MTC Announces 3 Off-Broadway Productions

Press release

Manhattan Theatre Club
Announces Three
World Premieres to Complete Their 2024-25 Off-Broadway Season

Off-Broadway Co-Production with
Signature Theatre
BAD KREYOL
World Premiere
Written by Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene

Off-Broadway
DAKAR 2000
World Premiere
Written by Rajiv Joseph
Directed by May Adrales

Off-Broadway
WE HAD A WORLD
World Premiere
Written by Joshua Harmon
Directed by Trip Cullman

Manhattan Theatre Club—Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director and Chris Jennings, Executive Director—announces three Off-Broadway productions for the upcoming 2024-2025 season, with two productions taking place at New York City Center (131 West 55th Street) and a co-production at Signature Theatre.

In addition to the previously announced Vladimir, written by Erika Sheffer and directed by Daniel Sullivan, MTC will produce Dakar 2000 written by Rajiv Joseph (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, King James at MTC), directed by May Adrales (Vietgone and Poor Yella Rednecks at MTC); We Had a World by Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Prayer for the French Republic at MTC), directed by Trip Cullman (Choir Boy at MTC, I Can Get It For You Wholesale); and in a co-production with Signature Theatre: Bad Kreyol written by Dominique Morisseau (The Detroit Project, Skeleton Crew at MTC), directed by Tiffany Nichole Green (Covenant).

Lynne Meadow said, “Each of these playwrights—Harmon, Joseph, and Morisseau—return to MTC with these world premieres. We believe their work represents the best of new American playwriting and we are all thrilled to be collaborating with them again.”

Chris Jennings said, “We’re also looking forward to co-producing with Signature Theatre, our fellow not-for-profit, whose Artistic Director, Paige Evans, began her career at MTC. Together, we will be able to share Dominique’s beautiful play with the loyal audiences at both of her theatrical homes."

The MTC Spring Gala will be taking place at Cipriani 42nd Street on Monday, May 19, 2025.

SIGNATURE THEATRE AND MTC
At Pershing Square Signature Center
Present and Off-Broadway Co-Production
Bad Kreyol
World Premiere
Written by Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene

Previews Begin Fall 2024 at The Pershing Square Signature Center

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.

Casting, creative team, and other listings information for Bad Kreyol will be announced at a later date.

AT NEW YORK CITY CENTER – STAGE I
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World Premiere
Written by Rajiv Joseph
Directed by May Adrales

Previews Begin Winter 2025

In Senegal on the eve of Y2K, an idealistic Peace Corps volunteer survives a mysterious car accident. An imposing State Department operative arrives at his hospital where she immediately takes command of the situation and his safety. Though they couldn’t be more different, they form an unlikely relationship. But when it becomes clear that they both have secrets, the volunteer is roped into a darker side of public service–one he can’t come back from. Unpredictable at every turn, this world-premiere thriller was commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club.

Casting, creative team, and other listings information for Dakar 2000 will be announced at a later date.

AT NEW YORK CITY CENTER
We Had a World
World Premiere
Written by Joshua Harmon
Directed by Trip Cullman

Previews Begin 2025

A dying woman calls her grandson and asks him to write a play about their family. “But I want you to promise me something,” she says. “Make it as bitter and vitriolic as possible." In this searing, funny and deeply personal play, the author of last season's Prayer for the French Republic recreates thirty years of family fights, monstrous behavior, enormous cruelty, and enduring love.

Casting, creative team, and other listings information for this new play will be announced at a later date.

TICKETING INFORMATION
Joining MTC’s season of plays is easy! Just call the MTC Clubline at 212-399-3050 or go to
To sign up for MTC’s “30 Under 35” program, offering $30 tickets for theatregoers age 35 and under, visit www.manhattantheatreclub.com/30under35/.

Single tickets will go on sale for these productions at a later date.

BIOGRAPHIES FOR DAKAR 2000

RAJIV JOSEPH (Playwright). Rajiv Joseph’s play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo was a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama. He has twice won the Obie Award for Best New American Play, first in 2016 with Guards at the Taj (also a 2016 Lortel Winner for Best Play) and then in 2018 with Describe the Night. Other plays include King James, Letters of Suresh, Archduke, The North Pool, Gruesome Playground Injuries and Animals Out of Paper. He also wrote the libretto for the opera Shalimar the Clown, based on the novel by Salman Rushdie. He has written for TV and film and has been awarded artistic grants from the Whiting Foundation, United States Artists and the Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. He served for three years in the Peace Corps in Senegal.

MAY ADRALES (Director) is a director, artistic leader, teacher and mother; she has directed over 30 world premieres. Her work has been seen most recently at Manhattan Theatre Club (Anchuli Felicia King’s Golden Shield, Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone and Poor Yella Rednecks), Second Stage (Rajiv Joseph’s Letters of Suresh), Yale Rep (falcon girls), Guthrie Theater, Huntington Theatre, Signature Theatre, Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, WP, New York Theatre Workshop, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, Milwaukee Rep and South Coast Rep. She was awarded the prestigious Ammerman Award at Arena Stage and Theatre Communications Group’s Alan Schneider award for freelance directors. She is a finalist for the SDCF Zelda Finchandler Award, Drama League Directing Fellow, Van Lier Directing Fellow, WP Lab Director, SoHo Rep Writers/Directors Lab and New York Theatre Workshop directing fellow, TCG New Generations Grantee, SDC Denham Fellowship and Paul Green Directing Award. She served as an Associate Artistic Director at Milwaukee Rep; Artistic Associate at The Playwrights’ Center; Artistic Associate at The Public Theater; and Director of Artistic Programs and Artistic Director at The Lark. She serves on the board of Theatre Communications Group. May has directed and taught at Juilliard, Harvard/ART, ACT, Fordham, NYU and Bard College. She is currently the Director of the Theatre Program and Assistant Professor at Fordham University. May has served on faculty at the Yale School of Drama and Brown/Trinity MFA program. MFA, Yale School of Drama. (www.mayadrales.net)

BIOGRAPHIES FOR WE HAD A WORLD

JOSHUA HARMON (Playwright) His plays include Prayer for the French Republic (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony nomination), Skintight, Admissions (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), Significant Other and Bad Jews. Musicals: The Bedwetter. He has been produced on Broadway and the West End; Off-Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Atlantic Theater Company; across the country at Geffen Playhouse, Huntington, Studio Theatre, Speakeasy, Theater Wit, Actor's Express, and The Magic, among others; and internationally in more than a dozen countries. Honors include two MacDowell fellowships and a Guggenheim. Graduate of Juilliard.

TRIP CULLMAN (Director). Broadway: The Rose Tattoo, Choir Boy (Tony nom., Best Play), Lobby Hero (Tony nom., Best Revival), Six Degrees of Separation (Tony nom., Best Revival), Significant Other. Select Off Broadway: I Can Get It For You Wholesale (Best Revival, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle) (CSC); The Lonely Few, Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow, YEN, Punk Rock (Obie Award), A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Gynecologic Oncology Unit At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Of New York City (MCC); Days Of Rage, The Layover, The Substance of Fire, Lonely I’m Not, Bachelorette, Some Men, Swimming In The Shallows (Second Stage); Unknown Soldier, The Pain Of My Belligerence, Assistance, A Small Fire (Drama Desk nomination, Best Direction), The Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons); Choir Boy (MTC); Murder Ballad (MTC and Union Square Theatre); The Mother, I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Atlantic); Roulette (EST); The Hallway Trilogy: Nursing (Rattlestick); The Last Sunday In June (Rattlestick and Century Center); Dog Sees God (Century Center); US Drag (stageFARM); and several productions with The Play Company. London: The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh, PA (Tricycle). Select regional: Berkeley Rep, Geffen, Arena, Alliance, Old Globe, La Jolla, South Coast Rep, Bay Street, Williamstown Theater Festival.

BIOGRAPHIES FOR BAD KREYOL

DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU (Playwright, she/her/hers) is the author of The Detroit Project (A 3-Play Cycle): Skeleton Crew (Atlantic Theater Company, Manhattan Theatre Company), Paradise Blue (Signature Theatre), and Detroit ’67 (Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem and NBT). Additional plays include: Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theatre), Sunset Baby (LAByrinth Theatre), 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) 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 Negotiations and 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).