Roots Tylie Shider
About This Show
Featuring Justine Hall, Kevis Hillocks, Erin Margaret Pettigrew, and Jarvis Tomdio, Roots is centered on a fictional college professor of English, Bro. MoreCourage, who has been promoted to Department Chair at a prestigious university. His celebration dinner is attended by characters from fiction and history who offer a perspective on the intersection between success and tragedy. Bro. MoreCourage, like his unsung dinner guests, suffers loss to achieve upward mobility. But to maintain his security, he chooses to adopt the traits of an oppressive system that his guests confront.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tylie Shider (Playwright) is an alum of The Theater Project’s Playwrights Workshop. His work has been produced and/or developed by: Yendor Arts, Harlem 9, Playwright’s Playground (The Classical Theatre of Harlem), Homebase Theatre Collective, Frank Silvera Writer’s Workshop, New Moon Short Play Festival (Luna Stage), Smorgasbord (Joust Theatre co.), New York New Works Theater Festival, and the Think Fast Short Play Competition (Theater Project) where he won Best Play and Audience Favorite. He was awarded the Drama Desk at Delaware State University (BA) MFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Member: Dramatists Guild of America, LTC Writing Residency [’18], La MaMa Umbria International Playwright [’18].
Daniel Boisrond is the founder and Creative Director of 3:5Creative[s] Agency and Studio.
Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 7:30pm
General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door
Stu./Sen./idNYC
$12in advance
$15 at the door
75 minutes
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Credits
Playwright
Tylie Shider
Director
Daniel Boisrond
Cast
Jarvis Tomidio
Kevis Hillocks
Erin Pettigrew
Justine J. Hall