Written & Performed by Whitney White
A dazzling theatrical event created and performed by Obie Award-winning artist Whitney White, Macbeth In Stride examines what it means to be an ambitious Black woman through the lens of one of Shakespeare’s most iconic characters. This 90-minute rock musical uses pop, gospel, and R&B to trace the fatalistic arc of Lady Macbeth while lifting contemporary Black female power, femininity, and desire. Directed by PTC’s artistic directors, Taibi Magar and Tyler Dobrowsky.
*Warning: This production contains fog, haze, bright flashing lights including strobe effects, and loud music.
Electric! Powered by White’s galvanizing performance, vibrantly directed…bolstered by vividly expressive performances.” – The Boston Globe
Spellbinding and strikingly original…Whitney White triumphs in this sensational mix of rock, soul and Shakespeare.”
– EDGE Boston
ABOUT THE directors
Whitney White NEW YORK: Broadway (directing): Jaja’s African Hair Braiding. Off-Broadway (directing): MCC Theater: soft | New York Theatre Workshop: On Sugarland; Semblance | WP Theater/Second Stage: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord | The Public Theater: What to Send Up When It Goes Down. REGIONAL (directing): Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Amen Corner | Steppenwolf Theatre Company: The Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Mia Martha Washington; What is Left Burns | The Bushwick Starr: Definition | Long Wharf Theatre: An Illiad | The Movement Theatre Company/ Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company/ American Repertory Theater: What to Send Up When It Goes Down. AWARDS: Obie Award; Lily Award; Susan Stroman Directing Award; Jerome Fellowship; Rolex Protegé and Mentorship Arts Initiative. PERSONAL: she/her | Whitney was a staff writer on the Boots Riley series I’M A VIRGO for Amazon | Her five-part cycle deconstructing Shakespeare’s women and ambition is in development with American Repertory Theater | Training: Brown University: MFA, Northwestern University: BA | Whitney-White.com.
Taibi Magar NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: New York Theatre Workshop: The Half-God of Rainfall I Signature Theatre Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Lucille Lortel Award for Best Revival) | The Public Theater: Capsule | The Shed: Claudia Rankine’s Help | Atlantic Theatre Company: Blue Ridge; The Great Leap | Soho Repertory Theater: Is God Is | The Foundry: Master (NYT Critic’s Pick) | Ars Nova: Underground Railroad Game (NYT Critic’s Pick). INTERNATIONAL: Hamburg Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Malthouse Theatre (Melbourne), Soho Theatre (London). REGIONAL (selected): Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Alley Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, Seattle Repertory Theater. AWARDS: 2018 Obie Award, 2019 SDC Breakout, Lucille Lortel Nomination, 2022 Stephen Sondheim Fellowship, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Fellowship, The Public Theater Shakespeare Fellowship. PERSONAL: Taibi is the Co-Artistic Director of Philadelphia Theatre Company | Training: Brown University: MFA; Lincoln Center Directors Lab; NYTW Usual Suspect.
Tyler Dobrowsky NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The Public Theater. REGIONAL: American Repertory Theater, Asolo Repertory Theater, The Gamm Theater, Long Wharf Theater, PlayMakers Repertory Theater, Trinity Repertory Company. PERSONAL: Tyler is the Co-Artistic Director of Philadelphia Theatre Company | Previously Artistic Associate Director and Director of New Play Development at Trinity Repertory Company | Previously the Practitioner in Residence at the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University | Teaching: Brown University, New York University, Rhode Island College.
Raja Feather Kelly NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: We’re Gonna Die (director) | Soho Rep/Berkeley Repertory Theatre/Theatre For a New Audience: Fairview (SDCF Joe A. Callaway Award finalist for choreography) | Soho Rep: The Chronicles of Cardigan and Khente | Town Hall: Skittles Commercial: The Musical | New York Theatre Workshop: The House That Will Not Stand | Playwrights Horizons: If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (Lucille Lortel Award nomination; Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Choreography nomination); A Strange Loop (Obie Award winner; SDCF Callaway finalist for choreography) | Atlantic Theater Company: Fireflies. REGIONAL: American Conservatory Theater: A Strange Loop | La Jolla Playhouse: Lempicka. INTERNATIONAL: West End: A Strange Loop. OTHER: Williamstown Theatre Festival: Lempicka. PERSONAL: Raja is an Obie-winning choreographer, a director, the artistic director of the feath3r theory, and a Creative Associate at The Juilliard School | Frequent collaborators include Lileana Blain-Cruz, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Sarah Benson, and Lila Neugebauer | TheFeath3rTheory.com.
ABOUT THE cast
Whitney White* NEW YORK: Broadway (directing): Jaja’s African Hair Braiding. Off-Broadway (directing): MCC Theater: soft | New York Theatre Workshop: On Sugarland; Semblance | WP Theater/Second Stage: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord | The Public Theater: What to Send Up When It Goes Down. REGIONAL (directing): Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Amen Corner | Steppenwolf Theatre Company: The Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Mia Martha Washington; What is Left Burns | The Bushwick Starr: Definition | Long Wharf Theatre: An Illiad | The Movement Theatre Company/ Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company/ American Repertory Theater: What to Send Up When It Goes Down. AWARDS: Obie Award; Lily Award; Susan Stroman Directing Award; Jerome Fellowship; Rolex Protegé and Mentorship Arts Initiative. PERSONAL: she/her | Whitney was a staff writer on the Boots Riley series I’M A VIRGO for Amazon | Her five-part cycle deconstructing Shakespeare’s women and ambition is in development with American Repertory Theater | Training: Brown University: MFA, Northwestern University: BA | Whitney-White.com.
Charlie Thurston* NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The Wedge Horse. REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre Company: Here There Are Blueberries. Trinity Repertory Company (selected): Prince of Providence; The Song of Summer; Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage; Ragtime; Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical | La Jolla Playhouse: Here There are Blueberries | American Repertory Theatre: Macbeth In Stride | Cleveland Playhouse: Shakespeare in Love | Arden Theatre Company: Three Sisters | Baltimore Center Stage: The Completely Fictional—Utterly True—Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe. FILM: Finestkind; Boston Strangler; Money Monster; Life Itself. TV: Julia; Dexter: New Blood; Law & Order: SVU. OTHER: Narrates audiobooks, most recently Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead. PERSONAL: he/him | Member of the Resident Acting Company at Trinity Repertory Company | Founding company member of The Williams Project, a living wage theater in Seattle | Training: Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company: MFA in Acting | Cornell College: BSS in Performance and Playwriting | CharlieThurston.net.
Stacey Sargeant* NEW YORK: BROADWAY: for colored girls… (revival). Off-Broadway: Page 73: La Race | Lincoln Center Theater: Nantucket Sleigh Ride | Ars Nova: Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future (Drama Desk, Drama League, Lucille Lortel Award nominations) | The Public Theater: the all-female The Taming of the Shrew; Eclipsed; Two Gentlemen of Verona | Signature Theatre: Big Love; Our Lady of Kibeho. TOURS: National: Legally Blonde. REGIONAL: The Curran Theatre/Yale Repertory Theatre/McCarter Theatre Center: Eclipsed. FILM: Chosen Family (Upcoming); Radha Blank’s The Forty-Year-Old Version; Come Sunday. TV: FBI: Most Wanted; Blue Bloods; Bull; Elementary; The Blacklist; Gossip Girl; Law & Order: SVU. PERSONAL: StaceySargeant.com.
Ximone Rose* NEW YORK: Broadway: Once on This Island. Off-Broadway: Only Gold; We’re Gonna Die. TOURS: Into The Woods; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. PERSONAL: she/they | Ximone is a New Orleans native, performer, and a singer-songwriter (you can stream their music on your favorite platform) | Training: University of Michigan Musical Theater Program (Go blue!) | CGF Talent | Instagram: @SimoneWithAnX.
Chelsea Lee Williams* NEW YORK: Broadway: Death of a Salesman; Girl from the North Country; Oklahoma!. Off-Broadway: Girl from the North Country. REGIONAL: Hartford Stage: Trouble in Mind FILM: Strive. TV: The Good Fight; The Bite; Elsbeth (pilot); That Damn Michael Che. PERSONAL: Training: Florida A&M University; The Juilliard School.
Lizzy Brooks* NEW YORK: Broadway: Macbeth. REGIONAL: Milwaukee Repertory Theater: As You Like It | The Hanover Theater: Julius Caesar | Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Shoebox: A Roadside Picnic. FILM: The Storied Life of AJ Fikry (Hulu/Amazon Prime). TV: New Amsterdam (NBC); Hostages (NBC). PERSONAL: Born and raised in Los Angeles, Lizzy is an actor, singer, and screenwriter | Training: Columbia University: BA in Art History; Brown/Trinity Repertory: MFA in Acting, Directing, and Playwriting.
Keith Rubin NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: New World Stages: Puffs | Ars Nova: 1927. REGIONAL: Studio Theatre: People, Places, and Things | Virginia Theatre Festival: Cabaret. TV: The Equalizer; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt; Alternatino; The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. PERSONAL: he/him | Keith is a screenwriter, producer, and filmmaker | Training: Yale University: BA | Instagram: @keithrubin | keithmrubin.com.
Kanysha Williams TOURS: Amazing Grace, Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie: Starring Indigo Blume. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: American Prophet | Olney Theatre Center: FELA!; AD16 | Round House Theatre: The Tempest | Signature Theatre: Gun and Powder; After Midnight | ArtsCentric (Company Member): Aida; Little Shop of Horrors; The Wiz | Riverside Center for the Performing Arts: The Color Purple | Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre: Sister Act. OTHER: Downstage Center Podcast, streaming on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. PERSONAL: she/her | Kanysha is a singer/songwriter, performer, and recording artist | You can find her music streaming on all digital platforms | Training: The Duke Ellington School of the Arts; San Francisco Conservatory of Music; George Mason University | Instagram: @StrawberrysSings.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
ABOUT THE creative team
Steven Cuevas NEW YORK: Broadway: New York, New York; Dancin’; & Juliet; Moulin Rouge!; Tina: The Tina Turner Musical; Once On This Island; Anastasia; Kinky Boots. Off-Broadway: Days of Wine and Roses, Kinky Boots, Little Shop of Horrors, I Spy a Spy, We Are The Tigers, Trip of Love, Closer Than Ever. TOURS: National: Tina, Moulin Rouge!, Once On This Island, Kinky Boots, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Spring Awakening. International: My Fair Lady. REGIONAL: Diversionary Theatre: Eighty-Sixed | American Repertory Theater: Macbeth In Stride. OTHER: Recordings: Once On This Island, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Monstersongs. Orchestrations: Macbeth In Stride, Gold Mountain. PERSONAL: he/him | Steven is an NYC-based music director, musician, orchestrator, and arranger | Proud member of Local 802 AFM, AEA, Recording Academy, Filipino American community | Instagram: @StevenMCuevas.
Daniel Soule NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Soho Rep: for all the women who thought they were Mad | Brass Jar: Drunk Shakespeare (Volume I–III). The Bushwick Starr/Ma-Yi Theater Company: Exhibition: Definition: An Installation Experience. Other: Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute: Camp: Notes on Fashion. REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre Company: King Lear; The Amen Corner | Glimmerglass Opera: Romeo and Juliet | American Repertory Theatre: Macbeth In Stride; Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic | Centre Theatre Group: Canyon | Trinity Repertory Theatre: Othello | Long Wharf Theatre: An Iliad. FILM: Until Next Time, One Trick Dieter. PERSONAL: he/him | Teaching: NYU-Tisch Dept. of Drama: Head of Scenic Design Training | Training: NYU-Tisch: MFA in Design | DanielSouleDesign.com.
Qween Jean NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: New Group: one in two | WP Theater: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord | Soho Rep: for all the women who thought they were Mad. REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Amen Corner. AWARDS: Obie Award for Excellence in Costume Design; NYC David Prize finalist. OTHER: Museum of Modern Art’s PS1’s artist in residence, co-curating Memoriam and Deliverance | Opening speaker for the March on Washington March for Voting Rights | Author of Revolution is Love: A Year Of Black Trans Liberation. PERSONAL: Qween is a New York based Costume Designer who has designed over 50 shows | She has committed her voice to the advocacy of marginalized communities, emphasizing Black Trans people and she is currently among few costuming professionals in NYC theatre who live their trans identities out loud- and ensuring she is not the last | Founder of the Black Trans Liberation | Training: NYU-Tisch: MFA in Design | QweenJean.com | BlackTransLiberation.com.
Jeanette Yew NEW YORK: Broadway: Kimberly Akimbo; The Thanksgiving Play. Off-Broadway (selected): shadow/land; cullud wattah (Drama Desk Award nomination); Fruit Trilogy; Nutcracker Rouge (Drama Desk Award nominations); Gloria: A Life (World Premiere); The Nosebleed; american (tele)visions (World Premiere); Golden Shield; Snow in Midsummer; KPOP! (Henry Hewes Design Award, Drama Desk Award nomination, Lucille Lortel Award nomination); Oratorio for Living Things (Lucille Lortel Award nomination). REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre Company: King Lear | A Children’s Theatre Company: An American Tail | American Repertory Theater: Wild: A Musical Becoming |Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Nosebleed; BLKS | Denver Center for the Performing Arts: Vietgone; Smart People | Huntington Theatre Company: The Lehman Trilogy; Top Girls (Projection Design) | Two River Theater: Pinkolandia. OTHER: David Byrne’s Theater of the Mind. AWARDS: Obie’s Sustained Achievement in Design, Henry Hewes Lighting Design Award, LIT Design Award (Theater Performance), Bel Geddes Design Enhancement (2015 & 2017), NEA/TCG Career Development Program recipient. PERSONAL: Instagram: @jeanette_yew | JeanetteYew.com.
Nick Kourtides NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Ars Nova: Oratorio for Living Things; The Lucky Ones | Greenwich House: Blacklight | New York Theatre Workshop/Brooklyn Academy of Music: Object Lesson | St. Ann’s Warehouse: Elephant Room | Rattlestick Theater: Carson McCullers Talks About Love | Soho Rep: Jomama Jones: Radiate. REGIONAL: Pig Iron Theatre Company: A Period of Animate Existence; Cankerblossom; Isab
Rachel Padula-Shufelt NEW YORK: Broadway: Waitress; The Glass Menagerie. REGIONAL: American Repertory Theater (Selected): Macbeth In Stride, Moby-Dick, Charlotte’s Web (Costume Design), Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women; Fingersmith; In the Body of the World; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; Waitress; Crossing; The Heart of Robin Hood; Pippin; All the Way; The Glass Menagerie; Marie Antoinette; The Blue Flower; Cabaret; Death and the Powers; Best of Both Worlds; Donnie Darko; Julius Caesar; Copenhagen; The Communist Dracula Pageant | Huntington Theatre Company: Joy and Pandemic; The Colored Museum | Lyric Stage Company of Boston: Preludes (Costume Designer); Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (Costume Designer).
Danica Rodriguez REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre Company: Evita; Here There Are Blueberries; King Lear; Jane Anger; Much Ado About Nothing; Red Velvet; Our Town; The Merchant of Venice. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: cullud wattah (World Premiere); Romeo y Julieta; Soft Power; for colored girls…; Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Park); Mojada; Ain’t No Mo’ (World Premiere) | Folger Theatre: Our Verse in Time to Come | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Incendiary | The Kennedy Center: The Day You Begin | Long Wharf Theatre: Passing Strange | JAG Productions: Next to Normal | The Civilians: El Condor Magico, and others. FILM: Braid of Time; Whole; Six Feet Apart. AWARDS: Theatre Communications Group 2021 Rising Leader of Color. PERSONAL: she/her | Danica is a Founding Trainer with Broadway for Racial Justice Casting Directive | Training: Dartmouth College: BA in Film & Media Studies | Instagram: @danicarodriguezcasting | DanicaRodriguez.com.
Charles M. Turner III NEW YORK: Broadway: Death of a Salesman; The Skin of Our Teeth; The Parisian Woman; Hand to God; The Heidi Chronicles; The Performers; Golda’s Balcony; Metamorphoses. Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater; Manhattan Theatre Club; Roundabout Theater Company; Signature Theatre; New York City Center: Encores!; Playwrights Horizons; Atlantic Theater Company; Public Theater; Vineyard Theatre; Ars Nova; Soho Rep; Classic Stage Company; Second Stage; MET; Cherry Lane Theatre; New York Theatre Workshop. REGIONAL: Long Wharf Theatre; Hartford Stage; Paper Mill Playhouse; New York Stage and Film; Shakespeare Theatre Company; American Repertory Theater; Wadsworth Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, ACT Theatre; Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 5th Avenue Theater, SSC Theater; Cal Shakes; Alley Theatre; City Theatre; Actors Theatre of Louisville. PERSONAL: Much love to Alex & Aidan | Instagram: @veronawall.
Samantha Wilhelm REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre Company: King Lear; Red Velvet | Round House Theatre: The Tempest; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Gem of the Ocean; The Legend of Georgia McBride; Handbagged; The Book of Will; Uncle Vanya | Ford’s Theatre: Come From Away; Ragtime; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; A Christmas Carol; The Glass Menagerie | Kennedy Center: Me, Jane: The Dreams and Adventures of Young Jane Goodall | Signature Theatre: Escaped Alone; Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes | Mosaic Theater Company: Birds of North America | Williamstown Theatre Festival: Mad Forest; Dixon Family Album. PERSONAL: Love to MJEKA. | Training: The University of Mary Washington.
Utsav Bhargava is thrilled to be a part of the company of Macbeth in Stride! He is an NYC-based composer/lyricist, orchestrator, pianist, and copyist. BROADWAY: A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, Broadhurst Theatre (Copyist/Music Assistant/Keyboard 2 Sub). REGIONAL: Real Women Have Curves, American Repertory Theater (Copyist/Music Assistant); The Wanderer, Paper Mill Playhouse (Music Assistant). His work as a writer has been produced at Theatre Now’s Sound Bites X and at Brooklyn Children’s Theatre. He is in his second year as a composer in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States