Show

BAD KREYÒL

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.

CONTENT WARNING: This production involves the smoking of herbal cigarettes.

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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.