Adia & Clora Snatch Joy
Ufot Family Cycle Epic Grand Finale!
November 24 – December 13, 2026
Book, Libretto and Lyrics by Mfoniso Udofia
Music Composed by Michael Ellis Ingram
Directed by Awoye Timpo
Content Advisories: Coming soon!
Notable Dates:
Press Opening: 12/2 at 7:00 pm
About the play:
WORLD PREMIERE
Our celebrated Ufot Family Cycle concludes its epic, citywide, two-year, nine-play journey where it began — here at The Huntington — with Mfoniso Udofia’s rousing folk opera Adia & Clora Snatch Joy.
In the marshes of South Carolina, Clora Abernathy opens her front door to a stranger from Massachusetts — Adiaha Ufot — and something unnamed stirs within them. Both are dutiful daughters who’ve devoted their lives to their parents – but as the sparks fly, a life-changing question takes shape: What might happen if they dare to be good to themselves? To wholly experience desire, pleasure, and joy as grown-ass women — for the very first time.
Soaringly composed for a cappella voices by Michael Ellis Ingram, Adia & Clora Snatch Joy breaks new ground while bringing the Ufot Family Cycle to a joyous, musical finale. Awoye Timpo, who brilliantly directed The Grove, returns to helm this landmark production that you can enjoy whether it’s the first play you are seeing in the Ufot Family Cycle or your ninth.
Click play to get a taste of some of the original music featured in Adia & Clora Snatch Joy!
The life she refused to give her heroine
The first time Mfoniso Udofia imagined Abasiama Ufot as an old woman, she imagined someone who had hardened. This was not a casual decision.
Cast & Creative Team:
Kojo
Aniekan Abernathy
Kojo
Kojo The Huntington: The Grove. Regional: Caribbean Calling Roots & Resurgence (Billie Holiday Theatre). TV: Power: Origins (HBO). Education: SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory.
Tracey Conyer Lee
Elder Adiaha Ufot
Tracey Conyer Lee
Tracey Conyer Lee Off Broadway: Chasing Grace, Bedbugs!!! It’s a Musical, Sistas. Regional: Chicken & Biscuits (Asolo Rep, Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar and Grill (10 productions); Serving Elizabeth (Peterborough Players); On the Grounds of Belonging (Long Wharf Theatre); Sweat (Pittsburgh Public Theatre); All the Way (Denver Center); Our Town (Peterborough Players); Where We Stand (Portland Stage); Steel Magnolias (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Building the Wall (Forum Theatre); Dot (Detroit Public Theatre); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Yale Rep).
Shannon Lamb
Elder Clora Abernathy
Shannon Lamb
Shannon Lamb (she/her) The Huntington: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Common Ground Revisited. Off Broadway: Pendemonium (Cherry Lane Theatre). Regional: Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Chester Theatre Company); Murder on the Orient Express (Syracuse Stage); Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (Majestic Theater); Letters to Kamala, Me and The Sky (WAM Theatre); It Happened in Little Rock, Because of Winn Dixie (Arkansas Repertory Theatre); Building the Wall (Academy of Music); Jar the Floor, Gee’s Bend, Mary Poppins, The Full Monty (Arkansas Repertory Theatre); Smokey Joe’s Café, Little Shop of Horrors, Annie (Murray’s Dinner Playhouse).
Nelly Santos-McKenzie
Young Adiaha Ufot
Nelly Santos-McKenzie
Nelly Santos-McKenzie is an 11-year-old sixth-grade student at Arthur W. Coolidge Middle School in Reading, MA. School: The Lion King Jr, The Wizard of Oz. Community: The Gender Reveal, Mexican Folk Tale (Artes Culturales, Hyde Square Task Force).
Ginaylah Nunes Teixeira
Young Adiaha Ufot
Ginaylah Nunes Teixeira
Ginaylah Nunes Teixeira (she/her) is an actor and model based in Massachusetts. Film / TV: Everyday Speech Productions; Hasbro Nano-mals promotional video. Education: Barbizon Modeling & Acting School, with training in acting technique, commercial acting, scene study, monologues, improvisation, on-camera performance, runway/presentation, and audition technique.
Phoenix Noelle
Young Clora Abernathy
Phoenix Noelle
Phoenix Noelle Off-Broadway: The Bandaged Place (Roundabout Theatre Company); Wedding Band (Theatre For a New Audience). Film: The Perfect Find, The Photograph (Netflix).
Elena Rose Taveras
Young Clora Abernathy / US Young Adiaha Ufot
Elena Rose Taveras
Elena Rose Taveras (she/her) Regional: A Christmas Carol (Trinity Repertory Company); The Sound of Music (Theater by the Sea). Film: Titi (short film). Community: Matilda Jr., Frozen Jr. (Rhode Island Stage Ensemble); Miracle on 34th Street (The Arctic Playhouse).averas
Kay Patterson
Wood-Whittling Spirit 1
Kay Patterson
Kay Patterson is a classical soprano based in Boston. She appears regularly with Boston Lyric Opera, Odyssey Opera, Emmanuel Music, and Cantata Singers. Past engagements include appearances with Boston Ballet, Connecticut Early Music Festival, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Andover Choral Society, North End Music & Performing Arts Center, Opera Providence, Masterworks Chorale, Castle of Our Skins, Chorus North Shore, and Back Bay Chorale.
April Armstrong
Abasiama, Wood-Whittling Spirit 2 / US Wood-Whittling Spirit 1
April Armstrong
April Armstrong Broadway National Tours: Ragtime, Carousel. Off Broadway: The World According To Micki Grant [Audelco Award] (New Federal Theater at the WP); Confidence (And the Speech) (Theater One); Tis Pity She’s A Whore, The Skriker (The Public); Extraordinary Measure (MTG); Regional: Sister Act (The Geva); Come From Away (Adirondack Theatre Festival); Cinderella (Fine Arts Center of Colorado); The Scottish Play (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); The Moors (Bridge Street Theatre); Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar And Grill (Providence Black Rep. Co).
Ebony Marshall-Oliver
Adiaha Ufot, Wood-Whittling Spirit 3
Ebony Marshall-Oliver
Ebony Marshall-Oliver The Huntington: Fat Ham. Broadway: Ain’t No Mo’, Chicken & Biscuits. Off Broadway: Chiaroscuro, Festival In Da Back (National Black Theatre); Merry Wives, Ain’t No Mo (Public Theater), 7 Minutes (Waterwell), Bodies They Ritual (Clubbed Thumb).
Lorraine Victoria Kanyike
Wood-Whittling Spirit 4 / US Adiaha Ufot
Lorraine Victoria Kanyike
Lorraine Victoria Kanyike (She/Her/Hers) is a theatre artist hailing from Boston, MA. Her work centers on the intersections of the Black diaspora. The Huntington: Clyde’s. Regional: Her Portmanteau (Central Square Theater / The Front Porch Arts Collective); Young Nerds of Color (Central Square Theater); LIFTED (Wellesley Repertory Theater); Emma (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Chicken & Biscuits (The Front Porch Arts Collective).
Arielle Rogers Wilkey
Wood-Whittling Spirit 5
Arielle Rogers Wilkey
Arielle Rogers Wilkey (she/her) Musical theatre: Ragtime (Little Theater of Fall River); Ragtime (Company Theater); Sister Act! (J-DAPA). Opera: Omar, Romeo et Juliette (Boston Lyric Opera); DIVAS (OperaHub); Gianni Schicchi (Salt Marsh Opera); The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Providence); Riders to the Sea, Dark Sisters, Suor Angelica (Boston University Opera Institute).
Nina Evelyn
Basket-Weaving Spirit 1
Nina Evelyn
Nina Evelyn (she/hers) Opera: Treemonisha (Washington National Opera); A Bayou Legend (Opera Vermont); To The People Like Us, Is This America?, Mother Goddess, Monkey: A Kung Fu Puppet Parable (White Snake Projects); Carmen, Hansel and Gretel (Maryland Opera).
Regina Morgan
Basket-Weaving Spirit 2 / US Basket-Weaving Spirit 1
Regina Morgan
Regina Morgan (she/her) Concerts: Queens of Rock & Soul (Nova Scotia Symphony, Regina Symphony Orchestra, and Hershey Symphony Orchestra; vocalist); To Whitney, With Love (Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, Ocean City Pops, Abilene Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Symphony Orchestra; vocalist); Messiah.
Nicole Michelle Haskins
Clora Sr., Basket-Weaving Spirit 3 / US Clora Abernathy, Basket-Weaving Spirit 4
Nicole Michelle Haskins
Nicole Michelle Haskins Off-Broadway: Cell (Keen Theatre). Regional: The Color Purple (Goodman Theatre, Jeff Award Nomination); The Color Purple (Muny Theatre, St. Louis Theatre Circle Winner); The Color Purple (Drury Lane Theatre, Jeff Award Winner); Hopelessly Devoted (Piven Theatre); Caroline, or Change (Firebrand Theatre, Black Theatre Alliance Award Nomination).
Zonya Love
Clora Abernathy, Basket-Weaving Spirit 4
Zonya Love
Zonya Love Broadway: The Color Purple, Beetlejuice. Off Broadway: Avenue Q, Emma and Max, The Ghost of John McCain. Regional: Sister Act (Broadway at Music Circus); Dreamgirls (Theatre Under the Stars); The Devil’s Music (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); The Wiz (Maltz Jupiter Theatre); Kiss Me Kate (Shakespeare Theatre Company).
Daveda Browne
Basket-Weaving Spirit 5 / US Clora Sr., Basket-Weaving Spirit 3
Daveda Browne
Daveda Browne is a Kittitian-American mezzo-soprano. Opera: Verdi’s Aida (Gateway Classical Music Society); Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites, Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Jairo Duarte-Lopez’s and Michaela Eremiasova’s B odas de Sangre (Montclair Stage University Opera); Menotti’s Amahl & the Night Visitors (Church of the Transfiguration); Menotti’s The Medium (Opera 691); Porgy & Bess, Andrea Chénier, Fire Shut Up In My Bones, X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (MET Opera); Champion (Lyric Opera of Chicago 2024).
Bobby Cius
US Aniekan Abernathy
Bobby Cius
Bobby Cius The Huntington: Toni Stone, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Regional: Pass Over (SpeakEasy Stage); Pipeline (Central Square Theater & WAM Theater); The Three Musketeers (Greater Boston Stage Company); Black Odyssey Boston (Central Square Theater).
Abria Smith
US Elder Adiaha Ufot; Elder Clora Abernathy
Abria Smith
Abria Smith (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist. Regional: Last Rites, Surviving the Nian (The Theater Offensive); Wine in the Wilderness, Elizabeth and Mary, Dressmaker and First Lady (Our Place Theatre); Freedom Tailored by Hand (Hidden Women Stage Company); A Crack in the Blue Wall (Hibernian Hall).
Melynda Davis
US Abasiama, Wood-Whittling Spirit 2 ; Basket-Weaving Spirit 2
Melynda Davis
Melynda Davis is a versatile singer who has performed with leading opera companies and orchestras throughout New England and New York. Opera: Guillaume Tell, The Daughter of the Regiment (Boston Lyric Opera); Vanessa (Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Lyric Opera); Mask in the Mirror (Trilogy: An Opera Company); La Bohème; Suor Angelica (Greater Worcester Opera); Carmen (Brockton Symphony Orchestra with Opera del West); Le Nozze di Figaro (New York Lyric Opera Theater); Pagliacci (The Opera Company of Brooklyn); Otello (Lowell House Opera); Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, MassOpera.
Aimée Coleman
US Wood-Whittling Spirit 3 ; Wood-Whittling Spirit 4
Aimée Coleman
Aimée Coleman (she/her) Regional: Little Shop of Horrors (Greater Boston Stage Company); All Shook Up, An American in Paris, The Little Mermaid, Pippin (Reagle Music Theatre). University: Sweet Charity, Head Over Heels, POTUS, Antony and Cleopatra (Emerson College).
Becky Bass
US Wood-Whittling Spirit 5 ; Basket-Weaving Spirit 5
Becky Bass
Becky Bass The Huntington: Clyde’s, Dream Boston. Off Broadway: Yermedea (La MaMa E.T.C.). Regional: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Front Porch Arts Collective/Central Square Theater/GBSC); Little Shop of Horrors (GBSC); Once on this Island (SpeakEasy Stage); Hairspray (Hanaway Theatre); Aida, RENT, The Little Mermaid (Fiddlehead Theatre Company); Make Way for Ducklings (Wheelock Family Theatre); A Night with Lady Day (Norwich Arts Center as Billie Holiday).
Mfoniso Udofia
Playwright
Mfoniso Udofia
Mfoniso Udofia is a first-generation Nigerian-American storyteller and educator. From 2024-2026, a consortium of theatre companies and activation partners across Boston are producing all of Mfoniso’s 9-play Ufot Family Cycle. Productions of her plays Sojourners, The Grove (2025 Elliot Norton for Outstanding New Script), runboyrun, Her Portmanteau, Lifted, The Ceremony, Kufre N’ Quay, and In Old Age have been seen at The Huntington, ArtsEmerson, CHUANG Stage, Front Porch Arts Collective, Boston Arts Academy, Central Square Theatre, Round House Theatre, NYTW, A.C.T., Playwrights Realm, Magic Theater, National Black Theatre, and Boston Court.
Michael Ellis Ingram
Composer
Michael Ellis Ingram
Michael Ellis Ingram is Chief Conductor of the Staatsoperette Dresden, where he conducts and composes opera, operetta, ballet, and musical theater. Guest engagements have led him to Des Moines Metro Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival, and the opera houses of Boston, Portland, New Orleans, and Kansas City.
Awoye Timpo
Director
Awoye Timpo
Awoye Timpo The Huntington: The Grove. Recent credits include Windfall by Tarell Alvin McCraney (Steppenwolf), The Swamp Dwellers by Wole Soyinka (Theatre for a New Audience), The Wash by Kelundra Smith (New Federal Theater), Leroy & Lucy by Ngozi Anyanwu (Steppenwolf), Syncing Ink by NSangou Njikam (Apollo Theater), Elyria by Deepa Purohit (Atlantic Theater), Wedding Band by Alice Childress (Theatre for a New Audience).
Adesola Osakalumi
Choreographer
Adesola Osakalumi
Adesola Osakalumi The Huntington (choreography): The Grove. Broadway (choreography): Skeleton Crew (MTC). Broadway (performer): Skeleton Crew, Fela!, Equus. Off Broadway (choreography): creation stories and all the important importants (LCT3); The Wash (New Federal Theater); Cullud Wattah, Coal Country, Othello (Public Theater); runboyrun, Eyewitness Blues (NYTW); Good Grief (Vineyard); Jam on the Groove (City Center & Minetta Lane). Off Broadway (performer): runboyrun (NYTW); Syncing Ink (The Flea).
Brendon Shapiro
Music Director
Brendon Shapiro
Brendon Shapiro Pianist and conductor Brendon Shapiro champions the development of new vocal music in both the classical and musical theatre spheres. In addition to The Huntington (Fun Home, The Light in the Piazza) he has served as music director at ArtLab Productions, Fiddlehead Theatre Company, and Woodstock Playhouse.
Jason Ardizzone-West
Scenic Designer
Jason Ardizzone-West
Jason Ardizzone-West The Huntington: The Grove, Sojourners, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, The Bluest Eye. Broadway: Redwood. Off Broadway: Creation Stories And All The Important Importants (LCT3); Blood/Love (Theatre 555); McQueen (The Mansion at Hudson Yards); Syncing Ink (Apollo); shadow/land, The Rhinebeck Family Cycle Plays (The Public); Monsoon Wedding (St Ann’s); Wedding Band (TFANA); Elyria (Atlantic); Good Grief (Vineyard). Regional: Redwood (La Jolla); I Am Delivered’t (Dallas / Louisville); Bliss (5th Avenue); School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Berkeley); Once on This Island (Cincinnati / Louisville); Uncle Vanya (Old Globe); Native Gardens, The Royale (Cleveland Play House).
Sarita P. Fellows
Costume Designer
Sarita P. Fellows
Sarita P. Fellows was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The Huntington: Sojourners, Joy and Pandemic, Our Daughters Like Pillars. Broadway: Death of a Salesman. Off Broadway: Elyria (Atlantic Theater Company); The Ally, A Bright Room Called Day (Public Theater). Regional: Theater of the Mind (Denver Center of Performing Arts); Blues for An Alabama Sky and Sweat (Guthrie); Drinking in America (Minetta Lane Theater); Seize the King (Alliance Theater); Fefu and Her Friends (American Conservatory Theater).
Reza Behjat
Lighting Designer
Reza Behjat
Reza Behjat is an Obie-winning theater artist and lighting designer based in New York. The Huntington: Oedipus El Rey, The Grove. Broadway: English. Off Broadway: BAM, Atlantic Theater, Signature Theatre, The New Group, Page 73, Public Theater, MCC Theater, Flea, Redbull Theater, Audible, Playwrights Horizons, NAATCO, Ars Nova.
James Cannon
Sound Designer
James Cannon
James Cannon (he/him) The Huntington: The Band’s Visit (associate). Regional: Jersey Boys, Fiddler on the Roof, Frozen (North Shore Music Theater); Swept Away, FAIRVIEW (SpeakEasy Stage); The Piano Lesson (Actor’s Shakespeare Project); Next to Normal (Front Porch Arts Collective).
Earon Chew Nealey
Wig, Hair, and Makeup Designer
Earon Chew Nealey
Earon Chew Nealey The Huntington: Sojourners Toni Stone, Fat Ham, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Broadway: Fat Ham (Associate Designer), Macbeth, Chicken and Biscuits, Sweat. Off Broadway: Bad Kreyól, Three Houses (The Signature); Table 17 (Makeup Design – MCC); Midsummer Night Dream, Malvolio, Twelfth Night (Classical Theater of Harlem); Hamlet, The Harder They Come, Fat Ham, Cullad Wattah, Mojada (Public Theater); On Sugarland (NYTW).
Donnetta Lavinia Grays
Dramaturg
Donnetta Lavinia Grays
Donnetta Lavinia Grays The Huntington: The Grove. Dramaturgy: Ojai Playwrights Conference, and as former Artistic Director of Coyote REP. Playwright: The House I Live In: Josh White’s America, Where We Stand [Lucille Lortel, Drama League, and AUDELCO nominee], Last Night and the Night Before, Kudzu Calling. Screenwriter: Hard to Handle.
Charles Haugland
Dramaturg
Charles Haugland
Charles Haugland is the Director of New Work for The Huntington, and is currently in their nineteenth season with the company. Credits at The Huntington include dramaturgy on world premiere productions by Mfoniso Udofia, Lenelle Moïse, Kirsten Greenidge, Kate Snodgrass, Melinda Lopez, Lila Rose Kaplan, Eleanor Burgess, Craig Lucas, Gina Gionfriddo, and Lydia Diamond, along with co-creating the audio play series Dream Boston.
Janet Foster, CSA
Casting Director
Janet Foster, CSA
Janet Foster, CSA has been casting for over 35 years. At The Huntington, she recently worked on To Kill a Mockingbird, We Had a World, Fun Home, The Hills of California, The Light in the Piazza, The Triumph of Love, The Grove, Sojourners, Leopoldstadt, Toni Stone, and The Band’s Visit. Eight years at American Conservatory Theater included working with directors Carey Perloff, Mark Lamos, Mark Rucker, Annie Kaufmann, Loretta Greco, and many more.
Brett Duffy
Local Casting
Brett Duffy
Brett Duffy (she/her) The Huntington Casting Credits: Eureka Day, Oedipus El Rey, We Had A World, Fun Home, The Hills of California, The Light In the Piazza, Don’t Eat The Mangos, The Triumph of Love.
Kevin Schlagle
Producing Director
Kevin Schlagle
Kevin Schlagle has spent nearly two decades as part of the vibrant Boston theatre scene, working on many Huntington productions in 18 seasons including personal favorites The Light in the Piazza, Prayer for the French Republic, Sunday in the Park with George, and The Purists.
Emily F. McMullen
Production Stage Manager
Emily F. McMullen
Emily F. McMullen (she/her) has stage managed over 30 shows over the past ten seasons at The Huntington, including Oedipus El Rey, We Had a World, Fun Home, Don’t Eat the Mangos, The Grove, Sojourners, Leopoldstadt, Toni Stone, John Proctor is the Villain, The Band’s Visit, The Lehman Trilogy, Clyde’s, The Art of Burning, Common Ground Revisited, Hurricane Diane, Sweat, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Indecent, Romeo and Juliet, Man in the Ring, The Niceties, Top Girls, Bad Dates, Tartuffe, and Merrily We Roll Along.
Lauren J. Burke
Stage Manager
Lauren J. Burke
Lauren J. Burke (she/her) The Huntington: To Kill a Mockingbird, Eureka Day, Fun Home, The Grove, Sojourners, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Off Broadway: New Federal Theatre. Regional: Front Porch Arts Collective, Boston Baroque, Gloucester Stage Company, Central Square Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Plays in Place, SpeakEasy Stage, Revels, Lyric Stage, Hangar Theatre, WAM, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Reagle Music Theatre, Poets’ Theatre, Israeli Stage, Boston Ballet, Boston Opera Collaborative.
Ashley Pitchford
Stage Manager
Ashley Pitchford
Ashley Pitchford (she/her) The Huntington: Purpose, Eureka Day, We Had a World, The Hills of California, The Light in the Piazza, The Triumph of Love, Leopoldstadt, John Proctor is the Villain, The Heart Sellers, Fat Ham, Joy and Pandemic, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Our Daughters, Like Pillars, Teenage Dick, Witch, We All Fall Down, Man in the Ring.
D. Farai Williams
Assistant Director
D. Farai Williams
D. Farai Williams is a Boston-based director, actor, and theatre educator. Broadway: The Lion King. Regional: Akeelah and the Bee (Wheelock Family Theatre); Othello (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); The Winter’s Tale (ART); Crossing the Line to Freedom: A Musical Narrative (Castle of our Skins and Boston Lyric Opera).
Dawn-Elin Fraser
Voice and Dialect Coach
Dawn-Elin Fraser
Dawn-Elin Fraser The Huntington: The Grove, Sojourners. North American Dialect Coach: Hamilton. Broadway: School Girls, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Othello, SUFFS, JaJa’s African Hair Braiding, Here Lies Love, Parade, & Juliet, Macbeth, Tina, What the Constitution Means to Me, Once on this Island, Waitress. Off Broadway: Whoopi Monologues, Creation Stories, FLEX (Lincoln Center); Buena Vista Social Club (Atlantic Theater); Richard III, Merry Wives (The Delacorte); Fat Ham, SUFFS, Barbeque (The Public Theater); Nollywood Dreams (MCC); How to Defend Yourself, Half God… (NYTW); Titus Andronicus (Red Bull); Twilight: Los Angeles, Fires in the Mirror (Signature Theater).
Dr. Ayshia Mackie-Stephenson
Intimacy Coach
Dr. Ayshia Mackie-Stephenson
Dr. Ayshia Mackie-Stephenson (she/her) The Huntington: Purpose, The Grove, Hurricane Diane, Our Daughters Like Pillars, The Bluest Eye. Regional: The Ceremony (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, CHUANG Stage, Front Porch Arts Collective); Blues for an Alabama Sky (Trinity Repertory Theatre); You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World! (Company One); SMOKE (Theatre Offensive).
Janie Hillman
Young Performer Supervisor
Janie Hillman
Janie Hillman (she/her) The Huntington: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Oedipus El Rey, Fun Home, The Hills Of California. Regional: Wonder, Gatsby: An American Myth, Becoming A Man, Evita (ART). Education: Stage and Production Management (Emerson College, ‘25).
Marshall Lee
Emerging Artist Observer
Marshall Lee
Marshall Lee (he/him) is a third-year theatre student at Northeastern University. He has developed creative theories on multiple areas of theatre-making.
Special Events:
Coolidge Corner Stage & Screen
Daughters of the Dust
Monday, November 23rd at 7:00 pm at The Coolidge Corner Theatre
Featuring guests from The Huntington’s production of Adia & Clora Snatch Joy.
The first wide release by a Black female filmmaker, Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust was met with wild critical acclaim and rapturous audience response when it initially opened in 1991.
At the dawn of the 20th century, a multi-generational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off of South Carolina – former West African slaves who adopted many of their ancestors’ Yoruba traditions – struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and folklore while contemplating a migration to the mainland, even further from their roots.
Casting a long legacy, Daughters of the Dust still resonates today, most recently as a major influence on Beyonce’s video album Lemonade.
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From Playwright Mfoniso Udofia:
“Adia & Clora Snatch Joy closes out 100 years of storytelling and, by the time it opens, will mark the culmination of 17 years of writing. I am so honored that The Huntington, along with producing partners across the city, made it possible—from the very beginning—for these plays to be seen. I cannot fully express what it means to have produced all of the Ufot Cycle plays—from the earliest, most tender “baby” play to the tried-and-true works—and now to return to The Huntington to mount the final piece: a folk opera. It feels right to me that the Ufot story ends in love and hope, and that Boston will be the first community to experience this final installment. I am deeply grateful, beyond words. I hope you’ll come, share in the joy, and carry a little of it with you.”
From Director Awoye Timpo:
“Adia and Clora continue the fierce, messy and necessary work of becoming—wrestling with who they have been and moving toward their destinies. It is a joy to travel through time in song and text as we arrive at this luminous final chapter of the Ufot Cycle.”
From Composer Michael Ellis Ingram:
“In Adia & Clora Snatch Joy, rich mouthfuls of Geechee Gullah soul meet the ancient rhythms of the Ibibio as two women and two worlds collide.”
From Artistic Director Loretta Greco
“The Ufot Family Cycle has been a wild, beautiful, one-of-a-kind, city-wide odyssey — one that you’ve been on with us from theatre to theatre, falling in love with Abasiama, her children and their journeys as deeply as we have. Adia & Clora Snatch Joy is the Cycle’s jubilant, heartfelt finale. Mfoniso Udofia’s rich, captivating language meets Michael Ellis Ingram’s extraordinary music in a rite of passage that feels both personal and expansive. This production is a radiant celebration of spirit, legacy, and the joy that can emerge when we dare to imagine more for ourselves and for one another.”
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