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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

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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.

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