![]() ![]() He wrote and directed the indie feature film Escape Artists. He is the author of the full length plays Cincinnatus (O’Neill/ National Playwrights Conference finalist 2022), The Escape Artist, and The Twilight Shopper. Film: Can You Ever Forgive Me, Man on A Wire, The Last Thing Mary Saw, One For the Money, many indies. ” Also, “Prodigal Son” (FOX), “Evil” (CBS), “The Good Wife” (CBS), “L&O: SVU” (NBC), “Hit & Run” (Netflix), “Elementary” (CBS), “Person of Interest” (CBS), and “Dexter: New Blood.” (Showtime). TV: recurring roles on “Shades of Blue” (NBC), “The Blacklist” (NBC), “Damages” (FX), and Adult Swim’s “The Heart She Holler. Hunter’s The Few (Old Globe and Rattlestick), Dael Orlandersmith’s Horsedreams (Rattlestick), Poison (Origin), Sam Shepard’s Tooth of Crime (Signature), Edgar Oliver’s Hands In Wartime (La MaMa), Good People (Huntington), Starbuck in The Rainmaker (Arena Stage), John Proctor in The Crucible (Hartford Stage), Eric Bogosian’s Humpty Dumpty (McCarter), Jean Genet’s Splendid’s (Theatre National de Paris/La Colline). Also: Opus (Primary Stages), Desire Under the Elms (Broadway), The Morini Strand (Primary Stages), Samuel D. He wrote and performed (opposite Annette O’Toole) Hamlet in Bed (published by Dramatists Play Service) which premiered at Rattlestick Theater (directed by Lisa Peterson), with a UK premiere at Pleasance Theater, Edinburgh. He is the playwright/performer of Krapp, 39 (Drama Desk nomination) which played Soho Playhouse, Tristan Bates Theater/London, Axis Ballymun/Dublin, and Pleasance Theater/ Edinburgh. Theater credits include Coal Country (The Public), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate (Signature), Talk Radio (Broadway). Patrice is on the faculty of The New School, where she teaches acting in The School of Drama Maisel,” “The First Lady,” “The Good Fight.” Films written and directed by Patrice: Kings County, NY’s Dirty Laundry, Hill and Gully. TV: “Chambers,” “POSE,” “SHRILL,” “EVIL,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Patrice garnered a 2023 Lortel Award nomination for her role as Nell in Endgame, 2020 Drama Desk and Drama League nominations for runboyrun/In Old Age, and an Audelco nomination for her role in Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven. Off-Broadway/Regional: Othello (Desdemona opposite Sir Patrick Stewart) Pericles with Sir Trevor Nunn (TFANA) Tamburlaine with Sir Michael Boyd (TFANA) Endgame (Irish Rep) I’m Revolting, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven with Stephen Adly Guirgis and John Ortiz (Atlantic Theater Company) runboyrun/In Old Age with Awoye Timpo and Loretta Greco (NYTW). Broadway: Racing Demon and The Crucible directed by Sir Richard Eyre. Patrice Johnson Chevannes is an award-winning, Brooklyn-based actress, writer, filmmaker, educator, director and the executive producer of God-and-all-o-wee Productions and Ubigwitus Records. This FREE festival will bring poetry center stage! LEARN MORE & RESERVE YOUR SPOT Join us at the upcoming 05FEST! Award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams showcases the power of words as he curates and hosts a series of creative and thought-provoking events. The Half-God of Rainfall contains haze, fog, flashing lights, loud sounds and stages sexual and physical violence. The following information may reveal plot points. Obie Award winner and NYTW Usual Suspect Taibi Magar ( Help) directs.ĬONTENT TRANSPARENCY: In an effort to care for our community, we’re sharing details about this production that may be sensitive for members of our audience. The Half-God of Rainfall is a contemporary epic that weaves poetry and storytelling in a majestic journey that transports us from a tiny village in South West Nigeria to an NBA arena in the United States to the hallowed halls of Mount Olympus, where the mothers, daughters and goddesses take a stand against the fragile, furious and entitled gods. And the first time he takes a shot on a basketball court, the deities of the land wake up.įrom award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams ( Barber Shop Chronicles) comes a new myth that spans continents and millennia. When Demi, the half Nigerian-mortal, half Greek-god, is angry, rain clouds gather.
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