Jamil A.C. Mangan
Actor | Director | Voice Over Artist | Educator
Written by Ricardo Khan
in collaboration with
Kathleen McGhee-Anderson
Murray Horwitz
Nathan Louis Jackson
and Nikkole Salter
Directed by Ricardo Khan
April 8–24, 2022
June 10–26, 2022
PIPELINE by: Dominique Morisseau
Directed by: Jamil A.C. Mangan
CAST
Kristin Ellis as Nya
Will Sims II as Xavier
Malaina Moore as Jasmine
James Carrington as Dun
Tami Workentin as Laurie
Ibraheem Farmer as Omari
Nya, a committed inner-city public high school teacher, is desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities her students will never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. Morisseau pens an impassioned and compelling story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future despite society’s challenges stacked against them both.
OTHER NEWS
Filmmaker: Celeste A. Bateman“Gone Too Soon: The Life, Legacy and Loss of Newark’s Cultural Icons” is a documentary that examines the lives and documents the artistic, cultural and educational contributions of several of Newark, NJ’s cultural icons, who left us much too soon, among them: WBGO Jazz-88 CEO Cephas Bowles. Poet/Playwright/Activist Amiri Baraka, Poets Breya “Blkbrry Mollassez” Knight and Halim Suliman; Actor/Director/Arts Administrator Rodney Gilbert, Historians Dr. Clement Alexander Price, Charles F. Cummings and Dr. Robert Curvin, Artists Russell A. Murray and Jerry Gant and theater producer Kabu Okai-Davies. Music: "Jazz Interlude" by Carter "Roc" Mangan, Jr.
GONE TOO SOON : Documentary
