A Free Man of Color

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Vivian Beaumont Theatre , (11/18/2010 - 1/09/2011)

First Preview:	Oct 23, 2010	Total Previews:	29
Opening Date:	Nov 18, 2010
Closing Date:	Jan 09, 2011	Total Performances:	61

Category: Play, Drama, Original, Broadway

Setting: New Orleans and other locations in Europe and America, 1801-1806

Opening Night Credits
Awards

Production Staff [Collapse]
Theatre Owned / Operated by Lincoln Center Theater (André Bishop: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)
Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (André Bishop: Artistic Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)
Originally commissioned by The Public Theater / New York Shakespeare Festival (George C. Wolfe: Producer; Mara Manus: Executive Director)
Written by John Guare; Original Music by Jeanine Tesori
Directed by George C. Wolfe; Choreographed by Hope Clarke; Assistant Director: Saheem Ali
Scenic Design by David Rockwell; Costume Design by Ann Hould-Ward; Lighting Design by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer; Hair and Wig Design by Paul Huntley; Projection Design by Batwin & Robin Productions, Inc.; Sound Design by Scott Stauffer; Make-Up Design by Cynthia Demand; Associate Scenic Design: Dick Jaris; Assistant Scenic Design: T.J. Greenway and Todd Potter; Assistant Costume Design: Christopher Vergara; Assistant Lighting Design: Patricia Nichols and Dan Ozminkowski; Assistant Sound Design: Benjamin Furiga and Bridget O'Connor
MTC General Manager: Adam Siegel; Company Manager: Jessica Perlmeter Cochrane; Associate Gen. Mgr: Jessica Niebanck; Associate Co. Mgr: Daniel Hoyos
Stage Manager: Gwendolyn M. Gilliam; Production Manager: Jeff Hamlin; Assistant Stage Mgr: Kevin Bertolacci
LCT Director of Casting: Daniel Swee; Advertising: Serino Coyne, Inc.; LCT Director of Marketing: Linda Mason Ross; General Press Representative: Philip Rinaldi Publicity; LCT Director of Development: Hattie K. Jutagir; Dialect Coach: Deborah Hecht; Fight direction by Thomas Schall; Photographer: T. Charles Erickson; Videographer: Fresh Produce Productions

Cast

Jeffrey Wright

Jacques Cornet

Nicole Beharie	Margery Jolicoeur a country wife
Mos	Cupidon Murmur Cornet's slave
	Toussaint Louverture Haitian revolutionary
Reg Rogers	Tallyrand Bonaparte's foreign minister
	Zeus-Marie Pincepoosse Cornet's half-brother

Yao Ababio	Slave of New Orleans
Peter Bartlett	Mercure
	Count Achille Creux
Arnie Burton	Remy Dorilante
	James Monroe Future President
Rosal Colón	Mrs. Sparks Sparks's wife
	Terpsichore
	The Infanta
Veanne Cox	Mme. Mandragola
	Doña Polissena Creux's wife, a scientist
	Robert Livingston Minister to France
Paul F. Dano	Meriwether Lewis Jefferson's secretary
Sara Gettelfinger	Doña Athene Cornet's wife
	Calliope
Derric Harris	Slave of New Orleans
Justina Machado	Josephine Bonaparte's wife
	Doña Smeralda Toubib's wife
Joseph Marcell	Dr. Toubib
John McMartin	Thomas Jefferson
Nick Mennell	Pythagore
	General LeClerc Bonaparte's brother-in-law
	King Carlos Cuarto
Teyonnah Parris	Leda Toubib's slave
	Mme. Dorilante Remy's wife
	Melpomene
Postell Pringle	Slave of New Orleans
Esau Pritchett	Orphee Toubib's slave
Brian Reddy	Jonathan Sparks
	Major Walter Reed
Triney Sandoval	Napoleon Bonaparte
	Intendante Juan Ventura Morales
Robert Stanton	Lord Harcourt
	LeClerc's Captain
	Georges Feydeau Playwright
Wendy Rich Stetson	Lady Harcourt
	Euterpe
Jerome Stigler	Slave of New Orleans
Senfaub Stoney	Slave of New Orleans
David Emerson Toney	Alcibiade

Understudies: Ashley Bryant (Leda, Melpomene, Mme. Dorilante), Rosal Colón (Doña Smeralda, Josephine), Stephanie DiMaggio (Calliope, Doña Athene, Euterpe, Lady Harcourt, Mrs. Sparks, Terpsichore, The Infanta), Kyle Fabel (Intendante Juan Ventura Morales, Jonathan Sparks, Major Walter Reed, Napoleon Bonaparte, Remy Dorilante), Derric Harris (Alcibiade, Orphee), David Graham Jones (General LeClerc, Georges Feydeau, James Monroe, King Carlos Cuarto, LeClerc's Captain, Lord Harcourt, Meriwether Lewis, Pythagore), David Manis (Count Achille Creux, Mercure, Thomas Jefferson), Howard W. Overshown (Jacques Cornet), Teyonnah Parris (Margery Jolicoeur), Postell Pringle (Cupidon Murmur, Toussaint Louverture), Wendy Rich Stetson (Doña Polissena, Mme. Mandragola, Robert Livingston) and David Emerson Toney (Dr. Toubib)

2011 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Costume Design
	Ann Hould-Ward [nominee]
2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
	Written by John Guare [nominee]