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NORM LEWIS (Captain Richard Davenport). Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and SAG Award nominee, Norm Lewis, recently starred in Spike Lee’s critically acclaimed Da 5 Bloods; FX series, Pose and ABC’s newest series, Women of The Movement. His voice can be heard in the latest season of Apple TV’s animated series, Central Park. He was also seen as ‘Caiaphas’ in the award-winning NBC television special, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert! alongside John Legend, Sara Bareilles, and Alice Cooper. His Broadway credits include Chicken and Biscuits at the Circle In The Square Theatre, the revival of Once on This Island, Sondheim on Sondheim, The Little Mermaid, Les Misérables, Chicago, Amour, The Wild Party, Side Show, Miss Saigon, and The Who’s Tommy. In London’s West End, he has appeared as ‘Javert’ in Les Misérables and Les Misérables: The 25th Anniversary Concert, which aired on PBS. Off-Broadway: the title role in Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theatre, receiving the AUDELCO Award for his performance; Dessa Rose (Drama Desk nomination, AUDELCO Award); Shakespeare in the Park’s The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Drama League nominations); Captains Courageous, and A New Brain. He received Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for his performance as ‘Porgy’ in the Broadway production of The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess. In May of 2014, he made history as The Phantom of the Opera’s first African American ‘Phantom’ on Broadway. He has been seen on PBS in the “Live From Lincoln Center” productions of Showboat with Vanessa Williams, Norm Lewis: Who Am I?, New Year’s Eve: A Gershwin Celebration with Diane Reeves, as well as American Voices with Renée Fleming and the PBS Specials First You Dream – The Music of Kander & Ebb and Ella Wishes You A Swingin’ Christmas. He can be seen in the VH1 series, Daytime Divas, also alongside Vanessa Williams. Other television credits include Law & Order, Dr. Death, Mrs. America, Better Things, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Bull, Chicago Med, Gotham, The Blacklist, and Blue Bloods, as well as his recurring role as ‘Senator Edison Davis’ on the hit drama Scandal. His regional credits include ‘Porgy’ in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (A.R.T.), Ragtime, Dreamgirls (with Jennifer Holliday), First You Dream, Sweeney Todd, and The Fantasticks. Additional film credits include Christmas In Tune (starring opposite Reba McEntire), Magnum Opus, Winter’s Tale, Sex and the City 2, and Preaching to the Choir. Norm’s albums The Norm Lewis Christmas Album & This is The Life can be found on Amazon.com as well as cdbaby.com. Mr. Lewis is a proud founding member of Black Theatre United, an organization which stands together to help protect Black people, Black talent and Black lives of all shapes and orientations in theatre and communities across the country.

EUGENE LEE (Sergeant Vernon C. Waters). In 1972, in college, Lee acted in a command performance of A Raisin in the Sun for President Lyndon B. Johnson at his Texas ranch. Fifty years later he’s done television shows and movies, including: The Women of Brewster Place, Good Times, The White Shadow, Wolf (an independent film), the Broadway production of American Son and the Emmy-nominated Netflix film adaptation. He has multiple appearances on stage with the Negro Ensemble Company including the original cast of A Soldier’s Play. He’s a “Wilsonian Warrior” for his work in plays by August Wilson, including Broadway in Gem of the Ocean and How I Learned What I Learned. His TV writing credits include: Homicide: Life on the Streets, Walker, Texas Ranger, and Port Chicago. His plays include: East Texas Hot Links, Fear Itself, Somebody Called, Ode to Juneteenth, Killingsworth, and Lyin’ Ass. Artist in Residence and Artistic Director of the Black and Latino Playwright’s Celebration at Texas State University. Mr. Lee was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2018. eugeneleeonline.com

WILL ADAMS (Corporal Bernard Cobb) recently starred in the film A Holiday in Harlem (Hallmark) and recurred in Tyler Perry’s The Oval (BET). His theatre credits include Skeleton Crew, A Death of a Salesman (Trinity Rep), and Curse of the Starving Class (Williamstown Theatre Festival). MFA: Brown/ Trinity Rep.

BRANDON ALVIÓN (Understudy) is from Newark, NJ. MFA in Acting from Wayne State University 2018. Select credits: Harpo in The Color Purple (2nd Nat’l), Kenny in Chicken & Biscuits (Virginia Rep) and Martin L. King Jr. in The Mountaintop (Hope Rep). Many thanks to the cast, crew, and creatives. Social media: @iactwright

SHELDON D. BROWN (Private C.J. Memphis). Theatre credits include Steppenwolf Theatre, (Choir Boy, Jeff Award-winning), Court Theatre (Man In The Ring); About Face Theatre (Magnolia Ballet) and more. Film/TV screenwriting credits include Cicada (Spirit Award nominated), The Big Leap (FOX). He is represented by Stewart Talent & Innovative Artists.

MALIK ESOJ CHILDS (Private Tony Smalls) is native to the eastside of Detroit, MI. UNC School of the Arts (2019). Recent productions include Exception to the Rule by Dave Harris (Roundabout Theatre Company), soft by Donja R. Love (Williamstown Theater Festival). I am overjoyed to tell stories that celebrate, dismantle, and uplift the people of my community. In honor of Charles Fuller. Excited to share this staple around the country.

JA’QUÁN COLE (Understudy) was raised in Toledo, OH. Dedicated to Lola & Savvya. TV: Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty (HBO), Snowfall (FX), Wu-Tang: An American Saga (Hulu). Graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA). Thanks to God, my family, girlfriend, friends, & my team. @jqcole.

WILLIAM CONNELL (Captain Charles Taylor). INK (MTC), A View From the Bridge (2010 Broadway revival), The Coast of Utopia (LCT), Nureyev’s Eyes (George Street), Alphabetical Order (Keen Co.), Hamlet (Aspen Music Festival), One Man, Two Guvnors (PTC, Berkeley Rep, South Coast Rep). TV/Film: Succession, Bluff City Law, Blindspot, Blacklist, Bull, Smash, Not Fade Away. BFA UNCSA.

CHARLES EVERETT (Understudy) is thrilled to be joining the cast of this iconic play. Favorite theatre credits include King in The Mountaintop (Emerson Theatre Collaborative/Connecticut), Doug in Raft of the Medusa (Barefoot Theatre Company/NYC), and Harry Truman in Convention (Brontosaurus Haircut Productions/NYC). Television: Fleishman is in Trouble, Only Murders in the Building, The Equalizer, FBI: Most Wanted, Bull. Charles is a graduate of Maggie Flanigan Studio in New York City.

ALEX MICHAEL GIVENS (Corporal Ellis). Select Regional Theatre Credits: How to Catch Creation (Geva Theatre Center); The Christians, The Crucible, The Life of Galileo, Sense and Sensibility, My Fair Lady, Skeleton Crew (PlayMakers Repertory Company); Cymbeline, Macbeth, Shakespeare in Love, All’s Well That Ends Well, Richard the Third, King John (Great River Shakespeare Festival).

MATTHEW GOODRICH (Captain Wilcox). Broadway: A Soldier’s Play, All My Sons, The Nance, Picnic. Regional credits include Alabama Shakespeare Festival, TheatreSquared, Florida Repertory Theatre, and Orlando Shakes. Special thanks to Kenny, Mr. Fuller, Jim Carnahan Casting, and Carson Kolker Org. MFA, CalArts. actormatt.com @goodie_grams

CHATTAN MAYES JOHNSON (Lieutenant Byrd) is honored to make his National Tour debut! Regional credits: Newsies (Jack Kelley), Godspell (“All Good Gifts" Disciple). Education: Carnegie Mellon University 2022. Much gratitude to his family, the Roundabout and ASP creative team, and his reps at Gersh and Alchemy!

BRANDEN DAVON LINDSAY (Private Louis Henson) is an actor and Southern gentleman born and raised in Greenville, SC. He is honored to be making his first national tour debut. 2021 graduate from NYU Grad Acting. Recent credits include: Off-Broadway: Merry Wives (Public Theater). Film: The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Apple+). Television: Awkwafina... (Comedy Central), Blue Bloods (CBS), Evil (CBS).

TARIK LOWE (Private First-Class Melvin Peterson) is an actor/writer known for his versatility and dramatic depth. He debuted in Music of the Heart starring Meryl Streep. Film: the Oscar-winning Whiplash, The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete, Pimp and co-writer/star in Supporting Characters, which premiered at Tribeca. TV: One Life to Live, Major Crimes, Blindspot, Outsiders, Law & Order, and Blue Bloods.

AL’JALEEL MCGHEE (Understudy). Chicago-built artist. Currently appears on 61st Street (AMC), Lady in the Lake (Apple+), Power Book IV: FORCE (Starz). Regional: Intimate Apparel, Fireflies (Northlight), Wolf Play (Gift), Graveyard Shift (Goodman, New Stages), Paradise Blue (Timeline), Breach (Victory Gardens), Blues for an Alabama Sky (Court). Northwestern, MFA. Gratitude to the tribe!

HOWARD W. OVERSHOWN (Private James Wilkie). Broadway: The Lehman Trilogy (U/S), Saint Joan, Julius Caesar, A Freeman of Color, A Soldier's Play (U/S). Off-Broadway: Yellowman, The Underlying Chris, Passage, Beauty on the Vine, Cost of Living (U/S). TV/Film: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, girls5eva, Law & Order, Blue Bloods, Fosse/Verdon, The Affair, Pride and Glory, 13, Lost Cat Corona, Body of Lies, Madam Secretary.

ALEX ROSS (Understudy). Broadway: The Book of Mormon (Elder Price Standby). Regional: Dallas Theater Center, Theatre Aspen, Watertower Theatre, Theater Three, Uptown Players. TV/ Film: Logan Lucky, Bull, Law & Order: SVU., NCIS: L.A., Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Queen of the South, The Long Road Home, Revolution. VO: Smite, One Piece, Black Butler. @astanross

CHARLES FULLER 1939-2022 (Playwright). Mr. Fuller received the Dramatists Guild’s Flora Roberts Award for his extensive body of work. Mr. Fuller’s creative efforts involve a wide range of theatre, film and television. He was a member of the Negro Ensemble Company, where his Zooman and the Sign won him an Obie and A Solder’s Play won him a Pulitzer Prize, Best American Play and an Edgar Award. Mr. Fuller’s adaptation of his play became the 1984 film A Soldier’s Story, which was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award and won a Writers Guild of America Award. He has written screenplays for CBS, PBS, and Showtime. He has also mentored young playwrights at Cherry Lane Theatre and was commissioned by Cherry Lane to write a play, One Night, which opened there in 2014. The 2020 Broadway premiere of Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play won the Tony Award for Best Revival at Roundabout Theatre Company and is on national tour starring Norm Lewis. A Soldier’s Play is also being adapted into a limited TV series by Sony Pictures Television.

KENNY LEON (Director) is a Tony Award-winning director who also has been honored with The Actors Fund Medal of Honor, an Obie Award and an NAACP Image Award. Mr. Leon is also a proud honoree of the George Abbott Lifetime Achievement for American Theatre. Broadway: A Soldier’s Play; American Son; Children of a Lesser God; Holler If Ya Hear Me; A Raisin in the Sun; The Mountaintop; Stick Fly; August Wilson’s Fences, Gem of the Ocean, and Radio Golf; Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/ Underdog. Off-Broadway: The Underlying Chris, Everybody’s Ruby, Emergence-See! (The Public); Smart People (Second Stage). Television: Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia; Colin in Black & White; 4400; Amend: The Fight for America; American Son (adapted for Netflix); Hairspray Live!; The Wiz Live!; Steel Magnolias; Dynasty; In My Dreams. Author: Take You Wherever You Go. Artistic Director Emeritus, Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company. Senior Resident Director: Roundabout Theatre Company.

CRISTINA ANGELES (Associate Director) is an Afrolatina theater maker, whose mission is to create community and conversation by directing new work, and socially conscious adaptations of classics that place people of color at the forefront. Recent credits include Into the Woods at Pace University, and the upcoming production of Queen of Basel at Theaterworks Hartford.

DEREK McLANE (Set Design) has designed many productions for Broadway, Off-Broadway, internationally, and for TV. Recent Broadway credits include MJ, Moulin Rouge!, Burn This, American Son, Children of a Lesser God, The Parisian Woman, The Price, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Noises Off, The Heiress, Nice Work If You Can Get It, and 33 Variations (Tony Award), among others. He designed the Academy Awards for six years (Emmy Award) and has designed four live musicals for NBC including Hairspray Live! (Emmy Award) and The Wiz.

DEDE AYITE (Costume Design) Broadway: Topdog/Underdog, American Buffalo, How I Learned to Drive, A Soldier’s Play, Slave Play, Chicken & Biscuits, American Son, Children of a Lesser God. Select Off-Broadway: Merry Wives (The Public); The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic). Regionally, Ayite’s work has appeared at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, and more. Awards: Drama Desk, Obie, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Theatre Bay Area, Jeff Awards, two Tony nominations.

ALLEN LEE HUGHES (Lighting Design). Topdog/Underdog, A Soldier’s Play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Clybourne Park, Having Our Say, Mule Bone, Once on This Island, K2, Strange Interlude, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and Quilters. Four Tony nominations, AUDELCO, and Ovation nominations, OCC Award, two Helen Hayes Awards, National Black Theatre Festival Outstanding Achievement and Ming Cho Lee Hewes Award.

DAN MOSES SCHREIER (Sound Design) . Broadway: with Kenny Leon, premieres of August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean and Radio Golf, among many others. Awards: five Tony Award nominations, five Drama Desk Awards, Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, Lucille Lortel Award, NAACP Theatre Award. Fellow of the MacDowell Colony. This past summer, Dan composed the music for Coriolanus at the Delcorte Theater. Most recently, he designed James Lapine/Tom Kitt/Michael Korie’s new musical Flying Over Sunset at Lincoln Center. danmosesschreier.com

THOMAS SCHALL (Fight Choreographer). Broadway: over 100 shows: Cost of Living, A Soldier’s Play Drama Desk Award for Fight Choreography, The Inheritance, King Lear, The Ferryman, To Kill a Mockingbird, Network, Angels in America, The Front Page, Jitney, Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, War Horse, A View From the Bridge. The Public Theater: Hamlet, Othello, Titus Andronicus. New York Theatre Workshop: Red Speedo, Othello.

KATE WILSON (Voice & Dialect Coach). Broadway: The Piano Lesson, Topdog/Underdog, Leopoldstadt, Take Me Out, for colored girls..., Funny Girl, MJ, Lehman Trilogy, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, To Kill a Mockingbird, Beetlejuice, Tootsie. Film/ TV: Fingernails, Causeway, The First Lady, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Three Women, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Tokyo Vice, Women Talking, Outer Range, Dopesick, Mrs. America, Lady Bird, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Little Women, Olive Kitteridge, Inside Llewyn Davis, Carol. Faculty: Juilliard.

CHRISTOPHER WOLFE (Military Consultant) is a West Point graduate, and military veteran awarded the Bronze Star Medal. After completing military service, he earned an MBA and MFA from Duke and Columbia Universities, respectively, and emerged as a multi-disciplinary artist whose work has been featured in BOMB Magazine and The New York Times Magazine. Chris consulted on the Broadway production of A Soldier’s Play.

JARED GRIMES (Movement Consultant). Tony and Drama Desk nominee, Chita Rivera Award winner for Funny Girl. Broadway: After Midnight, A Soldier’s Play. TV: Manifest, Boardwalk Empire. Film: Swing Kids, The Marc Pease Experience. Off-Broadway: Radio City Spring Spectacular, Encores’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Choreography: The Performance, Lionsgate’s Breaking Brooklyn, Encores’ Tap Dance Kid, Signature Theatre’s Jelly’s Last Jam, The Scottsboro Boys, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Ordway’s 42nd Street. Live concert: Mariah Carey (Mimi Tour), Bustah Rhymes (MTV VMAS).

JOHN M. ATHERLAY (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Fela!, Xanadu, Original Company of Beauty And The Beast, A Small Family Business, The Seagull with Tyne Daly and Jon Voight, and Prelude To A Kiss. National Tours: The Band’s Visit, Cabaret, Blithe Spirit with Angela Lansbury, Porgy and Bess, Anything Goes, Fela!, Young Frankenstein, Fiddler On The Roof with Topol, Little Shop of Horrors, The Producers, Stardust with Betty Buckley, and Almost Like Being In Love! with Diahann Carroll.

RL CAMPBELL (Stage Manager). Broadway and Tours: Pretty Woman, Bring It On, Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Regional: Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre, Ahmanson Theatre, Alliance Theatre, The Wallis, Horizon Theatre, Theatre in the Square, Utah Festival Opera. Thank you, Ancestors.

RCI THEATRICALS (General Manager). Over seventy Broadway Productions including the current productions of & Juliet, Ohio State Murders, A Christmas Carol, Take Me Out, Hadestown (Broadway & Tour), Jagged Little Pill(Tour), A Soldier’s Play (Tour). rcitheatricals.com

JIM CARNAHAN, C.S.A. (Casting) has cast over 150 Broadway shows. His work on Broadway this season includes: A Doll’s House; New York, New York; A Beautiful Noise; Leopoldstadt; Almost Famous; Take Me Out; Funny Girl; Harry Potter; Moulin Rouge. Off-Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along, Little Shop of Horrors. London: Eureka Day, Best of Enemies. Upcoming Film: Ari Aster’s Disappointment Blvd.

AURORA PRODUCTIONS (Production Management). A Soldier’s Play (Tour); Back To The Future; The Book of Mormon; Fat Ham; Frozen (Australia, Germany, London, Japan, North American Tour); Into The Woods (Tour); Hadestown (Tour); Mean Girls (Tour); Leopoldstadt; Life Of Pi; Prima Facie. Aurora has been providing technical supervision and production management to the entertainment industry since 1989.

BOND THEATRICAL (Tour Booking, Marketing & Publicity) is an independently-owned theatrical booking, marketing and publicity company representing award-winning Broadway shows and live entertainment properties. BOND connects artists and audiences by forming strategic, authentic, and profitable partnerships between producers and presenters across North America. For a complete list of current projects, please visit BondTheatrical.com

GENE FEIST1923–2014 (Founding Director). Since founding Roundabout in 1965, Gene was intimately involved as producer-director for more than 150 productions. For Broadway, he directed The Play’s the Thing (1973) and produced A Taste of Honey (1981) and the Tony Award-winning revival of Joe Egg (1984). He sent The Winslow Boy and A Raisin in the Sun on national tour. Among the produced plays he wrote are James Joyce’s Dublin, Jocasta and Oedipus, Wretched the Lionhearted, A Toy of the Clowns, and Building Blocks, in addition to adaptations of Feydeau, Ibsen, Chekhov, and Strindberg. A WWII Army Air Force veteran, he held degrees from Carnegie Mellon and New York universities. He was the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Foundation’s 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award.

ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) celebrates the power of theatre by spotlighting classics from the past, cultivating new works of the present, and educating minds for the future. A not-for-profit company, Roundabout fulfills that mission by producing familiar and lesser-known plays and musicals; discovering and supporting talented playwrights; reducing the barriers that can inhibit theatregoing; collaborating with a diverse team of artists; building educational experiences; and archiving over five decades of production history. Founded in 1965, Roundabout presents this work on its five stages and across the country through national tours. Since moving to Broadway more than 25 years ago, Roundabout productions have received 232 Tony nominations, 222 Drama Desk nominations and 257 Outer Critics Circle nominations. More information on Roundabout’s mission, history, and variety of programs can be found throughout this playbill or by visiting roundabouttheatre.org.

TAMAR CLIMAN (Producer) is a Tony Award-winning theatre producer with almost three decades of experience producing and general managing on Broadway, who is also developing a number of new works. Tamar is on the producing team for the Tony Award and Grammy-winning Jagged Little Pill for its North American and Australian tours. Previous producing credits include, on Broadway: Jagged Little Pill, Oklahoma!, Children of a Lesser God; West End: Waitress; and North American tour: Anastasia. She also serves as an advisor to Roundabout Theatre Company. Tamar founded Richards/ Climan, Inc. (RCI), Theatrical General Management firm, in 1997. While at RCI, Tamar managed over 80 productions of plays and musicals written by such notable artists as Tracy Letts, David Mamet, Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens, and Stephen Flaherty. She also had the extraordinary opportunity to work with renowned actors like Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones, Audra McDonald, Al Pacino, Sutton Foster, and Bryan Cranston. Tamar was born in Montreal, Canada and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

MEGHAN PRESSMAN (Managing Director/CEO, she/her) joined Center Theatre Group in 2019. Previously, she served as Managing Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (D.C.), Director of Development for Signature Theatre (N.Y.), and Associate Managing Director of Berkeley Rep. She is a graduate of Yale School of Drama/Yale School of Management and serves as a mentor in the Theater Management program. Meghan has served as the Vice-Chair for the Theatre Communications Group Board of Directors and is a member of the Broadway League.

DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director, he/him) joined Center Theatre Group in 1990. Doug is an active member of the Broadway League, the Independent Presenters Network (IPN), and is a proud member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers (ATPAM). In 2013, Doug received the Broadway League’s prestigious Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management Award.

GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic Director) led the Taper throughout its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 productions to its stage and winning countless awards for himself and the theatre—including the Tony Award for theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship. The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America (Part One) won the Pulitzer in consecutive years and, in 1994, three of the four plays nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play were from the Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989, Gordon took over the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he produced the inaugural season in the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

IN MEMORIAM It is with profound sadness that, on April 19th, we learned of the passing of Todd Haimes, who led the acclaimed Roundabout Theatre Company across four decades. Under his leadership, Roundabout productions won an astonishing 34 Tony Awards, 58 Drama Desk Awards, 73 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 21 Lucille Lortel Awards, and 14 Obie Awards. Todd and Roundabout have been longtime partners of Center Theatre Group, collaborating on many projects throughout the years, including 1776 and A Soldier's Play at the Ahmanson Theatre. He will be deeply missed.