Production Staff
Playwright
Dede Ayite is a costume designer whose Broadway credits include A Soldier’s Play, Slave Play, American Son, and Children of a Lesser God. Select Off-Broadway credits include Secret Life of Bees, FireFlies, Marie and Rosetta, Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic); By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, JHAT (Signature); BLKS, Collective Rage…, School Girls… (MCC); Slave Play (NYTW); Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC); If Pretty Hurts…, Mankind, Bella: An American Tall Tale (Playwrights Horizons); The Royale (Lincoln Center); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout); and brownsville song [b-side for tray] (LCT3). Regionally, Ayite’s works has appeared at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; ... read more
Kenny Leon is a Tony Award-winning Broadway and television director. His Broadway credits include the Tupac musical Holler If You Hear Me, A Raisin in the Sun starring Denzel Washington (Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Best Revival of a Play), The Mountaintop starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett, Stick Fly, August Wilson’s Fences (which garnered ten Tony nominations and won three Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play), Gem of the Ocean and Radio Golf. He also directed Smart People for Second Stage. Leon's recent television work includes "Hairspray Live!", and "The Wiz Live!" ... read more
Derek McLane received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. He has designed over 350 productions for Broadway, Off-Broadway, internationally and for TV. His over 40 credits include Burn This, The Parisian Woman, Anything Goes, The Price, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Ragtime, I Am My Own Wife and 33 Variations (Tony Award). He has designed the Academy Awards for six years (Emmy Award) and has designed four live musicals for NBC, including “Hairspray” (Emmy Award). ... read more
Awards and Nominations
2020 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Fight Choreography: Thomas Schall won.
Outstanding Revival of a Play: A Soldier's Play won.
2020 Drama League Awards
Distinguished Performance Award : Blair Underwood was nominated but did not win.
Distinguished Performance Award: David Alan Grier was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Revival of a Play: A Soldier’s Play won.
2020 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Director of a Play: Kenny Leon won.
Outstanding Revival of a Play: A Soldier's Play won.
2020 Tony Awards
Best Costume Design of a Play: Dede Ayite was nominated but did not win.
Best Direction of a Play: Kenny Leon was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design of a Play: Allen Lee Hughes was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Play: Charles Fuller won.
Best Scenic Design of a Play: Derek McLane was nominated but did not win.