{"id":160195,"date":"2022-02-28T16:45:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T21:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=160195"},"modified":"2022-02-28T16:45:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T21:45:51","slug":"for-colored-girls-announces-full-cast-creative-team-for-broadway-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/for-colored-girls-announces-full-cast-creative-team-for-broadway-run\/","title":{"rendered":"“for colored girls…” Announces Full Cast & Creative Team For Broadway Run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The highly anticipated Broadway revival of\u00a0Ntozake Shange\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>groundbreaking\u00a0for colored girls who have considered suicide\/ when the rainbow is enuf,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>directed and\u00a0choreographed by Tony Award nominee\u00a0Camille A. Brown<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(Once On This Island, Choir Boy<\/em>, co-director and choreographer of\u00a0Fire Shut Up in My Bones)<\/em>\u00a0has announced the full cast and creative team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joining the cast are Amara Granderson <\/strong>as Lady in Orange, Tendayi Kuumba<\/strong> as Lady in Brown, Kenita R. Miller <\/strong>as Lady in Red, Okwui Okpokwasili<\/strong> as Lady in Green, Stacey Sargeant<\/strong> as Lady in Blue, Alexandria Wailes<\/strong> as Lady in Purple, and D. Woods<\/strong> as Lady in Yellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show marks Camille A. Brown\u2019s<\/strong> directorial debut on Broadway. Brown, who served as choreographer on the Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk award-winning 2019 production of the play at The Public Theater<\/strong>, will also continue in her role as choreographer on Broadway, making her the first Black woman to serve as both director and choreographer on a Broadway production in more than 65 years.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Performances begin on Friday, April 1, 2022 at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th<\/sup> Street) and open on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Tickets are now on sale for the 20-week limited engagement at www.telecharge.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for colored girls\u2026<\/em><\/strong> will feature set design by Myung Hee Cho<\/strong>, costume design by Sarafina Bush<\/strong>, lighting design by Jiyoun Chang<\/strong>, sound design by Justin Ellington<\/strong>, projection design by Aaron Rhyne<\/strong>, and hair design by Cookie Jordan<\/strong>. The show will feature original music by Martha Redbone<\/strong> and Aaron Whitby<\/strong>. Deah Love Harriott<\/strong> serves as the Music Director and Tia Allen<\/strong> is the Music Coordinator. The Production Stage Manager is Bernita Robinson<\/strong> and the Assistant Stage Manager is lark hackshaw<\/strong>. The production features casting by Erica Jensen\/Calleri Jensen Davis <\/strong>and production supervision by Hudson Theatricals. Christina Franklin<\/strong> serves as the Associate Director and Maleek Washington <\/strong>serves as Associate Choreographer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join the circle as seven women share their stories and find strength in each other\u2019s humor and passion through a fusion of poetry, dance, music, and song that explodes off the stage and resonates with all. It\u2019s time for joy. It\u2019s time for sisterhood. It\u2019s time for colored girls.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black girl magic is reborn. Ntozake Shange\u2019s\u00a0for colored girls who have considered suicide\/ when the rainbow is enuf<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is the \u201clandmark of American theater\u201d(The New York Time<\/em>s) that blazed a trail for generations to come. Now, this celebration of the power of Black womanhood returns to Broadway for the first time, reinvented, directed, and choreographed by \u201ca true superstar of theater and dance\u201d (NPR<\/em>), Tony Award\u00d2\u00a0nominee\u00a0Camille A. Brown.<\/strong>\u00a0And her vision is as fearlessly new as it is fiercely now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CAST BIOGRAPHIES<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AMARA GRANDERSON<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

AMARA GRANDERSON<\/strong> (Lady in Orange<\/em>) is a Brooklyn native thrilled to be making her Broadway debut in \u201cfor colored girls\u2026<\/em>\u201d Training: MFA UC San Diego, BA Oberlin College. Selected Theater Credits: Fly<\/em> (La Jolla Playhouse), Romeo \u2018n\u2019 Juliet<\/em> (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Stick Fly<\/em> (Intiman Theater). Select Film\/TV: Ford commercial (dir. Chlo\u00e9 Zhao). She is eternally grateful to her family, friends, & Ms. Caroline for getting her to this impactful milestone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TENDAYI KUUMBA<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

TENDAYI KUUMBA<\/strong>\u00a0(Lady in Brown<\/em>) International dancer, choreographer, singer, & songwriter, Tendayi Kuumba is a graduate of North Atlanta High School of Performing Arts and Spelman College. Recently, Tendayi performed as a background vocalist\/dancer & original cast member of Specal Tony Award Winning\u00a0David Byrne’s America Utopia<\/em>\u00a0on Broadway as well as its World Tour since 2018 and HBO Film adaptation directed by Spike Lee.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former touring company member of Urban Bush Women, Tendayi is also longtime collaborator with partner Greg Purnell under the alias UFLYMOTHERSHIP with sonic\/choreographic projects Heroin\u00e9, Incog-negro, U.F.O: Unidentified Fly Objects, U.F.O: Stardust Melanin, & U.F.O “The Mixtape”. Other solo\/collaborative choreographic works have been featured at Gibney Dance, in partnership with Stephen Petronio Residency Center, Live Ideas: Drexciya Redux – An Afrofuturist Cabaret at NYLA, Movement Researches\u2019 Spring Festival, Czech Republic of NY, \u201c Prague Effects\u201d Residency, Dancespace “Collective Terrains ” platform, Spelman Colleges’ “Toni Cade Bambara Scholar- Activism Conference, Harlem Stage E-Moves 2019, Hi-ARTS: Critical Breaks Residency, BRICLab, Dance Mission Theaters’ D.I.R.T Festival 2021 & Park Armory’s 100 Women\/100 Years and Lincoln Center’s Restart Stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She’s worked with choreographers T. Lang, Marjani Forte’-Saunders (7NMS), AS\u00c9 Dance Theater Collective, Nathan Trice\/ Rituals Performance Project “StrangeLove”, Jim Findlay’s “Electric Lucifer” workshop & Philadelphia Operas\u2019 We Shall Not be Moved<\/em> directed by Bill T. Jones. She continues to build her pedagogy as a teaching artist occasionally at NYU Tisch and as a B.O.L.D Facilitator for Urban Bush Women. Currently commissioned by the Petronio Residency Center to create upcoming UFLYMOTHERSHIP work for spring 2022, she gives thanks and blessings for life, love, breath, and the pursuit of happiness through creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KENITA\u00a0R. MILLER<\/strong><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

KENITA\u00a0R. MILLER\u00a0<\/strong>(Lady in Red<\/em>)\u00a0 B’way:\u00a0Come From Away<\/em>\u00a0(Hannah),\u00a0Once On This Island\u00a0<\/em>(Mama Euralie\/ Grammy Nom.),\u00a0The Color Purple<\/em>\u00a0(Celie),\u00a0Xanadu\u00a0<\/em>(Erato\/Kira understudy)\u00a0Off Broadway: Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0(Granny) Encores!,\u00a0Bella: an American Tall Tale<\/em>\u00a0(Miss Cabbagestalk\/Mama), Merrily We Roll Along (Encores!),\u00a0Wild Party<\/em>\u00a0(Encores!),\u00a0Langston In Harlem<\/em>\u00a0(Zora Neale Hurston -Drama Desk Nom.\/Audelco Award),\u00a0Working\u00a0<\/em>(Drama Desk Award),\u00a0Avenue Q.<\/em>\u00a0Regional:\u00a0Parade<\/em>\u00a0(Minnie McKnight, Angela\/2014 Barrymore Award Outstanding Featured Actress),\u00a0Once On This Island\u00a0<\/em>(Timoune\/ Mama Euralie),\u00a0Ragtime\u00a0<\/em>(Sarah)\u00a0Film\/TV:\u00a0<\/strong>Tick Tick Boom<\/em>, \u201cSesame Street,\u201d \u201cBull,\u201d \u201cHostages,\u201d \u201cBlacklist.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OKWUI OKPOKWASILI<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

OKWUI OKPOKWASILI\u00a0<\/strong>(Lady in Green<\/em>) is a Brooklyn based performer, choreographer and writer creating multidisciplinary performance pieces. The child of immigrants from Nigeria, Okpokwasili was born and raised in the Bronx, and the histories of these places and the girls and women who inhabit them feature prominently in much of her work. Her highly experimental productions include “Bessie” Award winning\u00a0Pent-Up: A Revenge Dance,\u00a0<\/em>“Bessie” Award winning\u00a0Bronx Gothic, Bronx Gothic: The Oval, Poor People’s TV Room, Poor People’s TV Room Solo, When I Return Who Will Receive Me,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Adaku’s Revolt.\u00a0<\/em>Recent works include installations in the exhibitions:\u00a0\u201cGrief and Grievance, Art and Mourning in America\u201d<\/em>\u00a0at the New Museum,\u00a0\u201cWitchhunt\u201d<\/em>\u00a0at The Hammer Museum in LA, \u201cSex Ecologies\u201d<\/em>\u00a0at Kunsthall Trondheim in Norway. Commissions include the performance\u00a0\u201cOn the way, undone\u201d<\/em>\u00a0at the Highline in NYC and at Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn as part of FIAF\u2019s Crossing the Line Festival, the film\u201cReturning\u201d\u00a0<\/em>for Danspace Project, and the site specific performances\u00a0\u201cSwallow the Moon\u201d<\/em>\u00a0at Jacob\u2019s Pillow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has worked with film and theater directors: Carrie Mae Weems, Ralph Lemon, Arthur Jafa, Terence Nance, Josephine Decker, Mika Rottenberg, Mahyad Tousi, Charlotte Brathwaite, Jim Findlay, Annie Dorsen and Peter Born. She has worked at the newly re-invisioned Flea Theater, the Public, TFANA, Soho Rep, HERE Arts Center, and the Kitchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okpokwasili\u2019s residencies and awards include The French American Cultural Exchange (2006-2007); Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography Choreographic Fellowship (2012); Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist-in-Residence (2013); New York Live Arts Studio Series (2013); Under Construction at the Park Avenue Armory (2013); New York Foundation for the Arts\u2019 Fellowship in Choreography (2013); Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\u2019s Extended Life Program (2014-17, 2019-20); ICPP at Wesleyan (2015), The Foundation for Contemporary Arts\u2019 artist grant in dance (2014); BRIClab (2015); Columbia University (2015), the Rauschenberg Residency (2015), UNC Chapel Hill CPA Fellow. Okpokwasili was the 2015-2017 Randjelovic\/Stryker New York Live Arts Resident Commissioned Artist (RCA.) She was a 2018 Princeton University Hodder Fellow, a 2018 Herb Alpert Awardee in Dance, an Antonyo Awardee, a 2018 Doris Duke Artist Awardee, and a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. She will be the inaugural artist for the Kravis Studio Residency program at MOMA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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STACEY SARGEANT<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

STACEY SARGEANT<\/strong>\u00a0(Lady In Blue<\/em>) The child of a Trinidadian father and Tobagonian mother, Stacey Sargeant was born & raised in the East New York section of Brooklyn. She is a graduate of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts and received her BFA in musical theater from Syracuse University. Stacey can currently\u00a0be seen in the critically acclaimed Netflix film,\u00a0The Forty Year Old Version<\/em>, and in the\u00a0third season of Nat Geo’s, \u201cGenius: Aretha\u201d as Dinah Washington.\u00a0She most recently guest starred and recurred on CBS\u2019\u00a0\u201cBlue Bloods\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cBull,\u201d respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sargeant received Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel nominations for her work in the NYTimes Critic’s Pick, Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future<\/em> at Ars Nova. She is the recipient of the South Korea Daegu International Musical Festival’s Best Supporting Actress Award, as well as New York Musical Theatre Festival\u2019s Outstanding Individual Performance Award. In addition, her filmmaking debut, Though I’m Not Perfect<\/em>, a documentary short about the physical and psychological dangers of the ballet world to young girls, won the Honolulu Film Award for Best Educational Film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Credits include: Film:\u00a0Come Sunday, Top Five,\u00a0Obvious Child<\/em>; TV: \u201cBlue Bloods,\u201d \u201cBull,\u201d “Elementary,” “The Blacklist,” “Gossip Girl,” “Glee,” “Law & Order: SVU;\u201d Theater:\u00a0Nantucket Sleigh Ride<\/em>\u00a0(Lincoln Center Theater),\u00a0Homos, Or Everyone in America<\/em>\u00a0(Labyrinth),\u00a0Two Gentlemen of Verona\u00a0<\/em>and the all-female\u00a0The Taming of the Shrew\u00a0<\/em>(Delacorte Theatre),\u00a0Eclipsed<\/em>\u00a0(Public Theater, Curran, Yale Rep,\u00a0McCarter\u00a0Theatre\u00a0(workshop),\u00a0Our Lady of Kibeho and Big Love<\/em>\u00a0(Signature Theatre),\u00a0Legally Blonde<\/em>\u00a0(1st Nat\u2019l Tour).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ALEXANDRIA WAILES<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

ALEXANDRIA WAILES <\/strong>(Lady in Purple<\/em>)Alexandria Wailes (she\/her) received a 2020 Obie Citation for Sustained Excellence as an Artist and Advocate and a Lortel nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play For Colored Girls<\/em>\u2026 at The Public. Broadway: Deaf West\u2019s Spring<\/em> Awakening<\/em>, Big<\/em> River <\/em>(Tony Honoree for Ensemble). Off Broadway: Playwright Horizon\u2019s I Was Most Alive with You<\/em>, A Kind Of Alaska, <\/em>Film: \u2018The Hyperglot\u2019; TV: \u201cLaw & Order: Criminal Intent,\u201d \u201cHigh Maintenance,\u201d \u201cLittle America,\u201d \u201cNurse Jackie.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexandria is an actor, director, dancer, choreographer, and director of artistic sign language. She has worked on stage, in front of the camera and behind the scenes on numerous on and off Broadway and regional theatres, television and film. She worked with Deaf West Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Playwrights Horizon, The Public, Pasadena Playhouse, City Center NY, Ars Nova and more. As director of artistic sign language, she worked on the revival of Broadway\u2019s Children of a Lesser God <\/em>and King Lear<\/em>; This Close S.1 & 2, Quantico S.3, A Quiet Place 1 & 2, Wonderstruck and 2021\u2019s Sundance Film Festival darling, CODA<\/em>. Over the years she has worked as an advisor for ASL theatre interpreted teams for on and off Broadway with Hands On and TDF, as a teaching artist bringing theatre into classrooms, and is an educator at several museums in NYC \u2014 notably the Whitney Museum, The Jewish Museum, and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. She danced and performed with the Heidi Latsky Dance company. She is a co-founder of BHo5.org and a member of the Forest of Arden company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Wailes has spent many years advocating for Deaf and disability rights within the performing arts. She currently serves on the Dance\/NYC disability taskforce. She received a Tony Honoree for Ensemble in the Deaf West revival of Big River along with numerous nominations and accolades. A proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA & the SDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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D. WOODS<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

D. WOODS <\/strong>(Lady in Yellow<\/em>) is a multi-hyphenate performing artist who excels in all facets of entertainment. Prior to her chart topping and multi-platinum success with the pop\/R&B recording group Danity Kane, she trained at Tri-Cities High School for Visual and Performing Arts and the Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta (YEA). She continued her studies at The Ailey School, trained at New York University\u2019s Tisch School of the Arts and graduated from The Gallatin School of Individualized Study. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is the Founder of Woodgrane Entertainment and has been consecutively recognized as a Grammy Nomination contender. She has performed multiple roles in the Off-Broadway run of Ntozake Shange\u2019s \u201cfor colored girls\u2026<\/em>\u201d at The Public Theater, Christopher Green\u2019s\u00a0\u201cPrurience\u201d<\/em>\u00a0at The Guggenheim Museum and her semi-autobiographical play \u201cTrouble In Paradise<\/em>\u201d. Additional credits include Patrick Ian Polk\u2019s acclaimed film \u201cBlackbird<\/em>\u201d and the AllBLK series \u201cStuck With You<\/em>\u201d. D.Woods is grateful for making her Broadway debut. Follow @yagirldwoods on all social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CAMILLE A. BROWN<\/strong> (Director\/Choreographer<\/em>) is a prolific Black female director\/choreographer, who has received numerous honors including a Guggenheim Award, Bessie Award, Jacob\u2019s Pillow Dance Award, Doris Duke Artist Award, United States Artists Award, two Audelco Awards, five Princess Grace Awards, and a New York City Center Award. She has received a Tony nomination, three Drama Desk nominations, three 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Broadway and off-Broadway credits include:\u00a0Choir Boy<\/em>,\u00a0Once On This Island,\u00a0Toni Stone, A Streetcar Named Desire, Much Ado About Nothing, for colored girls…\u00a0<\/em>Film\/Television: Academy Award-winning\u00a0Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,<\/em>\u00a0Emmy Award-winning\u00a0\u201cJesus Christ Superstar Live.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Ms. Brown choreographed the critically acclaimed\u00a0Porgy and Bess<\/em>\u00a0for The Metropolitan Opera and this September became the first Black woman director for the main stage at the MET with\u00a0Fire Shut Up In My Bones.\u00a0<\/em>Brown is the founder and\u00a0Artistic Director of Camille A. Brown & Dancers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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