Slave Play Tickets

Paul's role as Max in The Lost Boys will mark his 11th Broadway appearance. Most recently, he starred as August in 2024's Water For Elephants and played prosecutor Hugh Dorsey in the 2023 Tony-winning revival of Parade. In 2021, he reprised his role on Broadway as Jim in Slave Play, and toured with that production to the Mark Taper Forum in LA. Other Broadway roles include Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar, Guy in Once, Jimmy Ray in Bright Star (Drama Desk nomination), Pasha/Strelnikov in Doctor Zhivago (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Billy Flynn in Chicago, and Tully in Escape to Margaritaville. Off Broadway: Original casts of Daddy Long Legs and Slave Play. Recent regional: The Heart at La Jolla Playhouse, Life After at Chicago's Goodman Theatre and Ahrens and Flaherty’s new musical, Knoxville, at Asolo Rep.  Paul can be heard on 6 original cast albums. Recent TV credits include HBO's Season 3 of The Gilded Age as Alfred Merrick; and CBS’s The Code, Madam Secretary and Instinct.

Ato Blankson-Wood (he/him) is best known for his starring role in Jeremy O. Harris' critically acclaimed Slave Play, for which he was nominated for a 2021 Tony Award. He has also earned nominations for the Drama League Awards and the inaugural Antonyo Awards for playing Gary, a role he originated for the New York Theatre Workshop production, where his performance earned him a Lortel Nomination. This past summer, Ato played the titular role of Hamlet in Shakespeare in the Park's production directed by Kenny Leon. Prior to this, Ato starred opposite Bill Camp and Elizabeth Marvel in Long Day’s Journey Into Night for Audible, which reunited him with Slave Play director Robert O’Hara. Ato had his breakout performance in the Public Theatre musical The Total Bent (Drama League and Lucille Lortel Award nomination) which explored the life of a black musical prodigy in a nation on the verge of social upheaval. Ato has also been seen on Broadway in Hair and Lysistrata Jones, as well as in The Rolling Stone for Lincoln Center (Drama League Award nomination for Distinguished Performance). Films include Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, Spike Lee’s BlacKKKlansman, Worth, opposite Michael Keaton, and Peter Hedge’s The Same Storm. Television includes The Good Fight, She’s Gotta Have It, and Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us. Ato is represented by Independent Artist Group and D2 Management. 

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Chalia La Tour is an alumna of the Yale School of Drama's MFA Acting program. Theater: Slave Play (New York Theatre Workshop); Cadillac Crew (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Review, or How to Eat Your Opposition (Women's Theatre Project). Television: The Good Fight, The Code and Elementary on CBS. Film: The Future is Bright, Love Repeat and Three Pregnant Men. The Future is Bright had the honor of screening at the inaugural Smithsonian African-American Film Festival. Voiceover: “Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire” (Pit Stop Productions). LaTour is also an alumna of the Actors Theatre of Louisville Professional Training Program and The British American Dramatic Academy. She is a proud member of Actors Equity Association.

Broadway debut. Off-Broadway: City Of (Playwrights Realm); Unnatural Acts (Classic Stage Company), for which his performance was awarded the Rosemarie Tichler Grant. Select TV/film: Lucifer, Goliath, American Housewife, Marvel’s The Runaways, Criminal Minds, The Path, Good Trouble, The Manor, Under the Silver Lake, Under the Lantern Lit Sky, Submission. Training: MFA, NYU Graduate Acting. Love and gratitude to Mom, The Boys, KC fam, ATMP, and MLE. Tonight is dedicated to his father, Kenji Kawaoka.

Broadway: Wit. Off-Broadway: Slave Play, Love and Information (NYTW), Orange Julius (Rattlestick), Undertaking (BAM), King
Liz (Second Stage), We Play for the Gods (Women’s Project). Regional credits: Yale Rep, Studio Theater D.C., and Cal Shakes among others. Television: The Americans, Bartlett, Madam Secretary, Gossip Girl and Casi Casi. Lucio co-created the web series Buts (NBC Short Film Festival winner). A Princeton and YSD graduate, she is originally from Puerto Rico.

Jonathan Chad Higginbotham has been seen in A Lie Agreed Upon (The Gamm Theatre), JQA (The Gamm Theatre), Cymbeline (Yale Repertory Theater), As You Like It (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Cymbeline (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), KMS...The Feels (New Ohio Theatre). TV: Shining Vale (Starz), The Blacklist (NBC), Bonding (Netflix). Jonathan studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford. He holds a B.A. from Hamilton College and an M.F.A from Yale School of Drama.

Annie McNamara's theater credits include Slave Play (New York Theatre Workshop); Iowa (Playwrights Horizons, Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical); We’re Gonna Be Okay (Humana Festival/Actors Theatre of Louisville); Map of Virtue (13P); That Pretty Pretty (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Rapture, Blister, Burn (Huntington Theatre Company). With Elevator Repair Service: Gatz (Daisy - 2019 & Catherine - Original Cast); Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf, The Sound and the Fury. With Clubbed Thumb, where she is an affiliated artist: The World My Mama Raised, Tomb of King Tot, 41-derful, Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake, and U.S. Drag. Film: Blue Jasmine. Television: Orange is the New Black, The Knick and Mozart in the Jungle.

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