Matrix Theatre Company Announces Cast for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Neighbors

Matrix Theatre Company has announced casting for its production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Neighbors, to make its West Coast premiere August 19-October 24, with an opening on August 28. Nataki Garrett will direct.

Subtitled “A Play with Cartoons,” Neighbors examines race relations in post-racial America as an upwardly mobile African-American academic clashes with the family of black actors who have moved in next door.

The cast will include Baadja-Lyne, Keith Arthur Bolden, Leith Burke, Julia Campbell, James Edward Shippy, Rachae Thomas, Daniele Watts, and Derek Webster. The creative team will include John Iacovelli (set), J. Kent Inasy (lighting), Naila Aladdin Sanders (costumes), and John Zalewski (sound).

For more information, visit www.plays411.com/neighbors.