Production Staff
Jocelyn Bioh
Playwright
Manhattan Theatre Club
Producer
LaChanze
Producing Partner
LaChanze's first summer job was as a tap dancer in the ensemble of Uptown... It's Hot! at the Tropicana Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The show opened on Broadway in January 1986, where LaChanze began her professional career in the theater.
LaChanze played the role of "Ti Moune" in the Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty musical Once on This Island in 1990 and received nominations for the Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical and Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actress in a Musical. She was a replacement "Sarah" in the Ahrens and Flaherty and Terrence McNally Broadway ... read more
Dede Ayite
Costume Design
Dede Ayite is a costume designer whose Broadway credits include A Soldier’s Play, Slave Play, American Son, and Children of a Lesser God. Select Off-Broadway credits include Secret Life of Bees, FireFlies, Marie and Rosetta, Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic); By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, JHAT (Signature); BLKS, Collective Rage…, School Girls… (MCC); Slave Play (NYTW); Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC); If Pretty Hurts…, Mankind, Bella: An American Tall Tale (Playwrights Horizons); The Royale (Lincoln Center); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout); and brownsville song [b-side for tray] (LCT3). Regionally, Ayite’s works has appeared at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; ... read more
Stefania Bulbarella
Video Design
Stefania Bulbarella is a Video and Projections Designer and Director from Buenos Aires, Argentina based in Brooklyn, NY. Off Broadway credits include: Space Dogs (MCC), Turtle on a Fence Post (Theatre 555), Semblance (New York Theatre Workshop), The Watering Hole (Signature Theatre). www.stefaniabulbarella.com ... read more
Caparelliotis Casting
Casting
Jiyoun Chang
Lighting Design
Jiyoun Chang (Lighting Designer) Credits: Slave Play (Nominations for Tony, Drama Desk, Henry Hewes, Broadway), Marry Wives (Delacorte Theatre), Letters of Suresh (2nd Stage), Bina’s Six Apples (Lloyd Suh, Children’s Theatre Company), The Chinese Lady (Long Wharf Theatre, The Public), For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf (The Public), Marys Seacole (Henry Hewes Nom, LCT3). More credits at 2nd Stage, Roundabout, ATC, NYTW, BAM(ObieAward), MCC, Signature, Guggenheim, Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes (TBA Nom), Guthrie, The Old Globe, OSF(Falstaff Award), Studio Theatre. ... read more
Justin Ellington
Sound Design
Original Music
LCT: Pass Over (LCT3), Pipeline, Other Desert Cities. Off-Broadway: Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (Ars Nova); The House That Will Not Stand, Fetch Clay Make Man (New York Theatre Workshop); He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, The Winter’s Tale (TFANA). Additional theater: Father Comes Home From the Wars, How to Catch Creation, Until The Flood (Goodman); Familiar (Steppenwolf); Ink (Kennedy Center); The Comedy of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); As You Like It (Stratford Shakespeare Festival); The American Clock (The Old Vic). Awards include Grammy, ASCAP and Obie awards. ... read more
Dawn-Elin Fraser
Dialect & Vocal Coach
Kelly Gillespie
Casting
Erica Hart
Casting
Taraji P. Henson
Producing Partner
Melanie J. Lisby
Production Stage Manager
Madison Wells Live
Producing Partner
Nikiya Mathis
Hair & Wig Design
Nikiya Mathis is an American actress known for her work on stage and screen. She was born and raised in New Jersey and attended the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Mathis got her start in theater in New York City, performing in off-Broadway productions before making her Broadway debut in 2014.
Mathis' Broadway debut was in the Tony Award-winning play "The Trip to Bountiful" by Horton Foote. She played the role of Thelma, a young woman who helps an elderly woman on a journey back to her hometown. Mathis received critical acclaim for her performance, with The ... read more
Monet Thibou
Stage Manager
Whitney White
Director
David Zinn
Scenic Design
Videos
