The Film
1936 Harlem is a neighborhood battered by economic strife and hardship. With FDR’s New Deal providing funding for the Federal Theatre Project’s Negro Unit, director Rose McClendon convinces co-director John Houseman to help her bring Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” to the Harlem community at the Lafayette Theater — with an all-Black cast. They choose for their groundbreaking production a gifted but untested 21-year-old director by the name of Orson Welles, whose reimagined Haitian vision for the Scottish play is as daring and fresh as the cast and crew themselves.
PRESS KIT
CAST
Inger Tudor
as Rose McClendon
Jewell Wilson Bridges
as Orson Welles
Jeremy Tardy
as Maurice
June Schreiner
as Virginia Welles
Daniel Kuhlman
as John Houseman
Wrekless Watson
as Cuba Johnson
Ashli Haynes
as Edna Thomas
Gary McDonald
as Jack Carter
Hunter Bodine
as Martin Dies
