Clyde's
March 24 - April 23, 2023
A play by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Taylor Reynolds
A co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre
The Huntington Theatre
264 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115
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Approximate run time: 100 minutes no intermission
Content advisory: Herbal cigarettes are used during this production. For more content advisories regarding this production, click here.
Show Synopsis:
Playwright Lynn Nottage (Sweat, Ruined) returns to Boston with her most recent Broadway hit. A truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at reclaiming their lives. Even as the shops callous owner tries to keep them under her thumb, the staff members are given purpose and permission to dream by the enigmatic, zen-like chef and his belief in the possibility of the perfect sandwich. Funny, moving, and urgent, Clyde’s shows Lynn Nottage’s “genius for bringing politically charged themes to life by embodying them in ordinary characters living ordinary lives” (The Wall Street Journal).
“Critic’s Pick. (A) delightful new play. Though it’s still about dark things, including prison, drugs, homelessness and poverty, it somehow turns them into bright comedy.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES
“(Nottage) fuses her storytelling once again to a social issue desperately in need of illumination… (a) highly entertaining comedy of kitchen nightmares.”
THE WASHINGTON POST
“The characters that Nottage creates are vivid and just as enticing as the food, making you want to follow their stories when they leave the stage. This show is raucous, bawdy and full of surprises.”
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
“…a poignant story about worker solidarity and the meaning of second chances, loaded with laugh-out-loud funny jokes. Under the assured and inspired direction of veteran Nottage collaborator Kate Whoriskey, the play is an absolutely thrilling experience.”
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Please watch and read these additional resources related to the content discussed in Clyde’s
A fact sheet on Mass Incarceration, Reentry and Fair Employment: CLICK HERE
“10 Things You Can Do to Support Returning Citizens”: CLICK HERE
Cast and Crew
Wesley Guimarães
Rafael
Wesley Guimarães
Wesley Guimarães Regional: The Pliant Girls and In Love and Warcraft (ACT), and Cymbeline (ACT Out Loud Series). MFA Program at ACT. @ciaowes
Cyndii Johnson
Letitia
Cyndii Johnson
Cyndii Johnson Broadway: Trouble in Mind. Off Broadway: What to Send Up When It Goes Down (Playwrights Horizons). Regional: Confederates and Peter and the Starcatcher (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); BLKS (Woolly Mammoth); How We Got On (Cleveland Playhouse); Remix 38 and The Christians (Humana Festival); The Mountaintop, Our Town (Actors Theatre of Louisville).
Louis Reyes McWilliams
Jason
Louis Reyes McWilliams
Louis Reyes McWilliams The Huntington: Teenage Dick. Off-Broadway: Coriolanus (The Public Theater / Shakespeare in the Park), Anna Karenina: a riff (The Flea), and The War Boys (Columbia Stages).
April Nixon
Clyde
April Nixon
April Nixon Broadway: Smokey Joe’s Café; Tommy; Cats. Off Broadway: Purlie (New York City Center Encores).
Harold Surratt
Montrellous
Harold Surratt
Harold Surratt Broadway: Impressionism and Serious Money. Regional: ART, The McCarter, The Goodman, The Kirk Douglas, La Mama, Premiere Stages, Keen Company, Urban Stages, Triad Stage, The Denver Center, and ACT.
Lorraine Kanyike
u/s Letitia
Lorraine Kanyike
Lorraine Kanyike Front Porch Arts Collective: Chicken and Biscuits. Regional: The Colored Museum (Umbrella Stage Company), QUOTABLES! (Company One), BLKS (Speakeasy Stage Company), and Splash Hatch on the E Going Down (Central Square Theatre).
Gunnar Manchester
u/s Jason
Gunnar Manchester
Gunnar Manchester is a New York-based / New England-born actor and musician, and a recent graduate of the MFA Theatre Program at Brown University.
Javier David
u/s Rafael
Javier David
Javier David The Huntington: Witch. Regional: Do You Feel Anger? (Kitchen Theater Company), Romeo and Juliet (Classical Theatre of Harlem), A Dollzes House (Signature Theatre), Cold Read Festival (Syracuse Stage), The Rocky Horror Show (Artist Repertory Theatre), Almost, Maine (LA Theatre Center), Commedia (Atelier Teatro Fisico).
Becky Bass
u/s Clyde
Becky Bass
Becky Bass The Huntington: Dream Boston. Off Broadway: Yermedea (La MaMa E.T.C.). Regional: Ain’t Misbehavin (Front Porch Arts Collective/Central Square Theater/Greater Boston Stage Company); 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).
Vincent Ernest Siders
u/s Montrellous
Vincent Ernest Siders
Vincent Ernest SidersThe Huntington: Clyde’s. Regional: Arabian Nights and Mr G (Central Square Theatre); Guided Tour (Hibernian Hall); The Glass Menagerie (Lyric Stage Company); Much Ado About Nothing (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Jesus Hopped the A Train (Company One); Our Lady of 121st Street (SpeakEasy Stage); Monticel (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre).
Taylor Reynolds
Director
Taylor Reynolds
Taylor Reynolds is a New York-based director from Chicago and one of the Producing Artistic Leaders of Obie-winning Movement Theatre Company in Harlem. Selected directing credits include La Race (Page 73/Working Theater), Tambo & Bones (Playwrights Horizons/CTG), Man Cave (Page 73), The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, New York Times Critic’s Pick), Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally (Baltimore Center Stage/Playwrights Realm), Tough (AADA), Plano (Clubbed Thumb, Drama Desk nomination for Best Director), Songs About Trains (Radical Evolution), and Think Before You Holla (creator/deviser).
Lynn Nottage
Playwright
Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage is a playwright and a screenwriter, and the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. Recent work includes the book for MJ the Musical (Broadway), the libretto for the Intimate Apparel Opera (LCT), and Clyde’s (Broadway, 2ST, Goodman Theater), and co-curating the performance installation The Watering Hole (Signature Theater).
Wilson Chin
Scenic Designer
Wilson Chin
Wilson Chin The Huntington: Clyde’s, Teenage Dick, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Romeo and Juliet, Skeleton Crew, Tiger Style!. Broadway: Cost of Living, Pass Over (Drama Desk and Lortel Award nominations), Next Fall. Off Broadway: A Bright New Boise (Signature), The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons), Space Dogs (MCC, Lortel Award nomination), Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi/Public), This Land Was Made (Vineyard).
Karen Perry
Costume Designer
Karen Perry
Karen Perry The Huntington: We All Fall Down; Breath, Boom. Broadway: Lackawanna Blues (MTC). Off Broadway: Raisin in the Sun (NY Shakespeare Festival); Wine in the Wilderness (Two River Theatre); runboyrun and In Old Age (NYTW).
Amith Chandrashaker
Lighting Designer
Amith Chandrashaker
Amith Chandrashaker The Public Theatre, Second Stage, Theatre for a New Audience, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre, NYTW, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ars Nova, Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Atlantic, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Omaha, Opera Colorado, and The Glimmerglass Festival.
Aubrey Dube
Sound Designer
Aubrey Dube
Aubrey Dube The Huntington: Fat Ham, The Bluest Eye, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Clyde’s, The Lehman Trilogy (Associate Designer). Regional: Paradise Blue, The Thin Place, Stew (Gloucester Stage); Simona’s Search (Hartford Stage); The Fortune Teller (Chuang Stage); How We Got On (Arts Emerson); Trayf, Good (New Rep); Clyde’s (Berkeley Rep); Queens, Torch Song, The House of Ramon Iglesia (Moonbox Productions); Vinegar Tom, Monster, Serious Money, Pentecost (PTP/NYC); A Taste of Honey (BCAP); Potus, A Case For The Existence of God (SpeakEasy Stage); Fences (Umbrella Theatre); Downtown Crossing, Vietgone, Morning Noon & Night (Company One); The Renaissance Mixtape (Apollo Theatre NYC).
Megan Ellis
Hair, Wig, and Makeup Designer
Megan Ellis
Megan Ellis Swept Away at Berkeley Rep and Black Super Hero Magic Mama at Geffen Playhouse.
Emily F. McMullen
Production Stage Manager
Emily F. McMullen
Emily F. McMullen has stage managed over 30 shows over the past nine seasons at The Huntington, including 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, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Man in the Ring, The Niceties, Top Girls, Bad Dates, Tartuffe, and Merrily We Roll Along.
Lucas Bryce Dixon
Stage Manager
Lucas Bryce Dixon
Lucas Dixon The Huntington: John Proctor is the Villain, The Band’s Visit, Fat Ham, The Lehman Trilogy, Clyde’s, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Common Ground Revisited, The Bluest Eye, Hurricane Diane, Yerma.
Sondra R. Katz
General Manager
Sondra R. Katz
Sondra Katz is in her twenty-first season at The Huntington. She has worked on Broadway, Off Broadway, and regionally as a stage manager, company manager, production manager and general manager.
Alaine Alldaffer, CSA and Lisa Donadio Alldaffer
Casting
Alaine Alldaffer, CSA and Lisa Donadio Alldaffer
Alaine Alldaffer, CSA and Lisa Donadio Alldaffer The Huntington: numerous credits since 2000. New York: casting director for Playwrights Horizons, where credits include Grey Gardens (also for Broadway), Clybourne Park (also for Broadway), Circle Mirror Transformation (Drama Desk and Obie awards for Best Ensemble and an ArtiosAward for casting), The Flick (Playwrights Horizons and Barrow Street Theatre).
Rosalind Bevan
Local Casting
Rosalind Bevan
Rosalind Bevan The Huntington: Joy & Pandemic, Clyde’s, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Common Ground Revisited, Our Daughters, Like Pillars, The Bluest Eye, (Line Producer); Witch (Assistant Director); Dream Boston audio plays: Echoes and The 54th in ‘22 (Director).
COVID SAFETY POLICY FOR CLYDE’S
Masks are encouraged but are no longer required for any performances.
Anyone who feels uncomfortable can ask the House Manager about alternative options which may include:
- a better quality mask
- a new seat further distanced from other patrons
- re-scheduling for a different performance
- a shift to the at-home Digital Streaming option, when applicable
Any patron interested in attending a different performance will be able to exchange their tickets by contacting our ticketing services staff.
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If on the day of your performance, you are experiencing any COVID symptoms, please reach out to the box office to easily exchange to a different performance or to the at-home Digital Streaming option.
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