True Colors Theatre Company Announces THE COLORED MUSEUM 3/25-4/17

Kenny Leon and True Colors Theatre Company announce the satirical comedy The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe directed by True Colors Producing Director, Jasmine Guy. Tickets and information can be found at http://www.truecolorstheatre.org/thecoloredmuseum.

The Colored Museum
By George C. Wolfe
Directed by Jasmine Guy

March 25 - April 17, 2011
Previews: March 22, 23 and 24, 2011
Performances are Wednesday - Saturday @ 8 and Saturday - Sunday @ 2:30

Student Matinee: March 30, 2011 @ 10 AM

A satirical exhibit of stories illuminates race relations in America. African American men and women both honor and escape the legacy of suffering that is the baggage of their past. A vaudevillian mosaic that spans over 200 years of the African American experience and celebrates African American culture, mocks stereotypes and takes a closer look at what it means to be Black in America.

Venue: Porter Sanford III Performing Arts Center, 3181 Rainbow Drive, Decatur, GA 30034

TICKETS:
Tickets are available by contacting Ticket Alternative @ 1.877.725.8849 or www.ticketalternative.com or through the True Colors website @ www.truecolorstheatre.org
Group Sales for groups of 10 or more are available by contacting True Colors' Group Sales department at 404.588.0308 ext. 201.

MEDIA
Interviews with the cast and design team can be arranged through Jennifer Dwyer: JDwyer@truecolorstheatre.org, 404-588-0308 x. 206. Photos are available upon request. Media Night will be Fri 3/25 @ 8 PM. Please RSVP with Jennifer Dwyer @ jdwyer@truecolorstheatre.org

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
GEORGE C WOLFE's early off-Broadway productions include the musical Paradise (1985), and his play The Colored Museum (1986). In 1989, Wolfe won an Obie Award for best off-Broadway director for his play Spunk, an adaptation of three stories by Zora Neale Hurston. He gained a national reputation with his 1991 musical Jelly's Last Jam, which received 11 Tony nominations during its Broadway run. Two years later, Wolfe directed Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches to great critical acclaim and a Tony award. Wolfe went on to direct Angels in America: Perestoika the following year. From 1993 to 2004, Wolfe served as artistic director and producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival and Public Theater, where, in 1996, he created the musical Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk which won him his second Tony Award for direction. In 2000, Wolfe co-wrote the book and directed the Broadway production The Wild Party. Wolfe's more recent Broadway credits include Tony Kushner's Caroline, or Change and Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Topdog/Underdog. In the summer of 2006 he directed a new translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Jasmine Guy a performing artist, director and choreographer has starred on Broadway in Chicago, Grease and The Wiz and on screen in Eddie Murphy's Harlem Nights and Spike Lee's School Daze. Her many TV credits include Fame, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Stompin' at the Savoy, Showtime's Dead Like Me, A Different World and most recently on Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva. Jasmine's directorial debut was True Colors Theatre Company's for colored girls who have committed suicide when the rainbow is enuff. Most recently she has directed Douglas Tappin's I Dream at the ALLIANCE THEATRE. Under the direction of Kenny Leon, Jasmine starred in Miss Evers Boys and Swimming Upstream and under the direction of Susan Booth in the ALLIANCE THEATRE's production of Pearl Cleage's Nacimera Society. Jasmine hopes to inspire and encourage the Atlanta community to become a major force in the cultural and entertainment fabric of this country.

CAST
Ali Carter
Danielle Deadwyler
Je Nie Fleming
Amber Iman
Enoch King

DESIGNERS
Set Design by Kat Conley
Costume Design by Sydney Roberts
Lighting Design by Joseph Futral
Sound Design by Russell Gunn

True Colors Theatre Company is a National Theatre company based in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. Founded by Artistic Director Kenny Leon, and Managing Director Jane Bishop, True Colors strives to be an important voice in the American discussion of diversity including plays and playwrights from various times, cultures and perspectives.

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