Artistic Director Justin Waldman hosts an intimate conversation with A Doll’s House adaptor and director, Justin Emeka. Coffee and cookies will be available starting at 5:30 PM, with the discussion set to start at 5:45 PM.
Attendance for this pre-show event is FREE; 7PM performance tickets sold separately.
MEET THE GUEST
Justin Emeka
Justin Emeka is a director, writer and filmmaker who has worked at theaters around the country including: the Old Globe, Yale Rep, Seattle Rep, Karamu House, Syracuse Stage, Philadelphia Theater Company, and Classical Theater of Harlem. For the past five years, he has served as the Resident Director for the Pittsburgh Public Theater where he directed Two Trains Running, Sweat, American Son, Trouble in Mind and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Harlem. Some of his other favorite directing projects include: King James, Sunset Baby, Romeo & Juliet, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Wedding Band, The Bluest Eye, Death of a Salesman, Paradise Blue, The Glass Menagerie and Macbeth. He authored the chapter “Seeing Shakespeare through Brown Eyes” in the best-selling Black Acting Methods. He is a Drama League Fellow in Classic Directing as well as TV/Film Directing. He’s also directed two award-winning short films, Biological and Six Winters Gone Still. Additionally, he is a tenured professor of Theater and Africana Studies at Oberlin College. www.justinemeka.com
A DOLL'S HOUSE TICKETS
A Doll's House
“What is worth saving?” This question still echoes nearly 150 years after Henrik Ibsen first constructed A Doll’s House. With this sensational story about a dark secret that threatens to destroy a family, Ibsen created drama’s very first feminist. And in its heroine, Nora Helmer, Ibsen brought the struggle for personal liberation to vivid life. In this World Premiere adaptation, acclaimed director Justin Emeka (Sweat, Romeo and Juliet) reimagines A Doll’s House in 1950s New Jersey, weaving Black culture into one of the most powerful plays ever experienced.