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Nina Simone: Four Women at Geva Theatre

Dates: 1/14/2025 - 2/9/2025

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75 Woodbury Blvd
Rochester, NY 14607

Tickets: Tickets range from $32 - $76


On September 16, 1963, Nina Simone heard that four Black girls were murdered in Birmingham when the 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed by the KKK.  Harnessing her rage, she wrote the Civil Rights anthem “Mississippi Goddam”.  Nina Simone: Four Women examines the seismic shift Simone took from artist to activist and revolutionary, and her fight to reflect the times through her consciousness rising music, “Four Women”, “Images” and “Young, Gifted and Black” among others.  It questions what happens when artists dive into the darkness of society and self while striving to find the light of freedom in sound.

By Christina Ham
Directed by Charlotte Brathwaite

Cast and Creative Team for Nina Simone: Four Women at Geva Theatre

Cast

Sojourner Brown
Sephronia/Nina
Hillary Jones
Sweet Thing/Nina
Kenita R. Miller
Sarah/Nina
X'ene Sky
Eunice/Pianist/Nina
Garnet Williams
Peaches/Nina

Creative Team

Christina Ham
Playwright
Charlotte Brathwaite
Director
Justin Hicks
Music Director
Kent Barrett
Scenic & Lighting Design
Marsha Ginsberg
Costume Design
Sound Design & Composition
YATTA (aka. ricky sallay zoker)
Hair, Makeup, & Wig Design
Cassie J. Williams
Production Stage Manager
Kevin Gregory Dwyer
Assistant Stage Manager
Kate Duprey
Casting Director
Erica Jensen, CSA
Associate Producer
Jasmine B. Gunter
Production Manager
Joseph Biagini
General Manager
Thalia Schramm

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Geva Theatre

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75 Woodbury Blvd
Rochester, NY 14607

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Geva Theatre is an active member of the Rochester community. In addition to connecting with audiences through its productions, Geva Theatre offers a wide variety of educational, outreach, literary and community engagement programs designed to:

- Enrich and deepen the theatre going experience for our current audience

- Provide affordable theatre to the Rochester community, including thousands of students

- Develop new plays and playwrights, and nurture the audiences and artists of the next generation

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