Help
The Shed
Previews Began: March 15, 2022
Opening Night: March 24, 2022
Closing Night: April 10, 2022
Playwright: Claudia Rankine
Music: JJJJJerome Ellis
James Harrison Monaco
The Narrator, a Black woman who recounts Rankine’s real-life conversations with white people that take place in transitional spaces like airports. As the stories unfold through monologues and staged scenarios, Help explores how these conversations can go right, wrong, or raise new questions about our fragile democracy.
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
April Matthis Narrator
Jess Barbagallo White Man #7
David Beach White Man #4
Tina Benko White Woman #1
Charlotte Bydwell White Woman #2
Zach McNally White Man #6
Joseph Medeiros White Man #3
Tom O’Keefe White Man #1
Rory Scholl White Man #9
John Selya White Man #5
Jeremy Webb White Man #2
Nick Wyman White Man #8
Understudies: Matthew Russell (Ensemble), Charlette Speigner (Narrator)