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This will make Brown the first Black woman to serve as both director and choreographer on a Broadway production in more than 65 years. Producers\u00a0<strong>Nelle Nugent, Ron Simons<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Kenneth\u00a0Teaton<\/strong>\u00a0made the announcement today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The production also marks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.camilleabrown.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brown&#8217;s<\/a> directorial debut on Broadway. Brown, who served as choreographer on the 2019 production of the play at&nbsp;The Public Theater&nbsp;off-Broadway, will also continue in her role as choreographer on Broadway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m extremely thrilled and honored to helm this new production of&nbsp;<em>for colored girls&#8230;<\/em>,&#8221; said Brown. &#8220;It&#8217;s an amazing feeling to bring this seminal show back to Broadway 45&nbsp;years after it opened&nbsp;at the Booth Theatre on September 15, 1976. I look forward to diving into the divine Ntozake Shange&#8217;s choreopoem and celebrating her legacy.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the previous Broadway productions Brown has choreographed are&nbsp;<em>Once On This Island<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Choir&nbsp;Boy<\/em>, for which she received a Tony nomination in 2019, making her the first Black female choreographer to receive the honor in more than two decades.&nbsp;She is also known for her work on&nbsp;<em>&#8220;Jesus&nbsp;Christ Superstar Live in Concert,&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;the Oscar nominated Netflix film&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2021\/03\/blackfilm-com-speaks-with-ma-raineys-black-bottom-makeup-hair-team-mia-neal-matiki-anoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ma&nbsp;Rainey&#8217;s Black Bottom<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>as well as the Metropolitan Opera&#8217;s production of&nbsp;<em>Porgy&nbsp;and Bess<\/em>. She is the founder and artistic director of the award-winning dance company Camille A. Brown and Dancers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;It is an honor to help usher the return of Ntozake Shange&#8217;s groundbreaking work to Broadway under the direction and choreography of Camille A. Brown, who is herself blazing a new path on Broadway as the first Black woman in more than 65 years taking on this dual role,&#8221; said producer Ron Simons. &#8220;I am quite confident that the ancestors and Ntozake&#8217;s spirit are lifted.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>A groundbreaking work in modern American theater,&nbsp;<em>for colored girls who have considered suicide\/when&nbsp;the rainbow is enu<\/em>f&nbsp;returned to The Public for the first time since it premiered in 1976, before its breakthrough run on Broadway. Playwright\/poet Ntozake Shange&#8217;s&nbsp;form-changing choreopoem tells the stories of seven Black women using poetry, song and movement. With unflinching honesty and emotion, each woman voices her survival story of having to exist in a world shaped by sexism and racism.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Camille A. Brown&nbsp;is a prolific Black&nbsp;female director \/ choreographer, who has received numerous honors including a Guggenheim Award, Bessie Award, Jacob&#8217;s Pillow Dance Award, Doris Duke Artist Award, United States Artists Award, 2 Audelco Awards, 5 Princess Grace Awards, and a New York City Center Award. She has received a Tony nomination, 3 Drama Desk nominations, 3 Lortel nominations and an Obie award for her work in theater. She is an Emerson Collective fellow, a TED fellow and the recipient of a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship. Brown is the 2021 Distinguished Artist, presented by The International Society for the Performing Arts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Award nominee\u00a0Camille A. Brown\u00a0will\u00a0direct the upcoming production of\u00a0 Ntozake Shange&#8217;s\u00a0For Colored\u00a0Girls Who Have Considered Suicide\/When The Rainbow Is Enuf\u00a0on Broadway in 2022. This will make Brown the first Black woman to serve as both director and choreographer on a Broadway production in more than 65 years. Producers\u00a0Nelle Nugent, Ron Simons\u00a0and\u00a0Kenneth\u00a0Teaton\u00a0made the announcement today. 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