Event

Romeo and Juliet

Sherri Young and L. Peter Callender directs this masterpiece

In partnership with Oakland School for the Arts

Your first sight your first touch your first kiss? ROMEO AND JULIET, Shakespeare's iconic story of young love, passion and innocence, is set in the 70s when the world was changing culturally and socially. But undying love dances in the vivid imagination of youth then as now. Join us as the funk, the bump, and talkin' jive provide the rhythm of this heart-stopping, soul-dizzying story.

CAST
Monica Cappuccini, Prince Escalus
Audreya DeShazier, Lady Capulet
Kai Estrella Kowal, Servant / Peter
Justin Foster, Paris
Gift Harris, Montague
LeShawn Holcomb, Balthasaar
Christopher 'Chance' Howard, Benvolio
David McKneely, Tybalt
Jazara Metcalf, Juliet
Steve Ortiz, Capulet
Wilgens Pierre, Romeo
Atiana Skokan, Juliet
Brittany Sims, Lady Montague
Fenyang Smith, Friar Laurence
Thomas Times, Mercutio
Karen 'KT Masala' Travis, Nurse
Jacob Williams, Romeo

PRODUCTION TEAM
Sherri Young, Director
L. Peter Callender, Co-Director
JP Diaz, Stage Manager
Kevin Myrick, Lighting Designer
Yusuke Soi, Set Designer
Maureen 'Mo' Stone, Costume Designer
Destinee Murzi, Assistant Costume Designer
Durand Garcia, Fight Choreographer

More information:
http://www.african-americanshakes.org/productions/romeo-and-juliet