Photo: First Look at Ato Blankson-Wood in MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT
The cast also features Gideon Glick, Kelvin Moon Loh, and Adina Verson.
You can now get a first look at MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT featuring Tony Award nominee Ato Blankson-Wood as Terence Alan Smith/Joan Jett Blakk. MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT is co-written by Academy Award winner Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight, Choir Boy) and Tony Award nominee Tina Landau (Floyd Collins). Landau also directs.
In addition to Blankson-Wood, the cast includes Nic Ashe, Tony Award nominee Gideon Glick, Kelvin Moon Loh, Sawyer Smith and Adina Verson Polanco Jones Jr. is Understudy for Terence Alan Smith / Joan Jett Blakk.
Introducing Joan Jett Blakk—the first (and only) Black Drag Queen Candidate for President of the United States of America. It's the early 90s, the height of the AIDS epidemic, and Joan and the newly formed Queer Nation Chicago set off on an exhilarating and dangerous journey to drag queer politics out of the closet—and onto the floor of the DNC. Inspired—but not bound—by the true story of drag performer and activist Terence Alan Smith, MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT is a joyous stampede through urgent and unfinished business.
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