Production Staff
Tori Sampson
Playwright
Dede M. Ayite
Costume Designer
Matt Frey
Lighting Designer
Alyssa K. Howard
Production Stage Manager
Raja Feather Kelly
Choreographer
Noah Silva
Assistant Stage Manager
Louisa Thompson
Scenic Designer
Liesl Tommy
Director
Liesl Tommy is an award-winning stage director returning to the Huntington having previously directed Top Girls (2018), A Raisin in the Sun (2013), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2012), and Ruined (2011). Her credits include productions of Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed (Broadway and The Public Theater) starring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o (Tony Award nomination for Best Director), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate (Signature Theatre), Tracey Scott Wilson’s The Good Negro, UNIVERSES’ Party People, and A. Zell Williams’s Urban Retreat (The Public Theater), Les Misérables (Dallas Theater Center), Hamlet (California Shakespeare Theater), The Piano Lesson (Yale Repertory Theatre), and John Kander/Greg Pierce’s musical Kid ... read more
Ian Williams
Original Music and Sound Design
Awards and Nominations
2019 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Costume Design for a Play: Dede M. Ayite was nominated but did not win.
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