Head of Passes Tickets

Phylicia Rashad an accomplished actress and stage director, became a household name when she portrayed Claire Huxtable on The Cosby Show, a character whose enduring appeal has earned numerous awards and honors for over two decades. Her film and television credits include:  A Fall From Grace, Creed and Creed II, For Colored Girls, Soul, Jingle Jangle, and Black Box; This is Us (two Emmy nominations), David Makes Man, and Empire. Inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2016, Ms. Rashad received Tony and Drama Desk Awards for her performance as Lena Younger in A Raisin in the Sun, the Lucille Lortel Award for her performance as Shelah in Head of Passes, and a Tony nomination for her portrayal of Aunt Ester in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean. Ms. Rashad has directed plays by August Wilson (Gem of the Ocean, Fences, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone), Stephen Adly Guirgis (Our Lady of 121^st Street), and Paul Oakley Stovall (Immediate Family) at prestigious regional and off-Broadway theaters. Rashad was recently appointed Dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University.

Alana Arenas joined the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble in 2007 and created the role of Pecola Breedlove for the Steppenwolf for Young Adults production of The Bluest Eye, which also played at the New Victory Theater Off-Broadway. Recent Steppenwolf appearances include Purpose, the Steppenwolf for Young Adults production of Monster, The Fundamentals, Marie Antoinette, Tribes, Belleville, Head of Passes, Good People, Three Sisters, The March, Man in Love, Middletown, The Hot L Baltimore, The Etiquette of Vigilance, The Brother/Sister Plays, The Tempest, The Crucible, Spare Change and The Sparrow Project. Other theatre credits include Disgraced (American Theater Company), The Arabian Nights (Lookingglass Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Eyes (eta Creative Arts), SOST (MPAACT), WVON (Black Ensemble Theater) and Hecuba (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Television and film credits include David Makes Man, Canal Street, Crisis, Boss, The Beast, Kabuku Rides and Lioness of Lisabi. She is originally from Miami, Florida, where she began her training at the New World School of the Arts. Alana holds a BFA from The Theatre School at DePaul University. Purpose marks Ms. Arenas’ Broadway debut.

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John Earl Jelks can be seen in this season of the HBO Max series “Love Life.” In theater, John starred in Head of Passes at the Mark Taper Forum, reprising the role he originated alongside Phylicia Rashad and others in the Public Theater's production of the piece in 2016. John also appeared on Broadway in the critically acclaimed play Sweat by Lynn Nottage, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In 2007, John received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his work in August Wilson's Radio Golf and made his first Broadway performance in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean. Additional film and television credits include Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna, Night Comes On, Showtime’s On Becoming a God in Centra Florida, Netlix’s The I-Land, HBO's True Detective, Paramount+’s The Good Fight, Blue Bloods and NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

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Robert Joy has been seen in The Public's productions of Socrates, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Head of Passes and As You Like It. Broadway: Side Show, The Nerd, Shimada, Hay Fever. Off-Broadway: June Moon, Lydie Breeze. Regional: Hamlet, Tartuffe, King Charles III, Baby Doll, The Nether. Film/TV: Atlantic City, Ragtime, Desperately Seeking Susan, Land of the Dead, The Hills Have Eyes, Radio Days, The Goldfinch, Law & Order, CSI: NY.

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