STEW
January 20 - February 22, 2020
VENUE
Walkerspace
46 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013
DIGITAL PROGRAM
CREATIVE TEAM
Lawrence E. Moten III (Set Design)
Dominique Fawn Hill (Costume Design)
Stacey Derosier (Lighting Design)
Avi Amon (Sound Design)
Caitlyn Murphy (Props design)
Nikiya Mathis (Hair & Wig Design)
Rico Frederick (Graphic Designer)
Fran Acuña-Almiron (Production Stage Manager)
Ingrid Pierson (Assistant Stage Manager)
Maggie Snell (Production Manager)
TBD Casting; Margaret Dunn & Stephanie Yankwitt (Casting)
TEN DOLLAR TICKET INITIATIVE
Page 73's new Ten Dollar Ticket Initiative makes ten $10 general-admission tickets available to every performance. Any person for whom a regular-priced ticket would be inaccessible is encouraged to take advantage of this initiative. Tickets are first come, first serve.
World Premiere Production
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN DRAMA
9 AUDELCO NOMINATIONS:
MOST NOMINATED PRODUCTION OF 2020
BEST PLAY
PLAYWRIGHT, ZORA HOWARD
DIRECTOR OF A PLAY, COLETTE ROBERT
LEAD ACTRESS IN A PLAY, PORTIA
FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY, NIKKOLE SALTER
FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY, TONI LACHELLE POLLITT
SET DESIGN, LAWRENCE E. MOTEN, III
COSTUME DESIGN, DOMINIQUE FAWN HILL
LIGHTING DESIGN, STACEY DEROSIER
2020 DRAMA LEAGUE AWARD NOMINATIONS
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A PLAY
DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCE, PORTIA
2020 OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE HONORS
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY, PORTIA
2020 DRAMA DESK AWARD NOMINATION
OUTSTANDING HAIR AND WIG DESIGN, NIKIYA MATHIS
2020 ANTONYO AWARD
BEST SCENIC DESIGN, LAWRENCE E. MOTEN III
“Page 73’s “STEW,” by Zora Howard, feels familiar without being cliché, delivering a captivating story that’s intimate, funny, and heartbreaking in equal measure.”
“The new-play heroes at Page 73 Productions have fielded yet another handsome show... a precise fusion of performance and composition.””
Zora Howard interviewed with playwright Jordan E. Cooper by Jose Solis for “Token Theatre Friends.”
“★★★★ Subtly haunting new domestic drama... [Howard’s] intimate 90-minute drama, tautly directed by Colette Robert for Page 73, invites a comfortable familiarity, as though we too were in our pajamas at Mama’s kitchen table.”
SYNOPSIS
In Zora Howard's STEW, Mama is up early to prepare an important meal, and even with her family on hand to help, time is running short. Tensions simmer with three generations of Tucker women under one roof, but things come to a boil as the violence hovering around the periphery of their lives begins to intrude upon the sanctity of Mama’s kitchen.
“Portia’s matriarch is magnetic, with impressive command. Colette Robert’s energetic direction captures the chaos of a home, full of overlapping voices and gusts of movement.”
With rehearsals for STEW underway, including complex kitchen choreography to stage the creation of the title meal, we sat down with playwright Zora Howard, director Colette Robert, and cast members Portia, Kristin Dodson, Toni Lachelle Pollitt, and Nikkole Salter to discuss memories of cooking with family.
“Excellent cast”
Featuring
We asked Zora Howard to illustrate her time with Page 73 leading up to our world premiere!
Click through, or see the full strip below:
“Howard clearly is an upcoming artist to watch.”
Zora Howard is a Harlem-bred writer and performer. Plays include STEW, AtGN, Bust, and In Good Faith. Her work has been developed by Page 73 Productions, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Pipeline Theatre Company, Yale University, and Collaborative Artists Bloc, among others. As a performer, she has appeared on HBO, TV One, PBS, and NBC. In 2019, her feature film Premature, which she co-wrote and starred in, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and will be released by IFC Films in early 2020. She is a member of the 2019 Interstate 73 Writers Group and Pipeline PlayLab. She holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from UCSD.
Colette Robert is a Los Angeles native currently based in New York. Recent directing credits include Native Son (PlayMakers Rep), On the Exhale (Chester Theatre Company), Icons/Idols:outside of Eden (The New Ohio/Ice Factory 2019), Behind the Sheet (Ensemble Studio Theatre), and Mary’s Wedding (Chester Theatre Company). As a playwright, her play The Harriet Holland Social Club presents the 84th Annual Star-Burst Cotillion in the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel recently received a grant from New York City’s Women’s Film, TV, and Theatre Fund for a production in 2020 (co-produced by New Georges and The Movement Theatre Company). Colette is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, a New Georges affiliated artist, and an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College. She was previously an Audrey Resident and Jam Co-Leader with New Georges, a Van Lier Directing Fellow at the Public, and The Drama League's 2018 Beatrice Terry Director in Residence. Alumnus of the Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program, Lincoln Center Directors Lab and The Civilians R&D Group. M.A., RADA and King’s College, London. B.A., Yale University.
