The Acting Company: August Wilson’s Two Trains Running

The Acting Company: August Wilson’s Two Trains Running

Mar 22 | Pasant Theatre

Program

The Acting Company

  • Kent Gash
    Artistic Director
  • Devin Brain
    Producing Director
  • Erik Schroeder
    Managing Director
  • Margot Harley
    Founder

In partnership with Play On Shakespeare

In association with Honorary Producers Willette and Manny Klausner

Presents

August Wilson’s Two Trains Running

Directed by Lili-Anne Brown

The performance will run approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes, including one intermission.

Media Partner: Michigan Public

Cast

(in alphabetical order)

  • Wolf, Sterling u/s
  • J'Laney Allen §
  • Hambone, Wolf u/s
  • Chuckie Benson §
  • Risa u/s
  • Diana Coates §
  • Holloway
  • Brian D. Coats §
  • West, Memphis u/s
  • Robert Cornelius §
  • Sterling
  • James Milord §
  • West u/s, Holloway u/s, Hambone u/s
  • Jeffrey Rashad §
  • Memphis
  • Michael A. Shepperd §
  • Risa
  • DeAnna Supplee §

Creative Team

  • Scenic Design
  • Tanya Orellana†
  • Costume Design
  • Samantha C. Jones†
  • Lighting Design
  • Jared Gooding†
  • Original Music & Sound Design
  • Lindsay Jones†
  • Props Design
  • Anna Dorodnykh
  • Voice & Speech
  • Duane Boutté
  • Intimacy Director
  • Ann James°
  • Wig & Hair Design
  • Tommy Kurzman†
  • Associate Director
  • Irvin Mason Jr.°
  • Casting
  • Murnane Casting
    Amber Snead, CSA
    Chad Eric Murnane, CSA
    Nathanial Riccio
  • Production Stage Manager
  • Esther Bermann
  • Assistant Stage Manager
  • Imani Ross

Originally Produced on Broadway by Yale Repertory Theatre (Stan Wojewodski, Jr., Artistic Director), Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre (Gordon Davidson, Artistic/Producing Director) Herb Alpert/Margot Lion, Scott Rudin/Paramount Pictures, and Jujamcyn Theaters (James H. Binger, Chairman; Rocco Landesman, President; Paul Libin, Producing Director; Jack Viertel, Creative Director); produced in association with Huntington Theatre Company (Peter Altman, Producing Director; Michael Maso, Managing Director), Seattle Repertory Theatre and Old Globe Theatre (Jack O’Brien, Artistic Director; Thomas Hall, Managing Director) Originally mounted by Yale Repertory Theatre (Lloyd Richards, Artistic Director; Benjamin Mordecai, Managing Director).

The Acting Company’s national tour of Two Trains Running received its first performances at Rubicon Theatre Company of Ventura, California in January 2025.

° The Director is a member of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.

† Designers represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees

§ Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Bios

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