RACE
By David Mamet
Directed by Jackie Davis
The Julie Harris Stage | June 5-28, 2019 | Previews June 25 & 6
Production photos by Michael & Suz Karchmer
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CAST:
Henry Brown – Johnny Lee Davenport*
Charles Strickland – Bill Mootos*
Jack Lawson – John Kooi*
Susan – Tyra Ann-Marie Wilson
*member of Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States
Scenic Design: JP Pizzuti
Costume Design: Amber Voner
Lighting Design: Stephen Petrilli
Assistant Director: Rodney Witherspoon II
Production Stage Manager: Katie Graves*
Bill Mootos is a stage and film actor based in Boston. Recent credits include The Little Foxes at Lyric Stage in Boston, The Salonierres at Greater Boston Stage Company, Mothers and Sons at Shakespeare & Company, and Antony & Cleopatra with Concert Theatre Works. He has performed on stages throughout the Northeast, including New Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Gloucester Stage, Central Square Theatre, The Gamm Theatre, Boston Playwrights Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Sierra Rep, and many others. Some of his past Shakespearean roles include Marc Antony in Julius Caesar, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Ross in Macbeth, both Antipholi in The Comedy of Errors, and Catesby in Richard III. Films include Little Women, Daddy’s Home 2, Chappaquiddick, the Company Men, and The Makeover, among others. He has served in Union leadership in the Screen Actors Guild and AEA since 2003, and serves on the National Board of SAG-AFTRA.
Tyra Ann-Marie Wilson is a performer from Bonaire, Georgia. This is her first time working at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater. She graduated Georgia Southern University in Spring of 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and a minor in Business Administration. She went on to spend a season in the Artistic office at Trinity Repertory Company as their intern. She is also a stand-up comedian with two finished one hour shows called Let’s Talk About It and Stuck: The Shitty Sequel. Her major acting credits include The Baker’s Wife, Into the Woods; The Angel Gabriel, The Mysteries: Creation; Orgon, The Game of Love and Chance; Lucy, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown; Frau Blucher, Young Frankenstein.
John Kooi previously appeared in WHAT’s productions of Danny Casolaro Died For You and Romance. Boston area credits include the IRNE Award winning Operation Epsilon (Nora Theatre Company); A Moon for the Misbegotten, Dinah Was, Betrayal, and As You Like It (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Memorial, Back The Night, Uncle Jack and The Company We Keep (Boston Playwrights Theatre); Rancho Mirage (New Repertory Theatre) and Hamlet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Among his New York credits are Othello (John Montgomery Theatre Company); Twelfth Night (The Actors’ Company Theatre) and Romeo and Juliet (Metropolitan Playhouse of New York). Regionally, John has appeared in Yankee Tavern, The Little Foxes and Clybourne Park (New Century Theatre); The Glass Menagerie, The Woman In Black, The Immigrant and I Hate Hamlet (Shadowland Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (The Cleveland Orchestra); Life x3 (Gulfshore Playhouse); Beyond Therapy (Long Beach Playhouse) and Much Ado About Nothing (Pasadena Shakespeare Company). His film and television work includes Stronger, Labor Day and Sins of the Preacher.
Johnny Lee Davenport is making his WHAT debut in Race. Off Broadway: White People Christmas (Cherry Lane Theatre); Revolutionary Moments (The Century Association); the title role in Gilgamesh (the 92nd Street Y); Maiden Lane. Boston Area: Black Odyssey Boston (The Front Porch Arts Collective), Thurgood, The Whipping Man, and A House with No Walls (New Repertory Theatre), Akeelah and the Bee, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Little Mermaid (Wheelock Family Theater), Bootycandy (Speakeasy Stage), Beowulf (Poets’ Theater) Walking the Tightrope and The Unbleached American (Stoneham Theatre), Pericles, Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labours’ Lost and Hamlet (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Invisible Vengeance is the Lord’s (Huntington Theatre) Water by the Spoonful, Broke-ology (Lyric Stage Company and BroadwayWorld Boston Award), Neighbors (company One, BroadwayWorld Boston Award), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It (Commonwealth Shakespeare), A Raisin in the Sun, Richard III (Trinity Rep). Film and TV: Empire, Joy, Ascendants Ted, Law & Order, The Fugitive, US Marshals, Chain Reaction, The Package, and The Blues Brothers.
David Mamet (Playwright) is the author of the plays: Race, Keep Your Pantheon, School, November, Romance, Boston Marriage, Faustus, Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award), American Buffalo, The Old Neighborhood, A Life in the Theatre, Speed-the-Plow, Edmond, Lakeboat, The Water Engine, The Woods, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Reunion and The Cryptogram (1995 Obie Award). His translations and adaptations include: Faustus and Red River by Pierre Laville; and The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov. His films include: The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Verdict, The Untouchables, House of Games (writer/director), Oleanna (writer/director), Homicide (writer/director), The Spanish Prisoner (writer/ director), Heist (writer/director), Spartan (writer/director) and Redbelt (writer/director). Mr. Mamet is also the author of: Warm and Cold, a book for children with drawings by Donald Sultan, and two other children’s books, Passover and The Duck and the Goat; Writing in Restaurants, Some Freaks, and Make-Believe Town, three volumes of essays; The Hero Pony and The China Man, a book of poems; Three Children’s Plays, On Directing Film, The Cabin, and the novels The Village, The Old Religion and Wilson. His most recent books include the acting books, True & False and Three Uses of the Knife. Glengarry Glen Ross was awarded the Tony® Award for Best Revival of a Play in 2005.
Jackie Davis is thrilled to be asked to return to WHAT in the role of director, having appeared previously as Dianne in WHAT’s 2017 production of The Empaths. Notable directing credits included Ruined, Hairspray, and For Colored Girls Who Consider Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. Jackie lives in Providence, RI, and is a teaching artist for Trinity Repertory Company’s Education Department and a Master Teacher for their Young Artist Summer Intensive where she teaches Directing, Hip-Hop and Movement for the Actor. She is the founding artistic director of Boston, MA, New Urban Theater Laboratory, where she produced and directed five years of new works, including Gift of an Orange—a well-received production hosted by the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. Jackie is involved in all three disciplines: theater, television and film. She is currently on stage in Trinity Repertory Company’s production of Marisol. Upcoming film work includes her role as abolitionist, Susan Robbins in Colombia Pictures’ Little Women in movies theaters this Christmas. Jackie is a member of Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild.