Spotlight On Creative Team
- Playwright
- Alice Childress
- Director
- Charles Randolph-Wright
- Set Design
- Arnulfo Maldonado
- Costume Design
- Emilio Sosa
- Light Design
- Kathy A. Perkins
- Sound Design
- Dan Moses Schreier
- Hair & Wigs
- Cookie Jordan
- Original Music
- Nona Hendryx
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What is the Show About?
Follow an experienced Black stage actress through rehearsals of a major Broadway production in Alice Childress's wry and moving look at racism, identity, and ego in the world of New York theatre. At the forefront of both the civil rights and feminist movements, the prescient Trouble in Mind opened to acclaim off-Broadway in 1955, and was announced to move to Broadway in 1957...in a production that never came to be.
Where | A Broadway Theatre, New York City |
When | Fall, 1957 |
Who: Meet The Characters
WILETTA MAYER A middle-aged Black actress. |
HENRY An elderly Irish-American doorman. |
JOHN NEVINS A young Black actor who has recently graduated from college. |
MILLIE DAVIS About 35 years old. A Black actress with a flair for fashion. |
JUDY SEARS A young white actress who has recently graduated from Yale Drama School. |
SHELDON FORRESTER An elderly Black character actor. |
AL MANNERS In his early 40s. The play’s director. White. Has been working in Hollywood. |
EDDIE FENTON The stage manager. White. Eager and quick. |
BILL O'WRAY A middle-aged white character actor. |