FREEDOM, FREEDOM, FREEDOM, ET CETERA
A panel of Black thinkers (a Broadway playwright, a spoken word poet, a Columbia professor, and an activist) try to define Freedom in the year ???? in this dark comedy about ancestors and artists.
Written by Dave Harris
Directed by Taylor Reynolds
Sound Design by Ben Scheff
Edited by Dylan Carrow
Walter Mixon Riley — JEROME PRESTON BATES
LaToya Beasley — BRITTANY BRADFORD
Jake Dillers/Sponsors/Announcer — YONATAN GEBEYEHU
Jones Joseph — DAVE HARRIS
Jerome Barker Thomas — BEETHOVEN ODEN
Recorded at John Kilgore Sound & Recording in New York City
Production Stage Manager: Hanako Rodriguez
Casting by Alaine Alldaffer and Lisa Donadio
Series Line Producer: Alison Koch
Season 2 of Soundstage was made possible with the generous support of the Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Playwrights Horizons is supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. In addition, Playwrights Horizons receives major support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, the J. L. Greene Arts Access Fund in The New York Community Trust, and The Shubert Foundation.