Bad Kreyòl
World Premiere
written by Dominique Morisseau
directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene
OFF-BROADWAY AT
The Pershing Square Signature Center
2024-2025 Season
Signature Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club present Dominique Morisseau's (Confederates, Paradise Blue, Sunset Baby at Signature; Skeleton Crew at MTC) beautiful world premiere play about interrogating cultural identity and global impact. Simone, first-generation Haitian American, and her cousin Gigi, Haitian-born and raised, reunite to honor their grandmother's dying wish for them to reconnect. Simone's pilgrimage back to her ancestral homeland forces both cousins to confront their differing world views.
Cast
Pascale Armand
Gigi
Broadway: Eclipsed (2016 Tony nominee, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role), The Trip to Bountiful with the late Ms. Cicely Tyson. Other theater: Merry Wives, A Raisin in the Sun, Piano Lesson, Jitney, Gem of the Ocean, Ruined, The Convert (2012 LA Ovation Award, Best Leading Actress). TV: “East New York,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Chicago Med,” “Prodigal Son,” “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” QSTC core member. NYU Graduate Acting Program alumna. Currently expanding her artistry into writing and directing.
Fedna Jacquet
Lovelie
Actor/writer/director Fedna Jacquet was born in Boston to Haitian parents. She recently starred as Passenger 1 in the Tony-nominated Ain’t No Mo on Broadway. She is a 2023/2024 Primary Stages fellow (DSNAWG), a CRNY Artist, and the 2020-2024 National Black Theatre Playwright in Residence. Fedna was a 2021-2022 Inaugural Still I Rise Documentary Fellow, a 2019-2022 Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow, and a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting. Written work for the screen includes Isaiah (ABFF/TVOne Screenplay Competition Finalist), Homebase (Juilliard/NYU Showcase), Inheritance (Tribeca/Chanel Through Her Lens Finalist, 2021 Urbanworld Film Festival), Circus (2020 HollyShorts Quarterfinalist) and Going Home. She has written two pilots: Model Minority and Pefeksyon. Written plays include Black Mother Lost Daughter, Pefeksyon, Inheritance, Civic Duty, Girlfriend, and Heroes. Her short films include “Chante Maman Mwen” (My Mother’s Song) (premiered at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival) and “Murika” (premiered at the Brooklyn Film Festival). Fedna is currently recurring on “FBI: Most Wanted” (CBS). BA: Brown University. MFA: NYU/Tisch Grad Acting.
Andy Lucien
Thomas
Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theatre, The Lark, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Rattlestick Theater. Appearances at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Studio Theater. Film: Seven Lovers (Premiere Digital Services, Quiver), Vox Lux (Neon). TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon Prime), “The Blacklist” (NBC), “Marvel’s Daredevil” (Netflix), “Elementary” (CBS), “Madam Secretary” (CBS). Co-produced and starred in the film Pretty Doesn’t Hurt, which was selected as part of the SoHo Film Fest (Audience Award Nominee) and Idyllwild Film Festival where it received various nominations including a Best Actor Nomination.
Kelly McCreary
Simone
Best known for her work as Dr. Maggie Pierce on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy.” Prior to joining the cast in Season 10, she had appeared on television in “Scandal,” “Castle,” “Emily Owens M.D.,” “White Collar,” “Rubicon,” and more. On the big screen, McCreary portrayed Eartha Kitt in the film, Life opposite Dane DeHaan and Robert Pattinson. Other film credits include 88; Baby, Baby, Baby; Being Flynn; and How To Follow Strangers. McCreary has produced and starred in the short films, “A Cohort of Guests” and “The Middle Game,” as well as the narrative podcast, Wednesday Morning. Select stage credits include Passing Strange on Broadway, Intimate Apparel at Bay Street Theater, as well as Morisseau’s earlier works Skeleton Crew at The Geffen Playhouse and Follow Me to Nellie’s at Kean Stage. McCreary is an alumna of Barnard College, and trained at the Chautauqua Conservatory Theater Company, British American Drama Academy in London, and The Actors Center in New York.
Jude Tibeau
Pita
Regional theater credits include: What Will Happen To All That Beauty (CATF); The Hot Wing King (Baltimore Center Stage); Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew (The Old Globe); Brother Toad (KC Rep); and Ruined (Arena Stage). Television: “Elementary,” “Happy!” Education: The Old Globe Theatre’s M.F.A. program and B.F.A in Musical Theatre from Howard University.
Pascale Armand
Gigi
Fedna Jacquet
Lovelie
Andy Lucien
Thomas
Kelly McCreary
Simone
Jude Tibeau
Pita
Creative
Dominique Morisseau
Playwright
(Playwright, she/her/hers) is the author of The Detroit Project (A 3-Play Cycle): Skeleton Crew (Atlantic Theater Company, Manhattan Theatre Club), Paradise Blue (Signature Theatre), and Detroit ’67 (Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem and NBT). Additional plays include: Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater), Sunset Baby (LAByrinth Theater), Blood at the Root (National Black Theatre), and Follow Me To Nellie’s (Premiere Stages). She is also the TONY Award ® -nominated book writer on the Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations (Imperial Theatre). TV/Film projects: She most recently served as Co-Producer on the Showtime series “Shameless.” She’s currently developing projects with Netflix, HBO, and A24, and wrote the film adaptation of the documentary Step for Fox Searchlight. Awards include: Spirit of Detroit Award, PoNY Fellowship, Sky-Cooper Prize, TEER Trailblazer Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Audelco Awards, NBFT August Wilson Playwriting Award, Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, OBIE Award (2), and the Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, named one of Variety’s Women of Impact for 2017-18 and a recipient of the 2018 MacArthur Genius Grant. Twitter and IG: @domorisseau
Tiffany Nichole Greene
Director
Tiffany Nichole Greene (Director) is just thrilled to be in collaboration with Signature Theatre and MTC.
Tiffany is a leader, creator, and aggressive explorer of humanity in its most tender moments. She holds an MFA in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep, where her hunger for a deeper involvement in story-building began. While in graduate school, Tiffany began to cultivate the skills of a great director. She became a mad scientist in her pursuit of opportunities to observe, investigate, explore, and experiment with her newly defined artistry.
Tiffany is now a two time NYTimes Critics Pick, Lincoln Center Directors Lab Alum, Soho Rep Directors Lab Alum, two-time Drama League Finalist, and a proud member
of SDC. While Tiffany works on a great variety of genres in theatres across the nation, she is particularly dedicated to the continued development of new works and the play development process.
A few of her most recent credits include a developmental production of Kristen Adele Calhoun’s blood work at National Black Theatre; Black Cypress Bayou at Geffen Playhouse; world premiere of York Walker’s Covenant with Roundabout Theatre Company (New York Times Critic’s Pick); Jonathan Larson’s Rent at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; world premiere of Steph Del Rosso’s 53% Of at Second Stage Theater; Invincible, a new musical, at The Wallis Annenberg, working alongside Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo; Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders at the Goodman Theatre; Lydia R. Diamond’s Whiterly Negotiationsand Lynn Nottage’s What Are The Things I Need To Remember with Octopus Theatricals (New York Times Critic’s Pick); and Hamilton (National Tour Resident Director).
Dominique Morisseau
Playwright
Tiffany Nichole Greene
Director