Louis Gossett, Jr. to Star in Kennedy Center’s Fences

Louis Gossett, Jr. will play Troy Maxon in Fences, as part of August Wilson’s 20th Century, a series of staged 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.

As previously announced, the series will utilize a cast of more than 30 actors, including 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.

Gossett’s Broadway credits include A Raisin in the Sun, The Zulu and the Zayda, My Sweet Charlie, Murderous Angels, and Chicago. He received an Oscar and Golden Globe for his performance in An Officer and a Gentleman, an Emmy for Roots, and another Golden Globe Award for The Josephine Baker Story.

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