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MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB SAMUEL J. FRIEDMAN THEATRE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

LYNNE MEADOW

CHRIS JENNINGS AND

MADISON WELLS LIVE WITH

L A CHANZE

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TARAJI P. HENSON PRESENT

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JOCELYN BIOH WITH

RACHEL CHRISTOPHER

LAKISHA MAY

NANA MENSAH

MICHAEL OLOYEDE

SCENIC DESIGN

HAIR & WIG DESIGN

STEFANIA BULBARELLA

CASTING

DAWN-ELIN FRASER

JIYOUN CHANG

VIDEO DESIGN

JUSTIN ELLINGTON

ZENZI WILLIAMS

LIGHTING DESIGN

DEDE AYITE

ORIGINAL MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN

SOMI KAKOMA

DOMINIQUE THORNE

COSTUME DESIGN

DAVID ZINN

DIALECT & VOCAL COACH

KALYNE COLEMAN

NIKIYA MATHIS

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING KELLY GILLESPIE & ERICA HART

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

SIGHTLINE PRODUCTIONS

MELANIE J. LISBY

DIRECTED BY

WHITNEY WHITE INTERIM GENERAL MANAGER

ARTISTIC ADVISOR

MATTHEW W. KRAWIEC

KWAME KWEI-ARMAH DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC OPERATIONS & COMMUNICATION

AMY GILKES LOE DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

DEBRA WAXMAN-PILLA

ARTISTIC PRODUCER

NICKI HUNTER

PRESS REPRESENTATIVE

BONEAU/ BRYAN-BROWN

DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC PRODUCING

STEPHEN M. KAUS

ADVERTISING

SERINO COYNE

DIRECTOR OF PLAY DEVELOPMENT

SCOTT KAPLAN

INTERIM DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

BEN LASSER

DIRECTOR OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT

LYNNE RANDALL

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DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION

CHRIS BATSTONE

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MAECHI AHARANWA

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BRITTANY ADEBUMOLA

Brittany Adebumola

Maechi Aharanwa

Rachel Christopher

Kalyne Coleman

Somi Kakoma

Lakisha May

Nana Mensah

Michael Oloyede

Dominique Thorne

Zenzi Williams

Victoire Charles

Onye Eme-Akwari

Abigail C. Onwunali

Morgan Scott

The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited during the performance. Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, beepers and watches. The use of cell phones in the theatre is prohibited by New York City law.

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Dear Friends, Welcome back to the theatre! As you all know, theatre is a shared human experience. It is made and managed by dedicated, caring people. All the professionals working in this theatre are there to help you. They are trained and knowledgeable, and want you to have the best experience at the show.

We know some of you have been away from our theatres for some time, and we welcome you back with open arms. As audience members, you are essential to this theatrical experience—the show could not go on without you. You are an important part of the show by helping maintain the sanctity of this space.

SO TO HELP YOU (AND THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU) HAVE THE BEST TIME, WE PLEASE ASK THAT YOU:

cooperate with the ushers and front-of-house staff.

• Always They are there to help you, keep an orderly environment, and

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ensure the show begins as scheduled.

Turn off your cell phones. All the way off….

Unwrap all candies now and refrain from loud eating during the performance.

Treat all theatre staff you see with respect and kindness. They want you to have a great time, and they deserve respect and a positive work environment.

Be engaged in the show! But also be respectful of the people around you and do not make any overly disruptive comments.

Do not sing along with the actors. It distracts your fellow theatregoers and is not thoughtful.

Do not engage with the actors or musicians working in the show. Only engage if they encourage you to, and please do not distract them at any time during the performance.

Stop drinking alcohol immediately if you’re feeling tipsy.

Drink some water.

Be patient with the restroom lines. We know they’re long and space is tight. But do not become pushy or rude. Everyone will get their turn.

Relax, sit back, and enjoy the show! Once again, we would not be here without you.

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(in alphabetical order) Miriam........................................................................................... BRITTANY ADEBUMOLA Ndidi................................................................................................... MAECHI AHARANWA Jennifer.............................................................................................RACHEL CHRISTOPHER Chrissy/Michelle/LaNiece..................................................................... KALYNE COLEMAN Jaja..................................................................................................................SOMI KAKOMA Vanessa/Radia/Sheila...................................................................................... LAKISHA MAY Aminata.......................................................................................................... NANA MENSAH James/Sock Man/DVD Man/Jewelry Man........................................... MICHAEL OLOYEDE Marie....................................................................................................DOMINIQUE THORNE Bea.............................................................................................................. ZENZI WILLIAMS Nollywood Film Clip........................................... ONYE EME-AKWARI, MORGAN SCOTT Stage Manager.............................................................................................. MONÉT THIBOU UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for the listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance.

For Bea, Jaja, Jennifer—VICTOIRE CHARLES; for Ndidi, Aminata, Vanessa/Radia/ Sheila—ABIGAIL C. ONWUNALI; for James/Sock Man/DVD Man/Jewelry Man—ONYE EME-AKWARI; for Miriam, Marie—MORGAN SCOTT; for Chrissy/Michelle/LaNiece— RACHEL CHRISTOPHER. TIME: 2019 PLACE: A hair braiding shop in Harlem JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING WILL BE PERFORMED WITHOUT AN INTERMISSION.

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PLAYWRIGHT’S NOTE For most of my life, truly since I was 4 years old, I have been wearing my hair in braids.

I have had braids for so long, I can actually name the 3 times in my life when I did NOT have braids or some type of extensions for a significant amount of time. So I have spent a very large portion of my life in hair braiding shops and can tell you all about them. The stuffy ones that have way too many braiders in too small of a room. The shop that only has one hair braider because she likes her peace of mind. The shop that is located behind another place of business (a barber shop, a bodega, a pharmacy, a fish market, I’ve seen it all.) I’ve gone to 125th street and taken my chance with the kind hair braiding lady standing on the corner, flagging down any customer she could find; always with the standard sales pitch: “hair braiding miss?” I’m always arrested by the relief on their faces when someone responds “yes, I’d like to get my hair braided.” I imagine that at least for the next few hours, their dignity is restored.

This play is for each and every person who enters the shop. Their hopes. Their dreams.

Their incredible stories of how and why they came to this country. I celebrate these amazing women and thank them for what they do. To many people, they are just “hair braiding ladies;” random women people pass by on the street, but to me, they are heroes, craftswomen and artists with beautiful, gifted and skilled hands.

—Jocelyn Bioh

WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST

BRITTANY ADEBUMOLA (Miriam).

Broadway debut! Brittany is a Brooklynborn actor who stars in the OnyxCollective/Hulu series “The Other Black Girl.” Previously, Brittany starred as one of the lead roles in the CW series “4400.”

Other credits include the Netflix series “Grand Army” and the Paramount+ series “Guilty Party.” She will also be seen in the upcoming series “Demascus” which premiered at SXSW. BFA in acting from Syracuse University. Thank you to Opening

Act, my family and all those who’ve invested in my journey!

MAECHI AHARANWA (Ndidi). OffBroadway credits include The Misanthrope (Molière in the Park); Mothers (Playwrights Realm); If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (Playwrights Horizons); The Winter’s Tale, An Octoroon (TFANA); The Old Settler (Billie Holiday Theatre); Sweet, Facing Our Truth - Night Vision, No More Monsters Here (NBT). Regional credits include The Mountaintop, The Call,

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Seven Guitars, Antigone. Television/film Currently working on a PhD at Harvard credits include “Elementary” (CBS), “Show University. somimusic.com/@somimusic Me a Hero” (HBO), “Person of Interest” LAKISHA MAY she/her (Vanessa/Radia/ (CBS), “30 Rock” (NBC), Intrusion, Boy Sheila). Broadway: Skeleton Crew (MTC). in a Backpack. Training: Juilliard. Princess Off-Broadway: Everybody (Signature Grace Award recipient, The Actors Center Theatre Company), Sojourners (NYTW, company member. maechi.net Playwrights Realm). Regional theatre: La RACHEL CHRISTOPHER she/her Jolla Playhouse, American Conservatory (Jennifer, u/s Chrissy/Michelle/LaNiece). Theater, Alliance Theatre, Arden Theatre, Broadway: for colored girls who have con- Marin Theatre Company and others. Film sidered suicide…. Select theatre: What and TV: Historias del Canal, “City on a to Send Up When It Goes Down (BAM/ Hill,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Law & Order: Playwrights Horizons), Bad News!… SVU.” Education: MFA, The American (Skirball), King Phillip (Clubbed Thumb), Conservatory Theater. BA, Spelman Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise (The College. Lakisha supports artists with her Play Company), An Iliad (Long Wharf producing collective, CCC. Lakisha serves Theatre), Intimate Apparel (Shakespeare & as chair of the leadership awards committee Company), The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare at the James Beard Foundation. She also Festival St. Louis), Detroit ’67 (PlayMakers serves as vice chair of the board at SPACE Rep), Disgraced (Rep. Theatre St. on Ryder Farm.

Louis). TV/film: Girl on the Train, “The NANA MENSAH (Aminata) is a GhanaianUpside,” “Billions,” “Madam Secretary,” American actor, writer and director mak“Blindspot,” “Instinct,” “Elementary.” ing her Broadway debut. Previous theatre Awards: 2019 Connecticut Critics Circle credits include Nollywood Dreams at MCC Award (Outstanding Solo Performance), Theater, Man From Nebraska at Second 2022 Chita Rivera Award (Outstanding Stage Theater (Lucille Lortel nomination, Ensemble). @rachel_e_christopher Outer Critics Circle nomination) and I’ll KALYNE COLEMAN she/her (Chrissy/ Never Love Again at The Bushwick Starr.

Michelle/LaNiece). Broadway debut! Born Film and television credits include her direcand raised in Richmond, VA, she is a proud torial debut Queen of Glory (Tribeca Film alumna of the Brown University/Trinity Festival Best New Narrative Director Award Rep MFA program and the University of and Independent Spirit Award nomination Pennsylvania. Off-Broadway: What to Send for Best First Feature), “The Diplomat,” Up When It Goes Down (BAM), Lessons “The Chair,” Farewell Amor, King of Staten in Survival (Vineyard Theatre), America v. Island, After Yang and the upcoming series 2.1… (Barrington Stage), Black Odyssey “Presumed Innocent.”

(Trinity Rep). TV/film: “Interview With the MICHAEL OLOYEDE he/him (James/ Vampire” (AMC), “So Help Me Todd” and Sock Man/DVD Man/Jewelry Man) is a “Evil” (CBS). Thank God for this beautiful Nigerian-American Emmy-nominated blessing. To my mom, dad and family: I actor, producer and creator and is excited love you to the moon and back! WE DID to be making his Broadway debut in Jaja’s IT! @kalynecoleman African Hair Braiding. Selected theatre SOMI KAKOMA (Jaja). Broadway debut. credits include Scraps, NYT Critic’s Pick Proud daughter of immigrants from Uganda Inanimate (The Flea Theater), Eco Village and Rwanda. First African woman ever (Theatre at St. Clement’s). Film/TV: BET’s nominated in the Grammys jazz categories award-winning digital series “Brooklyn.

(Best Jazz Vocal Album). Recipient of two Blue.Sky.,” “Maniac” (Netflix), Curtis NAACP Image Awards for Best Vocal Jazz (SundanceNow). Michael is also proud Album, Doris Duke Artist Award. United to have helped birth the Webby AwardStates Artist Fellow, TED Senior Fellow, winning Creative Collective & CultureCon PLAYBILL.COM where he serves as the art and editorial Soros Equality Fellow. Playwright/performer, Dreaming Zenzile (Off-Broadway), Drama director and is a co-founder of The Lay Out. League, Drama Desk, Lortel and Audelco IG: @michaeloloyede_ nominations. BA, University of PLAYBILLVAULT.COM Illinois DOMINIQUE THORNE (Marie). I’m at Urbana; MA, Tisch School of the Arts. honored to speak the words of Jocelyn Bioh; to PLAYBILL.COM/VAULT

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have my expression nurtured and crafted under ABIGAIL C. ONWUNALI (u/s Ndidi, the direction of Whitney White. Humbled, to Aminata, Vanessa/Radia/Sheila). Offshare this moment with a cast as remarkable Broadway credits: The Half-God of Rainfall as this. Most of all, I am grateful to honor (New York Theatre Workshop), For the my mother, father and grandmother who Honey You Gotta Say When (New York came to America with a hope and a convic- Theatre Workshop), Valor (Guthrie). Abigail tion so formidable, it cleared a path for my is a 2022 Princess Grace winner. As a writer, dreams to flourish. Including this one. Film: her play Jewel was a Red Bull Theater’s If Beale Street Could Talk, Judas and the Black Short New Play Festival winner and her Messiah, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, slam poems have been viewed worldwide.

Graduate of The Yale School of Drama and upcoming Freaky Tales. @dominiquethorne ZENZI WILLIAMS (Bea). Theatre credits Hillman Grad Mentorship Program. include the title role of The Public Theater’s MORGAN SCOTT (u/s Miriam, Marie) Mobile Unit of Henry V directed by is a 2022 graduate of Juilliard, originally Robert O’Hara, The Crucible (Broadway), hailing from Greenville, South Carolina. She RunBoyRun (New York Theatre Workshop), is the 2021 inaugural recipient of the Fendi School Girls; or The African Mean Girls Vanguard Award. Scott also trained at the Play (MCC and CTGLA), The Homecoming British American Dramatic Academy. She Queen (Atlantic Theater Company), Mother sends her utmost love and gratitude to her Courage and Her Children (Classic Stage family, her team, and Group 51 for all their Company). Selected television credits support. 2 Cor. 4:7 include “American Rust,” “Chicago Fire,” JOCELYN BIOH she/her (Playwright) “Blue Bloods.” Film: Christmas With is an award-winning Ghanaian-American You. Williams has an MFA from the Yale writer/performer from New York City School of Drama and studied at the British making her Broadway debut as a playAmerican Dramatic Academy. Upcoming: wright with Jaja’s…. Her written works for theatre include Merry Wives (The “American Rust” season two.

Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park, VICTOIRE CHARLES (u/s Bea, Jaja, PBS “Great Performances,” 2022 Drama Jennifer). Theatre: Golden Age (MTC), Desk Award winner for Outstanding Ruined (MTC, Intiman and Geffen Play­ Adaptation), Nollywood Dreams (MCC house), Moby Dick Rehearsed and The Theater), the Broadway-bound musical Tempest (The Acting Company, Group 35), Goddess (Berkeley Rep, 2022) and the multi Intimate Apparel (Portland Stage Company), award-winning School Girls; Or, the African The Trojan Women (Alabama Shakespeare Mean Girls Play which was originally proFestival), The Comedy of Errors (Shake­ duced at MCC Theater in 2017-2018 and speare Theatre Company, DC). TV: “New has gone on to have over 50 regional proAmsterdam” (NBC), “FBI” (CBS), “Pretty ductions and recently premiered in the UK. Little Liars: Original Sin” and the upcoming She is a former TOW Playwriting Fellow “Pretty Little Liars: Summer School” (MAX). (2017.) Jocelyn has also written for TV on Training: Fordham College at Lincoln Center “Russian Doll,” Spike Lee’s “She’s Gotta and the NYU Grad Acting Program.

Have It,” “Tiny Beautiful Things” (Hulu), ONYE EME-AKWARI (u/s James/Sock the upcoming new Star Wars series “The Man/DVD Man/Jewelry Man) is a Nigerian- Acolyte” and is also writing the live screen born actor, producer, musician and educator. film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Recent credits include guest star and recur- Once on This Island for Disney. Dramatists ring appearances in “Bob Hearts Abishola” Guild member.

(CBS), “Will Trent” (ABC), “Random Acts WHITNEY WHITE (Director). Obie of Flyness” (HBO) and “Outer Banks” Award and Lily Award-winning direc(Netflix). Additionally, he teaches at the tor, writer and performer. Recent directPLAYBILL.COM Robert Mello Studio in Atlanta, GA, as ing includes The Secret Life of Bees well as the Terry Knickerbocker Studio in (The Almeida, UK), The Spectacularly Brooklyn, NY. Onye also holds an MA in Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington PLAYBILLVAULT.COM industrial/organizational psychology from (Steppenwolf), Soft (MCC), On Sugarland the University of Georgia.

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Lortel and Drama Desk nominations, Anna Deavere Smith (La Jolla), The Factotum O u t s t a n d i n g D i r e c t i o n ) , S e m b l a n c e (Chicago Lyric Opera), Bina’s Six Apples (Suzi (NYTW), The Amen Corner (Shakespeare Bass Award), Marys Seacole (Henry Hewes Theatre Company), Our Dear Dead Drug nom), The World Is Round (Obie Award).

Lord (WP Theater, Second Stage), What Special thanks to David and Eva. to Send Up When It Goes Down (The JUSTIN ELLINGTON (Composer/Sound Movement Theatre Company, Woolly Designer). Broadway: The Cottage, Ohio Mammoth, A.R.T., The Public Theater). State Murders, Topdog/Underdog, for colStaff writer: “I’m a Virgo” (Amazon ored girls who have considered suicide/ Studios). Writer/performer of Macbeth when the rainbow is enuf, Clyde’s, Pass in Stride (A.R.T., Elliot Norton Award Over, Other Desert Cities. Off-Broadway: for Outstanding Musical Performance Hamlet (The Public/Shakespeare in the by an Actress). Recipient of the Herb Park); Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Alpert Award, Jerome Fellowship, Susan Corsicana (Playwrights Horizons); Pipeline, Stroman Directing Award. Rolex Protegé Other Desert Cities (Lincoln Center); and Mentorship Arts Initiative, associate Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (ArsNova); The director at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Winter’s Tale, Merchant of Venice, He associate artist at The Roundabout. MFA Brought Her Heart Back in a Box (Theatre acting: Brown University/Trinity Rep; BA: for a New Audience).

Northwestern University.

STEFANIA BULBARELLA (Video DAVID ZINN (Scenic Designer). Broad­ Designer) is a video and projections way: Kimberly Akimbo, Funny Girl, The designer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Minutes, Diana, Torch Song, Choir Boy, The based in NY. Broadway debut. Selected Boys in the Band, Spongebob Squarepants, Off-Broadway: Space Dogs (MCC), Amelie, The Humans, Fun Home and oth- A Bright New Boise (Signature Theatre), ers. Off-Broadway: Playwrights Horizons, Semblance (New York Theatre Workshop), New York Theatre Workshop, Second The Watering Hole (Signature Theatre).

Stage, LCT, The Public, Roundabout, Regional: The Inferior Sex (Trinity Elevator Repair Service, Target Margin. Rep), House of Joy (St. Louis Rep), Also: American Conservatory Theater, The Mountaintop (Weston Playhouse).

Berkeley Rep, The Old Globe, La Jolla Nominations: Drama Desk and Outer Critics Playhouse, The Guthrie, Yale Rep, Seattle Circle Awards for Outstanding Video/ Rep; National Theatre and Young Vic (UK); Projection Design for Space Dogs.

Berlin Staatsoper. Tony/Obie/Drama Desk/ NIKIYA MATHIS (Hair and Wig De­ Hewes Awards. signer). Broadway: Once Upon a One DEDE AYITE (Costume Designer). Broad­ More Time, Death of a Salesman, Topdog/ way: Topdog/Underdog, Ohio State Murders, Underdog, Chicken & Biscuits. Selected American Buffalo, How I Learned to Drive, Off-Broadway: Primary Trust (Roundabout), A Soldier’s Play, Slave Play and American This Land Was Made (Vineyard), Where the Son. Recent Off-Broadway: Merry Wives Mountain Meets the Sea (MTC), Richard III (The Public); Days of Wine and Roses (The Public Theater), The Cotillion (Move(Atlantic). Regionally, Ayite’s work has ment Theatre), Nollywood Dreams (MCC), appeared at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Wedding Band (TFANA), Stew (Page 73), Steppenwolf and more. She has worked in Crowndation (NBT). Regional: Berkeley television with Netflix and Comedy Central. Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, La Jolla, Long Awards: Drama Desk, Obie, Lucille Lortel, Wharf, Fords. Awards: Obie, Black Women Helen Hayes, Henry Hewes, Audelco and on Broadway, Henry Hewes and Antonyo Jeff Award; two Tony nominations.

Awards; Drama Desk nominee. MFA: NYU JIYOUN CHANG (Lighting Designer). Tisch Grad Acting. @our_black_tresses Broadway credits: The Cottage (directed by DAWN-ELIN FRASER (Dialect & Vocal Jason Alexander), KPOP, for coloredPLAYBILL.COM girls Coach). North American dialect coach: who have considered suicide/when the rain- Hamilton. Broadway: Parade, & Juliet, bow is enuf (Tony nom), Slave Play (Tony, Macbeth, Tina—The Tina Turner Musical, PLAYBILLVAULT.COM Drama Desk, Henry Hewes noms). Others: The What the Constitution Means to Me, Once Far Country (Lucile Lortel nom), Love All by on This Island, Waitress. Off-Broadway: PLAYBILL.COM/VAULT

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Richard III, Merry Wives (The Delacorte); FELICIA GRAHAM (Makeup Designer) Fat Ham, Suffs, Barbeque (The Public is excited to be making her Broadway debut.

Theater); Nollywood Dreams (MCC); How With over 20 years’ experience as a beauty to Defend Yourself, Half God… (NYTW); educator, her makeup credits include TV: Twilight: Los Angeles, Fires in the Mirror “The Profit” and ”A Night of Inspiration.”

(Signature Theatre). Regional: Guys and Music festival: “Rock the Bells” (for MC Dolls (Guthrie Theater), Comedy of Errors Lyte). Magazine covers: Lady Gunn, Nylon (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Certified and Munaluchi Bride. Theatre: regional proteacher, Knight-Thompson Speechwork. ductions of The Wiz and A Christmas Carol.

Director, Coaches of Color Initiative. MFA, DAVID ANZUELO (Intimacy Coor­ American Conservatory Theater. dinator). Founder of UnkleDave’s FightCAPARELLIOTIS CASTING (Casting). House, a three-time Drama Desk AwardSelect MTC: Cost of Living; Summer, 1976; nominated team of fight/intimacy direcSkeleton Crew; Ink. Select Broadway/Off- tors. MTC intimacy coordinator: Sugar in Broadway: 2:22—A Ghost Story (upcom- Our Wounds. Broadway IC credits: Room, ing), Grey House, The Comeuppance, Ohio Kimberly Akimbo. Off-Broadway IC: The State Murders, Macbeth, The Minutes, Seagull/Woodstock (The New Group), Letters From Max, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wedding Band (TFANA), Good Enemy Woolf?, The Waverly Gallery, Boys in the (Audio Theater).

Band. Select theatres: Signature NYC, M E L A N I E J . L I S B Y s h e / h e r / h e r s Atlantic, Ars Nova, The Old Globe, CTG. (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: TV: “New Amsterdam” (NBC, series cast- Tina—The Tina Turner Musical, Grand ing), “The Boys in the Band” (Netflix, orig- Horizons, On the Twentieth Century. inal casting).

Off-Broadway (select): Dark Disabled ERICA A. HART she/her (Casting). CSA. Stories, Suffs, american (tele)visions, Broadway: Chicken & Biscuits, Death of a Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Hurricane Salesman, Pass Over. Television: “Black Diane, Wild Goose Dreams, Jersey Boys, Mirror” (U.S. casting season six), “A Black Pacific Overtures, Dead Poets Society, Lady Sketch Show” (season four), “That Mobile Unit’s Hamlet, Once Upon a Damn Michael Che,” “Bust Down,” “The Mattress. Regional: American Repertory Girls on the Bus.” Film (selected): The Theatre, Williamstown, La Jolla, Two Surrogate (Artios winner), Lapsis (SXSW), River, Pig Iron, Gulfshore Playhouse, The Cupids (Tribeca). Music video: “Fight for Barnstormers, Crossroads Rep. Numerous You” by H.E.R. Thanks Jocelyn Bioh, readings, labs, workshops and special events.

Whitney White, Kelly Gillespie, David Proud Indiana State University alumna.

Caparelliotis + the Jaja’s African Hair MONÉT THIBOU (Stage Manager). She Braiding family! For Mom + Dad, Nanie + is THRILLED to be back for another Alison. Always. show at MTC. Broadway credits: Moulin SIGHTLINE PRODUCTIONS (Production Rouge!, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Death Management). Newly formed in 2022, of a Salesman, Mr. Saturday Night. OffSightline’s current and recent projects Broadway: Black Odyssey, Morning Sun, include Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, The All the Natalie Portmans, The Wrong Man, Wiz, Spamalot, Cabaret, Just For Us, Bob Happy Talk, Clueless the Musical, The True.

Fosse’s Dancin’ and more. Previous credits Developmental work: Muriel’s Wedding, at other companies span 25 Broadway shows Lempicka, Mandela. and over 70 national tours.

LYNNE MEADOW (Artistic Director, HAIR BY SUSY (Hair Braiding Consultant). Manhattan Theatre Club) just celebrated Meet Susan Oludele, celebrity hairstylist and her 50th anniversary as the artistic visionowner of Hair by Susy. Known for some of ary and leader of MTC, where she has proSolange’s iconic looks to Beyoncé’s side duced a prolific and distinguished body of PLAYBILL.COM cornrows and tribal innovative hairstyles in work including over 600 premieres that the industry. Hair by Susy styled Zoe Kravitz have been honored by 28 Tony Awards, in “Dope” and many more. With salons in 7 Pulitzer Prizes, 50 Drama Desk Awards PLAYBILLVAULT.COM NYC and L.A., she crafts community and and numerous Outer Critics Circle, Obie, industry hair magic.

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among others. Lynne has directed dozens Center and finally added its own Broadway of U.S., New York and Broadway pre- home in 2003. On behalf of MTC, he mieres including Richard Greenberg’s The served on the Broadway League Board Assembled Parties, Margaret Edson’s Wit, of Governors and Tony Administration Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s Committee, the LORT Board of Directors Wife, David Rudkin’s Ashes, Lee Blessing’s and as a trustee of the Equity-League Eleemosynary, Leslie Ayvazian’s Nine Pension and Health Trust Funds. He has Armenians, David Edgar’s The Jail Diary of served as president of the Off-Broadway Albie Sachs and Alan Ayckbourn’s A Small League and the Alliance of Resident Family Business and Woman in Mind. She Theatres/New York, as treasurer of TCG has chaired the NEA and NYSCA theatre pan- and as a board member of BC/EFA. els and served on the Steinberg Committee and KWAME KWEI-ARMAH (Artistic on the board of TCG. Education: Bryn Mawr Advisor) is artistic director of the Young Vic College, Yale School of Drama. Teaching: and artistic advisor at MTC. He was artistic Yale, NYU, SUNY, Fordham. Awards: Mr. director of Baltimore Center Stage (2011-18) Abbott Award; Lucille Lortel, National Jewish and the Festival of Black Arts and Culture, Theatre Foundation and Lilly Awards for Senegal (2010). As a playwright, Kwame Lifetime Achievement; Margo Jones Award; was the first African Caribbean to have a play Louis Auchincloss Prize; Theater Hall of produced in London’s West End (Elmina’s Fame inductee.

Kitchen). His directorial work includes CHRIS JENNINGS (Executive Director, Twelfth Night, Tree, Changing Destiny, Manhattan Theatre Club) returns to MTC The Collaboration and Beneatha’s Place from the Shakespeare Theatre Company (Young Vic); The Collaboration (MTC); (2012 recipient of the Regional Theatre Jazz, Marley, Amadeus, The Mountaintop, Tony Award) in Washington, D.C., where The Whipping Man and Things of Dry Hours he produced and commissioned over 100 (Baltimore Center Stage); Comedy of Errors, productions during his 19 seasons there. He Much Ado About Nothing, Detroit ’67 (The has developed commercial partnerships and Public Theater). Kwame was awarded an high-profile international collaborations that OBE for Services to Drama in 2011.

The Washington Post hailed, observing that MADISON WELLS LIVE (Producer) STC had “seized the crown as the region’s is the live entertainment arm of Madison best importer of high-end drama.” He has Wells, Gigi Pritzker’s award-winning, indealso toured productions nationally as well pendent production company with a strong as to the UK, China and the Middle East. bias towards stories for, by, and about Jennings oversaw the construction and open- badass women and people who push bounding of a new $90 million theatre, Sidney aries. Led by Executive Producer Jamie Harman Hall. He has served on the boards Forshaw, Madison Wells Live focuses on of the Theatre Communications Group, purpose-driven projects with the belief that Theatre Washington, D.C. Downtown BID great storytelling can provoke, inspire and and THE ARC Community Center. He pre- move audiences around the world. Broadway viously served as general manager of Trinity credits include Shucked, Company (Tony Repertory Company and Theatre for a New Award), The Old Man and the Pool, Pass Audience. He earned his MFA in theatre Over, Hadestown (Tony Award), The management from the Yale School of Drama. Inheritance (Tony Award), Million Dollar BARRY GROVE (Executive Producer Quartet. West End: The Ocean at the End of Emeritus, Manhattan Theatre Club) began the Lane. Off-Broadway: Seven Deadly Sins. his MTC career as managing director in madisonwellsmedia.com 1975. In his amazing 48-year partnership LACHANZE (Producer) is proud to be with Artistic Director Lynne Meadow, making her MTC debut joining their prothey produced nearly 600 premieres, which ducing team bringing Jaja’s African Hair PLAYBILL.COM earned 28 Tony Awards, 7 Pulitzer Prizes, Braiding, written by the brilliant Jocelyn 50 Drama Desk Awards and many others. Bioh under the dynamic direction of Under Grove’s leadership, MTC moved Whitney White, to Broadway. This past seafrom a small Off-Off-BroadwayPLAYBILLVAULT.COM theatre son, LaChanze made history as a first-time space to Off-Broadway stages at NY City producer with both of her shows, Topdog/ PLAYBILL.COM/VAULT

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Underdog and new musical Kimberly Akimbo, winning the Tony awards for Best Revival of a Play and Best Musical, respectively. This season, LaChanze is also producing the groundbreaking immersive musical Here Lies Love and the highly anticipated new musical The Outsiders in spring 2024. For more information: mslachanze.com.

TARAJI P. HENSON (Producer) is a Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award and Emmy-nominated actor, filmmaker, NY Times bestselling author and activist.

Film credits include Hustle & Flow, Hidden Figures, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and the upcoming musical film adaptation of The Color Purple, where she stars as Shug Avery. TV credits include “Empire,” “Abbott Elementary” and NBC’s “Annie Live.” In 2018, Henson launched the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation, which works to both normalize and improve access to mental health services for Black communities in hopes of eradicating the stigma around seeing help and support.

C.A. Johnson, Anchuli Felicia King, JC Lee, Abby Rosebrock, Alexis Scheer, Jonathan Spector, Simon Stephens, Sanaz Toossi, Jenny Rachel Weiner Bobbie Olsen/ Laurie Foundation Commission.............Amy Rosenthal Edgerton Foundation New Play Commissions..................Christina Anderson, Jeff Augustin, John J. Caswell, Jr., Heather Christian, Joshua Harmon, Aleshea Harris, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau, Qui Nguyen, Mansa Ra, Erika Sheffer, Sharr White, Whitney White, Anna Ziegler Mary Mill Commission......................Molly Smith Metzler Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Commission.................................... Christine Quintana Paul A. Kaplan Literary Trainee.... Sarah Grace Goldman Interim Director of Development..................Ben Lasser Director of Institutional Advancement..... Lynne Randall Senior Director of Institutional Giving & Capital Projects ....................................Katy Higgins Director of Individual Giving................... Shaun Newport Director of Development Operations.........Corriane Oster Manager of Institutional Giving.................Jennifer Brady Manager of Special Events.....................Jonquil Schaller Individual Giving Manager.............................Sofia Ubilla Capital Campaign Coordinator............. Annabel Ekelund Development Communications Associate.........Maya Ilagan Development Operations Assistant............Eduardo Delgado Special Events Assistant................................. Zola Gray Paul A. Kaplan Special Events Trainee.........Ethan Sichel Director of Marketing.................... Debra Waxman-Pilla Assistant Director of Marketing...................Brian Sellers Digital Marketing and Social Media Manager.....Zach Raffio Audience Development......................Marcia Pendelton, Walk Tall Girl Productions Joanna Lee Information in “Who’s Who in the Cast” is provided by the Marketing Trainee................................ Isabella Chuecos production. Where opinions are expressed, they are those Director of Finance...............................Matthew Svigals of the players, not necessarily those of playbill Magazine.

Human Resources Director......................Vincent Losito Human Resources and Payroll Manager....Lauren Foster Business Manager........................................Aminah Walton MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB STAFF Business Assistant...........................................Katrina Olson Artistic Director......................................Lynne Meadow IT Manager......................................... Mendy Sudranski Executive Director.................................. Chris Jennings System Administrator.............................. Jason Fritzsch Artistic Advisor...............................Kwame Kwei-Armah Associate General Manager..................... Robert Carroll Interim General Manager.............. Matthew W. Krawiec Company Manager, Friedman..........Michelle Tamagawa Director of Artistic Operations & Company Manager, Communication.................................. Amy Gilkes Loe New York City Center.......................... Lady del Castillo Artistic Producer....................................... Nicki Hunter General Management Assistant............Eliza Ducnuigeen Director of Artistic Producing............. Stephen M. Kaus Company Management Trainee...................... Zhiwei Ma Director of Play Development/ Director of Ticketing Services..............Robert Allenberg Sloan Project Manager............................ Scott Kaplan Ticketing Services Manager............Mark Bowers-Molter Manager, Office of the Artistic Director/ Ticket Inventory Manager........................ Charles Murria Artistic Associate.............................. Rosie DiVincenzo Ticketing Services Assistant to the Executive Director............Liam Lonegan Representatives......................Rosanna Consalvo Sarto, Literary Manager...................... Elizabeth Sharpe-Levine Alan Mendez, Laura Eichholz Literary Assistant/Readings Coordinator......Sydney Fells Director of Education Operations........... Wade T. Handy Artistic Production Associate................Melissa Mickens Education Programs Manager........... Gabbie Ballesteros Artistic Office Assistant.............. Sarah Margaret Stowell Education Consultant............................ David Shookhoff Casting Director...................................... Kelly Gillespie MTC Teaching Artists.......Claudia Acosta, Raquel Almazan, Artistic Consultant.................................. Daniel Sullivan Chris Ceraso, Dominic Colón, Artistic Development Consultant...................Jerry Patch Daniela Gonzalez y Perez, Devin Haqq, Amy Harris, Judith Champion Playwriting Fellow........... Sanaz Toossi Kate Long, Taryn Matusik, David McElwee, Drama League Directing Fellow..................... Ibi Owolabi Elia Monte-Brown, Andres Munar, Carmen Rivera, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Jonathan Rivera Morales, Stephen Scarpulla, Nilaja Sun, 2022-2023 Commissions.................. Nkenna Akunna, Judy Tate, Camille Thomas, Cándido Tirado, Preston Max Allen, Amy Berryman, Liam Torres, Marilyn Torres, Joe White, Amy Witting Liza Birkenmeier & Zack Zadek, Director of Production............................ Chris Batstone Shayok Misha Chowdhury, Alexa Derman, Production Manager......................... Celeste Lagrotteria Sam Grabiner, Keiko Green, Dylan Guerra, Alex Lin, Assistant Production Manager................Brooklyn Garza Yilong Liu, Danielle Stagger Production/Facilities Assistant....... Paola Solís-Ramírez Bank of America Commissions................... Eboni Booth, Production Management Trainee............ Rachel Saruski PLAYBILL.COM Halley Feiffer, Lindsey Ferrentino, Daniel Goldfarb, Properties Supervisor............................... Jessica Zivny Dave Harris, Rajiv Joseph, David Lindsay-Abaire, Properties Assistant...................................... Kate Stack Sarah Ruhl, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Bess Wohl Costume Director...........................Erin Hennessy Dean Bobbie Olsen Commissions...... Will Arbery, Aziza Barnes, Assistant to the Costume Director.......... Stefanie Genda PLAYBILLVAULT.COM Vivian J.O. Barnes, Bekah Brunstetter, Emily Feldman, Stage Management Fellow....................... Katie Cherven James Graham, Ella Hickson, Khiyon Hursey,

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GENERAL PRESS REPRESENTATION BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN Chris Boneau Amy Kass Michelle Farabaugh Colleen Donahue Facebook: BoneauBryanBrown Twitter: @BBBway BoneauBryanBrown.com Script Readers.... Kate Cuellar, Reena Dutt, Yael Haskal, Eden Ohayon, Danielle Stagger, Ashley Thomas SERVICES Accountants........WithumSmith+Brown, PC/Karen Kowgios Advertising................................................Serino/Coyne Website Design....................................................... AKA Legal Counsel................................M. Graham Coleman, Carolyn J. Casselman/Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Real Estate Counsel............................ Marcus Attorneys Labor Counsel..................................... Stephanie Grassi/ Stephanie Grassi, Esq. P.C. Immigration Counsel........Carly B. Wiskoff/Wiskoff Law, PLLC Media Counsel................................... Cameron Stracher Insurance.........DeWitt Stern Group, Inc./Anthony Pittari Wellness Backstage..................................... Molly Kerns Maintenance...................................... Reliable Cleaning Event Photographer....................................Bruce Glikas Production Photography............................Matthew Murphy Cover Design.............................................Serino Coyne Cover Art..........................................Manasseh Johnson Theatre Displays...................................Fine Art Imaging Lobby Refreshments................. Sweet Hospitality Group TELEFUNDING & TELESALES/DCM Manager............................................................Red Gill Assistant Managers.............Roy Dale Cox, Rocio Ramos, Skylan Lawson PRODUCTION STAFF FOR JAJA’s AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING Company Manager......................... Michelle Tamagawa Production Stage Manager................... Melanie J. Lisby Stage Manager.........................................Monét Thibou Hair Braiding Consultant............................. Hair by Susy Makeup Designer....................................Felicia Graham Intimacy Coordinator............................... David Anzuelo Nail Consultant....................Kirk Cambridge-Del Pesche Assistant Director............ Manna-Symone Middlebrooks Associate Scenic Designer................. Teresa L. Williams Assistant Costume Designer.............. Christopher Hynds Associate Lighting Designer........................Jacob Zedek Associate Sound Designers.........DJ Potts, Megan Culley Associate Video Designer ......................... Stivo Arnoczy Associate Hair & Wig Designer.........Shereese Cromartie Production Carpenter....................................Bob Griffin Flyman.................................................. Tommy Schultz Automation Operator............................. James Moncino A1.................................................................Leo Martin Lighting Programmer.................................... Kelley Shih Production Video......................................... Greg Peeler Video Programmer.......................................Devin Kinch Wardrobe Supervisor................................ John Robelen Dressers..........Jennifer Griggs-Cennamo, Catherine Dee Hair & Makeup Supervisor ........................ Tinika Sadiku Hair & Makeup Assistants......................Adenike Wright, Chynah Gayton Assistant to the Costume Director.......... Stefanie Genda Production Assistant ........................ Meikayla Thomany Hair & Wig Design Observer........................ Alexis Major

Apprentices................ Daniel Conner, Kenneth Goodwin Wardrobe Supervisor............................... John Robelen Engineers...................Dino Deosarran, Ricky Deosarran Ticket Taker....................................... Edward Brashear Head Usher................................................ Jackson Ero Ushers.... Opa Adeyemo, Stephen Dropp, Ralphie Irizarry, Maria Lugo, Marisol Lugo, Gloria McCray, Aileen Pare, Patricia Polhill, Keith Price, Bruna Sampaio, Jalina Stewart, Vivienne Thomas, Sophia Vasquez, Diamond Wilson Security.................................................Allied Universal CREDITS Scenery provided by PRG Scenic Technologies. Lighting and video equipment provided by Production Resource Group. Sound equipment provided by Masque Sound.

Hair and hair care products sponsored by TPH by Taraji, Janet Collection & Esha and Rebundle. Dry cleaning provided by Ernest Winzer Cleaners. Custom wedding dress built by John Kristiansen New York.

Additional dressing by Hochi Asiatico.

The song “Alien” (a reinterpretation of Sting’s original “Englishman in New York”) is sung by Somi Kakoma. The work was originally recorded on Somi’s award-winning album Petite Afrique (Sony Music, 2017). Publishing is co-owned by Lullabies of the Sun (ASCAP), Hoka Hey Sounds (SESAC) and EMI Music Publishing (BMI) o/b/o GM Sumner. Used by permission.

SPECIAL THANKS Tatyana Williams, Jonathan Bataille, Amber Nicole, Sharone Malka LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Manhattan Theatre Club acknowledges that our theatres and offices occupy the unceded land of the Munsee Lenape people. We pay respect to them and to the many Indigenous Nations of this region. We invite you to learn more about the lands you inhabit at native-land.ca/.

THE ACTORS AND STAGE MANAGERS EMPLOYED IN THIS PRODUCTION ARE MEMBERS OF ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, THE UNION OF PROFESSIONAL ACTORS AND STAGE MANAGERS IN THE UNITED STATES.

Backstage and Front of the House Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.).

United Scenic Artists • Local USA 829 of the I.A.T.S.E. represents

the Designers & Scenic Artists for the American Theatre ATPAM, the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers (IATSE Local 18032), represents the Press Agents, Company Managers and Theatre Managers employed on this production.

SAMUEL J. FRIEDMAN THEATRE STAFF Theatre Manager....................................... Janell Rivera FIRE NOTICE: The exit indicated by a red light and sign Assistant House Manager.................. Gabriela Montalvo nearest to the seat you occupy is the shortest route Front of House Assistant..........................Eve Brunswick to the street. In the event of fire or other emergency Box Office Treasurer..............................Emily Jeppesen PLAYBILL.COM please do not run—WALK TO THAT EXIT. Assistant Box Office Treasurers......... Robert Malbrough, Thoughtless persons annoy patrons and endanger the Eddy Perez safety of others by lighting matches or smoking in proHead Carpenter.......................................... John Fullum hibited areas during the performances and intermissions.

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ABOUT MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB The 2022-23 season marked Lynne Meadow’s 50th anniversary as Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Club. She was joined in summer 2023 by Chris Jennings, MTC’s new Executive Director. Over the past five decades, Manhattan Theatre Club has been a preeminent producer of the highest quality, award-winning theatrical productions of new works

by American and international playwrights. Our over 600 premieres have been produced throughout the country and across the globe and have contributed a proud legacy to the American theatrical canon.

Since our homegrown 1978 production of Ain’t Misbehavin’ moved to Broadway, we have given many modern American classics their Broadway debuts, including How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel, Jitney by August Wilson (also The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars, and King Hedley II), Fool for Love by Sam Shepard, Venus in Fur by David Ives, and Wit by Margaret Edson. Also since Ain’t Misbehavin’ made its mark on the canon of American musical theatre, we’ve shepherded to the stage musicals such as Stephen Sondheim’s Putting It Together, Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party, Alfred Uhry’s LoveMusik, and Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash’s Murder Ballad.

MTC also has a long history of bringing the work of important international writers to American audiences, including world premieres by Alan Ayckbourn; Translations and Aristocrats by Brian Friel; Valley Song, The Captain’s Tiger, and many others by Athol Fugard; Ink by James Graham; The Philanthropist by Christopher Hampton; East is East by Ayub Khan-Din; The Children by Lucy Kirkwood; the world premiere of A Kind of Alaska

by Harold Pinter; Ashes by David Rudkin; The Ruins of Civilization and Linda by Penelope Skinner; The Memory of Water and An Experiment with an Air Pump by Shelagh Stephenson; Three Birds Alighting on a Field by Timberlake Wertenbaker; and The Father and The Height of the Storm by Florian Zeller.

Writers who have had an artistic home at MTC and returned throughout their careers include David Auburn (Proof; The Columnist; Summer, 1976); Alan Ayckbourn (Woman in Mind, Absent Friends, A Small Family Business, House/Garden, Absurd Person Singular); Charles Busch (The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Our Leading Lady); Harvey Fierstein (Casa Valentina, Bella Bella); Richard Greenberg (Eastern Standard, The American Plan, Three Days of Rain, The Assembled Parties); Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart, The Miss Firecracker Contest, The Lucky These productions represent a fraction of the work Spot); David Lindsay-Abaire (Fuddy Meers, Kimberly we are proud to have shepherded over the last five Akimbo, Rabbit Hole, Good People); Donald Margulies decades. It is part of our ethos to resist resting on (The Loman Family Picnic, Sight Unseen, Collected laurels, and to always to look forward to producing new Stories, Time Stands Still); Terrence McNally (It’s Only and exciting theatre. We are committed to ensuring a Play; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune; The that the work on our stages is representative of a wide Lisbon Traviata; Lips Together, Teeth Apart;PLAYBILL.COM Love! range of voices and perspectives, to sharing that work Valour! Compassion!); John Patrick Shanley (Women of with as wide a range of audiences as possible, and to Manhattan, Italian American Reconciliation, Doubt, staying at the forefront of the American theatre.

Defiance, Outside Mullingar); Richard Wesley (The PLAYBILLVAULT.COM Sirens, The Past is the Past, The Talented Tenth), and For more information, please visit: Charlayne Woodard (Pretty Fire, Neat, In Real Life). www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com.

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MTC productions have earned 7 Pulitzer Prizes, 28 Tony Awards, 50 Drama Desk Awards, and 49 Obie Awards, amongst many other honors, but our success is not measured by awards. Instead, the merit of our work is represented by the output and talent of the myriad of writers and artists who have debuted at MTC and who continue to return for multiple productions.

We are proud of the artists whom we have discovered and nurtured, as well as their impact on our industry.

MTC’s robust Artistic Development program offers dramaturgical support, readings, and workshops, as well as a wide range of commissions, which provide artists with the resources to create new work. Just a few of the many MTC commissions that have graced our stages in recent years include Prayer for the French Republic by Joshua Harmon, Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Heisenberg and Morning Sun by Simon Stephens. We have also produced plays by some of America’s most heralded writers, such as Lillian Hellman (The Little Foxes) and world premieres

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Our artistic mission, which Meadow created and has implemented since 1972, is to develop and present new work in a dynamic, supportive, environment; to identify and collaborate with the most promising new as well as seasoned, accomplished artists; and to produce a diverse repertoire of innovative, entertaining, and thought-provoking plays and musicals by American and international playwrights in our theatres each season. Our commitment to excellence extends to every aspect of the company: from the gifted permanent staff; to a supportive Board of Directors; to a first-rate Education program, which has served more than 100,000 students of all ages in New York City, across the country, and around the world; to a quality, paid career training program, which prepares the next generation of theatre professionals for jobs at MTC and beyond; to a robust behind-the-scenes developmental program for new work. MTC performs in multiple venues: our Broadway home at the 650seat Samuel J. Friedman Theatre—formerly Biltmore Theatre—which we restored and reopened in 2003, and at New York City Center off-Broadway, where we created a 300-seat Stage I and a 150-seat Stage II.

We champion new voices and are constantly expanding the MTC family of writers. Some who have who have made their MTC debuts in recent seasons include Bekah Brunstetter (The Cake), Sarah Jones (Sell/ Buy/Date), Matthew Lopez (The Whipping Man), Martyna Majok (Cost of Living), Dominique Morisseau (Skeleton Crew), Qui Nguyen (Vietgone), Amanda Peet (The Commons of Pensacola), and Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Lackawanna Blues).

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MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2022-2023 LYNNE MEADOW

CHRIS JENNINGS

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NIGEL SMITH

PRESIDENT / CHAIRMAN, Executive Committee Founding Partner, Bloomberg

MARY BACCASH

Managing Director/Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs

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TREASURER Partner, Transaction Services Group, PwC

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$100,000 or more Martha Lemer Byrne Daniel M. Healy/R & H Healy Family Foundation Paul Kopperl, In Honor of Barry Grove The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation†* Roberta G. Olsen†

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Judy Hart Angelo Mary Baccash and Kerri McMahon Nancy Bader and Michael Leventhal

Jody and John Arnhold | Arnhold Foundation Betsy and Alan D. Cohn ConEdison* Rosa and Robert Gellert General Atlantic LLC Russel T. Hamilton Regina Kessler Bill and Sheila Lambert, In Honor of Barry Grove Lynn and Elizabeth Mangum National Endowment for the Arts Sills Family Foundation* PLAYBILL.COM Sy Syms Foundation* Charles S. and Jacqueline M. Warren Charles P. and Shelby S. Werner PLAYBILLVAULT.COM and one anonymous donor

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Martin Atkin and Reid Balthaser Sol and Margaret Berger Foundation Barbara and Paul Bernstein Eli Bluestone Glenorchy P. Campbell Frederic R. Coudert Foundation CrossingBridge Advisors Bari and Troy David Christopher and Candace Edelmann Lori and Ed Forstein James Gleick and Cynthia Crossen Goldman Sachs & Co. Joyce Ellen Grad The Marc Haas Foundation Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin Jeff Hunter Charitable Trust Carl M. Jacobs Foundation Roselle and Brian Kaltner Bicky and George Kellner Helen Kornblau / The Kornblau Family Foundation J. Robert Mann, Jr. Claire and Cornelius Marx Gregory St. John and Gary McKay Phil and Sherry Meeks Mary Ann and Bruno A. Quinson Janet Stahl and David Herz David and Linda Strauss The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Thomas and Alice Tisch The Tow Foundation† Barry C. Waldorf and Stanley Gotlin Don Weimer, Mary Cunningham, Elizabeth Crefin, and Barbara Losoncy The Wenig Family Anita and Byron Wien Jane and Mark Wilf Sara Zion and Tushar Shah and one anonymous donor

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The Judith Champion Charitable Fund and Mel Litoff Amy and Gary Churgin Fiona Davis Edgerton Foundation† Jill and Howard Fife Marie Gallagher/PepsiCo, Inc. Mary Ann and Vincent Q. Giffuni Joseph and Carson Gleberman The JPB Foundation* The Kaplen Brothers Fund Christopher and Shelly Lanning Laurents/Hatcher Foundation† Tom and Musa Mayer New York City Department of Cultural Affairs†* New York State Council on the Arts†* Hirofumi Otsuka/SMBC Global Foundation, Inc. The SHS Foundation Jeffrey A. Sine/The Raine Group Nigel Smith/PwC Ted Snowdon† Peter and Susan Solomon Family Foundation Sharon Sullivan and Jeffrey B. Kindler* Tiger Baron Foundation*

Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation* Stephen Madison Barrett Matthew C. Blank Asad Chaudry/KPMG LLP Herbert M. Citrin Charitable Foundation* Joan Ganz Cooney and Peter G. Peterson Geller & Company Donna Isaacson Henkind and Lewis Henkind Scott Hinman The Rona Jaffe Foundation* Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation* Barbara Landau Leon Levy Foundation The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation* Ned J. Lustbader Duncan and Nancy MacMillan Beth Madison Terrence McNally Foundation Pamela Milam and Jamie Fowler The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Nancy and Marc Roberts The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation† Grant and Jacqui Smith Mark Tamagni and Ronald Elliott Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation† Lisa Towbin Joel von Ranson The Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation Susan and Benjamin Winter WithumSmith+Brown, PC – Robert Fried and Karen Kowgios Mrs. Lee Wolf and Dr. Jordan Cohen

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We are grateful to the donors listed below, who currently support the theatre’s programming with generous contributions to our annual fund. $8,500 or more

Gary and Peg Wendlandt Deborah Wiley The Wilmit Family, Mary Beth, Alan, Bailey & Reilly

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AT THIS THEATRE: THE SAMUEL J. FRIEDMAN Time Stands Still; Good People with Frances McDormand (Tony Award); Master Class with Tyne Daly; Wit; Venus in Fur with Nina Arianda (Tony Award); The Columnist with John Lithgow; The Other Place with Laurie Metcalf; The Assembled Parties with Judith Light (Tony Award); Outside Mullingar with Debra Messing; Casa Valentina; Constellations with Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson; The Father with Frank Langella (Tony Award); Heisenberg with Mary-Louise Parker; August Wilson’s Jitney (Tony Award); Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes with Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon (Tony Award); Choir Boy; and Ink. In the 1980s this theatre housed Whodunnit, A Talent for Murder, The American Clock, and Nuts. The 1970s included Find Your Way Home; Knock, Knock; The Robber Bridegroom; Lily Tomlin in Appearing Nitely; and Claudette Colbert and Rex Harrison in The Kingfisher.

From 1952 to 1961, the Biltmore was leased to CBS. It returned to legitimacy with Take Her, She’s Mine starring Elizabeth Ashley, who returned in 1963 with Robert Redford in Barefoot in the Park. Hair arrived in 1968 and ran for 1,750 performances.

The 1940s included three hits: My Sister Eileen with Shirley Booth, Kiss and Tell and The Heiress with Wendy Hiller. In the 1930s the had been destroyed by fire and scavengers.

Biltmore housed the Federal Theatre Project’s MTC restored the theatre in partnership with Living Newspaper series and was Warner Biltmore Theatre Associates and a design by Brother’s’ showcase for the productions of Polshek Partnership Architects.

George Abbott. Two hits resulted: Brother Rat, MTC’s productions here include The with Eddie Albert and José Ferrer, and What Violet Hour; Drowning Crow with Alfre a Life. In 1926 Walter Huston starred in Woodard; Sight Unseen; Rabbit Hole Kongo, returning next in The Barker, which PLAYBILL.COM (Pulitzer Prize); Shining City; LoveMusik; The also starred Claudette Colbert . She next American Plan; Accent on Youth with David played here in Tin Pan Alley. Mae West’s PLAYBILLVAULT.COM Hyde Pierce; The Royal Family; Collected Pleasure Man opened here in 1928—and Stories with Linda Lavin and Sarah Paulson; the police promptly closed it.

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