Past Comedy Satire:
Kentwood Players presents
By The Way, Meet Vera Stark
by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Rondrell McCormick
Produced by Rhonda Yeager-Hutchinson
Associate Producer Julia Sison
Jan 17 - Feb 8, 2025
Written by the popular Pulitzer Prize-winning African American playwright Lynn Nottage, By The Way, Meet Vera Stark takes an entertaining and revelatory look at racism in the film industry during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Inspired by the struggles of actresses like Hattie McDaniel and Butterfly McQueen, worlds collide when aspiring African American starlet Vera Stark, who works as a maid to Gloria Mitchell, an aging Caucasian star grasping at her fading career, lands a trailblazing role in an antebellum epic starring none other than her boss! The play examines Vera's 40-year career and her place in Hollywood history.
CAST
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Vera Stark
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Denise Milfort
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Gloria Mitchell
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Flannery Maney
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Lottie McBride / Carmen Levy-Green
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Nyoka Boswell
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Anna Mae Simpkins / Afua Assata Ejobo
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Jazz Strong
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Leroy Barksdale / Herb Forrester
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Daniel Tolbert
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Fredrick Slasvick / Brad Donovan
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Christopher Aruffo
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Maximillian Von Oster / Peter Rhys-Davies
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Charles Kinder
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Understudy Vera Stark
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Raevyn Ferguson
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Understudy Gloria Mitchell
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Claire Shepard
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Understudy Fredrick Slasvick / Brad Donovan
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Chris Morrison
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Understudy Leroy Barksdale / Herb Forrester
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Elijah Green
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Understudy Maximillian Von Oster / Peter Rhys-Davies
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Chris Morrison
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