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Detroit '67

Streaming on Demand Aug 2 - Sep 16, 2021
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Winner of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, this thought-provoking, resonant play sizzles to the soundtrack of the 1960s.

In 1967 Detroit, Motown has hit its groove and the Poindexter siblings, Chelle and Lank, make ends meet by hosting parties in their basement. However, Lank and his friend Sly have dreams beyond the cellar shindigs—despite Chelle’s resistance. When Lank then brings home a mysterious white woman, the family’s simmering disagreements explode—as their streets erupt in riots—and life becomes a lot more dangerous.

“You can hear echoes of August Wilson in [Dominique Morisseau’s] work, of Lorraine Hansberry, of Tennessee Williams, of Anton Chekhov, but also a voice — seductive, poetic, comic, tough — that is unmistakably her own.” 
- The New York Times

By Dominique Morisseau

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Program

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Cast Members

Stori Ayers

NYC: Ensemble Studio Theatre: Travisville; National Black Theatre: Blood at the Root; Lincoln Center: Pipeline. DC AREA: Round House: Gem of the Ocean, Father Comes Home from the Wars Parts 1, 2 and 3; Anacostia Playhouse: Yellowman. REGIONAL: Indiana Repertory Theatre & Syracuse Stage: A Raisin in the Sun; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Jitney; Chautauqua Theatre Company: The Christians, Detroit ’67; Pennsylvania Centre Stage: Doubt; Barbecue; Love’s Labours Lost; In the Red and Brown Water; Premiere Stages: Foster Mom; Horizon Theatre: An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein; Voodoo, Sex, & Magic. TV: TBS: The Last OG; RARE Lotus Productions: The Next Right Thing. 

JaBen Early

BROADWAY: Lincoln Theater: The Great Society. DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: Piano Lesson; Folger Theatre: Julius Caesar; Woolly Mammoth: The Convert, Civilization; Studio Theatre: Fucking A; Round House Theatre: Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3); Arena Stage: All The Way, Ruined, The Great Society. REGIONAL: Guthrie: We Are Proud, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner; Marin Theatre Company: The Convert; Interact Theatre: We Are Proud. EDUCATION: Morehouse College.

Valeka Jessica

SIGNATURE: At The Full Yum. NEW YORK: National Black Theatre: Loretta. INTERNATIONAL: The Barbican Center (London): I’m a Motherf*****g Superstar: So Where Are My Babies?. DC AREA: Arena Stage: A Raisin in the Sun; Round House Theatre: Father Comes Home from the Wars; Rep Stage: Sunset Baby. REGIONAL: Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play; Synchronicity Theatre: I’m a Motherf*****g Superstar: So Where Are My Babies?; NNPN: The Promotion; The Unexpected Festival: Branches Etched Across the Sky.  FILM: The Runaways (Bronzelens Festival Oscar contending category), Unordinary Love. OTHER: The V Network: Film: Petty Anniversary; Theatre: I’m a Motherf*****g Super Star: So Where Are My Babies?; Talk Show: Blossoming After Divorce. IG: @valekajessica www.valekajessica.com

Emily Kester

 DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: Silent Sky; Olney Theatre Center: Labour of Love; Everyman Theatre: The Revolutionists, Noises Off;  Studio Theatre: The Hard Problem, Edgar and Annabel;  Theater J: The Last Schwartz;  Constellation Theatre: Equus;  Rorschach Theatre: She Kills Monsters;  NextStop Theatre: Eurydice;  Imagination Stage: Anatole: Mouse Magnifique!, Davy Copperfield, The Little Mermaid, The BFG, 101 Dalmatians, Double Trouble. EDUCATION:  The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Greg Alverez Reid

OFF BROADWAY: New Federal Theatre/Castillo Theatre: The Fabulous Miss Marie. DC AREA: Theater Alliance: Broke-ology; The Kennedy Center: Locomotion; Studio Theatre: Seven Guitars; African Contiuum Theatre Company: A Lesson Before Dying. REGIONAL: People’s Light Theatre: All My Sons; McCarter Theatre Center/Long Wharf Theatre: Fences (directed by Phylicia Rashad); Hanger Theatre: Gem of The Ocean. TV/FILM: HBO/HBO MAX: Between The World And Me, The Apollo. EDUCATION: Howard University BFA; the British American Dramatic Academy at Oxford. gregalverezreid.com Instagram/Twitter: @gregariousreid 

Creative Team

James Gardiner

Associate Producer/Editor

SIGNATURE: Miss Saigon, Spin, Company, The Last Five Years (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Actor in a Musical), The Boy Detective Fails, The Hollow, [title of show], Chess, Les Misérables, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Merrily We Roll Along, The Witches of Eastwick, Saving Aimee. BROADWAY: Glory Days (book writer). DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: Violet, Liberty Smith, A Christmas Carol (Associate Director); Olney Theatre Center: Little Shop of Horrors (2013 Helen Hayes nomination), You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown; Woolly Mammoth/UM: The Distance from Here; Kennedy Center: The Phantom Tollbooth, The Brand New Kid; Round House Theatre: A Prayer for Owen Meany; Studio Theatre: Dog Sees God. REGIONAL: Williamstown Theatre Festival; Everyman Theatre. EDUCATION: University of Maryland College Park TEACHING: George Mason University, Adjunct Instructor of Musical Theatre Performance.

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