FOR COLORED GIRLS

Directed/Choreographed by Nigel Semaj

  • Written by Ntzaoke Shange 
    Directed & Choreographed by: Nigel Semaj 
    Stage Managed by Nathan Kaczmarek 
    Scenic Design by: Paul Sweet 

    Lighting Design by: Victoria Ashmore
    Costume Design by: Kati Stankovich
    Sound Design by: Christopher Hoffman 
    April 8-11, 2015 
    Lycoming College 
    Mary L. Welch Theatre 


    Featuring:  Asha Bryant, Hershey Millner, Shannon Goodman, Jetta Harrison, Jade Tankard, Cinnamin Quattlebaum, Yvette Brown 

  • As a choreopoem, the piece is a series of 20 separate poems choreographed to music that weaves interconnected stories of love, empowerment, struggle and loss into a complex representation of sisterhood. The cast consists of seven nameless African-American women only identified by the colors they are assigned. They are the lady in red, lady in orange, lady in yellow, lady in green, lady in blue, lady in brown, and lady in purple. Subjects from rape, abandonment, abortion and domestic violence are tackled.