14 February - 2 March, 2025
Director: Aiyana Straughn
Based on the real-life Mary Seacole, 19th century Jamaican nurse, adventurer and entrepreneur, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s play MARYS SEACOLE sets sail on a kaleidoscopic voyage across oceans, time-shifting through the centuries.
Christiana Mitchell as Mary
Cadessa Davis as Mamie
Haydn Haring as May
Madison Patterson as Miriam
Marty Moore as Merry
Simona J. Halloway as Duppy Mary
Rory Adams as Mamie US
Allyson Grant as Miriam/May US
Miriam Halpern as Merry US
Aiyana Straughn - Director
Maia Adolphs - Assistant to the Director/Sound Designer
Becca Budrock - Production Stage Manager
Lita Flowers - Assistant Stage Manager
Christine Jacobs - Dialect Coach
Will Slusher - Scenic Designer
Rowan Isaacson - Assistant to the Scenic Designer
Kyle Schneider - Lighting Designer
Vanessa Woodfolk - Associate Lighting Designer
Mix Rudolph - Lighting Apprentice
Treatrous Jackson - Costume Designer
Chase Carson - Sound Engineer
Dalyla McGee - Dramaturg
Daniel Kunkel - Fight Choreographer
We meet many Marys – a West Indian nanny watching her charge on a Manhattan playground, a nursing school practicing triage, a contemporary nursing home, Mary on the Crimean battlefield, and everywhere and every-when else. MARYS SEACOLE is the tale of an extraordinary woman, chronicling the strength and empathy of all women through the centuries paid to care,
“MARYS SEACOLE is in many ways an act of remembrance for the unremembered … an exhortation to see both past and present better.” – Sara Holdren, Vulture
PLEASE NOTE:
This production includes adult language, depictions of violence, sensitive subject matter (childbirth, war), haze effects, battlefield sound effects, and use of fake blood.
