Moonlight Schooner
By Kanika Ambrose
STARRING
Nehassaiu deGannes, danjelani ellis, Daren A. Herbert, Tony Ofori, and Jamie Robinson,
Dir: Sabryn Rock
A group of stranded Black Caribbean sailors in St. Kitts on May Day, 1958, who spend a night of revelry while confronting the looming impacts of colonialism, imperialism, and their dreams of migrating to England for a better life, exploring themes of identity, history, and the fractured promises of the Windrush generation through rich Caribbean dialect and blending celebration with poignant reality.
2025
Fat Ham
By James Ijames
STARRING
Peter Fernandes, David Alan Anderson , Raven Dauda, Nehassaiu deGannes, Virgilia Griffith, Tawiah M'Carthy , and Tony Ofori
Dir: Philip Akin
A modern, queer, Black American retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet, set at a family barbecue in the South where the ghost of Juicy's father appears, demanding vengeance on his uncle, who married Juicy's mother and murdered him, forcing Juicy to confront family trauma, his own identity, and the choice between a tragic revenge or embracing queer joy and life.
2025
A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney
By Lucas Hnath
STARRING
Diego Matamoros, Anand Rajaram, Tony Ofori, and Katherine Cullen
Dir: Mitch Cushman
A dark, experimental comedy that focuses on a fictionalized, egomaniacal Walt Disney in his final days as he attempts to control his legacy and conquer mortality. The play is presented as a "public reading" of a screenplay Walt has supposedly written about his own death, with himself and his family members as the "actors
2024
Three Sisters
By Inua Ellams
STARRING
Akosua Amo-Adem, Virgilia Griffith, Daren A. Herbert, Sterling Jarvis, JD Leslie Tawiah Ben M’carthy, Ngabo Nabea, Tony Ofori, Oyin Oladejo, Makambe K. Simamba, Ordena Stephens-Thompson, Amaka Umeh
Dir: Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu
Setting it in 1960s Nigeria on the cusp of the Biafran Civil War, following sisters Lolo, Nne Chukwu, and Udo as they grieve their father and long to return to cosmopolitan Lagos, only to find their lives irrevocably changed by the encroaching conflict, exploring themes of colonialism, identity, and resilience through their personal struggles against a backdrop of national upheaval.
2024
WILDWOMAN
By Kat Sandler
STARRING
Rosemary Dunsmore, Dan Mousseau, Rose Napoli, Tony Ofori, and Gabriella Sundar Singh
Dir: Kat Sandler
Based on the true story that inspired Beauty and the Beast, WILDWOMAN examines the lives of three women as they wrestle for survival and legacy in the 16th-century French court of King Henry II.
Newly arrived in France, queen-to-be Catherine de’ Medici must contend with her unruly husband, a scheming maidservant, and the king’s much older mistress — all while struggling to give the kingdom what it needs most: an heir. But it’s Pete, a “wildman” kept in a cage for the king’s amusement, who has the most surprising impact.
2024
Fall On Your Knees
By Hannah Moscovitch
STARRING
Tim Campbell, Janelle Cooper, Diane Flacks, Eva Foote, Deborah Hay, Samantha Hill, Drew Moore, Tony Ofori, Cara Rebecca, Dakota Jamal Wellman, Maryem Tollar, Amaka Umeh, Jenny L. Wright, Antoine Yared, Kira Chisholm, and Naomi Ngebulana
Dir: Alisa Palmer
A sprawling, music-driven, two-part play about the secrets, incest, love, and trauma within the Piper family in Cape Breton, tracing generations from WWI to the jazz age through the lives of four sisters as they uncover shocking truths about their parents, James and Materia, and confront racism and abuse in a tale of sin, guilt, and potential redemption
2023
Pipeline
By Dominique Morisseau
STARRING
Akos Amo-Adem Tony Ofori, Chelsea Russell, Kristen Thoman, Kevin Hanchard & Mazin Elsadig
Dir: Weyni Mengesha
A mother's hopes for her son clash with an educational system rigged against him in PIPELINE, the riveting new play by Dominique Morisseau (Skeleton Crew). Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they'll never have.
2022
Serving Elizabeth
By Marcia Johnson
STARRING
ALLISON EDWARDS, MARCIA JOHNSON Mercy, AMANDA LISMAN, TONY OFORI, GEOFFREY POUNSETT
Dir: LEAH-SIMONE BOWEN
Serving Elizabeth begins in Kenya in 1952, during the fateful royal visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. Mercy, a restaurant owner, is approached to cook for the royal couple. As a staunch anti-monarchist, how can she take the job? Decades later, Tia, a Kenyan-Canadian film student interning in the London office of a production company doing a series about Queen Elizabeth, discovers that there may be more to the story of the royal visit than we have been led to believe. Although she’s been a fan of princesses all her life, Tia learns that fairy tales and real life are very different things.
Serving Elizabeth is a funny, fresh, and topical play about colonialism, monarchy, and who is serving whom — or what.
2020
Copy That
By Jason Sherman
STARRING
Emma Ferreira, Janet-Laine Green, Jeff Lillico, Tony Ofori & Richard Waugh
Dir: Jamie Robinson
Copy That takes us behind the scenes of network television. Four writers struggle to get their new cop show approved for production. When the team’s only Black writer is roughed up by an actual cop, the fallout threatens to not only kill the show, but expose the systemic racism at the heart of popular entertainment itself.
2020