1936 Harlem is a neighborhood battered by economic strife and hardship. With FDR's New Deal providing funding for the Federal Theatre Project's Negro Unit, director Rose McClendon convinces co-director John Houseman to help her bring Shakespeare's "Macbeth" to the Harlem community at the Lafayette Theater - with an all-Black cast. They choose for their groundbreaking production a gifted but untested 21-year-old director by the name of Orson Welles, whose reimagined Haitian vision for the Scottish play is as daring and fresh as the cast and crew themselves.
Cast : Inger Tudor : Rose McClendon Jewell Wilson Bridges : Orson Welles Jeremy Tardy : Maurice June Schreiner : Virginia Welles Daniel Kuhlman : John Houseman Wrekless Watson : Cuba Johnson Ashli Haynes : Edna Thom : Gary McDonald : Jack Carter Hunter Bodine : Martin Dies
WRITERS Agazi Desta Jennifer Frazin Morgan Milender Molly Miller Amri Rigby Joel David Santner Erica Sutherlin Chris Tarricone DIRECTORS Dagmawi Abebe Victor Alonso-Berbel Roy Arwas Hannah Bang Christopher Beaton Agazi Desta Tiffany Kontoyiannis-Guillen Zoë Alyce Salnave Ernesto M. Sandoval Sabina Vajrača
PRODUCERS Miles Alva, Jason Phillips, Xiaoyuan Xiao
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