ON HER SHOULDERS Presents:

Wine in the Wilderness

by: Alice Childress
In association with
The School of Drama at the New School

Producer: Melissa Attebery
Producer: Melody Brooks
Associate Producer: Kristin Heckler

Director: Bianca LaVerne Jones
Dramaturg: Arminda Thomas

With:
Keona Welch
Cyril Nri
Noah Anderson
Sharod Choyce
Leajato Amara Robinson

Set in Harlem during the summer of 1964 during the night of a riot, Wine in the Wilderness explores perceptions of the Black community from within the black community. In the play, Childress makes the point that the intersections of “sexism, racism, and classism are immutably connected to black women’s oppression.