Nathan Lilly
Birth Place: United States
FAT HAM, A CHRISTMAS STORY & More Set for Cleveland Play House 24-25 Season (Apr 1, 2024)
BWW Review: Local Playwright Eric Coble's THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN at Karma (Mar 30, 2019)
BWW Review: Meticulously Written, Directed and Performed THE CALL at Dobama (Oct 26, 2015)
BIO
Nathan A. Lilly, a Cleveland native, appeared in the regional premieres of Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas (Decatur Bronson), Tonya Barfield's The Call (Alemu), as well as Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s Caroline Or Change, all at Cleveland's Dobama Theatre. WORLD PREMIERES: Eric Coble’s Ten More Minutes From Cleveland (Dobama Theatre), Eric Schmiedl’s Browns Rules (Cleveland Public Theatre); Nina Domingue’s Jack & Jill’s Super Colossal Storybook Adventure (Cleveland Play House); and Eric Coble’s Let Freedom Ring (Ensemble Theatre/Musical Theatre Project). REGIONAL: Kennedy Center for Performing Arts TYA/USA, Great Lakes Theater, Porthouse Theatre, and Cain Park, Beck Center for the Arts, The Karamu House Theatre. NOTABLE CREDITS: A Raisin In The Sun (Asagai), Rome Neal’s Julius Caesar in Africa (Casca), Once On This Island (Agwe), Regina Taylor’s Crowns (The Man), Ma’ Rainey’s Black Bottom (Sylvester), and Are You Now or Have You Ever Been (Paul Robeson). ALMA MATER: Baldwin Wallace University. Proud member of Theatre Communication Group.
News
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 1, 2024
Cleveland Play House has revealed its 2024-2025 theatrical season of plays. See the full lineup and learn how to purchase tickets.
by Roy Berko - Mar 30, 2019
Cleveland Height resident Eric Coble is the area's most prolific and successful contemporary playwright. His scripts have been produced locally, as well as on- and off -Broadway, and at a significant number of national theaters.
by Roy Berko - Oct 26, 2015
Tanya Barfield, author of THE CALL, which is now on stage at Dobama Theatre, didn't want to write the play. She stated in a December, 2012 interview, 'Without realizing what I was doing, I pointedly and stubbornly refused. . . What I knew-what I was known for-were plays about the African-American experience through history. I did not want to write a contemporary play, a play close to me, a play about adoption.'
by Tyler Peterson - Oct 7, 2015
The producers of KRIS KRINGLE The Musical the new Broadway-bound production being developed in Cleveland, have announced the creative team, cast and performance schedule for its premiere.
by Nora Dominick - Aug 18, 2015
Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) Executive Artistic Director, Raymond Bobgan presents Pandemonium 2015-CPT's annual benefit and theatrical spectacular-on Saturday, September 12, 2015. The Pandemonium 2015 theme is 'Transform.'
by Roy Berko - Dec 8, 2014
Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel is noted for crafting play scripts which impact directly on the lives of people. A review of her works illustrates that she writes about issues that need to be expressed (AIDS, sexual abuse, prostitution, degradation of the individual), she favors writing about emotional circumstances which she expresses in narrative structures, and her works contain theatrical requirements that make for better viewing, than reading.
by Roy Berko - May 26, 2013
CROWNS tells an important story of perseverance and faith among the women of the Southern African American community, as represented by their 'hatitude.' The Karamu production, which has some strong performances, is somewhat tarnished by some directorial decisions, but is worth seeing.
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