Bad Kreyol
World Premiere
written by Dominique Morisseau
directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene
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OFF-BROADWAY AT
The Pershing Square Signature Center
2024-2025 Season
Signature Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club present Dominique Morisseau's (Confederates, Paradise Blue, Sunset Baby at Signature; Skeleton Crew at MTC) beautiful world premiere play about interrogating cultural identity and global impact. Simone, first-generation Haitian American, and her cousin Gigi, Haitian-born and raised, reunite to honor their grandmother's dying wish for them to reconnect. Simone's pilgrimage back to her ancestral homeland forces both cousins to confront their differing world views.
Creative
Dominique Morisseau
Playwright
(Playwright, she/her/hers) is the author of The Detroit Project (A 3-Play Cycle): Skeleton Crew (Atlantic Theater Company, Manhattan Theatre Club), Paradise Blue (Signature Theatre), and Detroit ’67 (Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem and NBT). Additional plays include: Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater), Sunset Baby (LAByrinth Theater), Blood at the Root (National Black Theatre), and Follow Me To Nellie’s (Premiere Stages). She is also the TONY Award ® -nominated book writer on the Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations (Imperial Theatre). TV/Film projects: She most recently served as Co-Producer on the Showtime series “Shameless.” She’s currently developing projects with Netflix, HBO, and A24, and wrote the film adaptation of the documentary Step for Fox Searchlight. Awards include: Spirit of Detroit Award, PoNY Fellowship, Sky-Cooper Prize, TEER Trailblazer Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Audelco Awards, NBFT August Wilson Playwriting Award, Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, OBIE Award (2), and the Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, named one of Variety’s Women of Impact for 2017-18 and a recipient of the 2018 MacArthur Genius Grant. Twitter and IG: @domorisseau
Tiffany Nichole Greene
Director
Tiffany Nichole Greene (Director) is just thrilled to be in collaboration with Signature Theatre and MTC.
Tiffany is a leader, creator, and aggressive explorer of humanity in its most tender moments. She holds an MFA in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep, where her hunger for a deeper involvement in story-building began. While in graduate school, Tiffany began to cultivate the skills of a great director. She became a mad scientist in her pursuit of opportunities to observe, investigate, explore, and experiment with her newly defined artistry.
Tiffany is now a two time NYTimes Critics Pick, Lincoln Center Directors Lab Alum, Soho Rep Directors Lab Alum, two-time Drama League Finalist, and a proud member
of SDC. While Tiffany works on a great variety of genres in theatres across the nation, she is particularly dedicated to the continued development of new works and the play development process.
A few of her most recent credits include a developmental production of Kristen Adele Calhoun’s blood work at National Black Theatre; Black Cypress Bayou at Geffen Playhouse; world premiere of York Walker’s Covenant with Roundabout Theatre Company (New York Times Critic’s Pick); Jonathan Larson’s Rent at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; world premiere of Steph Del Rosso’s 53% Of at Second Stage Theater; Invincible, a new musical, at The Wallis Annenberg, working alongside Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo; Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders at the Goodman Theatre; Lydia R. Diamond’s Whiterly Negotiationsand Lynn Nottage’s What Are The Things I Need To Remember with Octopus Theatricals (New York Times Critic’s Pick); and Hamilton (National Tour Resident Director).
Dominique Morisseau
Playwright
Tiffany Nichole Greene
Director