AN OCTOROON

Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a provocative new voice in American theatre, brings a radical, incendiary and subversively funny riff on Dion Boucicault’s once-popular 1859 mustache-twirling melodrama.This Obie Award-winning hall of mirrors skewers outdated sensibilities about race and narrative with acerbic humor and spectacular theatricality. An Octoroon is “this decade’s most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America today.” (NY Times)

producing company/venue | University of Southern California

playwright | Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

direction | Anita Dashiell Sparks

scenic | Leah Ramillano

costume | Wendell C. Carmichael

lighting | Jeff Flowers

sound | Briana Billups

stage management | Megan Burns

photography | Craig Schwartz