Tori Sampson

Off-Broadway Review: “If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka” in the Mainstage Theater at Playwrights Horizons

March 10, 2019 | Off-Broadway, pretty woman, to kill > | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Once upon a time, in a not so very long time ago there was a beautiful young Nigerian woman named Akim (a self-absorbed yet fragile Níkẹ Uche Kadri) whose Ma (a stern but loving Maechi Aharanwa) and Dad (a somewhat subservient Jason Bowen) project their own flawed conception of what real beauty is (a thoroughly Eurocentric standard of beauty) upon…

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Preview: Tori Sampson’s “This Land Was Made” at the Vineyard Theatre

July 23, 2018 | broadway company mail, hamilton, Off-Broadway, pass over, the collaboration, this land is made, tori sampson imdb > | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Artistic Directors Douglas Aibel and Sarah Stern announce casting for Vineyard Theatre’s Developmental Lab production of Tori Sampson’s THIS LAND WAS MADE, directed by Whitney White. Vineyard’s Developmental Labs allow a playwright and director to explore a work-in-progress on its feet in collaboration with a full creative team, and include staging and design elements. Presentations are Thursday, July 26 –…

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