Written and Performed by Gerrad Alex Taylor

Director: Nigel Semaj

Assistant Director: La’Trelle Jamez

Stage Manager: Megan Eich

Scenic Designer: Oscar Escobedo

Properties Designer: Tessara Morgan - Farley

Sound Designer: Cheryl J. Williams

Lighting Designer: Dean Leong

Projections Designer: Nigel Semaj

A fierce and funny solo show devised by Perisphere Co-Artistic Director, Gerrad Alex Taylor. I Know How To Curse: a re-blackening of Shakespeare confronts the legacy of minstrelsy in American theater. Using the structure of a minstrel show to critique the casting politics of the classical canon, the play interrogates how Black actors are seen—and unseen—onstage. A radical blend of Shakespeare, satire, and self-reflection, it reclaims space for Black artists in the roles we’re too often denied.

Part manifesto, part mirror, and fully unflinching, this play is a reclamation—a re-blackening—of Shakespeare and the stages that keep rewriting the same story.