Brotherhood in particular, and manhood in general, receive a searing look in Suzan-Lori Parks complex and powerful Topdog/Underdog, which enjoys the intense, penetrating exploration it warrants in Lori Elizabeth Parquets engrossing production for Princeton Summer Theater[Lori Elizabeth] Parquets staging masterfully combines the genuine with the theatrical. They are that attuned to each other and their characters. Neal Zoren, U.S.1, Princeton Summer Theater is concluding its 2019 season with a gripping production of Topdog/Underdog. Manhattan in HBOs groundbreaking series,Watchmen. Her adaptation ofThe Gershwins Porgy and Besswon the 2012 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. I'm trying not to lose my head.
In 2018, the play was named The Greatest American Play of the Past 25 Years by The New York Times. If you are having trouble reaching us by phone, please send us an email with your phone number and someone will contact you as soon as possible. Kamra Jacobs will be the Production Stage Manager. He is forever in endless gratitude and debt to his mother and grandmother for their endless love and support. What a beautiful opportunity to share this work with new audiences. She made her international debut performing in Pillars of Society at Teater Ibsen in Skien, Norway.
Hawkinsalsostarred in the Quibi series,Survive, opposite Sophie Turner, for which heearned a 2020 Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. Broadway: A Soldiers Play; American Son; Children of a Lesser God; Holler If Ya Hear Me; A Raisin in the Sun; The Mountaintop; Stick Fly; August Wilsons Fences, Gem of the Ocean and Radio Golf. SUZAN-LORI PARKS is the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an award she received in 2002 for TOPDOG/UNDERDOG. Im grateful and thrilled, said SUZAN-LORI PARKS. And doing the show with Kenny, Yahya and Corey thats icing on the gravy, baby!. And, wow, how many writers get to be here for a Broadway revival of their work?
We will not stop. Everybody else has to hyphenate.- Toni Morrison.
Born in New Orleans and raised in Oakland, California, Yahya is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where he received the prestigious Herschel Williams Prize.
This unprecedented distinction was awarded unanimously by a special panel of critics convened to examine and rank the most important plays written and produced in the previous 25 years. They can not erase us. - Vicki Weisfeld, The Front Row Center, Princeton residents should take note of the incubator of talent residing in Hamilton Murray Theater each summer under the auspices of Princeton Summer Theater.
As well as the cast and crew. I am standing with my hat in the air., A writer who crosses cultural boundaries, as well as social ones, she has had her work produced everywhere, from the smallest avant-garde stages to Broadway. ; The Wiz Live! The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Masterpiece Returns to Broadway, Strictly Limited Engagement on Broadway This Fall, Suzan-Lori Parks is a remarkable playwright. It makes me wonder how I keep from going under". Educated at LaGuardia Arts High School and goinginto his senior at SUNY Purchases acting conservatory this fall. YAHYA ABDUL-MATEENIIis well known for his Emmy Award-winning performance as Cal Abar/Dr. Other film credits includeMichael Bays6 Underground,opposite Ryan Reynolds and Melanie Laurent;Christoph Waltzs directorial debut,Georgetown, opposite Waltz, Annette Bening, and Vanessa Redgrave;as civil rights leader Stokley Carmichael in Spike LeesBlackkklansman;Kong: Skull Islandopposite Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, John Goodman, and Samuel L. Jackson;Universal PicturesNon-Stop;Winters Tale for Warner Bros.; and Marvel StudiosIron Man 3. Her latest work, Plays for the Plague Year, is currently in performance at The Public Theater. Princeton Summer Theater |princetonsummertheater@gmail.com |, Mail: PO Box 183 |Princeton NJ 08542 || Performances: Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University, 08544, The Real Inspector Hound//The Actor's Nightmare. Named amongTimeMagazines 100 Innovators for the Next Wave, Suzan-Lori Parks other plays include:The Book of Grace;Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Musical;Venus(1996 OBIE Award);The Death of the LastBlack Man in the Whole Entire World;Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom(1990 OBIE Award, Best New American Play);The America Play;and Fucking A. He has been honored by theCritics Choice AssociationsCelebration of Black Cinemawith the Breakthrough Award in Feb 2021, made the HuffPosts 2020 Culture Shifters list, and in 2018, was one of a select group of actors to make the prestigiousThe Hollywood Reporters NextGen list.
Off-Broadway: The Underlying Chris, Everybodys Ruby, Emergence-See! In this country American means white. He recently starred in Michael BaysAmbulance,opposite Jake Gyllenhaal;inThe Matrix Resurrections, led by original director/writer Lana Wachowski; and in the Jordan Peele-producedCandymanfor MGM/Universal. Widely considered one of the most adventurous playwrights of her generation, SUZAN-LORI PARKS has received a MacArthur Genius Award, been declared a Master Dramatist by PEN America and received a Steinberg Award for Distinguished American Playwriting. Both a vivid, present-tense family portrait and an endlessly reverberating allegory, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG plies the fine theatrical art of deception to convey the dangers of role-playing in a society in which race is a performance and prison. Ben Brantley, The New York Times, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG explores the multiple layers of sibling competition and intimacy -- all that love wrapped in hate wrapped in love. Lori Elizabeth Parquet (Director) is an actor, director, and playwright from New Orleans, Louisiana with a B.A.
In 2020 he co-starred amongst an all-star cast in Aaron Sorkin'sThe Trial of the Chicago 7, in which he played Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale.
Travis would like to thank all of the crew who made this production possible and Lori and Nathaniel for making this process worth while. Widely considered one of the most adventurous playwrights of her generation, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks Coming to Broadway Fall 2022. in Theatre Arts from Cornell University. Her voice is both idiosyncratic and eerily familiar, one of few in the popular theatre to fully exploit the power of spoken Black English.- Hilton Als, The New Yorker, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG is as exciting as any new play from a young American since Tony Kushners Angels in America. Yahya recently launched his production company, House Eleven10. An accomplished screenwriter, she has collaborated with Spike Lee (Girl 6), Rashid Johnson (Native Son) and Oprah Winfrey (Their Eyes Were Watching God). Author: Take You Wherever You Go.
Travis Raeburn (Booth) was born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens. She also performed in The Providence of Neighboring Bodies at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2018. Credits include Netflix featureFirst Match (Jamal), Amazon Primes Civic Mind (Antonio),and The Odyssey(Prince of Phaeacians) at The Delacorte Theater.
(New York, NY, June 14, 2022) SUZAN-LORI PARKS Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG, will return to Broadway this Fall in a 20th Anniversary Production, directed by Tony Award-winner KENNY LEON and starring Tony Award-nominee COREY HAWKINS (In the Heights, The Tragedy of Macbeth) and Emmy Award-winner YAHYA ABDUL-MATEEN II (Watchmen, Candyman) as brothers Lincoln and Booth. Haunted by the past and their obsession with the street con game, three-card monte, the brothers come to learn the true nature of their history.
The production will officially open on Thursday, October 20th. Tickets will go on sale at Telecharge.com on Monday, June 20th, Juneteenth National Independence Day. PLEASE NOTE: Our new telephone number is (609) 359-2309. Donald H. Sanborn III, Town Topics, "Four Stars!" Shubert Organization 234 West 44th St New York, NY 10036, A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, The strictly limited 16-week engagement will begin previews on Tuesday, September 27, A Tony Award nominee for his 2017 performance in John Guares. Television: Colin in Black & White; 4400; Amend: The Fight for America; American Son (adapted for Netflix); Hairspray Live!
Recently named by the New York Times as The Greatest American Play since Angels in America, Topdog/Underdog follows two black brothers trying to make a living as a card hustler and a performer in an arcade. KENNY LEON is a Tony Award winning director who also has been honored with The Actors Fund Medal of Honor, an Obie Award and an NAACP Image Award. Last but not least to all the black bodies from the motherland to across the world who are over looked. Other film and television credits includeAquaman opposite JasonMomoa for DC Comics and Warner Bros.;First Match, based on an award-winning script by Olivia Newman(Audience Award at SXSW); the Striking Vipers episode ofBlack Mirror; Jordan PeelesUs;The Greatest Showmanopposite Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, and Zendaya for Twentieth Century Fox; Sony Pictures ClassicsBoundaries; The Handmaids Tale; Baywatch;NetflixsAll Day and a Night; Sweetness in the Bellyopposite Dakota Fanning(2019 Toronto International Film Festival); and Baz Luhrmanns television series for Netflix,The Get Down. Next up he will be reprising his roleasBlackMantainAquaman and the Lost Kingdomin theaters March 2023. He also starred as Benny inJon M. Chus feature film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Mirandas TonyAward-winningmusical,In The Heights. You half want them to create a team and travel together doing play after play. Frequently involvement becomes so great, and matters so natural, its easy to forget a play, rather than a scene from life, is taking placeByplay between [Nathaniel J.] He would like to thank his friends, and family. Hawkins is a graduate of The Juilliard Schools drama program and is a recipient of the prestigious John Houseman Prize, given to one Juilliard student that has demonstrated exceptional ability in classical theater. Its soul is nourished by the sad, shared loneliness and disappointment of this Black latter-day Booth and Lincoln, so named by their long-vanished father. Peter Marks, The Washington Post, In TOPDOG/UNDERDOG history screams and bleeds in this work of Parks as intensely as ever. Alisa Solomon, The Village Voice, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG is demandingly smart, dark and resonant an intense examination of whos up/whos down tension, her fascination with questions of black/white, older brother/younger brother, freedom/slavery, and family myth past/reality present. Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly. In addition to winning The Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Topdog/Underdog, she has also been a Pulitzer Finalist two additional times for her plays In The Blood and Father Comes Home from the Wars. Upcoming projects includeEmergency Contact,which he is set to star in and executive produce,By Allfor Warner Bros,andThe Scent of Burnt Flowerswith Macro TV, created by Blitz Bazawule. Ryan and [Travis] Raeburn is perfect. This edgy, character-driven drama, which depicts the relationship between two African American brothers, is an apt fit for a season whose mission has been to explore love in all its forms. Princeton Summer Theater ends its season on a high note, thanks to outstanding performances by both of its actors, as well as a distinct unity of script and production. Ontelevision, Hawkins starred as Eric Carter in FOXs24: Legacyopposite Miranda Otto and Jimmy Smits, as well as on thehit showThe Walking Dead. But the play is a more complicated and heartbreaking work. "Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge. Recently, Hawkins portrayed Macduff in Joel CoensThe Tragedy of Macbeth,oppositeDenzel Washington, Frances McDormand, and Brendan Gleeson, among others, for which he receivedthe African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) Award for Best Supporting Actor. Her New York City stage credits include Macbeth, Dispatches From (A)mended America (Off-Broadway, Epic Theatre Ensemble), The Providence of Neighboring Bodies (Dutch Kills Theater/Ars Nova), The Honeycomb Trilogy: Sovereign (Gideon Productions), Medea (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble), Dog Act, Ajax in Iraq, Honey Fist (Flux Theatre Ensemble), and Republic, Baal, Murder In the Cathedral (JACK/Hoi Polloi). He is grateful to be performing at PST, and is extremely excited to be a part of this show. As a director, Lori has assistant directed The Public Theaters most recent Shakespeare in the Park productions of As You Like It, and Twelfth Night.
A Tony Award nominee for his 2017 performance in John GuaresSix Degrees of Separation,COREY HAWKINSmade his Broadway debut as Tybalt in David Leveauxs revival ofRomeo andJulietopposite Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad. Senior Resident Director: Roundabout Theatre Company.
; Steel Magnolias; Dynasty; In My Dreams. Casting is by Calleri Jensen Davis. She is an original whose fierce intelligence, and fearless approach to craft, subvert theatrical convention and produce a mature and inimitable art that is as exciting as it is fresh. Topdog/Underdogwill be his Broadway debut. In 2021, Suzan-Lori Parks saw the premiere of her filmThe United States vs. Billie Holiday(directed by Lee Daniels) and the premiere of her season ofGenius: Aretha Franklin where she served as Writer and Show Runner. SUZAN-LORI PARKS TOPDOG/UNDERDOG will feature scenic design by Arnulfo Maldonado, costume design by Dede Ayite, lighting design by Allen Lee Hughes, and sound design by Justin Ellington. We are here. Parks project365 Days/365 Plays(where she wrote a play a day for an entire year) was produced in over 700 theaters worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots collaborations in theater history. This production is yet another example of the remarkable talent and resources PST assembles to offer a season with scope and variety. - Sarah Vander Schaaff, Broadway World. The production is being produced by David Stone, LaChanze, Rashad V. Chambers, Marc Platt, Debra Martin Chase, and the Shubert Organization. "Im so blessed that TOPDOG is back on Broadway! It's like a jungle sometimes. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, this is a thrilling, darkly comedic exploration of brotherly love and sibling rivalry. She just served as Associate Director of New York City Centers Encores: Off-center production of Maria Irene Fornes Promenade. Nathaniel J. Ryan (Lincoln) is a professional artist from New York who has appeared on 'Blue Bloods', 'Random Acts of Flyness' and many numerous theatre productions. (The Public); Smart People (Second Stage). The strictly limited 16-week engagement will begin previews on Tuesday, September 27th at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street). Artistic Director Emeritus, Kenny Leons True Colors Theatre Company. Mr. Leon is also a proud honoree of the George Abbott Lifetime Achievement in directing for American Theatre.
His breakout filmperformancewasas hip-hop legend Dr. Dre inthe 2015 film,Straight Outta Compton. As a playwright, Lori was selected as one of six featured playwrights for Season Five of the Fire This Time Festival and has had her short plays produced through Flux Theatre Ensemble and New York Madness.
SUZAN-LORI PARKS TOPDOG/UNDERDOG, a darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, tells the story of two brothers, Lincoln (Hawkins) and Booth (Abdul-Mateen II), names given to them as a joke by their father. In addition, when Ben Brantley retired as chief theatre critic for The New York Times, he called TOPDOG/UNDERDOG the best play he reviewed during his tenure. He will be seen as Harpo in the upcoming film adaptation ofThe Color Purple,produced by Quincy Jones, Steven Spielberg, and Oprah Winfrey, and in the lead role in the film,Last Voyage of the Demeter.
In 2018, the play was named The Greatest American Play of the Past 25 Years by The New York Times. If you are having trouble reaching us by phone, please send us an email with your phone number and someone will contact you as soon as possible. Kamra Jacobs will be the Production Stage Manager. He is forever in endless gratitude and debt to his mother and grandmother for their endless love and support. What a beautiful opportunity to share this work with new audiences. She made her international debut performing in Pillars of Society at Teater Ibsen in Skien, Norway.
Hawkinsalsostarred in the Quibi series,Survive, opposite Sophie Turner, for which heearned a 2020 Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. Broadway: A Soldiers Play; American Son; Children of a Lesser God; Holler If Ya Hear Me; A Raisin in the Sun; The Mountaintop; Stick Fly; August Wilsons Fences, Gem of the Ocean and Radio Golf. SUZAN-LORI PARKS is the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an award she received in 2002 for TOPDOG/UNDERDOG. Im grateful and thrilled, said SUZAN-LORI PARKS. And doing the show with Kenny, Yahya and Corey thats icing on the gravy, baby!. And, wow, how many writers get to be here for a Broadway revival of their work?
We will not stop. Everybody else has to hyphenate.- Toni Morrison.
Born in New Orleans and raised in Oakland, California, Yahya is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where he received the prestigious Herschel Williams Prize.
This unprecedented distinction was awarded unanimously by a special panel of critics convened to examine and rank the most important plays written and produced in the previous 25 years. They can not erase us. - Vicki Weisfeld, The Front Row Center, Princeton residents should take note of the incubator of talent residing in Hamilton Murray Theater each summer under the auspices of Princeton Summer Theater.
As well as the cast and crew. I am standing with my hat in the air., A writer who crosses cultural boundaries, as well as social ones, she has had her work produced everywhere, from the smallest avant-garde stages to Broadway. ; The Wiz Live! The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Masterpiece Returns to Broadway, Strictly Limited Engagement on Broadway This Fall, Suzan-Lori Parks is a remarkable playwright. It makes me wonder how I keep from going under". Educated at LaGuardia Arts High School and goinginto his senior at SUNY Purchases acting conservatory this fall. YAHYA ABDUL-MATEENIIis well known for his Emmy Award-winning performance as Cal Abar/Dr. Other film credits includeMichael Bays6 Underground,opposite Ryan Reynolds and Melanie Laurent;Christoph Waltzs directorial debut,Georgetown, opposite Waltz, Annette Bening, and Vanessa Redgrave;as civil rights leader Stokley Carmichael in Spike LeesBlackkklansman;Kong: Skull Islandopposite Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, John Goodman, and Samuel L. Jackson;Universal PicturesNon-Stop;Winters Tale for Warner Bros.; and Marvel StudiosIron Man 3. Her latest work, Plays for the Plague Year, is currently in performance at The Public Theater. Princeton Summer Theater |princetonsummertheater@gmail.com |, Mail: PO Box 183 |Princeton NJ 08542 || Performances: Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University, 08544, The Real Inspector Hound//The Actor's Nightmare. Named amongTimeMagazines 100 Innovators for the Next Wave, Suzan-Lori Parks other plays include:The Book of Grace;Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Musical;Venus(1996 OBIE Award);The Death of the LastBlack Man in the Whole Entire World;Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom(1990 OBIE Award, Best New American Play);The America Play;and Fucking A. He has been honored by theCritics Choice AssociationsCelebration of Black Cinemawith the Breakthrough Award in Feb 2021, made the HuffPosts 2020 Culture Shifters list, and in 2018, was one of a select group of actors to make the prestigiousThe Hollywood Reporters NextGen list. Off-Broadway: The Underlying Chris, Everybodys Ruby, Emergence-See! In this country American means white. He recently starred in Michael BaysAmbulance,opposite Jake Gyllenhaal;inThe Matrix Resurrections, led by original director/writer Lana Wachowski; and in the Jordan Peele-producedCandymanfor MGM/Universal. Widely considered one of the most adventurous playwrights of her generation, SUZAN-LORI PARKS has received a MacArthur Genius Award, been declared a Master Dramatist by PEN America and received a Steinberg Award for Distinguished American Playwriting. Both a vivid, present-tense family portrait and an endlessly reverberating allegory, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG plies the fine theatrical art of deception to convey the dangers of role-playing in a society in which race is a performance and prison. Ben Brantley, The New York Times, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG explores the multiple layers of sibling competition and intimacy -- all that love wrapped in hate wrapped in love. Lori Elizabeth Parquet (Director) is an actor, director, and playwright from New Orleans, Louisiana with a B.A.
In 2020 he co-starred amongst an all-star cast in Aaron Sorkin'sThe Trial of the Chicago 7, in which he played Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale.
Travis would like to thank all of the crew who made this production possible and Lori and Nathaniel for making this process worth while. Widely considered one of the most adventurous playwrights of her generation, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks Coming to Broadway Fall 2022. in Theatre Arts from Cornell University. Her voice is both idiosyncratic and eerily familiar, one of few in the popular theatre to fully exploit the power of spoken Black English.- Hilton Als, The New Yorker, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG is as exciting as any new play from a young American since Tony Kushners Angels in America. Yahya recently launched his production company, House Eleven10. An accomplished screenwriter, she has collaborated with Spike Lee (Girl 6), Rashid Johnson (Native Son) and Oprah Winfrey (Their Eyes Were Watching God). Author: Take You Wherever You Go.
Travis Raeburn (Booth) was born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens. She also performed in The Providence of Neighboring Bodies at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2018. Credits include Netflix featureFirst Match (Jamal), Amazon Primes Civic Mind (Antonio),and The Odyssey(Prince of Phaeacians) at The Delacorte Theater.
(New York, NY, June 14, 2022) SUZAN-LORI PARKS Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG, will return to Broadway this Fall in a 20th Anniversary Production, directed by Tony Award-winner KENNY LEON and starring Tony Award-nominee COREY HAWKINS (In the Heights, The Tragedy of Macbeth) and Emmy Award-winner YAHYA ABDUL-MATEEN II (Watchmen, Candyman) as brothers Lincoln and Booth. Haunted by the past and their obsession with the street con game, three-card monte, the brothers come to learn the true nature of their history.
The production will officially open on Thursday, October 20th. Tickets will go on sale at Telecharge.com on Monday, June 20th, Juneteenth National Independence Day. PLEASE NOTE: Our new telephone number is (609) 359-2309. Donald H. Sanborn III, Town Topics, "Four Stars!" Shubert Organization 234 West 44th St New York, NY 10036, A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, The strictly limited 16-week engagement will begin previews on Tuesday, September 27, A Tony Award nominee for his 2017 performance in John Guares. Television: Colin in Black & White; 4400; Amend: The Fight for America; American Son (adapted for Netflix); Hairspray Live! Recently named by the New York Times as The Greatest American Play since Angels in America, Topdog/Underdog follows two black brothers trying to make a living as a card hustler and a performer in an arcade. KENNY LEON is a Tony Award winning director who also has been honored with The Actors Fund Medal of Honor, an Obie Award and an NAACP Image Award. Last but not least to all the black bodies from the motherland to across the world who are over looked. Other film and television credits includeAquaman opposite JasonMomoa for DC Comics and Warner Bros.;First Match, based on an award-winning script by Olivia Newman(Audience Award at SXSW); the Striking Vipers episode ofBlack Mirror; Jordan PeelesUs;The Greatest Showmanopposite Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, and Zendaya for Twentieth Century Fox; Sony Pictures ClassicsBoundaries; The Handmaids Tale; Baywatch;NetflixsAll Day and a Night; Sweetness in the Bellyopposite Dakota Fanning(2019 Toronto International Film Festival); and Baz Luhrmanns television series for Netflix,The Get Down. Next up he will be reprising his roleasBlackMantainAquaman and the Lost Kingdomin theaters March 2023. He also starred as Benny inJon M. Chus feature film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Mirandas TonyAward-winningmusical,In The Heights. You half want them to create a team and travel together doing play after play. Frequently involvement becomes so great, and matters so natural, its easy to forget a play, rather than a scene from life, is taking placeByplay between [Nathaniel J.] He would like to thank his friends, and family. Hawkins is a graduate of The Juilliard Schools drama program and is a recipient of the prestigious John Houseman Prize, given to one Juilliard student that has demonstrated exceptional ability in classical theater. Its soul is nourished by the sad, shared loneliness and disappointment of this Black latter-day Booth and Lincoln, so named by their long-vanished father. Peter Marks, The Washington Post, In TOPDOG/UNDERDOG history screams and bleeds in this work of Parks as intensely as ever. Alisa Solomon, The Village Voice, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG is demandingly smart, dark and resonant an intense examination of whos up/whos down tension, her fascination with questions of black/white, older brother/younger brother, freedom/slavery, and family myth past/reality present. Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly. In addition to winning The Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Topdog/Underdog, she has also been a Pulitzer Finalist two additional times for her plays In The Blood and Father Comes Home from the Wars. Upcoming projects includeEmergency Contact,which he is set to star in and executive produce,By Allfor Warner Bros,andThe Scent of Burnt Flowerswith Macro TV, created by Blitz Bazawule. Ryan and [Travis] Raeburn is perfect. This edgy, character-driven drama, which depicts the relationship between two African American brothers, is an apt fit for a season whose mission has been to explore love in all its forms. Princeton Summer Theater ends its season on a high note, thanks to outstanding performances by both of its actors, as well as a distinct unity of script and production. Ontelevision, Hawkins starred as Eric Carter in FOXs24: Legacyopposite Miranda Otto and Jimmy Smits, as well as on thehit showThe Walking Dead. But the play is a more complicated and heartbreaking work. "Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge. Recently, Hawkins portrayed Macduff in Joel CoensThe Tragedy of Macbeth,oppositeDenzel Washington, Frances McDormand, and Brendan Gleeson, among others, for which he receivedthe African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) Award for Best Supporting Actor. Her New York City stage credits include Macbeth, Dispatches From (A)mended America (Off-Broadway, Epic Theatre Ensemble), The Providence of Neighboring Bodies (Dutch Kills Theater/Ars Nova), The Honeycomb Trilogy: Sovereign (Gideon Productions), Medea (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble), Dog Act, Ajax in Iraq, Honey Fist (Flux Theatre Ensemble), and Republic, Baal, Murder In the Cathedral (JACK/Hoi Polloi). He is grateful to be performing at PST, and is extremely excited to be a part of this show. As a director, Lori has assistant directed The Public Theaters most recent Shakespeare in the Park productions of As You Like It, and Twelfth Night.
A Tony Award nominee for his 2017 performance in John GuaresSix Degrees of Separation,COREY HAWKINSmade his Broadway debut as Tybalt in David Leveauxs revival ofRomeo andJulietopposite Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad. Senior Resident Director: Roundabout Theatre Company.
; Steel Magnolias; Dynasty; In My Dreams. Casting is by Calleri Jensen Davis. She is an original whose fierce intelligence, and fearless approach to craft, subvert theatrical convention and produce a mature and inimitable art that is as exciting as it is fresh. Topdog/Underdogwill be his Broadway debut. In 2021, Suzan-Lori Parks saw the premiere of her filmThe United States vs. Billie Holiday(directed by Lee Daniels) and the premiere of her season ofGenius: Aretha Franklin where she served as Writer and Show Runner. SUZAN-LORI PARKS TOPDOG/UNDERDOG will feature scenic design by Arnulfo Maldonado, costume design by Dede Ayite, lighting design by Allen Lee Hughes, and sound design by Justin Ellington. We are here. Parks project365 Days/365 Plays(where she wrote a play a day for an entire year) was produced in over 700 theaters worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots collaborations in theater history. This production is yet another example of the remarkable talent and resources PST assembles to offer a season with scope and variety. - Sarah Vander Schaaff, Broadway World. The production is being produced by David Stone, LaChanze, Rashad V. Chambers, Marc Platt, Debra Martin Chase, and the Shubert Organization. "Im so blessed that TOPDOG is back on Broadway! It's like a jungle sometimes. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, this is a thrilling, darkly comedic exploration of brotherly love and sibling rivalry. She just served as Associate Director of New York City Centers Encores: Off-center production of Maria Irene Fornes Promenade. Nathaniel J. Ryan (Lincoln) is a professional artist from New York who has appeared on 'Blue Bloods', 'Random Acts of Flyness' and many numerous theatre productions. (The Public); Smart People (Second Stage). The strictly limited 16-week engagement will begin previews on Tuesday, September 27th at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street). Artistic Director Emeritus, Kenny Leons True Colors Theatre Company. Mr. Leon is also a proud honoree of the George Abbott Lifetime Achievement in directing for American Theatre.
His breakout filmperformancewasas hip-hop legend Dr. Dre inthe 2015 film,Straight Outta Compton. As a playwright, Lori was selected as one of six featured playwrights for Season Five of the Fire This Time Festival and has had her short plays produced through Flux Theatre Ensemble and New York Madness.
SUZAN-LORI PARKS TOPDOG/UNDERDOG, a darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, tells the story of two brothers, Lincoln (Hawkins) and Booth (Abdul-Mateen II), names given to them as a joke by their father. In addition, when Ben Brantley retired as chief theatre critic for The New York Times, he called TOPDOG/UNDERDOG the best play he reviewed during his tenure. He will be seen as Harpo in the upcoming film adaptation ofThe Color Purple,produced by Quincy Jones, Steven Spielberg, and Oprah Winfrey, and in the lead role in the film,Last Voyage of the Demeter.