Photo Flash: In Rehearsal for Dominique Morisseau's SKELETON CREW at Atlantic Theater

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) has confirmed complete casting for the world premiere of Dominique Morisseau's play Skeleton Crew, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson and featuring Jason Dirden, Wendell B. Franklin, Lynda Gravatt,Nikiya Mathis and Adesola Osakalumi. Check out a first look at the cast in rehearsal below!

In Dominique Morisseau's third play in her Detroit trilogy, a makeshift family of workers at the last exporting auto plant in the city navigate the possibility of foreclosure. Power dynamics shift and they are pushed to the limits of survival. When the line between blue collar and white collar gets blurred, how far over the lines are they willing to step?

Skeleton Crew will begin previews Wednesday, January 6, officially open Tuesday, January 19 and play a limited engagement through Sunday, February 14, 2016 Off Broadway at Atlantic Stage 2 (330 West 16 Street).

Playwright Dominique Morisseau is best known for her trilogy of plays about her hometown Detroit. The first installment, Detroit '67 was staged Off Broadway in 2013 and won the 2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History. Her second play, Paradise Blue, debuted at the Williamstown Theater Festival last summer. Her play Sunset Baby had its world premiere at the Gate Theater in London in 2012 before transferring Off Broadway in 2013. In November, she received the prestigious 2015 Steinberg Playwright Award.

Tony® and Obie Award winning actor and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson most recently staged the world premieres of Dominique Morriseau's Paradise Blue and his own playYour Blues Ain't Sweet Like Mine. Off Broadway he has directed the Obie and Lortel Award winning production of The Piano Lesson andThe Happiest Song Plays Last, My Children My Africa, Seven Guitars and The First Breeze of Summer. His Emmy® and Golden Globe Award® nominatedscreenplay adaptation of his autobiographical play Lackawanna Blues was awarded The Humanitas Prize, The National Board of Review Award and theNAACP Image Award.

Photos by Ahron R. Foster

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