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MERRY WIVES - Free SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK

MERRY WIVES
By William Shakespeare
Adjusted byJocelyn Bioh
Directed bySaheem Ali

Featuring Abena,Gbenga Akinnagbe, Pascale Armand, MaYaa Boateng , Phillip James Brannon, Brandon E. Burton, Joshua Echebiri,Angela Grovey, Branden Lindsay, Zonya Dearest, Jarvis D. Matthews,Jacob Ming-Trent, Jennifer Mogbock, Julian Rozzell Jr., Kyle Scatliffe, David Ryan Smith,and Sarin Monae Westward

Nosotros're thrilled to return to Central Park this summer for Free Shakespeare in the Park get-goJuly 6 throughSeptember xviii, withMERRY WIVES, a fresh and joyous accommodation byJocelyn Bioh of Shakespeare'south The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by our Acquaintance Artistic Director and Resident DirectorSaheem Ali.

Set in South Harlem, amidst a vibrant and eclectic community of West African immigrants, MERRY WIVES is a New York story virtually tricks of the center, performed in the heart of the City—Central Park's magical Delacorte Theater. A raucous spinoff featuring the Bard's most beloved comic characters, this hilarious farce tells the story of the trickster Falstaff and the wily wives who outwit him in a new commemoration of Blackness joy, laughter, and vitality.

We are proud to honor and celebrate the humans of New York's incredible civic communities as we finally return and gather together over again. Equally we begin performances and throughout the flavour, join united states in thanking our essential workers and all of the incredible people that make New York City the all-time city in the world. Y'all fill The Delacorte with joy and give information technology life.

• Celebrating Essential Workers: July 6 – July x
• The civic of Manhattan: July 12 – July 17
• The borough of Brooklyn: July 19 – July 24
• The borough of theBronx: July 26 – July 31
• The borough of Queens: Aug 2 – Aug seven
• The neighborhood of Harlem: Aug nine – Aug 14
• The borough of Staten Island: Aug 16 – Aug 21

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• Learn more near the process and purpose of adapting Merry Wives with Playwright Jocelyn Bioh, Dialect Coach Dawn-Elin Fraser, and BIPOC Critics Lab writer Brittani Samuel

Abena

ABENA( Anne Page ). From NJ, Abena is an actor/vocalist of dual Ghanaian and African-American descent. She originated and reprised the role of Nana in School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (MCC Theater, Center Theatre Group; Drama Desk Special Honor). Vocalizer of the Royalton Resorts theme song, "Royalton Life." AMDA graduate. Abena is besides a former Disney Cruise mainstage vocalist. Additional NYC credits: Goddess (MCC SongLab/NYSAF), Engagement With God (The Playwrights Realm), Ragtime (Ellis Island), How the Light Gets In - Water is Life (NYMF). TV: "Orange is the New Black," "Daredevil," "The Other 2," "Celebs Have Issues," and "FBI." Instagram: @abenadryl

Gbenga Akinnagbe

GBENGA AKINNAGBE (Mister Nduka Ford) starred equally Tom Robinson in the original bandage of To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway. Additional theater credits include Fulfillment and Lower Ninth (The Flea), The Thin Place (Intiman), and A View from 151st Street (The Public). Boob tube: "The Former Man" (upcoming), "Wu-Tang: An American Saga," "The Deuce," "The Post-obit," "24," "The Adept Wife," "Damages," "Nurse Jackie," and "The Wire." Film: The Sun Is Also a Star, All the Devil'southward Men, Crown Heights, Detroit, Independence Day two, Edge of Darkness, and The Taking of Pelham 123 . Akinnagbe is the founder of Liberated People, a social justice lifestyle brand, and he recently sold his original pilot "Lewisburg" to NBC.

Pascale Armand

PASCALE ARMAND(Madam Ekua Page ). Broadway: Eclipsed by Danai Gurira (2016 Tony nominee, Best Operation by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play) and The Trip to Bountiful with the late great Cicely Tyson. Film/TV: "Prodigal Son," "The Blacklist," "Curiosity'southward Agents of Southward.H.I.Due east.L.D.," "Law & Society: Criminal Intent." Core member of Quick Silvery Theater Company (QSTC). NYU Graduate Acting Program alumna. Every bit of 2018, Armand expanded her artistry into writing. During the pandemic, her passion project—developing her i-adult female show, $#!thole Land Clapback —resulted in a virtual reading available on YouTube. www.pascalearmand.com .

MaYaa Boateng

MAYAA BOATENG( Fenton/Simple ) is a proud daughter of Due west African immigrants. She returns to Shakespeare in the Park later being featured in The Public's Julius Caesar , directed by Oskar Eustis. Boateng was last seen starring in Jackie Sibblies Drury's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fairview (Theatre for a New Audience). Other notable theatre credits include Lynn Nottage's Fabulation, or The Reeducation of Undine (Signature Theatre); Fairview (Soho Rep); Practiced Men Wante d (New York Stage & Motion picture). On screen credits include "Orangish is the New Black" (Netflix), "City on a Hill" (Showtime), and the culminating episode of Season iv of "High Maintenance" (HBO). Education: NYU Graduate Interim, MFA.

Phillip James Brannon

PHILLIP JAMES BRANNON( Pastor Evans ). The Public: Shipwreck, Tiny Cute Things, ToasT . Broadway: JUNK (Lincoln Center). Off-Broadway: Toni Stone (Roundabout); Log Cabin, BootyCandy (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award); The Antipodes (Signature Theatre); The City of Conversation (Lincoln Eye); Nat Turner in Jerusalem, Beloved and Information, Belleville (NYTW); We Are Proud… (Soho Rep). Regional: Williamstown, Steppenwolf, Huntington, Chicago Shakespeare, Goodman, Kansas City Rep, Woolly Mammoth, The Wilma, Court Theatre. TV/Film: Roscoe on "Servant," "The Sinner," "The Blacklist," "The Skilful Fight," "Elementary," "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," "Police force & Order: SVU," Contagion . Training: DePaul University.

Brandon Due east. Burton

BRANDON East. BURTON( Ensemble ) is a St.Louis, MO, native and a recent graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where he won the prestigious Herschel Williams Prize awarded to the top thespian of the grade. Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth , Richard Two, Antony and Cleopatra . Yale Theater: Othello (Othello); Henry Half dozen, Office 3 (York, George, Bona); Marty and the Hands That Could (Mike Coin). Yale Rep: A Raisin in the Lord's day (Bobo).

Joshua Echebiri

JOSHUA ECHEBIRI( Slender/Pistol ). Pittsburgh Public Theatre: Romeo Northward Juliet (virtual); Williamstown Theatre Festival: A Raisin in the Sunday , Something Happens for Joe , Soft . TV: He will next be seen recurring on flavor v of "The Proficient Fight" on Paramount+. BA: Dartmouth College. MFA: NYU Graduate Acting. @joshuaechebiri. world wide web.joshuaechebiri.com .

Angela Grovey

ANGELA GROVEY (Mama Rapidly). A very proud native Texan who has learned to cover the common cold, Grovey is proud to exist making her Shakespeare in the Park debut with this beautiful company. Broadway: Escape to Margaritaville, Leap of Faith. National Bout: The Play That Goes Wrong (Annie),Newsies (Medda). Coming up: Master (Netflix), "Modernistic Beloved" (Amazon). TV/ Motion-picture show: "Monsterland" (Amazon), "The Blacklist" (NBC), "Loftier Maintenance" (HBO), "Ray Donavan" (Outset), "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" (Netflix), "Fe Fist" (Netflix), Joyful Noise (Warner Bros), "thirty Rock" (NBC), "The Unusuals" (ABC). Some of the theaters Grovey has danced across: Irish Rep, City Center Encores, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Vineyard, Papermill, Goodspeed. @angelagrovey

Branden Lindsay

BRANDEN LINDSAY ( Ensemble ) is a southern gentleman born and raised in Greenville, SC. He received his BA from William Carey Academy in Hattiesburg, MS, and recently completed his MFA at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Lindsay has worked with some incredible directors such as Brandon Dirden, Tazewell Thompson, and Stevie Walker-Webb. He was also a part of the Nate Parker Motion picture Institute where their motion picture Baggage was screened at The Pan African Pic Festival. Lindsay is looking forward to celebrating Black joy and being a part of a historical return to the Park.

Zonya Love

ZONYA LOVE (Ensemble). Broadway: The Color Majestic (Celie). Off-Broadway & First National Tour: Artery Q. Regional: The Devil's Music at Milwaukee Rep, Dreamgirls at Theater Under the Stars,

Lights Out: Nat King Cole at People's Light & The Geffen Playhouse, The Parchman 60 minutes at The Guthrie

, Sis Human activity, The Wiz, and Kiss Me Kate at Broadway at Sacramento. Plays: Emma and Max,Intimate Apparel. Television: "Balderdash," "Blue Bloods," "Blast," "The David Letterman Bear witness." Love is an active fellow member of BOLD and Broadway Inspirational Voices.

Jarvis D. Matthews

JARVIS D. MATTHEWS ( Ensemble ). Regional: Soft, Tempo (Williamstown); uber everywhere (National Blackness Theatre); Fences (Jamaica PAC); The Flying Dutchman (McCarter). Film: A Cakewalk (GARAGE Magazine & GUCCI), Gabriela, En Route .

Jacob Ming-Trent

JACOB MING-TRENT ( Falstaff ). Most recently seen in The Forty-Twelvemonth-Old Version (Netflix) and R#J (Sundance). TV: starred in the serial "White Famous" (Showtime), played Panda in "Watchmen" (HBO), "Ray Donovan" season half dozen (Beginning), "Feed the Fauna" (AMC), etc. Moving-picture show: Starred in the reboot of SuperFly (Sony), The Possession of Hanna Grace (Screen Gems), etc. Upcoming: "Only Murders in the Building" opposite Steve Martin and Martin Short (Hulu) and "Wu-Tang: An American Saga" (Hulu). Broadway: Hands on a Hardbody and Shrek The Musical . Several Off-Broadway productions, including Male parent Comes Home From the Wars... , for which he earned a Lortel Accolade for Best Supporting Thespian.

Jennifer Mogbock

JENNIFER MOGBOCK (Madam Nkechi Ford ). Regional: As You Similar It (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ); Dear's Labour'southward Lost , Antony And Cleopatra , Hamlet (Stratford Festival). Contempo film credits include Sultana's Dream (Magic Spell Studios), Stratford Hard disk (Melbar Amusement Grouping). TV: "Designated Survivor" (ABC), "Conviction" (ABC). MFA: NYU Graduate Acting. www.jennifermogbock.com .

Julian Rozzell Jr.

JULIAN ROZZELL, JR. ( Shallow ). Theater includes: Hagrid in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ; Begetter Comes Home from the Wars… (The Public/Mark Taper Forum); The Piano Lesson ( Arden Theater); The Total Bent (The Public); Decease of the Concluding Black Human being…, Venus ( Signature Theater); Measure out for Measure out (Hipgnosis Theater). Television includes: "Curiosity's Luke Cage," "The Blacklist," "Law & Order," "Broad City," "Boardwalk Empire," "Loftier Maintenance," "Bull," "Person of Interest." Film includes: Otherhood, The Breaks, The Price of Silence, Peter Grass is Dead, and as Samson Finch in Red Dead Redemption II. Rozzell has performed voice-overs and commercials, notably in the "Rhythm is a Dancer" TD Banking company commercial.

Kyle Scatliffe

KYLE SCATLIFFE ( Mister Kwame Folio ) is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Broadway: The Color Royal, Les Misérables, Hamilton, To Kill a Mockingbird . West Finish: The Scottsboro Boys (Olivier Honour nomination). Tour: Hamilton . Off-Broadway: Equally You Similar It, Big River (City Eye Encores!). Regional: Ragtime (ZACH Theatre), Oklahoma! (5th Avenue Theatre). Telly credits include "Bull," "Chicago P.D.," and "A Christmas Ballad: The Concert" with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

David Ryan Smith

DAVID RYAN SMITH ( Doctor Caius ). Broadway: One Human being, Two Guvnors ; Passing Foreign . Off-Broadway: Where We Stand (Women's Project); Passage (Soho Rep); The Death of the Last Black Man... (Signature); Mankind (Playwrights Horizons); A Midsummer Night'southward Dream, Henry 5, 12th Dark, Romeo and Juliet, The One-act of Errors, Pericles (Public Theater); Gone Missin thou (Encores); The Glory of the World (BAM); Marat/Sade (Classical Theater of Harlem). Regional: Repertory Theater of Saint Louis, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Barrington Stage, American Solarium Theater, Dallas Theater Center, California Shakespeare Theater, among others. Movie: The Amazing Spider-Human being 2, Medal of Victory, Bee Flavor .

Sarin Monae W

SARIN MONAE Westward(Ensemble).  RedBull Theater: Romeo and Juliet (virtual). Recent directors include: Whitney White, Brandon Dirden, Michele Shay, Arin Arbus. Upcoming: Mia MIA (La MaMa). BFA: Oklahoma City University. MFA: NYU Graduate Acting. @sarinmonae world wide web.sarinmonae.com

JOCELYN BIOH ( Accommodation ) is an award-winning Ghanaian-American author/performer from New York City. Her written works for theatre include Nollywood Dreams at MCC Theater, which is currently postponed due to COVID-19; GODDESS , a musical, which will take its world premiere at Berkeley Rep in 2022; and the multi-award-winning School Girls; Or The African Mean Girls Play, which was originally produced at MCC Theater in 2017/2018 and has gone on to have over 20 regional productions. She is a sometime Tow Playwriting Young man (2017) and has been commissioned by MTC, Atlantic Theater Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Second Stage.

SAHEEM ALI ( Director ) is a proud immigrant from Kenya. He is the Associate Creative Director/Resident Director of The Public Theater. Recent productions include Romeo y Julieta , Richard 2, 12th Night (The Public); Shipwreck (The Public, Woolly Mammoth); Fires in the Mirror (Signature Theater); The Rolling Stone (Lincoln Middle Theater); The New Englanders, Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC); Passage (Soho Rep); Fireflies (Atlantic Theater Company); Dangerous House , Where Some Storms Are Born (Williamstown Theater Festival); Tartuffe (Playmakers Rep); Kill Motility Paradise (National Blackness Theater); Nollywood Dreams (Cherry Lane); and Dot (Detroit Public Theater). He has workshopped new plays at Playwrights Horizons, Playwrights Realm, MCC, New York Stage & Film, Folio 73, and The Lark. He is a Usual Doubtable at New York Theater Workshop, Sir John Gielgud SDCF Fellow, and Shubert Boyfriend.

BEOWULF BORITT ( Scenic Design ). The Public: Much Ado About Nothing, Coriolanus, Emergence-See!, Tales of an Urban Indian, Venice . Broadway: 23 shows including Act One (Tony Award), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony nomination), Th érèse Raquin (Tony nomination), Come From Away , Freestyle Love Supreme , Exist More Chill , The New One , Bernhardt/Hamlet , Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale , Prince Of Broadway , Hand To God , Sondheim On Sondheim, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee , LoveMusik , and On The Town . Off-Broadway: 100 shows including The Last V Years, Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish), Sleepwalk With Me , and Miss Julie . 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence.

DEDE AYITE (Costume Pattern) is a 2-time Tony nominated costume designer. Broadway credits include A Soldier'south Play, Slave Play, American Son, and Children of a Lesser God. Select Off-Broadway: The Secret Life of Bees, Marie and Rosetta (Atlantic); By The Style, Meet Vera Stark (Signature); BLKS, Schoolhouse Girls… (MCC); Bella: An American Tall Tale (Playwrights Horizons); The Royale (Lincoln Eye); Toni Rock (Roundabout). Regionally, Ayite'southward work has appeared at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Steppenwolf, Arena Stage, and more.  She has worked in television with Netflix, Comedy Fundamental, and FOX Shortcoms. MFA: Yale Schoolhouse of Drama. Awards: Obie, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Theatre Bay Expanse, and Jeff Awards; four Drama Desk nominations.

JIYOUN CHANG ( Lighting Pattern ). The Public: for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. Broadway: Slave Play. Off-Broadway: Anatomy of A Suicide, Eddie and Dave (Atlantic); Marys Seacole, Plot Points in Our Sexual Development, brownsville song (LCT3); Sojourners, Her Portmanteau (NYTW); Something Make clean, Too Heavy For Your Pocket, Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout); BAM, MCC, Signature, Guggenheim, Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes, Guthrie, The Sometime World, OSF, Studio Theatre. Falstaff Award 2012 ( Troilus and Cressida ). Nominations: Tony, Drama Desk-bound, Theatre Bay Area, Henry Hewes Pattern Awards. Obie Award in special commendation. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

KAI HARADA ( Co-Sound Blueprint ). The Public: Soft Power , Public Works' Hercules , Fun Home . Broadway: Head Over Heels , The Band'south Visit (Tony, Drama Desk Awards), Amélie , Dominicus in the Park with George , Allegiance , Gigi , Fun Home , On the Town , First Date , Follies (Tony, Drama Desk-bound nominations), Million Dollar Quartet . Other piece of work: LA Opera, A.R.T., Kennedy Center, City Center, Portland Opera, fifth Avenue, and others. Education: Yale University.

PALMER HEFFERAN ( Co-Audio Design ). The Public: shadow/state , Shipwreck , Wild Goose Dreams. Broadway: Chiliad Horizons (2nd Phase), The Lifespan of a Fact (Studio 54). Off-Broadway: Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA); Marys Seacole (LCT3); BLKS , Collective Rage , Amuse , School Girls… (MCC Theater ); The New Englanders , Sugar in Our Wounds, Important Hats… (MTC); Something Clean , Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout); Fabulation..., Decease of the Last Blackness Man… (Signature Theatre); Friend Art (Second Stage); Samara , Defection. She Said. Defection Over again. (Soho Rep); Today Is My Birthday (P73). Awards: 2019 Obie Accolade for Sustained Excellence in Audio Design, 2018 and 2020 Henry Hewes Awards.

MICHAEL THURBER ( Composer ) is an NYC-based composer/bassist/performer. He has composed scores for The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Public, MTC, and Atlantic Theater. His new musical GODDESS will take its globe premiere this wintertime at Berkley Rep in CA. Past Public Theater productions include Mobile Unit's 12th Night , for which he wrote the music and played the office of Antonio. Thurber co-founded CDZA, a YouTube music collective (xl million views) which headlined at the YouTube Music Awards aslope Lady Gaga and Arcade Fire. Thurber was the bassist on "The Tardily Testify with Stephen Colbert" and sits on the Board of NPR's From the Top . Education: Juilliard, Interlochen Arts Academy.

FARAI MALIANGA(Original Pulsate Compositions/Musician). Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Malianga began his career in African Dance in Colorado with Leticia Williams' Harambee and Musical Managing director Judy "Fatu" Henderson. Upon arriving in New York, he began studying dance and drum with pioneers Yousouf Koumbasa, Mbemba Bangoura, and Ronald K. Brown. He has performed with Chuck Davis in BAM'due southDance Africa, Reginald Yates, Heritage O.P., Harambee, Umoja, The New Jersey Chamber Orchestra, Obediah Wrights Rest, BSRC, Def Dance Jam, Juxtapower, Opus, Camille A. Brown, Christal Brown, Joya Powell, and Beatrice Capote. He performedDarker Faces of the EarthOff-Broadway and on Broadway inFela! Recently, he composed for trip the light fantastic toe films likeBlackness Stains with Tiffany Rhynard.

ROCÍO MENDEZ ( Fight Director ) is an award-winning actor, fight and intimacy director, and a proud New Yorker committed to building confidence in brown and Black girls through storytelling. Mendez has done multiple contained films showcasing their talents in martial arts and comedy. Mendez has worked with a range of theaters nationally including Atlantic Theater Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and Classical Theater of Harlem, amongst the many. Mendez has been nominated for multiple awards for their work in fight choreography and motion. Mendez is a team fellow member of Unkle Dave's Fight-Firm  – a collective of fight/intimacy/motility directors. www.rociomendez.com

DARRELL Thou MOULTRIE ( Choreographer ). A recipient of the Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship Award and a graduate of The Juilliard School, Moultrie's credits include Invisible Thread (2nd Stage), Daddy (The New Group/Vineyard Theatre), Carbohydrate in Our Wounds (MTC), Witness Uganda (A.R.T.), Redwood (Portland Eye Stage), Evita (Kansas City Rep), El Publico (Teatro Real Madrid).Moultrie has choreographed premieres for dance companies across the earth, select works include "Ounce of Faith" (The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre) "Vessels" (Dance Theatre of Harlem.), "Indestructible Light" (American Ballet Theatre).

COOKIE Hashemite kingdom of jordan (Wigs, Makeup and Hair Design). Broadway: In one case on This Island; Sunday in the Park with George; In Transit; Eclipsed; Side Show; Later on Midnight; Fela!; A View From the Bridge. Off-Broadway: In the Blood, The Death of the Last Black Human being in the Whole Entire Earth (Signature Theatre); Public Works' Hercules, Own't No Mo', Mlima'due south Tale (The Public); A Midsummer's Night Dream, 12th Night (The Public'southward Shakespeare in the Park). Tours: Fela! (national and European tours); Dirty Dancing. Goggle box: Emmy-nominated for makeup blueprint, "The Wiz Live!" (NBC).

NARDA E. ALCORN (Production Stage Manager).Professor and Chair of the stage direction department at Yale School of Drama, Alcorn has been head of stage management for NYU, DePaul, and SUNY Purchase. On Broadway, Alcorn premiered four Baronial Wilson plays and stage-managed 2 Broadway revivals of his piece of work. Alcorn was a stage manager on The Lion King on Broadway for several years and both revivals of A Raisin in the Sun. With co-author Lisa Porter, Alcorn has written the book, Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Exercise: Cultivating a Artistic Approach, and the HowlRound essay, "We Commit to Anti-racist Phase Management Education."

BENJAMIN E. C. PFISTER ( Stage Manage r). The Public Theater: Much Ado About Nix and As You Similar Information technology at The Delacorte Theater. Yale Repertory Theater: Imogen Says Zero. Broadway credits include Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel (Imperial Theater); Choir Boy (Samuel J. Friedman Theater); The Rose Tattoo and A Soldier's Play (American Airlines Theater). MFA Graduate and Lecturer in the Stage Direction Department at The Yale School of Drama.

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