Grantham Coleman, Tessa Ferrer and Michael Stahl-David Set for Buzzer Off-Broadway

Grantham Coleman, Tessa Ferrer and Michael Stahl-David will appear in the New York premiere of Tracey Scott Wilson’s Buzzer. The Public Theater production will begin on March 24 and run through April 26 at the Martinson Theater off-Broadway. Opening night is set for April 8. Anne Kauffman will direct.

Coleman, who takes on the role of Jackson, returns to the Public after appearing in the Shakespeare in the Park production of As You Like It; his additional off-Broadway credits include Choir boy, One Night and We Are Proud to Present…. Ferrer, who will play Suzy, has appeared on stage previously in Brilliant Faces, Proof, The House in Illium Valley, Turning and Carpe Tunnel. Stahl-David will play Don; he was previously seen off-Broadway in The Overwhelming.

Buzzer follows Jackson, a man who left his tough Brooklyn neighborhood by winning a scholarship to Exeter, where he met Don, a play-hard rich boy who became his unlikely best friend. Now a Harvard-educated lawyer, Jackson’s bought a place in the newly gentrifying area he grew up in. But Jackson’s white girlfriend, Suzy, isn’t so sure she belongs in a community “on the verge.” When Don comes to crash with his old buddy and stay clean, his stories of the neighborhood's dangerous past collide with the growing disconnect between Jackson and Suzy and the sexual and racial tensions waiting just beyond the door.