Daddy wants to give you something, but Daddy doesn’t know that what he has to give is even what you want. So here’s a playlist, America.
Kevin R. Free has been making theater in New York City for 30 years and narrating audiobooks for 25 years. He was the first black man to play Bellomy in The Fantasticks in the production’s 57-year run Off-Broadway. He won an Obie Award as the Producing Artistic Director of The Fire This Time Festival in 2015, for producing world premiere plays of playwrights of the African Diaspora. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile Magazine in 2023. In 2024, his play, Swimming Uphill, written for André De Shields and directed by Zhailon Levingston, received a New Works Lab fellowship at the Apollo. He is the former Artistic Director of Mile Square Theatre, where, in his 3-year tenure, he produced four world premiere plays, including Gabriel Diego Hernandez’s Quarter Rican. The Daddy Playlist is the second play he has written and performed for the HOT! Festival, after having had a blast last year performing “The Bitch Index.“
Tickets:
$20 in advance
$25 at the door
$10 Community Tickets available! First come, first served. (Two per person)
Performed in the Lounge
Kevin R. Free