and raised in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lived in Seattle, Washington at the time of his death. He is immediately survived by his two daughters, Sakina Ansari and Azula Carmen Wilson, and his wife, costume designer Constanza Romero
WHO’S WHO
N ames in red indicate members of Actors' Shakespeare Project's Resident Artist Company
ANTHONY T GOSS* (Lymon ) is excited to be retuning to ASP to work on August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson. He most recently was in The Effect at the Gamm Theatre and Toni Stone at the Huntington Theatre. He is currently working on new film projects and is a resident playwright with the National Black Theatre in New York City. (he/him)
JADE GUERRA* (Berniece ) Actors' Shakespeare Project: The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Macbeth, Julius Caesar. Regional: Miracle on 34th St., Calendar Girls, Legend of Georgia McBride (Greater Boston Stage); Well (Wellesley Rep); Shakespeare in Love (SpeakEasy Stage); Hamlet (Brown Box Theater); The Real Inspector Hound, How Soft the Lining (Bad Habit Productions); Orlando (Stonington Opera House); A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes (Apollinaire); Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (Lyric Stage). Education: BFA in Acting from Ithaca College. (she/her)
JONATHAN KITT* (Doaker Charles ) Actors' Shakespeare Project: debut. Off Broadway: Boy x Man (Negro Ensemble Company). Off-Off Broadway: Becoming Something: Canada Lee (The Kraine Theater); Blues For an Alabama Sky (NYU Gallatin School); The Mighty Gents (African American Showcase Theatre). Regional: Holiday Feast (Front Porch Arts Collective); Toni Stone (Huntington Theatre); Knives In Hens (The Vineyard Playhouse); North Folk, Ends (New Jersey Repretory Company); Servant of the People, Julius Ceasar (Jomandi
Productions). Film/TV: "Unexpected" (Dark Arts Film, Forager Films); "Crisis" (NBC); "Chicago Fire" (NBC). Education: MFA (The Theatre School at DePaul University). He is an Assistant Professor of Scene Study and Acting at Emerson College. www.jonathankitt.com. (he/him)
BRITTANI J. MCBRIDE (Grace ) Actors' Shakespeare Project: debut. OffBroadway: Mud; Or when things get messy and how we live with it (Connelly Theater | SheNYC). Regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Gloucester Stage); Fabulation; Or the Re-Education of Undine (Lyric Stage). Other: Lia Del Mar (Columbia University); Bay Dreaming (SFBATCO). Education: BFA in Acting from Boston University. Special thanks to: The McBride Tribe for their unwavering support and love. www. brittanijenese.com (she/her)
ARIEL PHILLIPS (Maretha) Actors' Shakespeare Project: debut. Ariel Phillips is a Boston native and student at Emerson College for Theatre & Performance. She made her Emerson debut in the Emstage production of Death Of A Salesman as Miss Forsythe. She most recently appeared in a Boston University student film of My Friend Marvin in the role of Gigi. She previously graduated from Boston Arts Academy and made her debut as Abigail Williams in The Crucible. Her credits include the Next Narrative Monologue Competition Regional First Place at The Huntington Theatre, Excellence In Theatre award at Boston Arts Academy and Dramatic Arts Bronze Winner in NAACP Act-So. (she/her)
"ranney"* (Winning Boy) Actors' Shakespeare Project: debut. West End: The Bomb-itty of Errors (Ambassadors Theatre). Regional: The Islanders, Fences, Hymn, Art (Shakespeare & Company); How I Learned What I Learned, Sweat (Ensemble Theatre Company); The Amen Corner, Hamlet, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, All the Way, Fences (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company); Jitney, Radio Golf, Two Trains Running, The Piano Lesson, Gem of the Ocean, Crowns, The Bomb-itty of Errors (American Stage Theatre Company); Scarlet, The Piano Lesson (Portland Playhouse Theatre); Water By the Spoonfull, Seven Guitars (Nevada Conservatory Theatre); Zora Neale Hurston, The Piano Lesson (Center Theatre Company), Topdog Underdog, Race, The Boys Next Door (Jobsite Theater Company); The Piano Lesson (A Public Fit Theatre Cmpany) Solo: Cufflinks and Jolly Ranchers for Dummies (Edinburgh Festival Fringe); And the Horse You Rode In On (Projects Arts Center, Dublin); Glossolalia: “ranney” is Speaking in Tongues, Whatever (Peoples Improv Theatre); Incendiary, The Break of Dawn: Tracing the Origins of Speech, Pardon Me: I Promise to Do My Best; “ranney” in Surround Zound (Straz Center for the Performing Arts); The Chicken or the Egg (American Stage Theatre Company). www.itsranney.com (he/him)
DANIEL RIOS JR.* (AVERY BROWN )
Actors' Shakespeare Project: debut. Regional: Young Nerds of Color (Central Square Theater); Fences (The Umbrella Stage Company); ROE (WAM Theatre); The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare & Company); White, Black, and Blue (Silverthorne Theatre Company); The Merchant of Venice (Valley Shakespeare Festival). TV/Film: HBO Max Series "The Other Two," "Shadows of the Dust," "Katie Fforde: Ein Haus am Meer (A House at the Sea)." Training: Fitchburg State University (BA), University of Southern California (MFA) Daniel would like to thank every teacher he’s had
for giving their time and sharing their knowledge with him. In honor of Andrei Belgrader, Charlotte Cornwell, and Michael Keenan.
OMAR ROBINSON* (Boy Willie ) Actors' Shakespeare Project: King Hedley II, Seven Guitars, Pride and Prejudice, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, The School for Scandal, The Comedy of Errors, Henry VIII, Pericles, Twelfth Night Regional: Toni Stone, Common Ground Revisited, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Romeo and Juliet, Tartuffe (Huntington Theatre Company); Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, The Winter’s Tale (Hartford Stage); Radio Golf, black odyssey, The Hunchback of Seville (Trinity Repertory Company); Dorset Theatre Festival, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Lyric Stage Company, Central Square Theater, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Theatre Espresso. Film: “The Finest Hours” Education: BA, Emerson College. (he/him)
CREATIVE TEAM
CHRISTOPHER V. EDWARDS (Director) is currently the Artistic Director of Actors’ Shakespeare Project. Actors’ Shakespeare Project (Acting): Romeo and Juliet. Actors' Shakespeare Project (Directing): The Taming of the Shrew, Let The Right One In, The Bomb-itty of Errors, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Pride & Prejudice, Equivocation, Much Ado About Nothing Selected Regional (Directing): ‘ART’, Fences [2023 Berkshire Theatre Critic Award Winner — Outstanding Production] (Shakespeare & Company); Hamlet (Gloucester Stage Company); Fences, A Raisin in the Sun (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company); How I Learned What I Learned, Fences (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival). Education: MFA, University of Minnesota. (he/him)
NIA SAFARR BANKS^ (Costume Designer) is a costume designer and educator. Her design work has been seen in various productions, including William Shakespeare’s Hamlet at American Shakespeare Center, August Wilson’s Fences at Shakespeare and Company, and Self Portrait (Deluxe) at The Bushwick Starr. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Costume Design from Boston University in 2023, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2019. She has been nominated for two Richmond Critic Awards for her outstanding work in Costume Design, for both An Octoroon (2019) and A Christmas Kaddish (2022). Her upcoming credits include William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company) and Fat Ham (Virginia Stage Company).
JAMES CANNON (Sound Designer)
Regional/Boston: Jersey Boys, Fiddler on the Roof, Disney's Frozen (North Shore Music Theater); The Full Monty, The Minutes, LIZZIE: The Musical, The Color Purple, Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy....Really, Middleton Heights, The Colored Museum, The Old Man and The Old Moon (Umbrella Stage Company); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Passing Strange, The Rocky Horror Show (Moonbox Productions); FAIRVIEW (SpeakEasy Stage Company); A Wrinkle in Time (Wheelock Family Theater); Next to Normal (Front Porch Arts Collective/Central Square Theater); Boulevard of Bold Dreams (Greater Boston Stage Company); John Deserves to Die (Fresh Ink Theatre Company). Associate Sound Design: The Band's Visit (Huntington Theatre Company). He gives all the love to his son, Trevanté, and his supportive partner Rebecca! (he/ him)
OLIVIA DUMAINE (Intimacy Director)
Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Emma, Romeo & Juliet, King Hedley II, How I Learned to Drive, Taming of the Shrew, As
You Like It Regional intimacy credits: The Rink (Boston University); The Hombres (Gloucester Stage/Teatro Chelsea); All Shook Up (Reagle Music Theatre); Fade (Teatro Chelsea); The Normal Heart (New Repertory Theatre); The House of Ramón Iglesia, Passing Strange (Moonbox Productions); Beyond Words, Ada and the Engine (Central Square Theater); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare & Company). Education: Salem State University; Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, Theatrical Intimacy Education, Intimacy for the Stage and Screen. www.OliviaDumaine.com (she/her)
CHRISTIAN SCOTT JONES (Wardrobe
Manager) Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Emma. Regional: Tick, Tick... BOOM, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Waitress, The 39 Steps (The Cape Playhouse); Angels in America (The Provincetown Theater); Noise (Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College). (he/they)
JAKE MARIÑO * (Assistant Stage Manager) Actors' Shakespeare Project: King Hedley II, Coriolanus (Production Stage Manager), Emma, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Nat Turner in Jerusalem (Assistant Stage Manager), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Stage Management Intern). Select Boston: Yellow Face (Lyric Stage Company of Boston); Revolution's Edge (Plays in Place); Black Super Hero Magic Mama, Wolf Play, Greater Good (Company One). Jake is a graduate of Suffolk University with his BA in Theatre. Find him on all social media for any and all DJing/Bartending needs and more:@ jakefromoregon. He would like to thank his partner, Jess, for their neverending love and support. Enjoy! (he/him)
ISAAK OLSON (Lighting Designer)
Regional/Boston: A Wrinkle in Time (Wheelock Family Theatre); Frozen, Jr (Berkshire Theatre Group); The Moors (Northeastern Theatre); John Deserves
to Die (Fresh Ink Theatre); Six, Teen Edition (Wilmington High School).
Education: Boston University LX Programmer: Cendrillion (Arrow Street Arts); The Revolutionists (Arts Emerson). isaakolsonlights.com. @isaakolsonlights (he/they)
JON SAVAGE^ (Scenic Design) Actors’
Shakespeare Project: Seven Guitars [2023 Elliot Norton Award – Outstanding Scenic Design], Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, and Equivocation. Broadway: Hot Feet (Assoc. Scenic Design). Boston: Ain’t Misbehavin’, Black Odyssey Boston (Front Porch Arts Collective/ Central Square Theater); A Disappearing Number (Central Square Theater); Sweet Charity, Lucky Stiff, Miracle on 34th Street (Greater Boston Stage Company); Reparations, To Kill a Mockingbird, True West, The Bank Job (Gloucester Stage Company); Imagining Madoff, Broken Glass, Cardboard Piano (New Repertory Theatre); Old Money, Comedy of Errors [Elliot Norton Award—Outstanding Design], All’s Well That Ends Well [Elliot Norton Award—Outstanding Production] (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Laughing Wild and Ryan Landry’s M (Huntington Theatre Company).
Regional: State Fair (The Walnut Street Theatre), Fiddler on the Roof, King of the Jews (Olney Theatre Center); A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park (Lyric Repertory Company - UT). Jon is currently serving on faculty within the Design, Production and Management programs at Boston University. He is a member of United Scenic Artists. (he/him)
ADELE NADINE TRAUB* (Production Stage Manager) is a founding company member and has stage managed for over twenty productions at ASP, from Richard III in Season 1 to How I Learned to Drive in Season 20. Other stage management credits The Huntington Theatre Company, Lyric Stage Company; A.R.T.; Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany, NY; SpeakEasy Stage; Israeli
Stage; Vineyard Arts Project; Boston Playwrights’ Theater; Central Square Theatre; BU’s Dance Theater Group; The Boston Conservatory; M.I.T. Theatre & Music Department. She received her B.A. from Brandeis University and currently teaches Stage Management at Boston College and is the General Manager at Lyric Stage Company and the Artist Coordinator for J.P. Licks.
ISAAC WEST (Props Manager) is a highly skilled technician working within the Boston Theatre scene. He has experience in a wide range of disciplines including props, scenic painting, carpentry, electrics, and jewelry. Isaac has a bachelor’s degree from Umass Boston. Since he got his degree he has worked on various productions all over the country such as: Emma (Actors' Shakespeare Project), Tartuffe (BCA Plaza), The Importance of Being Earnest (Blackfriars Playhouse), Macbeth (Blackfriars Playhouse), Rent (Robsham Theatre), Legally Blonde (Roberts Studio Theatre), West Side Story (Reagle Theatre). www.IsaacMakesThings.com @Isaac_Makes_Things (he/him)
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^ Member IATSE United Scenic Artists Local 829.
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STAFF
Christopher V. Edwards
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Jen Babcock Davis MANAGING DIRECTOR
Lindsay Williams DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION
Evan Turissini
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Kelsey Tidball
DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Regine Vital
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Danielle Ibrahim
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Jules Talbot
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Victoria Omoregie
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
ASSOCIATE
Emily Thibodeau
LEAD TEACHING ARTIST
Louise Croteau
BOOKKEEPER
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jean Cummings PRESIDENT
David Sandberg
TREASURER
John Affleck CLERK
Carolina Cardillo
Jeremy Gooden
Bruce Herrmann
Jean Dany Joachim
Omar Robinson
Luke Salisbury
Sheryl White
RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY
Esme Allen*
Lydia Barnett-Mulligan*
Marianna Bassham*
Allyn Burrows*
Paige Clark*
Jade Guerra*
Brooke Hardman*
Jesse Hinson*
Jennie Israel*
Doug Lockwood*
Marya Lowry*
Johnnie Mack
Jake Mariño*
Nael Nacer*
Sarah Newhouse*
Maurice Emmanuel Parent*
Paula Plum*
Omar Robinson*
Jon Savage
Mara Sidmore*
Alejandro Simoes*
Richard Snee*
Bobbie Steinbach*
Adele Nadine Traub*
Lisette van den Boogaard*
Shanelle Chloe Villegas*
Robert Walsh*
Benjamin Evett
