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Just Before Day
Company
Run: Aug 13, 2025
Staged reading and panel discussion of Theodore Ward’s work. Originally written to be a radio play, following Nettie Sampson, the matriarch of a struggling Black family in 1940s Harlem during World War II.
- Drama
- Staged reading
Production page
www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/spotlight-reading-series/just-before-day
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Credits
Crew
- Director – Charles Andrew Gardner
- Casting – Celeste M. Cooper
- Sound Designer/Engineer – Ian C. Weber
- Stage Manager – Niki Dreistadt
- Foley Artist – Ele Matelan
Cast
- Cole/Bailiff/Voice – Eric Tyler Jacobson
- Ruth/Warwick – Rebecca Spence
- Nettie – AnJi White
- Hallie/Georgia/May/Clerk – J. Nicole Brooks
- Will/Johnson – Namir Smallwood
- Announcer/Judge/Clara – Sean James William Parris
Venue
Penthouse, The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL, 60637, US
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