Bootycandy
- Written and directed by 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)
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Sutter is on an outrageous odyssey through his childhood home, his church, dive bars, motel rooms and even nursing homes. A kaleidoscope of sketches that interconnect to portray growing up gay and black, Robert O’Hara’s subversive, uproarious satire crashes headlong into the murky terrain of pain and pleasure and... BOOTYCANDY.
Suggested for ages 17+.
Featuring
Phillip James Brannon
Jessica Frances Dukes
Jesse Pennington
Benja Kay Thomas
Lance Coadie Williams
Playwrights Horizons: Bootycandy (Obie Award). Broadway: Junk (Lincoln Center). Other Off-Broadway: The Antipodes (Signature Theatre); Tiny Beautiful Things, ToasT (The Public); The City of Conversation (Lincoln Center); Nat Turner in Jerusalem, Love and Information, Belleville (New York Theatre Workshop); We Are Proud To Present... (Soho Rep.). Regional: A Confederacy of Dunces (Huntington); Bootycandy (Wilma, Woolly Mammoth); The Brother/Sister Plays, The March (Steppenwolf); Court Theatre; Kansas City Rep; numerous productions at The Goodman and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Elementary,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “The Plug.” Film: Contagion. BFA in Acting from DePaul University.
Playwrights Horizons: Franny’s Way (also Geffen Playhouse), Rodney’s Wife. Other Off-Broadway: Richard II, The False Servant, The General from America (also Alley), A Place at the Table, The Winter’s Tale, The Taming of the Shrew. Regional: Maple and Vine (Actors Theater of Louisville), Vera Laughed (NYS&F), Major Barbara (Guthrie), James Joyce’s The Dead (Huntington/ACT), Goodnight Children Everywhere (ACT).
Playwrights Horizons debut. New York: Insurrection: Holding History (Audelco Award, Outstanding Ensemble), Unspeakable (FringeNYC and The Apollo), God, The Crack House and The Devil (Circle Rep), Pigfoot Mary Says Goodbye (Metropolitan Playhouse), Pearl’s Gone Blue (FringeNYC, Best Musical), American Menu (New Federal Theatre). Regional: Intimate Apparel (Stamford Theatre Works). Film: The Cycle, The Dying Truth.
Playwrights Horizons debut. Regional: Bootycandy, The Convert (The Wilma); Sucker Punch, Marcus or the Secret of the Sweet (Studio Theatre); The Oedipus Plays (Shakespeare Theatre); My Children! My Africa!, The Children’s Hour, Fences (Everyman Theatre); Jitney (Ford’s Theatre), Fences (Roadhouse Theatre); Hamlet (title role, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival). TV: “The Wire.”
Creative Team
Clint Ramos
Scenic and Costume DesignJaphy Weideman
Lighting DesignLindsay Jones
Sound DesignAaron Rhyne
Projection DesignDave Bova
Hair and Makeup DesignMarisa Levy
Production Stage ManagerPlaywrights Horizons: sets and/or costumes for Bella, After the Revolution, Bootycandy, Familiar. With Robert O’Hara: Barbecue, A Raisin in the Sun, Five Guys Named Moe, Wild With Happy. Broadway: sets and/or costumes for Once On This Island, Six Degrees…, Sunday in the Park…, In Transit, Eclipsed, The Elephant Man (also West End), Violet. Other Off-Broadway: Torch Song, Here Lies Love (also London), Sweet Charity, Kid Victory, Appropriate, many others. Over 200 regional/international credits. Encores! Off-Center series. Awards: Tony, Obie (Sustained Excellence), two ATW Henry Hewes, three Lortels, TDF Irene Sharraf Young Master, Helen Hayes. @clintramos
Playwrights Horizons: Bella, Bootycandy, The Burnt Part Boys. Broadway: Bronx Bombers, A Time to Kill. Other Off-Broadway: Privacy (The Public), Mr. Joy (LCT3), Top Secret (NYTW), many others. Regional: Guthrie, Alliance, Goodman, ACT, many others. International: Stratford Festival (Canada), Royal Shakespeare Company (England). Awards: seven Joseph Jefferson Awards (24 nominations), two Ovation Awards (three nominations), LA Drama Critics Circle Award, three Drama Desk Award nominations, two Helen Hayes nominations. Film scoring: A Note of Triumph for HBO Films (Academy Award winner, Best Documentary). lindsayjones.com
Funny and smutty. A toxically satiric portrait of American life.
Deliciously subversive.
