I can’t live inside yesterday’s pain but I can’t live without it.
By George C. Wolfe
Direction & Movement: Nigel Semaj
Dramaturg: Sophia Parker
Stage Manager: Miranda Tejeda
Costume Designer: Jessica Irvin
Sound Designer/Composer: Devin Wong
Scenic Designer: Teresa Williams
Lighting Designer: Jen Fok
Intimacy/Fight Choreographer: Jacqueline Holloway
Props Designer: Jacqueline Brockel
Acting company: Isaiah Brown, Milton Espinoza, Sarah-Michele Guei, Jaucqir LaFond, Yvonne Pruitt, and Scenarious Thurmond.
November 2024
Columbia University, Lenfast Center for the Arts
Production photos by Jonathan Barber
THE COLORED MUSEUM has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors, redefining our ideas of what it means to be black in contemporary America. Its eleven “exhibits” undermine black stereotypes old and new and return to the facts of what being black means.
