Pittsburgh Public Theater has announced the cast of the backstage drama Trouble in Mind, the 1955 Alice Childress play that debuted on Broadway in 2021, and was nominated for four Tony Awards.
The Pittsburgh premiere, directed by Justin Emeka (Sweat and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Harlem) at the Public, is set in 1955, during rehearsals for a fictional Broadway-bound premiere production, at the O’Reilly Theater February 5 – 23, 2025.
The preeminent Black actress Wiletta Mayer (Shinnerrie D. Jackson) has a wealth of wisdom and insight to impart, but “nothing could prepare her for the culture clash that erupts between the director and her fellow cast members… for this new, ‘progressive’ play. Wiletta lands in an atmosphere fraught with the dynamics of power, race and ego, while she grapples with the stakes for her own career.
Jackson, an accomplished regional actor and assistant professor of acting at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, portrayed Headmistress Francis in School Girls: or the African Mean Girls Play at Pittsburgh Public Theater.
The cast includes local actors Hope Anthony, Emma Brown Baker, Garbie Dukes, Martin Giles, Daniel Krell, Anthony Marino and Joseph McGranaghan. Classically trained actor Vandous Stripling II, a graduate of The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theater Program, makes his Public debut with Trouble in Mind.
TICKETS AND DETAILS
The Pittsburgh Public Theater production of Trouble in Mind is at the O’Reilly Theater, Downtown, February 5 – 23, 2025. Tickets: Visit https://ppt.org/production/94381/trouble-in-mind or call 412-316-1600.
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