![]() ![]() In regional theater, she has appeared in Harriet Jacobs and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Gem of the Ocean (the Ensemble Theatre), and TheStory (Milwaukee Repertory Theater). She reprised her role as Ain’t Baby for the Off-Broadway run at Circle in the Square Theatre Downtown. Additional Chicago credits include The Great Fire and Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession (Lookingglass Theatre Company) Everyman (A Moral Play), Intimate Apparel, Nomathemba, and The Grapes of Wrath (Steppenwolf Theatre) The Snow Queen, The Voice of Good Hope, Eurydice (Victory Gardens Theater) Henry V and The Winter’s Tale (Chicago Shakespeare Theater) and Flyin’ West (Court Theatre).įor her work in From the Mississippi Delta, Bruce won a Jefferson Award for Best Ensemble (Northlight Theatre), a Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress (Arena Stage), and a Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Ensemble (Hartford Stage). Other Goodman productions include The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove Each One As She May Cry, The Beloved Country All’s Well That Ends Well Black Star Line and Seneca’s Trojan Women. She has received multiple Joseph Jefferson Award nominations, a Los Angeles Ovation Award nomination, and an NAACP Best Supporting FemaleTheatre Award.īruce made her professional debut in Death and the King’s Horseman (Goodman Theatre), directed by its author, 1985 Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka. New text and direction by Cheryl Lynn Bruce.Ĭheryl Lynn Bruce’s appearances include Marcus Gardley’s Gospel of Lovingkindness (Victory Gardens Theater), Tarell McCraney’s Head of Passes (Steppenwolf Theatre), and Danai Gurira’s The Convert (McCarter Theatre). For this world premiere, Hall brings together his sextet, including Tomeka Reid (cello) Clark Sommers (bass) John Wojciechowski (saxophone) and Dana Hall (drums, cymbals), along with special guest, actor Malcom Banks, to the Logan Center Performance Hall Stage. In collaboration with the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, The Reva & David Logan Center, and University of Chicago Presents, this extraordinary program reconvenes and commissions composer Dana Hall and writer Cheryl Lynn Bruce to further develop and re-stage “Hypocrisy of Justice: Sights and Sounds from the Black Metropolis,” a project which uses visuals, text, sound, and performance to explore inequities within systems and institutions, along with lived experience of confinement, redemption, hope, and home. buy ticketS to the performances (available beginning august 9th) Performances are happening on Friday, October 7th and saturday, october 8th at 7:30PM. ![]()
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