A Global Vision of Black Freedom: a Q&A with Joi Gresham and Nicholai La Barrie
This event is free with a ticket to either the matinee and evening performances, however spaces are limited so please book in to secure your place.
About Joi Gresham, Literary Trustee to the estate of Lorraine Hansberry
Joi is the daughter of the late Jewell Handy Gresham-Nemiroff and the late Robert Nemiroff, Hansberry’s literary executor. As Literary Trustee, she oversees the multi- media licensing of Hansberry’s works and other intellectual properties, is a consulting producer for stage productions in the US and abroad and serves as editor for print editions of Hansberry’s writings. Gresham was Associate Producer of the 2014 TONY Award-winning Broadway revival of A Raisin In The Sun starring Denzel Washington. She was a Consulting Producer with The Oregon Shakespeare Festival for a 2014 restoration production of The Sign In Sidney Brustein’s Window . In 2016, Gresham was a Script Consultant for the Goodman Theatre’s production of The Sign In Sidney Brustein’s Window, and for the National Theatre’s production of Les Blancs in London. After serving as Script Consultant for the Brooklyn Academy of Music production, she joined the Broadway revival of The Sign In Sidney Brustein’s Window as a Producer. Her career spans thirty years as a performing artist, choreographer and college professor in the arts, education, and African American Studies
About Nicholai La Barrie, Associate Director of the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
Nicholai is a theatre and film director, Associate Director of the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and has been a MOBO Fellow. His credits as director for the Lyric include: God of Carnage; Jack and the Beanstalk, and as a dramaturge; Feels and The Mob Reformers. His work in theatre includes: Romeo & Juliet (Manchester Royal Exchange); Tina – The Tina Turner Musical (as Resident Director, Australia & previously West End); Portrait For Posterity (Arcola Theatre); Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama); Grey, There is Nothing There (Oval House), White (Edinburgh Festival); Gob (London International Festival of Theatre); The Book of Disquiet (Blue Elephant Theatre); I’ll Take You There (Gate Theatre) and Chet Baker: Speedball (606 Jazz Club).