Strange Fruit:

A History Of Blackness

by Stephanie Johnson

JUNE 19-27 \ 2021

“Strange Fruit: A History of Blackness” is a commentary of the Black Experience in America. The play serves as a history lesson and started as a poetically prose piece written in 2016. In the wake of the countless deaths of Black men, women, and children, we find ourselves firmly in the throes of a global modern day civil rights movement. “Strange Fruit” shines a poetic light on a difficult issue.

Cast List

NARRATOR / ENSEMBLE

Ayanna Arnold

ENSEMBLE

Robert Childers

ENSEMBLE

Mary Ann Lawson

ENSEMBLE

Charles Planks, Jr.

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER

Sonya Balenton

Creative Team

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Sean Allen Jones

PRODUCER

Stephanie Johnson

DIRECTOR

K. Douglas McKennon

CO-DIRECTOR

Stephanie Johnson

VIDEOGRAPHER

Walter P. Dominguez

STAGE CREW

Members of the Cast

DRESSERS

Diane Bancroft, Patti Campbell, Josephine Mitchell

LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR

Ginger Angstadt

SOUND BOARD OPERATOR

Huey Lee

PRODUCTION Team

HOUSE MANAGER

Sean Allen Jones

USHERS

Cayden I Berillo, Jennifer Tucker

BOX OFFICE

Tobyn Leigh, Tori Marie Stock

BUSINESS MANAGER

Tori Marie Stowick

AD SALES AND SPONSORS

Ginger Angstadt, Stephanie Johnson, Sean Allen Jones, K. Douglas McKennon

MARKETING DIRECTOR

Tobyn Leigh

SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR

Terri Wilson

PROGRAM DESIGN

Tobyn Leigh