ABDULLAH IBRAHIM · ADAM W. SADBERRY
ALEXANDER DAVIS · AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE
BERTHA HOPE · BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY
BOBBY MORGAN · BORA YOON · CAMILLE A. BROWN
CARL HANCOCK RUX · CHLOE DAVIS · CRAIG HARRIS
DAFNIS PRIETO · DANIEL FETECUA · DAVID VALBUENA
DJ SABINE BLAIZIN (OYASOUND) · FEI-FEI
FLOR DE TOLOACHE · GEORGE EMILIO SANCHEZ
HANNAH LEMMONS AKA LEMMONS · IAN ISIAH
JAMES BLASZKO · JASON MORAN · JOANNE BRACKEEN
JOSÉ JAMES · JOYA POWELL · JUEL D. LANE
KALÍ RODRÍGUEZ-PEÑA · KIMBERLY NICHOLE
LUCIANA SOUZA · MALEEK WASHINGTON
MARY PRESCOTT · MATTHEW WHITAKER
MAYTE NATALIO · MICAH THOMAS · NORA CHIPAUMIRE
PABLO MAYOR’S FOLKLORE URBANO ORCHESTRA
PATTY ORTIZ · RICKEY TRIPP
RONALD K. BROWN/EVIDENCE
SHANTELLE COURVOISIER JACKSON · STEW
SUN HAN GUILD · TAMAR-KALI · URBAN BUSH WOMEN
VIJAY IYER · YASSER TEJEDA · YUNIYA EDI KWON
Tony Award-winning playwright, composer, performer, and Harvard University professor Stew (Passing Strange, Notes of a Native Song) premieres HIGH SUBSTITUTE FOR THE HEAD LECTURER. The second in his series of “black super-hero free-constructions,” Stew works through Amiri Baraka’s, and Leroi Jones’, twin influences on his life and art. Baraka, previously known as Leroi Jones, was a legendary writer and founder of the Black Arts Movement. In the spirit of Stew’s critically acclaimed Notes of a Native Song, the musical meditation on James Baldwin, also commissioned by Harlem Stage, HIGH SUBSTITUTE will irreverently transmit troubadour songs scribbled on and about the life trail blazed by Baraka Jones.
Candaceia Charles Vocals
Marlon Cherry Guitar, Vocals
Lighting Design
Kato Hideki Bass
Veronica Leahy Winds
Nehemiah Luckett Keys, Vocals Keys
Mike McGinnis Winds
Allan Mednard Drums
Leroi Richardson Vocals
Urbano Sanchez Percussion
Diego Stewart Bass Clarinet
Jasmine Surillo Vocals
Keys, Vocals
Brandon Woolf Acting, Vocals
Margot Leonard Closet Navigator
Projections by KJ Hardy & Stew
It is hard to talk about this show without talking about my relationship to Harlem Stage and Pat Cruz. There is something very specific about this space, where it is, the way it looks, and the mind behind it. It is a monumental space, a spiritual space, and Pat is an O.G. She gave me the opportunity to create Notes of a Native Song, commissioned by Harlem Stage back in 2015.
Like James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka has had a profound influence on my life and art. But Baldwin’s “Harlemic Authenticity” was beyond this LA boy’s reach, while Baraka was the first black artist I was aware of whose middle-class parents & their surrealistic striving, reminded me of mine. His spirit haunts Passing Strange more than I ever gave him credit for.
Baraka was always interrogating the effectiveness of art and its effect on our lives. He was always bringing art along to the fight, whatever fight he happened to be in at the time. He stretched poetry to see what else it could do, besides just be poetry. The appearance of his poetry/ prose/performance was like when the slam dunk entered basketball. He changed The Game.
Re: these Superhero Shows I want to make and perform (whenever my teaching schedule allows ;), Harlem Stage is the place for them. I would not do this anywhere else; it wouldn’t be the same. There must be a German compound word for this feeling.
It’s fun trying to keep a tough crowd awake, both at a juke joint and at the university, and even more fun when you get to read the crowd’s mid-terms. Even more fun when you get to hear why they stayed awake or why they checked out. I can measure the impact of my work in the classroom in ways that would be impossible at a show. Over the course of a semester, I can see/feel change happening, in my students and in myself.
The joy I get from teaching is related to my embrace of artists like Amiri Baraka, who made art that they hoped would effect change. I am fascinated by the idea of art “doing something” to us, but never sure what that “something” is.
Once a linebacker-esque brother on a D train gave me a bear hug (pre-covid!!!) and said “Your play made my ex understand me!! And now we’re back together!!” Wow, ART DID THAT!!! If only it could do that more often. I can see clearly in the classroom what art does when I put the work of Elaine Stritch in dialogue with Poly Styrene’s, or have students write one scene plays based on a Lou Reed or Curtis Mayfield song. When I ask them to listen to the music of West Side Story next to Fania All-Stars...y’all see where this is going? I can observe on a weekly basis what my work is doing to/for them, as well as what their brilliantly fresh and profound responses are doing to/for me. The classroom is a deeply fulfilling stage. But I’m REALLY happy to be here!!!
By the way, I’m still writing this show right now backstage as you read this.
Life, Baraka teaches us if anything, is a work-in-progress.
Also, I don’t think Liberalism is gonna save us from Fascism. Just sayin…
/the HNIC
Stew is a Tony Award and two-time Obie Award winning playwright/ performer, a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter, and veteran of multiple dive-bar stages. He is currently the Professor of the Practice of Musical Theater Writing at Harvard University. at Harvard University where his classes are hothouses of multi-disciplinary, self-challenging experimentation as he strives to demystify the creative process for his students.
Stew’s work has been featured on multiple occasions at Lincoln Center, the United Nations, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Getty Museum, Hammer Museum, UCLA Live, Seattle Repertory Theater, NPR, and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, among others. In 2015 Stew, along with artistic partner Heidi Rodewald, performed Notes of a Native Song, a work they created that included a collage of songs, text, and video inspired by James Baldwin and commissioned and produced by Harlem Stage as part of their yearlong celebration honoring Baldwin.
Stew’s works include Maybe There’s Black People in Fort Green, written for Spike Lee’s TV show She’s Gotta Have It (2019); A Clown with the Nuclear Code, written for Spike Lee’s TV show She’s Gotta Have It (2018); Resisting My Resistance to the Resistance, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2017); Mosquito Net, (NYUAD Arts Center, Abu Dhabi (2016); Notes of a Native Song, commissioned and produced by Harlem Stage, performed worldwide (2015 to present); Wagner, Max!!! Wagner!!! commissioned by and debuted at Kennedy Center, DC (2015); among others. Stew & The Negro Problem have released 12 critically acclaimed albums between 1997 and the present. Stew is the composer of Gary Come Home of Sponge Bob SquarePants fame, which, honestly, is all anyone cares about anyway.
Candaceia Charles is a multifaceted artist from Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BFA in Musical Theater from Marymount Manhattan College with a concentration in Directing. Some of her favorite theater credits have been Gypsy in The Who’s Tommy and Melody in Addy and Uno. Some of her favorite vocal performances have been behind Andra Day at Billboard Women in Music and George Lucas’ Christmas party. She is grateful to her family and friends for the never-ending support and God for all opportunities and blessings that have brought her this far.
Marlon Cherry is a multi-instrumentalist/composer who has performed and created music for dance, film, and theater and has worked with a variety of musical artists, including Stew and the Negro Problem, Baba Bibi, Terre Roche/The Roches, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Eszter Balint, Syd Straw, Chris Cochrane, John S. Hall, and Susan Hwang. He’s a member of the NY/LA artist collective, The Secret City, and a staff accompanist for Barnard College’s dance department. His latest solo CD, Fever Dreaming In Lo-Fi is available at marloncherry1.bandcamp. com, Spotify, Amazon, iTunes, & other streaming suspects.
KJ Hardy is the Resident Lighting Designer for 54 Below. Has previously toured the country for various live shows and is honored to return to the beautiful Harlem Stage. Recent credits include Tamika Lawrence: The Farewell at Joe’s Pub. Michael Feinstein & Sheryl Lee Ralph at the Mark Tapper Forum, American Pops Orchestra for PBS, 35mm@ Galapagos Arts Space. Regional Work for Ars Nova, The PUBLIC Theater, Playwrights Horizons, York Theater Company, The Town Hall, The Kennedy Center, and NYU Abu Dhabi! Thank you to Stew, Dana, Nehemiah, Urbano, Heidi, Mike, Kato, Brandon, Art, and the amazing crew and staff of Harlem Stage. Love to Alyssa & Annabelle.
Kato Hideki is a Japanese musician, composer & producer. His music has been released on Tzadik, Joyful Noise, Shimmy-Disc and Virgin UK. He has collaborated with a diverse array of artists, including Fred Frith, Koichi Makigami, Karen Mantler, Ikue Mori, Arturo O’Farrill, Zeena Parkins, Marc Ribot, Nana Vasconcelos and John Zorn. He has performed at CBGB, La MaMa, Lincoln Center, MoMA, Miller Theatre, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, TAKE Dance and Ballet X, and the soundtrack for the award-winning documentary The Journey of Monalisa. Kato was the music producer of the Bessie award- winning THEM by Ishmael Houston-Jones, Dennis Cooper & Chris Cochrane; the ambient album THE WALK with Kramer; Eszter Balint’s album I HATE MEMORY; and BABA BIBI with Stew. www.katohideki.com
Veronica Leahy is a multi-genre composer, multi-instrumentalist, and recent summa cum graduate of Harvard College, having studied in the dual program with Berklee College of Music. As early as high school, Veronica garnered national recognition as a saxophonist in both jazz and classical genres, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and a spot in the 2018 National YoungArts jazz combo. Since then, Veronica has worked with artists such as Terri Lyne Carrington, Vijay Iyer, and Kris Davis, and she appeared on the GRAMMY-winning jazz album New Standards, Vol. 1. Veronica composed four full-length musicals while an undergraduate and served as the composer for Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals for two seasons. A Tribeca New Music Festival emerging composer, she founded and served as artistic director for CompFest, Harvard’s only student composition festival. Veronica received Harvard’s Radcliffe Doris Cohen Levi Prize for achievement in musical theater. Currently, she is part of the prestigious BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in New York.
Nehemiah Luckett has been performing, composing, and conducting for over 30 years. Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, he connects his deep love of music to the transformative power of building community through breathing and singing with family and friends which he practiced from an early age. He has been a featured soloist at the National Cathedral, Carnegie Hall, and has performed on six continents. Recent projects include AMANI at Rattlestick Theater with National Black Theatre (Music Director), SCENE PARTNERS at Vineyard Theatre (Music Director), and RUBY with Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe in Sarasota, Florida
(Co-Composer, Co-Orchestrator, and Music Supervisor). Nehemiah is a member of The Dramatists Guild, American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC) and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). He lives in New York City with his husband.
Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist and composer, Dana Lyn has received commissions from Brooklyn Rider, the National Arts Council of Ireland, the Apple Hill String Quartet, A Far Cry, and Palaver Strings; she has written music for short films, New York Times’ audio stories and her contributions to the Ken Burns documentary American Holocaust were called “sublime” by The Boston Globe. Her own musical projects include the sextet Mother Octopus, collaborations with actor Vincent D’Onofrio, guitarist Kyle Sanna, and poet Louis De Paor. Dana was an awardee of the 2018 American Composers Forum Create Commission, a recipient of a 2020 NYFA Women’s Fund Award for Media, Music and Theater and a Sundance Composer Lab Fellow in 2021. Her radio play with De Paor received a Gold Award at the 2022 New York Festivals Radio Awards. Her recently released album A Point on a Slow Curve (In-a-Circle Records) is a suite of music for septet and four voices, that “brilliantly capturing the rigors and abandon of creativity (A Closer Listen)”. It has been featured on WNYC’s New Sounds program and noted for its “singular expressionism, incorporating forms common to the modern jazz idiom alongside chamber, choir, folk, and avant-garde (Dave Sumner, The Bird is the Worm).” Dana is also a well-versed fiddle player in the Irish tradition.
Saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer, Mike McGinnis is a musical explorer unbound by stylistic barriers; unwaveringly individual, curious, and open-minded. He has released six critically acclaimed albums as a leader during his twenty-three years on the NYC jazz scene. As musical director of the Davalois Fearon Dance Company, he has performed his compositions at the Joyce Theater, Metropolitan Museum, Harlem Stage, Rubin Museum. For ten consecutive years, he has been listed in the Clarinet “Rising Star” category by the DownBeat Magazine International Critics Poll. McGinnis’ penchant for exploration has led him to work with a dizzying array of artists – from jazz innovators Anthony Braxton, Alice and Ravi Coltrane, Hank Roberts, Ben Goldberg, Peter Apfelbaum, Bernie Worrell, Gerald Cleaver, Steve Coleman, and Lonnie Plaxico to indie rock mainstays Yo La Tengo and Afro-Baroque Stew & the Negro Problem. He has performed on Broadway in the Tony-winning show Fela! and on film in Academy Award Winning director’s Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock. He currently teaches inter-disciplinary improvisation at The New School and jazz improvisation at the Brooklyn Conservatory where he is the director of the jazz department. www.mikemcginnis.com
Drummer Allan Mednard was born and raised in Queens, New York. His early musical experiences involved New York City’s All-City High School Music program, Bayside High School’s Academy of Music, and Queens College’s Center for Preparatory Studies in Music program. In 2008, he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in jazz performance from the City College of New York (CCNY). While attending CCNY, he studied with the great Carl Allen. He has performed around the globe with ensembles led by Brandee Younger, Jeremy Pelt, Ben Allison, Michael Wolff, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Alix Ambroise, and many more.
LeRoi Richardson is a storyteller that communicates through the mediums of Music, Theater, and Film. He holds a BFA in Musical Theater and Writing for Stage from Marymount Manhattan College. He is an honorary member of Stew + The Negro Problem. He also goes by Augusto Leon, his Rap persona. He’s working on multiple projects right now, including adapting Alice in Wonderland into a blaxploitation film series, Reflections, an autobiographical fiction play about depression, and his first mixtape. He is also looking for a new home for his play Frenchman, a continuation of Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman. IG & Twitter: thesunburntbaby
Urbano Sanchez is a GRAMMY nominated percussionist who has been a freelance musician performing internationally for the past 30 years. He started playing the congas at age 4 and grew up traveling between two musically rich islands –Manhattan and Puerto Rico – where he developed the ability to play a diverse and eclectic array of musical styles including: African, Caribbean, Latin, Jazz Fusion, Brazilian, R&B, Rock, and Folk music. In the early 90’s he won Star Search as well as an International Band Competition. He has made appearances on David Letterman’s Late-Night Show, Conan O’Brian, The Today Show, Regis and Kathy Lee, VH1, and MTV. Over the years, he has played with Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Richie, October Project, The Barrio Boys, Richard Bona, Heritage O.P., and STEW. When he became a father, his interest in children’s music grew and he recorded for Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues and started playing with AudraRox, a Brooklyn based children’s rock band. He now accompanies his daughter on percussion who is a member of the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music’s Brooklyn Harmonics Teens. He has toured extensively in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and continues to play both locally and abroad.
Diego Stewart was born in Manhattan in 2010. He likes hanging out with friends, playing soccer, and collecting sneakers, clothes, and art. Diego will pursue a career in fashion design. He also has a crested gecko named Schmecky, and a dog named Samus. Diego loves traveling. He also enjoys making art and designing clothes. Some of Diego’s favorite music artists are Tyler the Creator, XXXTENTACION, and Danny Brown.
Jasmine Surillo is a Puerto Rican/Dominican singer, songwriter and actress from Far Rockaway, Queens, New York. Starting her independent music career, she takes on the name Jenie as her intro to the world. She’s been able to go on and create songs played on the BET Series TALES, and her music has played on other connecting networks. She’s also had the pleasure of performing for venues such as Joes Pub and B.A.M. Jenie continues to create as she’s in the process of releasing her first album and hopes to expand her talents on a greater level. Instagram: Jeniemagic
Art Terry is a London-based artist from Los Angeles. In performance he uses music, text, video, and experimental theatre to explore sexuality, Black politics, and religion. A singer and pianist, Art underpins deeply personal lyrics with dense melodic textures. He orchestrates music for his ten-piece band, the Black Bohemians. During lockdown, Art completed and recorded a new song for 52 days consecutively, with an accompanying video each day shot by Helena Smith. Art has toured the Self Isolation Songbook film throughout the UK, with accompanying performances either solo on grand piano, or with the Black Bohemians. Art is a lifelong friend and collaborator of Stew’s. Their experiences as young Black artists in Europe fed the creation of Stew’s musical Passing Strange. Art is Music Director for a new production of Passing Strange, which opens May 7 at the Young Vic theatre in London.
Brandon Woolf is an interdisciplinary theater maker and a scholar of contemporary performance. Over the past 15 years, Brandon co-founded three public performance ensembles – UC Movement for Efficient Privatization (UCMeP), Shakespeare Im Park Berlin, and Culinary Theater — all of which explore theater’s potential as a social practice. He has recently presented his work at 14th Street Y, University Settlement, Target Margin Theater, Drama League, Invisible Dog Art Center, Jewish Museum of Maryland, Harvard University’s Mahindra Center, and a USPS mailbox on Prospect Park West. Institutional Theatrics, Brandon’s book on contemporary performance in Germany, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2021. He is also a clinical associate professor of theater at New York University, where he directs the Program in Dramatic Literature. www.brandonwoolfperformance.com
This program is supported, in part, by Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Black Seed Fund, the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Diana King Memorial Fund presented by the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation.
Harlem Stage’s programs are made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the National Endowment for the Arts.
On the occasion of Harlem Stage’s 40th Anniversary milestone season, we are pleased to offer a series of livestream performances this Winter/Spring 2024, available to our donors. As part of our $40 for 40 campaign, your donation of at least $40 to Harlem Stage will give you access to livestream these amazing performances. Learn more at harlemstage.org/40for40
E-Moves
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
Saturday, April 20 | 7:30PM
WaterWorks Established Artist Commission
Tamar-kali—The Swann
Carl Hancock Rux, Libretto
Saturday, May 4 | 7:30PM
Friday, May 3 – Saturday, May 4 | 7:30PM
WaterWorks Established Artist Commission
Tamar-kali—The Swann
Carl Hancock Rux, Libretto
Composer, vocalist, and performing and recording artist Tamar-kali presents performance excerpts from The Swann — an opera she is developing about the life and times of William Dorsey Swann, the first known person to identify as a “queen of drag.”
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
ON & ON: JOSÉ JAMES SINGS BADU
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
UPTOWN NIGHTS
LATIN MUSIC SERIES
PABLO MAYOR’S FOLKLORE URBANO ORCHESTRA
OCTOBER 13 – 14, 2023 E-MOVES
RONALD K. BROWN/ EVIDENCE
OCTOBER 20 – 21, 2023
CRAIG HARRIS
TONGUES OF FIRE (in a harlem state of mind)
OCTOBER 27, 2023
UPTOWN NIGHTS
LATIN MUSIC SERIES
DAFNIS PRIETO
FEATURING LUCIANA SOUZA CANTAR
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
IN THE COURT OF THE CONQUEROR BY GEORGE EMILIO
SANCHEZ IN
COLLABORATION WITH VISUAL ARTIST PATTY ORTIZ
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
UPTOWN NIGHTS
LATIN MUSIC SERIES +
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE FLOR DE TOLOACHE
DECEMBER 1, 2023
UPTOWN NIGHTS
LATIN MUSIC SERIES
YASSER TEJEDA & DJ SABINE BLAIZIN (OYASOUND)
DECEMBER 9, 2023
WATERWORKS EMERGING ARTISTS SHOWCASE
FEATURING SHANTELLE COURVOISIER JACKSON, HANNAH LEMMONS AKA
LEMMONS, BOBBY MORGAN, MARY PRESCOTT & KALÍ RODRÍGUEZ-PEÑA
JANUARY 11–13, 2024
E-MOVES
URBAN BUSH WOMEN’S HAINT BLU
JANUARY 26, 2024
UPTOWN NIGHTS
IAN ISIAH + KIMBERLY NICHOLE
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
UPTOWN NIGHTS: CONVENT TO WYTHE yuniya edi kwon + SUN HAN GUILD
MARCH 1 – 2, 2024
ETERNAL SPIRIT: VIJAY IYER & FRIENDS
CELEBRATE THE MUSIC OF ANDREW HILL
MARCH 8, 2024
UPTOWN NIGHTS AN EVENING OF CHAMBER
MUSIC PRESENTED WITH SUGAR HILL SALON & CONCERT ARTISTS GUILD
MARCH 9, 2024
UPTOWN NIGHTS: CONVENT TO WYTHE
BORA YOON & R. LUKE DUBOIS AT NATIONAL SAWDUST
MARCH 22 – 23, 2024
STEW
HIGH SUBSTITUTE FOR THE DREAD LECTURER: BARAKA JONES IN DUB
MARCH 29 – 30, 2024
WATERWORKS ESTABLISHED ARTIST COMMISSION
AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE banyan seed
APRIL 19 – 20, 2024
E-MOVES
BILL T. JONES/ ARNIE ZANE COMPANY
APRIL 26, 2024
PIANOS FOR DUKE REIMAGINED: FEATURING
JASON MORAN, ABDULLAH IBRAHIM & FRIENDS
APRIL 27, 2024
PIANOS FOR DUKE REIMAGINED: FEATURING
JASON MORAN, ABDULLAH
IBRAHIM & FRIENDS BENEFIT CONCERT
MAY 3 – 4, 2024
WATERWORKS ESTABLISHED ARTIST COMMISSION
TAMAR-KALI THE SWANN
MAY 17 – 18, 2024
E-MOVES
nora chipaumire ShebeenDUB
JUNE 3, 2024
HARLEM STAGE
40TH ANNIVERSARY GALA
JUNE 14 – 15, 2024
E-MOVES
CAMILLE A. BROWN & GUESTS: BLACK JOY
FEATURING WORKS BY CAMILLE A. BROWN, CHLOE DAVIS, JUEL D. LANE, MAYTE NATALIO, RICKEY TRIPP & MALEEK WASHINGTON
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