THE FORD / HILL PROJECT

 
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PUBLIC THEATER

October 16 - 20th, 2024

 

PRESENTED BY

Woolly Mammoth & The Public Theater

CREATED BY

Elizabeth Marvel  and 
Lee Sunday Evans 

who also directs

30 years apart, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford provoked a reckoning about who is given the power to shape the future of our country by telling the story of one of the most private moments of their lives in one of the most public settings imaginable.

With an ensemble of four actors speaking from the verbatim transcripts of these pivotal hearings, these two women’s stories can be seen side by side in a new light in Waterwell’s illuminating new production which we are honored to bring to two of the country's most prestigious theaters in the weeks leading up to the consequential 2024 election.

  • Director & Co-Creator: Lee Sunday Evans

    Co-Creator: Elizabeth Marvel

    Co-Sound Designer & Audio Editor: Jeffrey Salerno

    Co-Sound Designer: Mikhail Fiksel

    Lighting Designer: Oona Curley

    Props Designer: Faye Armon-Troncoso

    Costume Coordinator: Amanda Roberge

    Creative Line Producer & Associate Director: Maya Davis

    Production Stage Manager: Katie Young

    Assistant Stage Manager: Kate Wellhofer

    Audio Technician: Leonel Mendoza

    Casting Consultants: Rori Bergman + Karlee Fomalont

  • As part of each performance, there will be a public conversation with thought leaders directly following the play - check out the incredible line-up of brilliant leaders.

    WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16 AT 7 P.M.

    • Renee Bracey Sherman, Founder, We Testify and Co-Author of Liberating Abortion

    • Adrianne Wright, Founder and CEO of ROSIE and Founder of I Will Not Be Quiet

    THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 AT 7 P.M.

    • Roxane Gay, writer

    • Ifeoma Ike, author, artist, and attorney, NYU McSilver Institute Fellow, Founder, Pink Cornrows

    FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 AT 7 P.M.

    • Saloni Sethi, Acting Commissioner NYC Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence

    • Alvaro Pinzon, MSW - Director of Respect & Responsibility Program at Rising Ground

    SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 AT 7 P.M.

    • Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, NYU School of Law

    • Alexandra Brodsky, civil rights attorney at Public Justice and Author of Sexual Justice

    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 AT 2 P.M. – speakers to be announced soon

ELIZABETH MARVEL (Actor & Co-Creator) has won four Obie Awards for her Off-Broadway work, most notably for the title role in Ivo Van Hove’s 2004 production of Hedda Gabler. Most recently, she starred in the Off-Broadway production of Phillip Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater. Of her numerous Broadway roles, she is best known for her portrayal of Brooke Wyeth in Other Desert Cities, a role which she originated off-Broadway. Marvel recently starred in the Apple TV+ limited series HBO Max limited series “Presumed Innocent”, “Love and Death” at HBO Max and the Hulu limited series, “The Dropout”. Her numerous television credits include Peacock’s “Mrs. Davis”, Hulu’s “Helstrom”, Showtime’s “Homeland”, Netflix’s “House of Cards”. She can most recently be seen in Blitz Bazawule’s adaptation of “The Color Purple” for Warner Bros. Upcoming, she will be seen alongside Viola Davis in the Amazon Prime Video action-thriller film, “G20”. Marvel is a graduate of the Juilliard School.



AMBER IMAN (Actor) most recently starred as Rafaela in Lempicka on Broadway for which she was nominated for both a TONY award and Drama League award. She made her Broadway debut as Nina Simone in Soul Doctor, earning a Clive Barnes Award nomination. Additional credits include George C. Wolfe’s Shuffle Along and the first National Tour of Hamilton. Recent highlights include Goddess (Berkeley Rep) and Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical (A.C.T.). TV/Film work includes High Maintenance (HBO) and her award-winning short film Steve. Her second short film, Blackberry Winter, wrapped production in April. Amber co-founded Broadway Advocacy Coalition and Black Women on Broadway, earning a Tony Award in 2021 for her BAC work. Listen to “An Evening with Amber Iman” on Audible! @amberiman_ amberiman.com


DYLAN BAKER (Actor) Feature film credits include “Happiness” (IFP Gotham Award, IFP West Independent Spirit Award nomination), “Dream Scenario”, “Shockingly Evil and Vile”; “Miss Sloane”, “Selma”, “Anchorman 2”, “Franny”, “The Humbling”, “23 Blast” (directorial debut), “Revolutionary Road”, “Requiem for a Dream”, and most recently “Laroy, Texas”. Baker’s television credits include “Hunters”, “Inside Man”, “Homeland”, BBC’s “Little Women”, “Damages”, “The Americans”, “The Good Wife” (three Emmy Awards nominations), “The Good Fight”, “Ugly Betty”, and “Burn Notice”. Broadway credits include La Bête (Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations), Eastern Standard (Theater World Award), Mauritius, November, The Audience, The Front Page, and God of Carnage. He appeared Off-Broadway in Not About Heroes (Obie Award), Sea of Tranquility, Homebody/ Kabul, Medea at BAM, and Corruption.


ERIC BERRYMAN (Actor) is a Baltimore born, Brooklyn based actor who is involved in work he believes his great-grandmother would dig. On stage he was last seen Off-Broadway in Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me (Wooster Group). On screen, “Atlanta” (FX) portraying “short lived Disney CEO” Thomas Washington. Other Select Theatrical Credits: The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons” A Record Album Interpretation (Wooster Group-Drama Desk Nomination); Pulitzer Prize winner Primary Trust (Audelco Award), Toni Stone (Roundabout); Detroit Red (ArtsEmerson-Elliot Norton Award); Private (Mosaic Theater); Scene Partners (Vineyard Theater), Moby Dick, A Musical Reckoning (A.R.T.); Steel Hammer (SITI COMPANY). Recent Film/TV credits: “Godfather of Harlem” (Epix/MGM+), “Ramy” (HULU), “Bonding,” “Marriage Story” (NETFLIX); “Evil” (PARAMOUNT+); “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, “Empathy Inc” (AMAZON); “Motherless Brooklyn.” Training: Carnegie Mellon University.


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The Tony Award®-winning Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company creates badass theatre that highlights the stunning, challenging, and tremendous complexity of our world. For over 40 years, Woolly has maintained a high standard of artistic rigor while simultaneously daring to take risks, innovate, and push beyond perceived boundaries. One of the few remaining theatres in the country to maintain a company of artists, Woolly serves an essential research and development role within the American theatre. Plays premiered here have gone on to productions at hundreds of theatres all over the world and have had lasting impacts on the field. Currently co-led by Artistic Director Maria Manuela Goyanes and Managing Director Kimberly E. Douglas, Woolly is located in Washington, DC, equidistant from the Capitol and the White House. This unique location influences Woolly’s investment in actively working towards an equitable, participatory, and creative democracy.

The Public Theater continues the work of its visionary founder Joe Papp as a civic institution engaging, both on-stage and off, with some of the most important ideas and social issues of today. Conceived over 60 years ago as one of the nation’s first nonprofit theaters, The Public has long operated on the principles that theater is an essential cultural force and that art and culture belong to everyone. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham, The Public’s wide breadth of programming includes an annual season of new work at its landmark home at Astor Place, Free Shakespeare in the Park at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park, the Mobile Unit touring throughout New York City’s five boroughs, Public Lab, Public Works, Public Shakespeare Initiative, and Joe’s Pub. Since premiering HAIR in 1967, The Public continues to create the canon of American Theater and is currently represented on Broadway by the Tony Award-winning musicals Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Suffs by Shaina Taub, and Hell’s Kitchen by Alicia Keys and Kristoffer Diaz. Their programs and productions can also be seen regionally across the country and around the world. The Public has received 64 Tony Awards, 194 Obie Awards, 62 Drama Desk Awards, 61 Lortel Awards, 36 Outer Critic Circle Awards, 13 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards, 65 AUDELCO Awards, 6 Antonyo Awards, and 6 Pulitzer Prizes.