Passing Strange Star To Direct 'Single Black Female'

New Professional Theatre's will present a limited Off-Broadway engagement of Lisa B. Thompson's SINGLE BLACK FEMALE -- a comedy about single black women and their search for love, dignity and clothes -- directed by Colman Domingo (currently on Broadway in the Tony-nominated musical PASSING STRANGE ) and costarring Soara-Joy Ross (seen at Carnegie Hall in JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA) and Riddick Marie, at The Duke on 42nd Street (229 West 42nd Street) in Manhattan.  The show will run from June 10th through June 29th 2008.

Lisa B. Thompson's SINGLE BLACK FEMALE takes a comic look at the pleasures and perils of being a single middle class black woman who's got everything she wants and needs except more R-E-S-P-E-C-T -- and a man!  The play mines topics such as dating (on the Internet and the old-fashioned way!), gynecology, family gatherings, shopping, racial bias, white folks and, poignantly, the odd sense of loss a black woman feels when she does find a man and leaves her single sisters behind.
 
SINGLE BLACK FEMALE costars Soara-Joye Ross and Riddick Marie. The production has scenic design by Tim McAvoy, costume design by Raul Aktanov, lighting design by Russell Phillip Drapkin, and sound design by DJ Crystal Clear.
 
Soara-Joye Ross recently appeared in JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA at Carnegie Hall, Off-Broadway in Lincoln Center's critically acclaimed Dessa Rose and on Broadway in DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES. Riddick Marie credits include New Repertory Theatre's world premiere of Thomas Gibbons' A HOUSE WITH NO WALLS and starred in the International tour of Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT under the direction of Niky Wolcz, and in the 2005 Metropolitan Opera production of FAUST. Director Colman Domingo, whose acting credits include HENRY V at The Public and BRIGHT IDEAS at MCC, in addition to PASSING STRANGE on Broadway, has directed productions at Geva Theatre and the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Rep.
 
Playwright Lisa B. Thompson is an English professor at the State University of New York at Albany where she teaches courses on African American literature and culture. Ms.Thompson is the author of  MONROE; DREADTIME STORIES: ONE SISTA'S HAIR, and her newest play UNDERGROUND. SINGLE BLACK FEMALE was nominated for an LA Weekly Theatre Award for Best Comedy.