Playing Mas
Celebrating the annual West Indian Parade, best friends/sistas-from-another-mista Danisha and Kalisa-Ann try to unplug from the corporate world to enjoy their traditions of elaborate Mas costumes, beef patties, rum punch, and more! But a big surprise will change their lives and friendship in the best way possible. Playwright Fedna Jacquet says “these women represent the multiple layers that create who we are.”
Meet the Cast & Creatives
Cast
Becky Bass
Danisha
Becky Bass
Becky Bass The Huntington: Dream Boston. Off Broadway: Yermedea (La MaMa E.T.C.). Regional: Ain’t Misbehavin (Front Porch Arts Collective/Central Square Theater/Greater Boston Stage Company); Once on this Island (SpeakEasy Stage); Hairspray (Hanaway Theatre); Aida, RENT, The Little Mermaid (Fiddlehead Theatre Company); Make Way for Ducklings (Wheelock Family Theatre); A Night with Lady Day (Norwich Arts Center, as Billie Holiday).
Shannon Lamb
Kalisa-Ann
Shannon Lamb
Shannon Lamb (she/her) made her Huntington debut in Common Ground Revisited. Selected theatre credits: Letters to Kamala (WAM), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (UMASS Theater), It Happened in Little Rock, Because of Winn Dixie (Arkansas Repertory Theatre), Temptation in Pendemoniun (Cherry Lane Theatre), NYC (world premiere); Building The Wall at Academy of Music (rolling world premiere); Jar the Floor, Gee’s Bend, Mary Poppins, and The Full Monty at Arkansas Repertory Theatre; Smokey Joe’s Café, Little Shop of Horrors, and Annie at Murray’s Dinner Playhouse.
Creatives
Fedna Jacquet
Playwright
Fedna Jacquet
Full-time director/writer/actor Fedna Jacquet was born in Boston to Haitian parents. She is a 2021-2022 Inaugural Still I Rise Documentary Fellow, a 2020-2022 National Black Theatre Playwright in Residence, 2019-2022 Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow, and a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting.
John ADEkoje
Director
John ADEkoje
John ADEkoje’s awards include being a national award winner of The Kennedy Center’s ACTF Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award for the play Street Hawker; as well as a recipient of The Roxbury International Film Festival’s Emerging local Filmmaker award for the documentary “Street Soldiers”, which also showed at the Pan African Film Festival in Cannes, France, and The World Film Festival-Montreal, as well as the BronzeLens Film Festival in Atlanta.
Aubrey Dube
Sound Designer
Aubrey Dube
Aubrey Dube The Huntington: Toni Stone, Fat Ham, The Bluest Eye, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Clyde’s, The Lehman Trilogy (Associate Designer). Regional: Paradise Blue, The Thin Place, Stew (Gloucester Stage); Simona’s Search (Hartford Stage); The Fortune Teller (Chuang Stage); How We Got On (Arts Emerson); Trayf, Good (New Rep); Clyde’s (Berkeley Rep); Queens, Torch Song, The House of Ramon Iglesia (Moonbox Productions); Vinegar Tom, Monster, Serious Money, Pentecost (PTP/NYC); A Taste of Honey (BCAP); Potus, A Case For The Existence of God (SpeakEasy Stage); Fences (Umbrella Theatre); Downtown Crossing, Vietgone, Morning Noon & Night (Company One); The Renaissance Mixtape (Apollo Theatre NYC).
Julie Beaulieu
Sound Engineer
Julie Beaulieu
Julie Beaulieu’s previous sound design and engineering credits include Devil on Your Shoulder (SD), Flora the Red Menace (SD), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (A1), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (A1), Everybody (SD), Spring Awakening (SD).