Toni Stone
The Huntington Theatre
Digital Stream available now through July 14th!
An Original Play
Written and Directed by Lydia R. Diamond (Stick Fly, Smart People, The Bluest Eye at The Huntington)
Inspired by Curveball: The Remarkable True Story of Toni Stone by Martha Ackmann
TONI STONE is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
The Huntington Theatre
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Approximate run time: 2 hours and 20 minutes including intermission.
Content Advisories: Toni Stone contains flashing lights and the use of herbal cigarettes.
Notable Dates:
Opening Night: 5/22 at 7:00 pm
Open Caption Performance: 6/4 at 7:30 pm
Synopsis:
Toni Stone is an ace ballplayer who knows her stats, plus she’s got a great arm. Rejected by the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League because of her race, she becomes the first woman to play professional baseball on a man’s team in the Negro Leagues, shattering expectations and creating her own set of rules. Filled with humor and the love of the game, Huntington favorite Lydia R. Diamond knocks it out of the park with this beautiful, rich portrait of a trailblazing woman. Play ball!
Cast & Crew:
Jennifer Mogbock
Toni Stone
Jennifer Mogbock
Jennifer Mogbock Off Broadway: Half-God Of Rainfall (New York Theatre Workshop); Merry Wives (Public Theatre). Regional: Half-God Of Rainfall (ART); Yemandja starring Angelique Kidjo (Kennedy Center); BDOTJ (Society Theatre); King John, Antony & Cleopatra, Hamlet (Stratford Festival).
Omar Robinson
Spec
Omar Robinson
Omar Robinson The Huntington: Common Ground Revisited, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Romeo and Juliet, Tartuffe.
Bobby Cius
Jimmy
Bobby Cius
Bobby CiusThe Huntington: K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Regional: Pass Over (SpeakEasy Stage), The Three Musketeers (Greater Boston Stage Company), Black Odyssey Boston (Central Square Theater), Pipeline (WAM & Central Square Theater). TV: Pause with Sam Jay (HBO).
Blake Morris
Stretch
Blake Morris
Blake Anthony Morris is a Brooklyn-based storyteller from the South Side of Chicago. Off Broadway: Ain’t No Mo’ (Public Theater). Regional: The Hot Wing King (Studio Theatre); 48Hours in Harlem (The National Black Theater), Byhalia, Mississippi (The Kennedy Center); King Hedley II (Two River Theater); On the Grounds of Belonging (Long Wharf Theatre); Kings of Harlem (Kelly Strayhorn Theater).
Al’Jaleel McGhee
Woody
Al’Jaleel McGhee
Al’Jaleel McGhee National Tour: A Soldier’s Play (Roundabout). Regional: Intimate Apparel, Fireflies (Northlight); Hamlet (Chicago Shakespeare); Graveyard Shift (Goodman, New Stages); Paradise Blue (Timeline), Blues for an Alabama Sky (Court).
Ryan Vincent Anderson
King Tut
Ryan Vincent Anderson
Ryan Vincent Anderson Broadway: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Barrymore Theatre). Broadway Tour: The Play That Goes Wrong. Off Broadway: The Play That Goes Wrong (New World Stages); Scissoring (INTAR); We Live Here (EST); Bright Swords (United Solo Fest).
Anthony T. Goss
Elzie
Anthony T. Goss
Anthony T. Goss Off Broadway: Gong Lum’s Legacy, Cowboy, Black Angels Over Tuskegee. Regional: Topdog / Underdog (The Gamm); Seven Guitars (Actors’ Shakespeare Project – Elliot Norton Award winner). Other credits: Next Door @ NYTW, Gene Frankel Theatre, Metropolitan Playhouse, The Fire This Time Festival, Company One.
Jonathan Kitt
Alberga
Jonathan Kitt
Jonathan Kitt Off Broadway: Boy x Man (Negro Ensemble Company). Off Off Broadway: Becoming Something: Canada Lee, (The Kraine Theater); Blues for an Alabama Sky (NYU Gallatin School); The Mighty Gents (African American Showcase Theatre).
Stanley Andrew Jackson
Millie
Stanley Andrew Jackson
Stanley Andrew Jackson Off Broadway: The Refuge Plays (Roundabout Theatre). Regional: Book of Will, Much Ado About Nothing, Animal Farm (A Noise Within Theatre Company); King Lear (The Wallis Annenberg PAC); Wine in the Wilderness (Portland Center Stage); Battle Cry (Cleveland Playhouse); Three Musketeers (Alley Theater); A Wonder In My Soul (Baltimore Center Stage); NSFW, Swimming While Drowning (Stages Theatre Company); And in This Corner: Cassius Clay (The Ensemble Theatre); Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea (Source Theatre Company); Insurrection: Holding History (Al Freeman Theatre); Thoughts of a Colored Man (Gala Hispanic).
Olutayo Bosede
Rufus, Dance Captain
Olutayo Bosede
Olutayo Bosede Nigerian-American Olutayo is a Harlem, NY based singer, dancer, songwriter, actor, producer and more. Broadway: Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Original Broadway Cast). Broadway Tour: FELA! The Concert. TV: The Wiz Live! (NBC). Other credits: Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, FKA twigs. @TheArtOfOlu
Hassiem Muhammad
Featured Acrobat/Juggler, U/S Jimmy, Elzie, Rufus
Hassiem Muhammad
Hassiem Muhammad Regional: The Tempest (Round House Theatre, 2023 Helen Hayes Award); The Three Musketeers (Cleveland Playhouse); Shoebox Picnic: Route 1 (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Sweat (Pioneer Theatre Company).
Eunice Woods
U/S Toni Stone
Eunice Woods
Eunice WoodsRegional: The Three Musketeers, Twelfth Night (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Acting Company’s 2022-23 national tour of The Three Musketeers and Romeo & Juliet; the ripple, the wave that carried me home and Bayard Rustin Inside Ashland (People’s Light); Paradise Blue (City Theatre); Pipeline (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Ohio State Murders (Goodman Theatre); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Her Portmanteau (American Conservatory Theater).
Dom Carter
U/S Spec/Woody
Dom Carter
Dom CarterRegional: Othello (Dream Role Players); Fairview (SpeakEasy Stage); The Mountaintop (Chenago River Theater); The Light, Twelfth Night (Lyric Stage); Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Fences (Umbrella Stage Company); Jesus Hopped the A Train (Hovey Players) (DASH Award nomination for Best Actor), RACE (Hovey Players); All My Sons (Praxis Stage) (Elliot Norton Award nomination for Best Ensemble), Julius Caesar (Praxis Stage); Romeo & Juliet (The Underlings Theatre Company); Greater Good (Company One); The Tempest (Ghost Box).
Todd McNeel
U/S Millie/Stretch
Todd McNeel
Todd McNeel Regional and Opera: Mr. Popper’s Penguins (Wheelock Family Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Moonbox Productions); OMAR, Pagliacci, Norma (Boston Lyric Opera); Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert (Boston Pops & Tanglewood Festival); A Christmas Carol (Legacy Theatre Connecticut); A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Lyric Stage); Le Nozze di Figaro (Boston Opera Collaborative); 1776 (New Rep); Little Women (MassOpera); Turandot (Cincinnati Opera); Porgy and Bess (Princeton Festival).
James Ricardo Milord
U/S Alberga/King Tut
James Ricardo Milord
James Ricardo Milord is a Boston native and Haitian American actor. The Huntington: K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Common Ground Revisited. Regional: King Hedley II (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Paradise Blue, The Agitators, Cyrano (Gloucester Stage); Young Nerds of Color (Central Square Theater); Pipeline (WAM, Front Porch, Central Square Theater); A Christmas Carol (Underground Railway); The Handmaid’s Tale (Boston Lyric Opera); Anna Christie, Barbecue (Lyric Stage); Akeelah and the Bee (Wheelock Family Theatre); The Good Negro, Splendor, and The Brother/Sister Plays (Company One).
Lydia R. Diamond
Playwright and Director
Lydia R. Diamond
Lydia R. Diamond is an award-winning playwright whose works include: The Gift Horse, Toni Stone, Smart People, Stick Fly (Broadway), Voyeurs de Venus, Harriet Jacobs, The Bluest Eye, The Inside, and Stage Black. Her work has been performed at companies including: The Huntington (Stick Fly, Smart People [Premiere], The Bluest Eye), American Conservatory Theater, Congo Square, Steppenwolf, Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage, Company One, Writers Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, New Victory at The Duke (Off Broadway), Guthrie Theater, Roundabout (Off Broadway), Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Second Stage Theater (Off Broadway), Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, True Colors, MPAACT, Arden Theatre Company, Encores! at City Center (New York), Intiman Theatre, and PlayMakers Repertory Company.
Ebony Williams
Choreographer
Ebony Williams
Ebony WilliamsEmmy Award-winning Williams is known for her work with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet as the company’s first African American female dancer and as a pop culture icon featured in Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies.” She has quickly positioned herself as Hollywood’s go-to choreographer.
Collette Pollard
Scenic Designer
Collette Pollard
Collette Pollard is based in Chicago. Regional: Little Women (Co-pro Seattle Rep and Milwaukee Rep); What the Constitution Means to Me (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); Fannie (Indiana Repertory Theatre; and a co-pro at Goodman and Seattle Rep). Chicago: The Magic Parlour (in partnership with Goodman Theatre and Petterino’s); The Music Man, Beehive, Gypsy (Marriott Theatre); Mezmerized (Chicago Children’s Theatre); The Lehman Trilogy (TimeLine Theatre, where she is an artist associate).
Mara Blumenfeld
Costume Designer
Mara Blumenfeld
Mara Blumenfeld The Huntington: The Jungle Book, Candide, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Broadway: Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square). Off Broadway: Trevor (Stage 42); The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Second Stage); The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center); Lookingglass Alice (New Victory).
Brian J. Lilienthal
Lighting Designer
Brian J. Lilienthal
Brian J. Lilienthal The Huntington: Common Ground Revisited, Quixote Nuevo, Yerma, Awake and Sing. Off Broadway: Cherry Lane, La Mama, 59E59.
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).
Earon D. Nealey
Hair and Wig Designer
Earon D. Nealey
Earon D. Nealey The Huntington: Fat Ham, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Broadway: Fat Ham (Associate Designer), Macbeth, Chicken and Biscuits, Sweat.
Charles Haugland
Dramaturg
Charles Haugland
Charles Haugland is the Director of New Work for The Huntington, and is currently in his fifteenth season with the company. His dramaturgical credits at The Huntington include world premiere productions by Kirsten Greenidge, Craig Lucas, Gina Gionfriddo, Lydia Diamond, and Melinda Lopez, along with co-creating the audio play series Dream Boston.
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 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.
Pat-rice Rooney
Assistant Stage Manager
Pat-rice Rooney
Pat-rice RooneyThe Huntington: Prayer for the French Republic. Regional: Stew, Grand Horizons (Gloucester Stage Company); The Drowsy Chaperone, The Book of Will, Lyric Back Stage (Lyric Stage Company); As You Like It (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Matilda (Wheelock Family Theatre); Torch Song, The Good Deli, Rocky Horror Show (Moonbox Productions).
Lyndsay Allyn Cox
Producing Director and Local Casting
Lyndsay Allyn Cox
Lyndsay Allyn Cox The Huntington (acting): Common Ground Revisited; Our Daughters, Like Pillars; Witch. Regional (directing): Chicken and Biscuits (Front Porch Arts Collective); Tiny Beautiful Things (Gloucester Stage); Splash Hatch on the E Going Down (The Nora Theatre Company). Regional (acting): Fairview, Men on Boats (SpeakEasy Stage); Fabulation (or the Re-Education of Undine), Barbecue, By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lyric Stage Company); Bright Half Life (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); The Three Musketeers (Greater Boston Stage Company); Winter People (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); Caroline, Or Change (Moonbox Productions); The Overwhelming, Leftovers (Company One).
Sondra R. Katz
General Manager
Sondra R. Katz
Sondra R. Katz (General Manager) is in her nineteenth season at the Huntington. She has worked on Broadway, Off Broadway, and regionally as a stage manager, company manager, production manager and general manager.
Roundabout Theatre Company
Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO
Roundabout Theatre Company
Roundabout Theatre Company co-commissioned and produced the world premiere of Toni Stone Off-Broadway in 2019. Founded in 1965, New York’s not-for-profit Roundabout Theatre Company celebrates the power of theater by spotlighting classics from the past, cultivating new works of the present, and educating minds for the future.
Samantha Barrie
Commissioning Producer
Samantha Barrie
Samantha Barrie Prior to commissioning and developing Toni Stone, Samantha was the Casting Director for The Old Globe and worked in the artistic departments of The Public Theater and Roundabout Theatre Company. In addition to producing, she designs educationally-focused tours around the world for some of the country’s most prestigious media outlets and non-profit institutions. She feels immense pride that because of this project, her son Isaac knows Toni Stone’s story.
Devin Christor
Associate Director
Devin Christor
Devin Christor is a director, educator, and producer that focuses on enriching the storytelling aspect of stage plays. Regional (directing): 1919 (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Julius Caesar & God of Carnage (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Into the Side of a Hill (Flint Repertory Theater “New Works Festival”); The Gift of the Magi (American Players Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Beverly Arts Center). Education: BA in Theatre (University of North Texas). devinchristor.com
Alanna Logan
Associate Choreographer
Alanna Logan
Alanna Logan is a 24-year-old Cambridge native with over 20 years’ experience in her dance background. With a well-versed background, she’s studied vigorously leading her to her professional career. Both trained in classical and street styles, Alanna has found herself far ahead of her counterparts, leading her to excel well beyond her years.
Ted Hewlett
Fight Director and Intimacy Consultant
Ted Hewlett
Ted HewlettThe Huntington: The Art of Burning, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Witch, Sweat, Quixote Nuevo, Yerma, Sherlock’s Last Case, Tartuffe, Merrily We Roll Along, Ripcord, Topdog/Underdog, A Doll’s House, Bedroom Farce, I Was Most Alive with You, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Colored Museum.
Kim James Bey
Vocal and Dialect Coach
Kim James Bey
Kim James Bey Regional: Fela! (Olney Theatre and Round House Theatre); Turn Me Loose, Ruined, The Piano Lesson (Arena Stage); Queens Girl in Africa, Blood Knot (Mosaic Theatre); Red Velvet, The Amen Corner (Shakespeare Theatre); Queens Girl in the World, Queens Girl in Africa (Everyman Theatre); Detroit 67, The Scottsboro Boys (Signature Theater).
Additional Staff for Toni Stone
Associate Director………………………………….Devin Christor
Associate Choreographer…………………………Alanna Logan
Fight Director and Intimacy Consultant……Ted Hewlett
Voice and Dialect Coach…………………………Kim James Bey
Fight Captain………………………………………..Omar Robinson
Production Assistants…………………………….Kendyl Trott, Ross Gray, Winnie Chiang
Baseball Consultants ……………………………….Sam Steeves, Alex Richardson of The BASE
Historical Consultant …………………………L’Merchie Frazier
Carpenters………………………………………..Nick Robinette, Timothy Fontaine, Joe Ellard, Amy West, Frida Swallow, Jessica Pizzuti, Michelle Walker
Scenic Artist……………………………………………Sam Galvao
Props Artisan………………………………………….Corey Roberts
Costume Design Assistant…………………………..Zoë Sundra, Cami Wright
Draper………………………………………………..Carmel Dundon
Stitcher………………………………………………….Hannah Klein
Crafts Intern………………………………..Alexander Segovia
Wardrobe Swing………………………….Jennie Stowe Fuchs
Wig Run……………………………………………….Kiara Escalera
Wig Swing…………………………………………………Seth Bodie
Follow Spot………………………………………… Nick Robinette
Electricians……………………………………….Carmen Alfaro, Anna Brevetti, Leo Khomiakov, Brett Melican,
Connor O’Brien, Isaac Roussak, Nick Robinette, Henry Vumbaca
Brighter Boston interns……………………….James Hoang, Ezra Torres
Audio Run (A2) ……………………………..Madonna McGuire
Special Thanks……………………………..Goodman Theatre, Jitterbug Boy Shoes
Emerging Artist Observer …………………………….Julian X
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