About the Artists Paul Crewes Rachel Fine Artistic Director Managing Director AND John Legend, Get Lifted Film Company, Mike Jackson, Jackie Judd, The Private Theatre, Eric Falkenstein, SimonSays Entertainment, Beth Hubbard, Jamie Cesa, David Guç present JOE MORTON IN Turn Me Loose Photo by: Monique Carboni A PLAY ABOUT COMIC GENIUS DICK GREGORY CAST OF CHARACTERS JOE MORTON.........................................................................................................................................................DICK GREGORY WRITTEN BY JOHN CARLIN..........................................................................COMEDIAN, HECKLER, TAXI DRIVER, INTERVIEWER, OTHERS Gretchen Law MUSIC CREDIT: FEATURING “MARCHING IN THE DARK” Performed by John Legend John Carlin Written by John Stephens, Blake Mills, & Tobias Jesso Jr. Produced by Blake Mills SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN Engineered by Shawn Everett Chris Barreca Susan Hilferty Stephen Strawbridge Leon Rothenberg JOE MORTON (Dick Gregory) JOHN CARLIN (Comedian/ GRETCHEN LAW (Playwright) is the author of The Adventures Of A Black Girl NY GENERAL MANAGER CASTING DRAMATURG is an Emmy® Award and Heckler/Taxi Driver/Interviewer/ five full-length plays. multiple NAACP Image Award- Others). Off-Broadway: Turn Me In Search Of Her God was adapted from a Bernard Cheryl Dennis Jack Doulin + Sharky Morgan Jenness winning film, television and Loose (Westside Theatre), Uncle Shaw story of the same title and has been approved stage veteran. Most recently, Vanya (Pearl Theatre Co.), for production by The Society of Authors. Al Sharpton PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Morton received the Lucille America Is Hard To See (Here for President was a semi-finalist in the Eugene O’Neill Lortel Award and the Off- Arts, Jan 2018); Regional: National Playwright’s Conference, 2006. Turn Me Erin Cass Broadway Alliance Award for outstanding lead actor Oklahoma! (Bard Summerscape), Dead Accounts, Loose was workshopped by the Atlantic Theater in play, for his portrayal of Dick Gregory in New York. Time Stands Still (Hampton Theatre Co.); Film: See Company in November 2013, at New York Stage and DIRECTED BY Morton made his Broadway debut in Tony award- You Around (funnyordie.com); TV: “A Crime To Film in the summer of 2014, at New York Theatre winning Hair and garnered a Tony nomination for his Remember” (Investigation Discovery). A former Workshop in September of 2014, and ran Off- John Gould Rubin performance in Raisin. He also performed in Art on RCA recording artist and independent solo artist Broadway at the Westside Theatre in the summer of Broadway (and in London’s West End) with Judd (“one of NYC’s better-kept secrets” - Time Out NY), 2017. Additionally, her plays, including History Hirsch and George Wendt, as well as David Hare’s John is also a member of Reverend Billy & The Lessons and Loving Charley Pride, have been read at Stuff Happens at the National Theatre in London as Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, an activist The National Black Theater Festival, The Players, The OCTOBER 9 - NOVEMBER 19, 2017 ‘Colin Powell’. Morton is widely known in film for performance collective that has toured the US and National Arts Club, the Harlem Theater Company, the The Brother Lovelace Studio Theater playing the title character in the sci-fi film Europe, most recently with Joan Baez and Neil LAByrinth Theater Company and The Dramatist Guild, From Another Planet, the ill-fated scientist ‘Miles Young, and travelled to Ferguson, MO, Standing of which she is a member. She is a longtime member Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Running time: 90 minutes with no intermission. Dyson’ in and ‘Captain Rock, ND, and the headquarters of the EPA and of the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop. McMahon’ in Speed. The Broadway trained, FERC in Washington, DC. decorated actor has over 40 years of experience in theater, television and film, and is best known for his WARNING: This production contains strong language and the use of theatrical haze. dynamic Emmy-winning role as 'Rowan/Eli Pope' in Turn Me Loose premiered at The Westside Theatre on May 19, 2016. the groundbreaking series “Scandal” on ABC. This production is made possible in part by generous support from The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation. PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P5 About the Artists About the Artists JOHN GOULD RUBIN (Director) Artistic Director Nelson, Pepe, Rothman, Sher, Sullivan, Taichman, Manager for Pilobolus Dance Theater’s international of new projects, as well as worked as a dramaturg, THE PRIVATE THEATRE (Producer) founded in to be one of the producing partners for this of The Private Theater, noted for radical site-specific Woodruff, Doug Wright and the late Garland Wright. tour of Shadowland and PSM for the International workshop director, and/or artistic consultant at 1979, is dedicated to raw, intimate, radical and extraordinary production. The production fits productions, and former co-Artistic/Executive Director Forty productions with South African playwright WOW Company’s tour of Solutions:Grassroots. Erin theaters and new play programs across the country. confrontational work. History: Heiner Müller’s US squarely in our wheelhouse of content that celebrates of LAByrinth Theater Company with John Ortiz and Athol Fugard (set/costume designer and co-director). has stage managed extensively throughout the US She is currently on the adjunct faculty at Fordham premiere Philoctetes (1983,) The Maids (site-specific under-represented communities through stories of Philip Seymour Hoffman, for which he directed 7 plays Hilferty designs for opera, film, dance, circus and Europe. She has also worked in film and University. In 1998, Jenness joined Helen Merrill Ltd. 4th fl walkup, NYC for 12 aud/perf,1985,) An Unseen the highest artistic integrity. including premieres by John Patrick Shanley and Erin (Ringling Brothers) and concerts (Taylor Swift). She television production in NY and LA. She holds her BA as Creative Director and subsequently held a position Energy Swallows Space (1985,) Our Father by Simonsaysentertainment.com Cressida Wilson. His production in August of American chairs Graduate Design NYU/Tisch. in Theater from Louisiana State University (1998) and in the Literary Department at Abrams Artists Agency. Michael Stephens (NY, London, Edinburgh, 1982- Buffalo with Treat Williams and Stephen Adly Guirgis Susanhilferty.com her MFA in Producing and Stage Management from In 2003, Jenness was presented with an Obie Award 6), The Last American in Paris (devised, 1987 Ann BETH HUBBARD (Producer) TV/Film Producer sold out at The Dorset Theater Festival, where he CalArts (2002). Special Citation for Longtime Support of Playwrights Arbor, MI and NY,) Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train (2000, Beth Hubbard’s career began at The Mount Company directed Outside Mullingar with equal success two STEPHEN STRAWBRIDGE (Lighting Design) and is a current recipient of the Duke Impact Award. original LAByrinth production, Edinburgh), The in production on Bull Durham and Tequila Sunrise. seasons ago. He’s directed throughout NYC and has designed over 200 productions on and off CHERYL DENNIS (New York General Manager) Fartiste (2006, NYFringe, “Outstanding She supervised Sean Penn’s directorial debut, Indian Europe at Rattlestick, Ma-Yi, Soho Theatre in London Broadway and at most major regional theater and has worked as a general, company and theatre JOHN LEGEND (Producer) Ohio-born John Musical,”) Hedda Gabler (2010, site-specific Runner starring Vigo Mortensen and Patricia and The Public among others, notably Peer Gynt at The opera companies across the US. Internationally his manager for the past 15 years on over 30 Legend is a critically acclaimed, multi-award winning, townhouse, NYC) Strindberg’s Playing With Arquette. As an independent producer she International Ibsen Festival in Oslo, Norway, Playing work has been seen in Bergen, Copenhagen, The distinguished and award winning productions. As platinum-selling singer-songwriter. His work has Fire (deconstructed/multi-media, 1012, The produced RITUAL starring Clarence Williams and With Fire (a deconstruction of Strindberg’s one-act Hague, Hong Kong, Linz, Lisbon, Munich, Naples, Sao General Manager - White Rabbit Red Rabbit, A garnered him ten Grammy® Awards, an Academy BoxNYC,) Turning Page (Angelica Page, about her Denise Nicholas (Ventura Films), Woo starring Jada about wife swapping, voyeurism and exhibitionism at Paulo, Stratford-upon-Avon (RSC), Stockholm, Vienna Queen for a Day, Consent, Reading Under The Award, a Golden Globe Award and the special mother, Geraldine,) Cherry Lane Theater, Pinkett (New Line Cinema) and Runteldat starring The Box, the notorious sex cabaret,) Queen For A Day and Wroclaw. Recent: American Buffalo, with Treat Influence, Treasure Island, In The Daylight, Stain. As Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame, 2012. Present plans: Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana, Sean, Martin Lawrence (MTV/Paramount). Hubbard with David Proval and Vincent Pastore at St. Clements Williams; Hamlet and Richard II, with Robert Sean Company Manager - Broadway: Barefoot In The among others. Legend is a principal at Get Lifted Film Claudia, Gianna, Alex (devised, about the political produced a series of reality specials entitled "Almost and The Cherry Orchard with Ellen Burstyn at The Leonard, at The Old Globe; Happy Days, with Dianne Park, Steel Magnolias, Frozen, Golda’s Balcony, Co., an entertainment production company based in polarization of America,) a radical re-conception Famous"