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GERMAIN STAGE JUNE 14–30, 2019 PLACE in a Secured Theatrical Venue Near You and Its Backstage Area AND Bonnie and Terry Burman PRESENT BY Stacey Rose GRAND PRIZE WINNER OF BSC'S BONNIE & TERRY BURMAN NEW PLAY AWARD FEATURING Ansa Akyea Jordan Barrow Kalyne Coleman Peterson Townsend Peggy Pharr Wilson SCENIC DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER Jack Magaw Ntokozo Fuzunina Kunene Cha See Luqman Brown DRAMATURG PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER CASTING Otis Cortez Ramsey-Zöe Geoff Boronda Pat McCorkle, Katja Zarolinski, CSA BERKSHIRE PRESS REPRESENTATIVE NATIONAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE DIGITAL ADVERTISING Charlie Siedenburg Matt Ross Public Relations The Pekoe Group CHOREOGRAPHED BY Kevin Boseman DIRECTED BY Logan Vaughn SPONSORED IN PART BY Audrey and Ralph Friedner & Claudia Perles Community Outreach Tickets and Talk Backs Underwritten by Greylock Federal Credit Union America v. 2.1 was developed in the 2015 The Dramatist Guild Fellows program and the 2018 Sundance Theatre Lab. It had its first public reading in 2017 at The Fire This Time Festival. ST. GERMAIN STAGE JUNE 14–30, 2019 PLACE In a secured theatrical venue near you and its backstage area. TIME The not too distant future. CAST Donavan ..................................................................................................... Ansa Akyea* Grant .....................................................................................................Jordan Barrow* Leigh .................................................................................................. Kalyne Coleman* Jeffery ........................................................................................... Peterson Townsend* The Voice ....................................................................................... Peggy Pharr Wilson* STAFF Production Stage Manager ......................................................................Geoff Boronda* Stage Management Interns ............................................Ashton Pickering, Lindsey Walko Master Electrician/Light Board Operator ................................................. Joey Rainone IV Sound Engineer ..............................................................................................TJ O’Leary Wardrobe Supervisor .............................................................................Gwendolyn Kunz SPECIAL THANKS Douglas Seldin, Alyssa Anderson Kunz, Ken Cerniglia, Natasha Sinha, Mark St. Germain † *Actors and Stage Manager are members of Actors’ Equity Association. CAST ANSA AKYEA (Donavan) BSC Debut. Regional Credits include: Guthrie Theater: Cyrano De Bergerac (Rageneau), Clybourne Park (Albert/Kevin), To Kill a Mockingbird (Tom Robinson), A Christmas Carol (Christmas Present), Harvey (EJ Lofgren); Ten Thousand Things: Othello (Othello), Pericles (Pericles); Children's Theater Company: Shrek (Donkey); Old Globe/CTC: The Lorax (Daddy Onceler); Park Square: Cardboard Piano (Soldier/Paul); Mixed Blood: Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Chad Deity), How to Use a Knife (Steve), Take Me Out (David Battle). Film/TV Credits: House of Tomorrow, Into Temptation, Memorial Day, Kid West, In an Instant (ABC). Merci Dieu, Seena, mes enfants, famille Akyea. @ansaakyea JORDAN BARROW (Grant) BSC debut. Jordan was last seen as Ronny in the west coast premiere of Witness Uganda. Prior to that, he created the role of Themba in the world premiere Maltby & Shire musical, Sousatzka, in Toronto. TV: Pose (FX) and Broad City (Comedy Central). Off Broadway: The Tempest (Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park) and Held Momentarily (NY Fringe Encore Series). Regional: Peter Pan and The Miracle Worker (Paper Mill Playhouse), Finian's Rainbow (Music Theatre of Wichita), and Hairspray (Charleston Stage). Training: BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Michigan, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Thanks to family, friends, and the Abrams team. @JordanT_B 2 KALYNE COLEMAN (Leigh) BSC debut. Kalyne is from Richmond, Virginia and is a proud member of the Brown/Trinity MFA in Acting program’s Class of 2020 and University of Pennsylvania alum. Credits include — Trinity Rep: Nella Pea, Black Odyssey. Rites and Reason: Young Fannie Lou/Myrlie Evers, A Seat at the Table. Shakespeare Academy at Stratford: Lady Anne, Richard III & Rosaline, Love’s Labour’s Lost. 4A, UPenn: Beneatha, Raisin in the Sun & Latisha, The Story. Brown Trinity: Brutus, Julius Caesar; Selector, How We Got On; Henrietta, Last Days of Judas Iscariot; and upcoming, Gabriela in References to Salvador Dali: Make Me Hot. She sends gratitude and joy to her family and friends for their love and support. @kalynecoleman PETERSON TOWNSEND (Jeffery) BSC debut. Past credits include: Antigone (Haemon) at Baltimore Center Stage; Ms. Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley (Charles Bingley) at St. Louis Rep; Satchel Paige & the KC Swing (Art Young) at Cincinnati Playhouse/St. Louis Rep; A Raisin in the Sun (George Murchison), Cinderella (Prince Sebastian), History Boys (Crowther), Our Town (George Gibbs) at the Arden Theatre; Twelfth Night (Sebastian) at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Romeo et Juliet, Samson et Dalila, Adriana Lecouvreur at the Met Opera. TV/Film credits: Twelve, Law & Order SVU/CI/ Prime, The Code, The Good Fight, Elementary, Madame Secretary, FBI, Gossip Girl. PEGGY PHARR WILSON (The Voice) BSC: Gaslight, His Girl Friday, Guys and Dolls, The Crucible, To Kill A Mockingbird, Carousel, Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, 10x10 Festival (all 8 years!); BAT: Doubt; Shakes & Co: Leap Year; New York: Six Women with Brain Death (co-author, and performed it also in Chicago, Dallas & Kansas City). Regional: 10 seasons with Creede Repertory Theatre in Colorado performing over 50 roles, including Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Best Actress, Ovation Award Denver Post), Shirley Valentine, Moon for the Misbegotten and 3 Viewings. Many regional including: Dallas Theatre Center, Theatre 3, Kansas City Rep, Unicorn, KC Lyric Opera, White River in Vermont and Rose Theatre in Chicago. CREATIVES STACEY ROSE (Playwright) is a proud Black woman, daughter, sibling and mom. Her work celebrates and explores Blackness, Black identity, Black history, body politics and the dilemma of life as "other." Stacey's work has been presented at: The Fire This Time Festival, The Lark, The Amoralists Theatre Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, National Black Theatre and Pillsbury House Theatre. Stacey has held fellowships/residencies with The Dramatists Guild, The Playwrights' Center, Sundance Theatre Lab and The Goodman Theatre. Stacey's play Legacy Land, developed at The Playwrights' Center, will have a world premiere at KC Rep in February 2020. OTIS CORTEZ RAMSEY-ZÖE (Dramaturg) recently served as Dramaturg for Klytemnestra: An Epic Slam Poem (Theater Alliance), Song For the Genius Child — Young Basquiat (John F. Kennedy Center), Legacy Land (The Playwrights’ Center), In the Southern Breeze (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), America v. 2.1 and All the Natalie Portmans (Sundance Institute Theatre Lab) and 3 Hooded or Being Black for Dummies (Mosaic Theater Company). He is a Series Editor for NoPassport Press’ Dreaming the Americas Series and was a Lecturer of Theatre Arts at Howard University, Associate Artistic Director at banished? productions, and Future Classics Program Coordinator at The Classical Theatre of Harlem. KEVIN BOSEMAN (Choreographer) is a former principal dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and member of the Martha Graham Dance Company. Theatrical credits include Broadway: Equus; Broadway National Tours: The Lion King, The Color Purple and Shrek the Musical; Off Broadway: Accidentally, Like a Martyr; Regional: Ragtime (Kennedy Center) and A Chorus Line (Paper Mill Playhouse); Concerts: Once On This Island and The Music Man. He most recently choreographed a concert presentation of Tony Award winner Jason Michael Webb and Lelund Durond Thompson’s new musical WiLDFLOWER, a co-production between National Black Theatre and The Apollo, directed by Logan Vaughn. LOGAN VAUGHN† (Director) is a New York-based Artist and Director. Logan was Playwrights Horizon's Director in Residence 2012–2013. In 2012 Logan was also named a Member of the Director's Lab, Lincoln Center. As a Director, she has worked with The Public Theater, MCC Theater, Kansas City Rep Theatre, Geva Theatre, Playwright's Center, Playwrights Realm, Mosaic Theatre, 59E59, National Black Theatre and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her work in film includes assisting the Academy Award-winning producing team behind Precious and Monster's Ball as well as serving as head of casting for several award-winning independents. Logan most recently directed the New York premiere of Loy Webb's The Light at MCC Theater, for which she received an Outer Critics Circle nomination for Best Direction of a Play. This production is dedicated to all the black and brown bodies throughout American history that have been misplaced, silenced or forgotten. "This was a war for the possession of his body and that would be the war of his whole life." Ta-Nehisi Coates LUQMAN BROWN (Sound Designer) designed What Are You (Globe Theater), The Corpse Washer, How to Defend Yourself and We’ve Come to Believe and created original music for Everybody Black, all for the 2019 Humana Festival. His regional theatre credits include: Detroit ’67 (The Juilliard School), Skeleton Crew (TheatreSquared), The Three Musketeers (Classical Theatre of Harlem), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Asolo Repertory Theatre), Sense & Sensibility (Cape Fear Regional Theatre), The Parchman Hour (Guthrie Theater) and Adoration of the Old Woman (INTAR Theatre).
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