Sweat

By Lynn Nottage, Directed by Ron OJ Parson

March 9 – April 14, 2019

Explosive drama: still made in America.

Direct from Broadway comes a Pulitzer Prize-winning collision of race, class and friendship at a pivotal moment in America. A group of friends in a Rust Belt town has spent their lives sharing secrets and laughs on the factory floor. But when layoffs begin to chip away at their trust, they’re pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight. “Writing at the peak of her powers,” Lynn Nottage (Ruined) has crafted “a superb, vital contribution to contemporary drama that could not be more timely” (The New York Times).

For more information about the show, including cast head shots and bios, please visit GoodmanTheatre.org/Sweat.

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April 2, 2019: Just Added: Five Performances Of Goodman Theatre’s Critically Acclaimed Sweat
February 7, 2019: Casting Announced for Sweat and Lottery Day

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Download File	Lynn Nottage, Playwright LYNN NOTTAGE (Playwright) is the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. Sweat (Pulitzer Prize, Obie Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk Award nomination) moved to Broadway after a sold-out run at The Public Theater. It premiered and was commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festival American Revolutions History Cycle/Arena Stage. Her other plays include By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lilly Award, Drama Desk Nomination), Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, OBIE, Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Audelco, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Play), Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (OBIE Award), Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Las Meninas, Mud, River, Stone, Por’knockers and POOF! In addition, she is working with composer Ricky Ian Gordon on adapting her play Intimate Apparel into an opera (commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera/Lincoln Center Theater). She is also developing This is Reading, a performance installation based on two years of interviews, which opened at the Franklin Street, Reading Railroad Station in Reading, PA in July 2017. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the Park Avenue Armory. She is the co-founder of the production company Market Road Films, whose most recent projects include The Notorious Mr. Bout directed by Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin (premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2014), First to Fall directed by Rachel Beth Anderson (premiere at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, 2013) and Remote Control (premiere at Busan International Film Festival 2013, New Currents Award). She has also developed original projects for HBO, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Showtime, This is That and Harpo. She is writer/producer on the Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It directed by Spike Lee. Nottage is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, Steinberg “Mimi” Distinguished Playwright Award, PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award, Merit and Literature Award from The Academy of Arts and Letters, Columbia University Provost Grant, Doris Duke Artist Award, The Joyce Foundation Commission Project & Grant, Madge Evans-Sidney Kingsley Award, Nelson A. Rockefeller Award for Creativity, The Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, the inaugural Horton Foote Prize, Helen Hayes Award, the Lee Reynolds Award, and the Jewish World Watch iWitness Award. Her other honors include the National Black Theatre Fest’s August Wilson Playwriting Award, a Guggenheim Grant, Lucille Lortel Fellowship and Visiting Research Fellowship at Princeton University. She is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama. She is also an associate professor in the theater Department at Columbia School of the Arts. Nottage is a board member for BRIC Arts Media Bklyn, Donor Direct Action, Dramatist Play Service, Second Stage and the Dramatists Guild. She recently completed a three-year term as an Artist Trustee on the Board of the Sundance Institute. She is member of the The Dramatists Guild and WGAE. Category: Headshots
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Download File	Ron Parson, Director RON OJ PARSON (Director) returns to Goodman Theatre, where he last directed Let Me Live in the old Goodman Studio. As an actor, he last appeared at the Goodman in Romance. He is a resident artist at Court Theatre,and former co-founder and artistic director of The Onyx Theatre Ensemble. Recent directing credits include Skeleton Crew and Detroit 67 at Northlight Theatre; Fences at Kansas City Repertory Theatre; Five Guys Named Mo’ at Court Theatre; East Texas Hot Links at Writers Theatre (where he is an associate artist); Paradise Blue, A Raisin in the Sun and Sunset Baby at TimeLine Theatre Company (where he is an associate artist), Apt. 3 A at Windy City Playhouse; Gem of the Ocean at Court Theatre; The Who & The What at Victory Gardens Theater and Seven Guitars, The Mountaintop and Waiting For Godot at Court Theatre. Other Chicagoland theaters he has worked with include Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Black Ensemble Theatre, ETA Creative Arts, Congo Square Theatre Company, Teatro Vista (where he is an associate artist), Chicago Dramatists, Urban Theatre Company, Chicago Theatre Company, American Blues Theatre and City Lit Theatre. Regional and New York credits include work with Virginia Stage Company, Paul Robeson Theatre, Portland Stage, Studio Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company, Mechanic Theatre, Center Stage Baltimore, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, St. Louis Black Rep, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, Geva Theatre, Signature Theatre (New York), Alliance Theatre, South Coast Repertory and Pasadena Playhouse. In Canada, he directed the world premiere of Palmer Park at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. He is a member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA and SDC. Parson hails from Buffalo, New York and is a graduate of the University of Michigan’s professional theater program. RonojParson.com Category: Headshots
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Download File	SweatPro01 Kirsten Fitzgerald (Tracey), Keith Kupferer (Stan), Tyla Abercrumbie (Cynthia) in the Chicago premiere of Sweat by Lynn Nottage, directed by Ron OJ Parson (March 9 – April 14, 2019). GoodmanTheatre.org/Sweat Author: Liz Lauren Email: press@goodmantheatre.org Category: Production Photos
Download File	SweatPro02 Kirsten Fitzgerald (Tracey), Tyla Abercrumbie (Cynthia) and Chaon Cross (Jessie) in the Chicago premiere of Sweat by Lynn Nottage, directed by Ron OJ Parson (March 9 – April 14, 2019). GoodmanTheatre.org/Sweat Author: Liz Lauren Email: press@goodmantheatre.org Category: Production Photos
Download File	SweatPro_03 Ronald Conner (Evan) and Edgar Miguel Sanchez (Chris) in the Chicago premiere of Sweat by Lynn Nottage, directed by Ron OJ Parson (March 9 – April 14, 2019). GoodmanTheatre.org/Sweat Author: Liz Lauren Email: press@goodmantheatre.org Category: Production Photos
Download File	SweatPro_04 Mike Cherry (Jason) and Kirsten Fitzgerald (Tracey) in the Chicago premiere of Sweat by Lynn Nottage, directed by Ron OJ Parson (March 9 – April 14, 2019). GoodmanTheatre.org/Sweat Author: Liz Lauren Email: press@goodmantheatre.org Category: Production Photos
Download File	SweatPro_05 Steve Casillas (Oscar) and Keith Kupferer (Stan) in the Chicago premiere of Sweat by Lynn Nottage, directed by Ron OJ Parson (March 9 – April 14, 2019). GoodmanTheatre.org/Sweat Author: Liz Lauren Email: press@goodmantheatre.org Category: Production Photos
Download File	SweatPro_06 Mike Cherry (Jason), André Teamer (Brucie) and Edgar Miguel Sanchez (Chris) in the Chicago premiere of Sweat by Lynn Nottage, directed by Ron OJ Parson (March 9 – April 14, 2019). GoodmanTheatre.org/Sweat Author: Liz Lauren Email: press@goodmantheatre.org Category: Production Photos
Download File	SweatPro_07 Keith Kupferer (Stan), Kirsten Fitzgerald (Tracey), Chaon Cross (Jessie) and Edgar Miguel Sanchez (Chris) in the Chicago premiere of Sweat by Lynn Nottage, directed by Ron OJ Parson (March 9 – April 14, 2019). GoodmanTheatre.org/Sweat Author: Liz Lauren Email: press@goodmantheatre.org Category: Production Photos
Download File	SweatPro_08 Keith Kupferer (Stan), Kirsten Fitzgerald (Tracey) and Tyla Abercrumbie (Cynthia) in the Chicago premiere of Sweat by Lynn Nottage, directed by Ron OJ Parson (March 9 – April 14, 2019). GoodmanTheatre.org/Sweat Author: Liz Lauren Email: press@goodmantheatre.org Category: Production Photos
Download File	SweatPro_09 Steve Casillas (Oscar) in the Chicago premiere of Sweat by Lynn Nottage, directed by Ron OJ Parson (March 9 – April 14, 2019). GoodmanTheatre.org/Sweat Author: Liz Lauren Email: press@goodmantheatre.org Category: Production Photos
Download File	SweatPro_10 Keith Kupferer (Stan), Tyla Abercrumbie (Cynthia) and Kirsten Fitzgerald (Tracey) in the Chicago premiere of Sweat by Lynn Nottage, directed by Ron OJ Parson (March 9 – April 14, 2019). GoodmanTheatre.org/Sweat Author: Liz Lauren Email: press@goodmantheatre.org Category: Production Photos
Download File	SweatPro_11 Edgar Miguel Sanchez (Chris), Mike Cherry (Jason), Keith Kupferer (Stan), Chaon Cross (Jessie) and Tyla Abercrumbie (Cynthia) in the Chicago premiere of Sweat by Lynn Nottage, directed by Ron OJ Parson (March 9 – April 14, 2019). GoodmanTheatre.org/Sweat Author: Liz Lauren Email: press@goodmantheatre.org Category: Production Photos
Download File	SweatPro_12 André Teamer (Brucie) and Edgar Miguel Sanchez (Chris) in the Chicago premiere of Sweat by Lynn Nottage, directed by Ron OJ Parson (March 9 – April 14, 2019). GoodmanTheatre.org/Sweat Author: Liz Lauren Email: press@goodmantheatre.org Category: Production Photos
Download File	SweatPro_13 The set of the Chicago premiere of Sweat designed by Kevin Depinet. Sweat is by Lynn Nottage, directed by Ron OJ Parson at Goodman Theatre (March 9 – April 14, 2019). GoodmanTheatre.org/Sweat Author: Liz Lauren Email: press@goodmantheatre.org Category: Production Photos