A panel of Black thinkers (a Broadway playwright, a spoken word poet, a Columbia professor, and an activist) try to define Freedom in the year ???? in this dark comedy about ancestors and artists.

Written by Dave Harris

Directed by Taylor Reynolds

Sound Design by Ben Scheff

Sound Editing by Dylan Carrow

Production Stage Manager -- Hanako Rodriguez

CAST:

Walter Mixon Riley -- JEROME PRESTON BATES

LaToya Beasley -- BRITTANY BRADFORD

Jake Dillers / Sponsors / Announcer -- YONATAN GEBEYEHU

Jones Joseph -- DAVE HARRIS

Jerome Barker Thomas -- BEETHOVEN ODEN

Season 2 of Soundstage was made possible with the generous support of the Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts.  

Playwrights Horizons is supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. In addition, Playwrights Horizons receives major support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, the J. L. Greene Arts Access Fund in The New York Community Trust, and The Shubert Foundation.