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Carman Lacivita

Walter Franz

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Director
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For Long Wharf Theater: The Chinese Lady. Selected directing: SUMO (The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse); The Far Country (Yale Repertory Theatre); Tiger Style! (South Coast Repertory); Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular (Contemporary American Theater Festival); Felix Starro, Among the Dead, and Once Upon a (Korean) Time (Ma-Yi). Peña is the Producing Artistic Director and a founding member of Ma-Yi Theater Company, where he nurtures and champions plays by Asian American writers. A 2026 Guggenheim Fellow, he received an Obie Award for his work on The Romance of Magno Rubio. He has taught directing at HB Studio and Fordham University.

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Dialect Coach
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BARBARA RUBIN is thrilled to return to Long Wharf. Broadway: The Road to Mecca (American Airlines). Off-Broadway: The Loved Ones & Irishtown (Irish Rep); minor•ity (WP); The Mulberry Tree (La Mama); Dodi & Diana (Colt Coeur); The Rolling Stone (LCT); Mies Julie (CSC); Boesman and Lena; Master Harold...and the Boys; The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek; The Train Driver; My Children! My Africa!; The Blood Knot (Signature). Regional: Small Town, City of Angels, Titanic, When Elvis Met the Beatles, High Society, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Crazy for You, Da Vinci Code (Ogunquit). Mlima’s Tale (St Louis Rep), My Name is Asher Lev (Long Wharf). Select Film & TV: Julia Garner (Inventing Anna); Daniel Radcliffe (Escape from Pretoria); Peter Mark Kendall (Jigsaw & The Americans); Adam Bakri (Official Secrets).

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Artistic Ensemble
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Dubbed the Ancient Jazz Priestess of Mother Africa, Lady Dane is a Black Nigerian, Cuban, Indigenous, American Performance Artist, Author, Poet, Educator, Cultural Worker, Producer, Film Maker, Dramaturg, a Helen Hayes Award winning Playwright (Klytmnestra: An Epic Slam Poem), a 2021 Helen Merrill Award Winner, a 3x Helen Hayes Award nominated choreographer, and a Princess Grace Honoraria Award winner. She is the co-founder and Co-director of the Black Trans Prayer Book, whose award winning short film, A New Creation Story, is making the festival rounds.

She is the curator and associate producer of Black Trans Women At The Center and is a Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Ensemble Member as well.

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