DCT MAINSTAGE 2008
Diverse City Theater Presents NOON DAY SUN
by NEA-Honoree and Recipient of AUDELCO
August Wilson Playwriting Award Cassandra Medley
Obie Award WinnerRon Cephas Jones (Two Trains Running, Jesus Hopped the A Train)
Helen Hayes Award Winner Gin Hammond (The Syringa Tree)
Melanie Nicholls-King (HBO's The Wire, How She Move)
Film and Television Star Michael McGlone (Brothers McMullen, The Kill Point)
Directed by Gregory Simmons
COMING AUGUST 2008
WINNER OF THE THEATREFEST AWARD FOR BEST PLAY
Cassandra Medley's NOON DAY SUN
directed by Gregory Simmons
Starring Penelope Darcel*, Gin Hammond*, Ron Cephas Jones*, Melanie Nicholls King*, Michael McGlone and David Newer*
Wendy, whose secret birth name is “Zena,” is a negro-identified woman who is passing for white. Suddenly, on a “white hot day in August,” she crosses paths with her black husband from the past. NEA-honoree and recipient of the Audelco August Wilson Award, playwright Cassandra Medley explores race, identity and the UNIVERSAL resonance of "passing."
*appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association
August 14 – 30, 2008 at 8:00PM
The Beckett Theatre at THEATRE ROW
410 West 42nd Street (between 9th & 10th Avenues)
Producer: Natasha Marco
Set & Lighting Design: Maruti Evans (2-Time Drama Desk Nominee)
Sound Design: Elizabeth Rhodes
Costume Design: Arnulfo Maldonado (Princess Grace Award Recipient 2008)
Production Stage Manager: Kathryn "China" Hayzer
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About Diverse City Theater Company
Diverse City Theater Co. Inc., is an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization-run by artist playwrights, directors and actors - that focuses on promoting diversity and multiculturalism in the theater arts. Its mission is to commission, develop and produce powerful and though-provoking original plays that explore and examine diversity issues in our national culture, create multiculturally fluent theater audiences and advocate the non-traditional casting of actors.
Formed in 2003, Diverse City Theater Co., Inc. is based in New York City. For more information, visit the organization's website at www.diversecitytheater.org.
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