"Daddy"
By Jeremy O. Harris
Directed by Danya Taymor
A co-production with Vineyard Theatre
February 13, 2019
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Overview
In Jeremy O. Harris’ searing new play “Daddy,” Franklin (Ronald Peet), a young black artist on the verge of his first show, meets Andre (Alan Cumming), an older white art collector, and before long their feverish link deepens into an irresistible bond. But when Franklin’s Christian mother, Zora (Charlayne Woodard), decides that her son is in peril, she enters into a battle of wills with Andre over the soul of the man they both call baby. Basquiats and Birkins, gospel and pop, and fantasy and reality collide around a Bel Air swimming pool in this deeply surreal exploration of intimacy and identity. Danya Taymor (Pass Over) directs this wildly theatrical and dangerous world-premiere co-production from The New Group and Vineyard Theatre.
This play contains nudity and graphic sexual content.
“Daddy” is supported by grants from the Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation and the Tobin Theatre Arts Fund.
Cast
Carrie Compere
PerformerAlan Cumming
PerformerTommy Dorfman
PerformerKahyun Kim
PerformerDenise Manning
PerformerHari Nef
PerformerONYIE NWACHUKWU
PerformerRonald Peet
PerformerCharlayne Woodard
PerformerCreative Team
Jeremy O. Harris
PlaywrightDanya Taymor
DirectorDanya Taymor is an Obie-award winning New York based director. Recent direction includes the Broadway production of Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s PASS OVER at the August Wilson Theater. Other recent work: Will Arbery’s HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING (Playwrights Horizons, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Lortel Outstanding Play), Samuel Beckett’s ENDGAME (Gate, Dublin), Jeremy O. Harris’ “DADDY” (Almeida, London + New Group/Vineyard), Korde Arrington Tuttle’s GRAVEYARD SHIFT (Goodman Theater), PASS OVER (Lincoln Center + Steppenwolf, Lortel Outstanding Play), Danai Gurira’s FAMILIAR (Steppenwolf), Martyna Majok’s QUEENS (Lincoln Center Theater), Justin Kuritzkes’ THE SENSUALITY PARTY (The New Group), Susan Soon-He Stanton’s CYGNUS (Women’s Project), Brian Watkins’ WYOMING (Lesser America) and MY DAUGHTER KEEPS OUR HAMMER (The Flea), and Sarah Gancher’s THE PLACE WE BUILT (The Flea). Her production Antoinette Nwandu’s PASS OVER was filmed in collaboration with Spike Lee and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Awards and fellowships include the Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity from Lincoln Center, Joe A. Callaway Award for Outstanding Direction, Time Warner Directing Fellowship at Women’s Project, 2050 fellowship at New York Theatre Workshop, Van Lier Directing Fellowship; Gates Foundation Grant, Rough Draft Residency at the Drama League and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.
Upcoming work includes: THE OUTSIDERS at La Jolla Playhouse (Book by Adam Rapp, music + Lyrics by Jamestown Revival + Justin Levine)
Matt Saunders
Scenic DesignRecent Off Broadway: Catch As Catch Can (Playwright’s Horizons), Daddy (New Group & Vineyard) *Drama Desk Award, Pipeline (Lincoln Center), Venus (Signature), Futurity (Soho Rep and Ars Nova), Good Person of Szechwan (Foundry and the Public), The Tempest (Public Theater / Delacorte). Over 100 regional credits including: Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Huntington Theatre Company, Long Wharf, Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, Wilma Theater and Kennedy Center. Training: MFA, Yale School of Drama. Saunders is a Pew Fellow and a Hodder Fellow, Princeton Univeristy. Associate Professor of Design at Swarthmore College. www.mattsaunders.net
Montana Levi Blanco
Costume DesignIsabella Byrd
Lighting DesignWith Will Arbery: Corsicana, Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons), and PLANO (Clubbed Thumb.) additionally with Danya Taymor Endgame (Gate, Dublin) DADDY: A Melodrama (New Group, Almedia, Vineyard.), Everybody (Juilliard). Select designs: Cabaret (West End, Olivier nomination), Lighting Shining in Buckinghamshire, (New York Theatre Workshop.) Epiphany (Lincoln Center). Awards: Obie, Lortel, and Henry Hewes, Critics Circle. Nominations: Olivier, Drama Desk. Proud union member (USA829) and pay equity advocate. www.isabellabyrd.design
Lee Kinney
Sound DesignCookie Jordan
Hair, Wig and Makeup DesignLee Kinney
Original Score and Instrumental ArrangementsDarius Smith
Original Vocal Music and Vocal ArrangementsBrett Macias
Original Vocal Music and Vocal ArrangementsClaire Warden
Intimacy and Fight DirectionDarrell Grand Moultrie
Movement DirectorTschabalala Self
Doll DesignBrett Macias
Music SupervisionGroup Sales
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