runboyrun
March 13 & March 14, 2025
Boston’s Ufot Family Cycle
By Mfoniso Udofia
Produced as an audio play adaptation available on all major podcast platforms by: Next Chapter Podcasts in partnership with GBH
Experience a live performance of the runboyrun podcast at Boston Public Library – Central Library: Rabb Hall & The Huntington Theatre
March 13, 2025 at Boston Public Library’s Rabb Hall (700 Boylston Street, Lower Level)
March 14th, 2025 at The Huntington Theatre 264 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115
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Anticipated runtime: 2 hours with no intermission
Content Advisories: runboyrun includes mentions of war, injury from war, post-traumatic stress disorder, family loss, and descriptions of inter-marital verbal abuse.
Synopsis:
The third play in The Ufot Family Cycle. What happens when a civil war ends politically – but continues inside the body? When does trauma become tradition? Every day, Disciple and Abasiama relive the same day over and over from the Biafran War. The survival of their 30-year marriage depends on building new vocabularies and daring, once again, to live moment by moment.
The runboyrun podcast will be available to stream on all major podcast platforms at the end of April.
Cast & Crew:
Chiké Johnson
Disciple Ufot
Chiké Johnson
Chiké Johnson Broadway: Time to Kill, Wit. Off Broadway: Another Shot (Signature Theater); Ruined (Manhattan Theatre Club), runboyrun (New York Theatre Workshop); Lost in the Stars (New York City Center’s Encores). Chiké is a company member of Remy Bumppo Theatre in Chicago and has worked on many stages in Chicago and around the country. Recent Chicago credits: Birthday Candles (Northlight); Galileo’s Daughter (Remy Bumppo); Toni Stone (Goodman Theatre); When Harry Met Rehab (Greenhouse Theater Center).
Tosin Morohunfola
Benjamin
Tosin Morohunfola
Tosin Morohunfola Regional: A Raisin in the Sun (Kansas City Rep Theatre); Pullman Porter Blues (Goodman Theatre); My Name is Beatrice, The Ceremony (Ojai Playwrights Conference); Lookingglass Theatre, Northlight Theatre, and Court Theatre.
Ngozi Anyanwu
Mother
Ngozi Anyanwu
Ngozi Anyanwu Upcoming (playwrighting and directing): The Monsters (Manhattan Theatre Club’s Ted Snowdon Reading Series). More information available at manhattantheatreclub.com/events/readingseries
Chibuba Bloom Osuala
Brother
Chibuba Bloom Osuala
Chibuba Bloom Osuala Regional: Leroy + Lucy (Steppenwolf Theatre); Nina Simone: Four Women (South Coast Repertory Theatre; NAACP – Best Lead Actress). Education: MFA (NYU Tisch Graduate Acting); BFA (SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory). Awards: 2024 NAACP Award for Best Actress in a Large Theatre.
Abigail C. Onwunali
Sister
Abigail C. Onwunali
Abigail C. Onwunali The Huntington: The Grove, Sojourners. Broadway: JaJa’s African Hair Braiding (Manhattan Theater Club). Off Broadway: The Half-God of Rainfall, for the honey you gotta say when (New York Theater Workshop); Bloodwork (National Black Theater).
Christopher V. Edwards
Director
Christopher V. Edwards
Christopher V. Edwards (he/him) is the Artistic Director of the Actors’ Shakespeare Project in Boston, where he has directed critically acclaimed productions of The Piano Lesson, Equivocation, The Bomb-itty of Errors, and The Taming of the Shrew.
Mfoniso Udofia
Playwright
Mfoniso Udofia
Mfoniso Udofia is a first-generation Nigerian-American storyteller and educator. Upcoming productions include Sojourners (The Huntington, Round House Theatre), and The Grove(The Huntington). Sojourners, runboyrun, Her Portmanteau, and In Old Age have been seen at New York Theatre Workshop, American Conservatory Theater, Playwrights Realm, Magic Theater, National Black Theatre, Strand Theater, and Boston Court.
Catherine Eaton
Radio Play Adapter
Bibi Mama
Dialect Coach
Bibi Mama
Bibi Mama is a dialect coach based in Los Angeles, CA. Recent projects include The Masters Tools (Zora Howard), Blue Door (Aurora Theater Company), The High Table (Diversionary Theater), Kim’s Convenience (Westport Country Playhouse), and Detroit ’67 (The University of San Diego). She is a graduate of Howard University (BFA) and the University of San Diego/Old Globe (MFA) in San Diego, CA.
Emmanuel Sylvester
Vocal and Dialect Coach
Janet Foster, CSA
NY Casting Director
Janet Foster, CSA
Janet Foster, CSA has been casting for over 35 years. At The Huntington, she recently worked on 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.
Adele Nadine Traub
Stage Manager
Adele Nadine Traub
Adele Nadine Traub The Huntington: Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight, Guide for the Homesick, I Was Most Alive With You. Regional: I Was Most Alive With You (Playwrights Horizons); R. Buckminster Fuller (ART); It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues (Capital Repertory Theatre); Preludes (Lyric Stage); People, Places, and Things, BLKS, appropriate, Small Mouth Sounds, A Future Perfect, Tribes, Clybourne Park (SpeakEasy Stage); also productions at Israeli Stage, Vineyard Arts Project, Central Square Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theater, Boston Conservatory, and BU Dance Theatre. Founding Company Member and Stage Manager for over 25 productions at Actors’ Shakespeare Project.
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