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By ​Cori Thomas By Cori Thomas ​ Directed by Kent Gash ​ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in association with ​ ShadowCatcher Entertainment presents ​ LOCKDOWN BY CORI THOMAS DIRECTED BY KENT GASH CAST Eric Berryman Curtis Morlaye-Williams Keith Randolph Smith Zenzi Williams Reynaldo Piniella Voice of Charlie: Michael McElroy PRODUCTION TEAM Set Design by Jason Sherwood Associate Scenic Designer: Justin West ​ ​ Costume Design by Kara Harmon Assistant Costume Designer: Amy Sutton ​ ​ Lighting Design by Dawn Chiang Assistant Lighting Designer: Luther Frank ​ ​ ​ Sound Design by Justin Ellington Assistant Sound Designer: John McKenna ​ ​ Properties Designer: Natalie Carney Assistant Fight Choreographer: Sean Griffin ​ ​ Fight Choreography by Uncle Dave’s Master Electrician: Joe D'Emilio ​ ​ Fight-House Sound Supervisor: Kimberly S. O’Loughlin ​ Casting by Tara Rubin Casting Lighting Programmer: Mo Epps ​ ​ Production Stage Manager: Genevieve Ortiz Sound Board Operator: Dylan Vaughan Skorish ​ ​ Dramaturg: Ignacia Delgado Wardrobe Supervisor: Asia McCallum ​ ​ ​ Assistant Stage Manager: P. Tyler Britt Press Representative: Matt Ross Public ​ ​ Production Manager: Jenny Beth Snyder Relations ​ Technical Director: Aaron Gonzalez Videographer: Zanni Productions / Jonathan ​ ​ Associate Production Manager/Technical Burklund Director: Mac Whiting Costume Intern: Shivanna Sooknanan ​ ​ “Freedom” music & lyrics by David Jassy, used with special permission from Jassy World Entertainment. Lockdown was commissioned by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater with support from The Virginia B. ​ Toulmin Foundation. Lockdown is supported by The David Rockefeller Fund, The Tow Foundation, and ​ ​ The SHS Foundation. Lockdown was developed during a residency at the Eugene O’Neill Theater ​ ​ Center’s National Playwrights Conference in 2018. CAST ERIC BERRYMAN (C.O.) Off-Broadway: The B-Side: Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons, A Record ​ ​ Album Interpretation (St. Ann’s Warehouse/The Wooster Group), Steel Hammer, The Bacchae, Glory of ​ ​ the World (BAM), pool, no water (Barrow Street Theater). Selected Regional: The Amen Corner (The ​ ​ ​ Guthrie Theater), I Wish You Love (Penumbra Theatre/The Kennedy Center/ Hartford Stage) Fly (Ford’s ​ ​ ​ ​ Theatre); Red, Topdog/Underdog, Noises Off, A Raisin in the Sun (Everyman Theatre). Selected ​ ​ Film/TV: Barry (NETFLIX), Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Untitled Noah Baumbach Project and After Louie. Education: Carnegie Mellon University. CURTIS MORLAYE-WILLIAMS (Clue) Curtis’s credits include roles in the final season of Fox’s GOTHAM ​ ​ and CBS’ BLUE BLOODS. Othello (Rodrigo), Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Pontius Pilate), Escape From Happiness (Junior), Sweat (Chris) [Yale School of Drama]. Curtis received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. KEITH RANDOLPH SMITH (Wise) Broadway: Jitney; Fences; Come Back Little Sheba; King Hedley II; ​ ​ Salome; Piano Lesson; American Psycho. Off-Broadway: Paradise Blue; First Breeze of Summer; Holiday ​ ​ Heart; The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d; Midsummer Night’s Dream; Intimacy. Regional: ​ How To Catch Creation; The Absolute Brightness Of Leonard Pelkey; Our Town; Water By The Spoonful; In Walk’s Ed. Film/TV: The Good Fight; Anesthesia; Malcolm X; The Warrior Class; Path To Paradise; ​ Backstreet Justice; Journeymen; Dead Dogs Lie; Law and Order; NY Undercover; I’ll Fly Away; Cosby. Fox Fellow in Acting. Lunt-Fontanne Fellow in Acting. Member of Actor’s Center. Grad of AADA Conservatory. ZENZI WILLIAMS (Ernie) Broadway: The Crucible. Off-Broadway: School Girls (MCC Theater), Mobile Unit ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ of Henry V (The Public), The Crucible (Broadway), The Homecoming Queen (Atlantic Theater Company), ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Mother Courage and Her Children (Classic Stage Company). Regional: Imogen Says Nothing (Yale ​ ​ ​ Repertory Theatre). Television credits include Chicago Fire, Blue Bloods, The Good Fight, The Defenders, Daredevil. Film: Black Panther, The Mess He Made. Williams studied at the British American Dramatic Academy and has a BA from Temple University and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. REYNALDO PINIELLA (C.O.) was previously seen in The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire ​ ​ World, Venus (Signature Theater Company), The Skin of Our Teeth (Theatre for A New Audience), The ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Space Between the Letters (The Public Theater/Under the Radar), Terminus (NYTW Next Door), Romeo & ​ ​ ​ ​ Juliet (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis), The Tempest, The Three Musketeers ​ ​ (Classical Theatre of Harlem), I & You (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis). Film credits include “Madeline’s ​ ​ Madeline”, “Broken City”, “One Percent More Humid” and “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”. TV credits include “Sneaky Pete”, “Law & Order: SVU”, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”, “Flesh & Bone”, “NYC 22” and “The Carrie Diaries”. This year, he received the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship from TCG. His play Black Doves won the Thomas Barbour Playwriting award. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter @ReynaldoRey. www.reynaldopiniella.com ​ Reynaldo will be on for C.O. on the following dates: May 5th @ 2PM, May 6th @ 11AM, May 10th @ 2PM, May 12th @ 2PM, May 16 @11AM, May 17th @ 2PM, May 17th @ 7PM, May 18th @ 7PM, and May 19th @ 2PM. PRODUCTION TEAM CORI THOMAS (Playwright) Plays include: LOCKDOWN; WHEN JANUARY FEELS LIKE SUMMER; CITIZENS ​ MARKET; THE LIBERIAN LEGACY TRILOGY. Produced and Developed at includes: Rattlestick, EST, Playwrights Horizons, Page 73, Women’s Project; The Goodman Theater; Pillsbury House Theater; Mixed Blood; Going To The River and more. Residencies, Fellowships, Honors include: New Dramatists Resident; O’Neill National Playwrights Conference; Sundance Theater Lab; MacDowell; Bogliasco; Baryshnikov Arts Center; ATCA Osborn Award; Finalist The Horton Foote Prize; Theodore Ward Prize; and more. TV and Series include: JuVee Productions, and AUDIBLE. Screen: She is presently writing an ​ ​ original Screenplay about Nelson Mandela for HBO Films. Other: Co-Founder of The Pa’s Hat Foundation ​ ​ a 501c(3) organization focused on helping former child soldiers marginalized citizens of Liberia with educational and work related assistance. For the last 3 years, Cori has been working with Lonnie Morris nd who is in his 42 ​ year of Incarceration at San Quentin State Prison, they are writing a play together to be ​ presented at the prison by No More Tears a Non Profit Lonnie co-founded geared towards preventing recidivism and helping with re-entry. Cori sits on the board of No More Tears. KENT GASH (Director) directed the acclaimed World Premiere of Robert O’Hara’s BARBECUE at the ​ Public Theatre and is the co-author and director of LANGSTON IN HARLEM (2010 Audelco Award-BEST MUSICAL.). New York: New York premiere of MISS EVER’S BOYS and the revival of HOME both for Melting Pot Theatre Co., and Duke Ellington’s BEGGARS HOLIDAY: York. Recent regional: Public Works WINTERS TALE: Dallas Theatre Center, THE WIZ at Ford’s Theatre (10 Best of 2018- Washington Post,13 Helen Hayes nominations), August Wilson’s THE GEM OF THE OCEAN: South Coast Rep, (LA TIMES TEN BEST OF 2017). GOODNIGHT TYLER: Alliance, THE MOUNTAINTOP: Trinity Rep, WIG OUT and CHOIR BOY for Studio Theatre,DC. Classical productions include: TROILIUS and CRESSIDA and TWELFTH NIGHT at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, CORIOLANUS and PRIVATE LIVES at Shakespeare Santa Cruz and THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Future productions 2019: GUYS AND DOLLS at the Guthrie. Mr. Gash is the former Associate Artistic Director of both Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Alliance Theatre; former Artist in Residence Studio Theatre DC and is Founding Director of The New Studio on Broadway at Tisch, NYU. BFA: CMU, MFA: UCLA. For Darius Smith. JASON SHERWOOD (Set Design) is a Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, and Henry Hewes Design ​ Award nominee. He recently designed RENT Live on Fox!, Sam Smith's Arena World Tour and campaign TV appearances (including Grammy's, SNL, Ellen), the People's Choice Awards on E!, and The View ​ UpStairs Off-Broadway. Upcoming: the Spice Girls World Tour, and the Broadway revival of The Secret ​ Garden. More designs at New York Theatre Workshop, Playwright's Realm, Rattlestick, the Old Globe, American Repertory Theatre, Guthrie, among many others. Online: @JasonSherwoodDesign KARA HARMON (Costume Design) Select regional credits: Gem of the Ocean at Roundhouse, The Color ​ ​ ​ ​ Purple at Portland Center Stage, The Wiz! At Ford’s, Nina Simone: Four Women at Arena Stage, Native ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Gardens at The Guthrie, Black Odyssey at Trinity Rep, A Guide for the Homesick at Huntington, In the ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Heights at Geva, Barbecue at Geffen Playhouse (NAACP Best Costume Design Award), Much Ado and The ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Comedy of Errors at OSF. Off Broadway credits: The Niceties at Manhattan Theatre Club and Dot at The ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Vineyard Theatre. Assistant Costume Design for Television: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Daredevil” and “Boardwalk Empire.” Training: NYU Tisch. www.KaraHarmonDesign.com ​ DAWN CHIANG (Lighting Design) THEATER: Broadway: Zoot Suit, Tango Pasion; Associate lighting ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ designer – Show Boat, La Cage Aux Folles, Busker Alley. Off Broadway: Roundabout Theater, Manhattan ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Theatre Club. Regional theater includes: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Guthrie Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, Syracuse Stage, Trinity Repertory Company, Dallas Theater Center, Arena Stage, Alliance Theatre, South Coast Repertory.
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