Wine in the Wilderness
- Alice Childress Playwright
- Tiffany Nichole Greene Director
- Lex Marcos Scenic Design Consultant
- Jocelyn A. Thompson Stage Manager
- La’ Tevin Alexander Bill Jameson
- Kalyne A. Coleman Cynthia
- Stanley Andrew Jackson III Sonny-man
- Treasure Lunan Tommy
- William Earl Ray Oldtimer
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It's 1964. As race riots blaze on the streets outside his Harlem home, painter Bill Jameson works feverishly to complete a triptych depicting his vision of Black womanhood. While he struggles to find his final muse — the “messed up chick” — his friends discover the perfect model in Tommy, a woman they meet at a bar after she’s been burned out of her home in the riots. However, Tommy is more than she seems, and her presence changes everything. Celebrated writer Alice Childress offers an intimate and raw study of race, gender, and class that explores how the Black community perceives, defines, and affirms itself from within.
“The real thing is takin' place on the inside ... that's where the action is.” –Tommy in Wine in the Wilderness
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Meet the Cast & Creative Team
The Creative Team
| Playwright | Alice Childress |
| Director | Tiffany Nichole Greene |
| Scenic Design Consultant | Lex Marcos |
| Stage Manager | Jocelyn A. Thompson* |
The Cast
| La' Tevin Alexander | Bill Jameson |
| Kalyne A. Coleman* | Cynthia |
| Stanley Andrew Jackson III* | Sonny-man |
| Treasure Lunan | Tommy |
| William Earl Ray* | Oldtimer |
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Meet the Cast
Treasure is a Black, queer, gender variant performer whose work aims to focus on those intersections and how they affect their movement through the world. Recent performance credits include Hot N’ Throbbing (Profile Theatre), Vinegar Tom (The Theatre Company), Mlima’s Tale (Profile Theatre) Weighted Bodies(Risk/Reward), Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Portland Center Stage), School Girls: Or, the African Mean Girls Play (Portland Center Stage) and The Most Massive Woman Wins (Deep End Theatre). IG: @King_the_kween
Meet the Creative Team
Tiffany is a freelance director and resident director of Hamilton, an American Musical. She is also a leader, creator, storyteller, and aggressive explorer of the human condition as it relates to relationships and the injustices of this world. She holds an M.F.A. from Brown University/Trinity Rep. Tiffany has directed for Octopus Theatricals, Guthrie Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Trinity Repertory Company, The Jack — Brooklyn, SpeakEasy Stage, Barrington Stage Triad Stage, and more. She is a New York Times Critics Pick, Lincoln Center Directors Lab alum, Soho Rep Directors Lab alum, two-time Drama League Director finalist, and a proud member of SDC.
Lex is a Seattle-based designer from Manila, Philippines. He studied painting and art history at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. He started as an actor in the theatre and then designed sets in Manila for several years. Lex was invited to join the M.F.A. program in scenic design at the University of Washington School of Drama. After finishing the degree, he then started designing shows in town, for Intiman Theatre, ArtsWest, Sound Theatre Company, ACT, Tacoma Arts Live, and Portland Center Stage, among others. Lex has recently been inaugurated by Village Theatre as one of the invited residents of the new BIPOC Northwest creator residency program.
Jocelyn is a bi-coastal stage manager residing in Virginia. She has worked on productions such as Once, Harry Thaw Hates Everybody, Pelleas and Melisande, The Oldest Profession, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Rodger and Hammerstein's Cinderella, and Marcus Gardley’s … And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi. Jocelyn is a graduate of Howard University.
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