WALLACE THURMAN’S
FIRE!!
Written and adapted by Marilyn Campbell-Lowe and Paul Oakley Stovall
In 1927, FIRE!!, a quarterly “Devoted To Younger Negro Artists” was published in Harlem and changed the future of American literature. Including illustrations, poems, essays, short stories and plays, FIRE!! was the first all-Black magazine, by a young group of writers and artists including Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, Richard Bruce Nugent, Gwendolyn Bennett, Lewis Grandison Alexander, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. This theatrical happening will weave together the lives of legendary giants as they speak their incendiary stories, make explosive music, dance, debate, collaborate and celebrate their work from FIRE!!
OCT 8 - NOV 2, 2025
CAST
Charlie Barney
Richard Bruce/ Ensemble
Tyler Bey*
Arthur Faucet/ Ensemble
Kaisheem Fowler-Bryant
Wallace Thurman/ Ensemble
Jordan Fidalgo
Female Dancer/ Ensemble
Taylor J Mitchell
Gwendolyn Bennett/ Dancer
Nichalas L Parker*
Langston Hughes/ Ensemble
Caroline Strange*
Countee Cullen/ Ensemble
Alicia Thomas*
Zora Neale Hurston/ Ensemble
Ivana R Thomspon
Ensemble/ us Zora
Xavier Townsend
Male Dancer/ Ensemble
Imani Lee Williams
Emma/ Ensemble
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association
CREATIVE
Director
Raelle Myrick-Hodges
Based on the magazine FIRE!!
Adapted for the Stage by
Marilyn Campbell-Lowe & Paul Oakley Stovall
Production Stage Manager
Josh Rodriguez*
Assistant Stage Manager
Cat Brennan
Lighting Designer
Isabelle Gill-Gomez
Set Designer
Thom Weaver
Costume Designer
LeVonne Lindsay
Sound Designer
Nat Merrill
Choreographer
Polanco Jones Jr.
Prop Designer Miranda Thompson
Intimacy Director
Bess Rowen
Dramaturg
Megan Shumacher
Composer
Adam Faulk
Fight Director Quinton J. Alexander
Production Manager
Santino Lo
