Actors Phillip James Brannon, Jessica Frances Dukes, Benja Kay Thomas and Lance Coadie Williams sit around a table in a kitchen in Bootycandy. The table has a floral tablecloth. Brannon wears a red and black leather jacket and red pants.

Phillip James Brannon, Jessica Frances Dukes, Benja Kay Thomas, Lance Coadie Williams. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Jesse Pennington and Phillip James Brannon. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Lance Coadie Williams. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Benja Kay Thomas, Jesse Pennington, Jessica Frances Dukes. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Writer/Director Robert O'Hara. Photo by Zack DeZon.

Robert O'Hara

Playwrights Horizons: Bootycandy (writer and director), Bella: An American Tall Tale (director). He has received the NAACP Best Director Award, the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, two Obie Awards, and the Oppenheimer Award. He directed the world premieres of Nikkole Salter and Danai Gurira’s In the Continuum, Tarell McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays (Part 2), Colman Domingo’s Wild With Happy, as well as his own plays, Bootycandy and Insurrection: Holding History. He has also written Zombie: The American (Wooly Mammoth) and Barbecue (The Public Theater).

(as of 10/24/17)

Reviews

  • “Smart, searing, and sensationally funny. Robert O'Hara reveals an important asset for a playwright to make his mark: fearlessness. ”

    — Charles Isherwood, New York Times | Read Full Article

  • “EXPLOSIVE. Insanely entertaining and completely engaging.”

    — Jesse Green, New York Magazine | Read Full Article
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  • “SASSY AND SAUCY! You may never think of the words ‘booty’ and ‘candy’ the same way ever again.”

    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post | Read Full Article

  • “Delectably un-PC. Performed to perfection.”

    — Joe Dziemianowicz, Daily News | Read Full Article

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