Biltmore Theatre, (2/19/2004 - 4/4/2004)

Category: Play, Drama, Original, Broadway
Setting: The Gullah Islands off the coast of modern-day South Carolina.

Opening Night Production Credits [see more]

Theatre Owned / Operated by Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer)

Produced by Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer)

Commissioned and originally produced in January 2002 by The Goodman Theatre (Robert Falls, Artistic Director; Roche Schulfer, Executive Director)

Written by Regina Taylor; Inspired by "The Seagull" by Anton Chekhov; Inspired by "The Seagull" as translated by Curt Columbus; Original Music by Daryl Waters; Vocal arrangements for "Didn't It Rain" and "Ship of Zion" by Ebony Jo-Ann

Directed by Marion McClinton; Choreographed by Ken Roberson; Assistant Director: Alyse Rothman

Make-Up Design by Angelina Avallone; Scenic Design by David Gallo; Costume Design by Paul Tazewell; Lighting Design by Ken Billington; Sound Design by Dan Moses Schreier; Video Design by Wendall K. Harrington; Assistant Scenic Design: Ken Larson, Dan Kucher and Josh Zangen; Assistant Costume Design: Michael McAleer; Assistant Lighting Design: John McKernon; Assistant Sound Design: Tony Smolenski, IV; Assistant Wig Design: Tom Watson

MTC General Manager: Harold Wolpert; Company Manager: Denise Cooper

Production Stage Manager: Diane DiVita; MTC Production Manager / Director of Capital Projects: Michael R. Moody; Stage Manager: Cynthia Kocher

Press Representative: Boneau / Bryan-Brown; Casting: Nancy Piccione and David Caparelliotis; MTC Director of Marketing: Debra A. Waxman; MTC Director of Development: Andrew D. Hamingson; MTC Director of Artistic Development: Paige Evans; Dance Captain: Stephanie Berry; Advertising: SPOTCo, Inc.; Photographer: Joan Marcus; Cover Photography by Jean-Marie Guyaux

Aunjanue Ellis	Hannah Jordan
Peter Francis James	Robert Alexander Trigor
Anthony Mackie	Constantine Trip aka C-Trip
Alfre Woodard	Josephine Nicholas Ark Trip
Stephanie Berry	Paula Andrea Bow
Paul Butler	Peter Nicholas
Stephen McKinley Henderson	Sammy Bow
Ebony Jo-Ann	Jackie
Peter Macon	Yak
Curtis McClarin	Simon
Roger Robinson	Eugene Dawn
Tracie Thoms	Mary Bow
Baron Vaughn	Okra

Understudies: Caroline Clay (Jackie, Josephine Nicholas Ark Trip, Paula Andrea Bow), Joseph Edward (Okra, Robert Alexander Trigor, Simon, Yak), Peter Macon (Constantine Trip), Tiffany Thompson (Hannah Jordan, Mary Bow), Ronald Wyche (Eugene Dawn, Peter Nicholas, Sammy Bow).