Show
BAD KREYOL
Written by
Dominique Morisseau
Directed by
Tiffany Nichole Greene
About this Event
Signature Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club Present
A World Premiere Co-Production
Dominique Morisseau completes her Signature residency with this beautiful world premiere production about interrogating cultural identity and global impact. Simone, 1st generation Haitian American, and her cousin Gigi, Haitian born and raised, reunite to honor their grandmother’s dying wish for them to reconnect. Simone’s pilgrimage back to her ancestral homeland forces both cousins to confront their differing world views, the presence of NGOs in Haiti, and the plagued relationship between Haiti and the U.S.
BAD KREYOL is a Co-Production with
Date
10.08.24–12.01.24 / Tue–Sun
Time
7:00–9:00 PM
Location
The Irene Diamond Stage
Residency
Premiere Residency
About the
Playwright
Dominique Morisseau is the author of The Detroit Project (A 3-Play Cycle): Skeleton Crew (Manhattan Theatre Club, Tony Award nomination for Best Play), Paradise Blue (Signature Theatre), and Detroit ’67 (Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem and NBT). Additional plays include Confederates (Signature Theatre), Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater), Sunset Baby (LAByrinth Theatre), Blood at the Root (National Black Theatre), and Follow Me To Nellie’s (Premiere Stages). She is the Tony Award–nominated bookwriter on the Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations (Imperial Theatre) and is currently working on her latest, Hippest Trip - The Soul Train Musical (ACT). TV/Film: Co-Producer on “Shameless” (Showtime), the film adaptation of the documentary STEP (Fox Searchlight), and consultant on the Netflix animated feature, Tunga. Awards include: PoNY Fellowship, TEER Trailblazer Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Audelco Awards, NBFT August Wilson Playwriting Award, Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, OBIE Award (two), Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, one of Variety’s Women of Impact for 2018, and a MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow. In 2022, Dominique was awarded the key to the city by the Mayor of Detroit.
The Cast
Pascale Armand
GIGI
Fedna Jacquet
LOVELIE
Andy Lucien
THOMAS
Kelly McCreary
SIMONE
Jude Tibeau
PITA
Behind the Scenes
Doinique Morisseau: Past Signature Productions
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