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Broadway player heads local ‘Osage’
Suzanne Marley, who was understudy to Tony Award winner Deanna Dunagan in the Broadway production, will play the pivotal role of Violet in the local premiere of the prize-winning Tracy Letts drama “August: Osage County.”
Casting has been announced for the joint production by The Human Race Theatre Company and Wright State University Theatre. Seven professionals and six students are included in the first-time collaboration.
Others will be: Scott Stoney as Violet’s husband Beverly, Kristie Berger of Chicago, Brian David Evans (who appeared several times on Dave Chappelle’s Comedy Central show), Bill Simmons of Indianapolis, Rainbow Dickerson as the maid Johnna (which she understudied on Broadway), Cincinnati actor Daniel Britt and WSU students Maddie Casto, Chelsey Cavender, Jason David Collins, Kelsey Hopkins, Greg Mallios and Alex Sunderhaus.
Marsha Hanna will co-direct with Stoney. Performances will be Sept. 23-Oct. 10 at WSU.
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