Black mother lost daughter

By Fedna Jacquet
Directed by Stevie Walker-Webb

In this searing and haunted play, playwright Fedna Jacquet asks us to consider the gap between justice and responsibility. In life, Queen painted vivid portraits that captured the truth of her subjects — but when she is killed by police, her sister Princess hopes to keep Queen’s memory alive and their mother afloat. Intimate and emotional, Black Mother Lost Daughter shows how a national reckoning echoes in the lives of three women.

JUNE 21-25, 2023

THE FLEA THEATER
20 Thomas Street
New York, NY 10007

Fedna Jacquet, Playwright

Fedna Jacquet was born in Boston to Haitian parents. She currently works out of NYC where she is a full-time writer and actor. She is a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting and a 2019-2021 Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow. Written plays include PEFEKSYON (Playwrights Realm Finalist, DVRF Finalist, Studio Tisch), INHERITANCE (Classical Theatre of Harlem Playwright’s Playground, Studio Tisch) and GURLFRIEND (developed as a Huntington Fellow). BA: Brown University MFA: NYU Tisch Grad Acting.

Stevie Walker-Webb, Director

Stevie Walker-Webb is an Obie award winning Director, Playwright, and Cultural Worker who believes in the transformational power of art. As a survivor of poverty and the associative violence that comes with growing up black and poor in America, he’s knows how liberating and necessary it is to create. He is a 2050 Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop and recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Theatre. The Lily Award in honor of Lorraine Hansberry awarded by the Dramatists Guild of America.  

He’s served as the Founding Artistic Director of the Jubilee Theatre and has created art and Theatre in Madagascar, South Africa, Mexico, and across America. He’s worked as the Outreach Coordinator for Theatre of the Oppressed-NYC and holds an MFA from The New School, and a  B.S. in Sociology from the University of North Texas. His work has been produced by: The Public Theatre, American Civil Liberties Union, JAG Productions, Cherry Lane, Zara Aina, La Mama, The New Group, and Wooly Mammoth. For more information about Stevie visit steviewalkerwebb.net

CAST

Fedna Jacquet

Princess

Full-time actor/writer/director Fedna Jacquet was born in Boston to Haitian parents. She recently starred as Passenger 1 in the Tony nominated Ain’t No Mo on Broadway. She is a 2020-2024 National Black Theatre Playwright in Residence, a 2021-2022 Inaugural Still I Rise Documentary Fellow, a 2019-2022 Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow, and a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting. Written plays include Black Mother Lost Daughter (Commissioned by National Black Theatre, Breaking Ground Festival, O’Neill Finalist), Girlfriend (The Fire This Time Festival, O’Neill Semifinalist) Pefeksyon (Playwright’s Realm Finalist, DVRF Finalist, Studio Tisch), Inheritance (Classical Theatre of Harlem Playwright's Playground, Studio Tisch), Civic Duty (Commissioned by Suny Purchase), and Heroes  (Developed as a Huntington Fellow). Fedna is currently recurring as an actor on FBI: Most Wanted (CBS). She has appeared on And Just Like That, The Equalizer, City On A Hill, Law & Order SVU, and many others. BA: Brown University MFA: NYU Tisch

Ebony Marshall-Oliver

Natalie

Ebony Marshall-Oliver was last seen as Passenger 4 in the Tony nominated play Ain’t No Mo. Her other Broadway credit is Chicken & Biscuits. Off-Broadway: The Public Theater (Merry Wives, Ain’t No Mo),  Waterwell (7 Minutes- Drama League Distinguished performer nominee), Clubbed Thumb (Bodies They Ritual); TV- The Ms. Pat Show-BET+, Evil- Paramount+. AMDA NY graduate.

Margaret Odette

Queen

Theatre: Off-Broadway: Shakespeare in the Park’s Much Ado About Nothing (Public Theater), The Convent (Rattlestick Theater), Sehnsucht (Jack), Figaro (The Pearl Theatre), She Kills Monsters (Flea Theater).  Regional: Revenge Song (The Geffen Playhouse), Paradise Blue (Long Wharf Theatre), Skeleton Crew (Chester Theatre Company), A Raisin in The Sun (Clarence Brown Theatre), The Taming of The Shrew and In The Next Room (Chautauqua Theatre Company). Television: Sex/Life (Netflix), Step Up (Starz), Blindspot (NBC), How To Make Love To A Black Woman (Showtime), Instinct (CBS), Elementary (CBS). Film: The Independent, Boogie, Sleeping with Other People. Education: BA Brown University, MFA NYU Tisch. Margaret sits on the board of the 52nd Street Project.

Thomas Philip O’Neill

Tom/Reporter

pronouns: he/him/his

Thomas Philip O’Neill has worked in film and TV for over a decade. Some of his credits include: Recurring role of Dr. Neil Mosbach the Chief Medical Examiner on Dick Wolf’s show on CBS, “FBI” now going into its Sixth Season. He also recurred as Abe on NBC’s “The Blacklist” and in Terrence Winter’s “Boardwalk Empire”, where he played Dick Halsey. He has also appeared in Netflix’s Original Series “Mindhunter” as Leo Buchanan (directed by David Fincher). On film he has appeared in Scott Cooper’s Black Mass, Ondi Timoner’s MAPPLETHORPE, where he portrayed the title character’s first male love & muse David Croland. You can catch Tom later this year in Netflix’s original film THE MOTHERSHIP opposite Halle Berry, Molly Parker & Omari Hardwick. Tom was trained at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where he received his BFA at Stella Adler Studio, the Experimental Theatre Wing, and the International Theatre Workshop: Amsterdam, Holland. He also studied in London, at the British American Drama Academy. Tom apprenticed at Stella Adler Studios under Master Teacher Alice Saltzman for the studio’s scene study department. For two years, Tom was working on Riker’s Island through Stella Adler Studio’s Outreach, as an instructor of voice & speech, movement, scene study and playwriting. He is honored to be working with The National Black Theatre, Fedna, Stevie & the whole cast & crew of BMLD.

PRODUCTION TEAM


lucas a degirolamo
(Set Design)

Stacey Derosier (Lighting Designer)

LaToya Murray-Berry (Costume Designer)

UptownWorks NYC (Sound Designer)
Daniela Hart, Bailey Trierweiler, & Noel Nichols

Shantez "Shae" Tolbut (Production Stage Manager)

Belynda M’Baye (Props Manager)

Eric Emauni (Production Manager)