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Complete Cast Set for Kennedy Center’s August Wilson’s 20th Century

Harry Lennix
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Harry Lennix
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)

Full casting has been announced for August Wilson’s 20th Century, a series of readings of all 10 plays of Wilson’s Pittsburgh Hill cycle, to be held March 4-April 6 at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater.

The event will be organized by Kenny Leon, who will also direct alongside Santiago-Hudson, Lou Bellamy, Gordon Davidson, Israel Hicks, Todd Kreidler, and Derrick Sanders. The creative team for the series will include set designer David Gallo, costume designer Reggie Ray, and lighting designer Allen Lee Hughes.

The series will utilize a cast of more than 30 actors: Jeff Allin, John Beasley, Eric Berryman, Cherise Boothe, Paul Butler, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Anthony Chisholm, Rosalyn Coleman, Keith David, Jason Dirden, Hassan El-Amin, Crystal Fox, Lynda Gravátt, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Russell Hornsby, John Earl Jelks, Ebony Jo-Ann, Eugene Lee, Harry Lennix, Anthony Mackie, Autumn Malhotra, Bill Nunn, Afemo Omilami, Alexandra Brooke Perrin, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Roger Robinson, Dominique Ross, Roslyn Ruff, Montae Russell, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Raynor Scheine, Michele Shay, Heather Alicia Simms, Terrance Thomas, Tamara Tunie, Glynn Turman, Jerry Whiddon, Michole Briana White, and James A. Williams.

For more information, visit www.kennedy-center.org.