toured internationally as a modern dancer for many years before getting his M.F.A. in Playwriting from Yale. He would like to extend his deepest gratitude to Molly Smith, Susan Booth, Arena Stage, Alliance Theatre, Sundance Theatre Institute, this astonishing cast and creative team, and everyone else involved with this project, all of whom have given so much of themselves in bringing this magnificent novel to the stage. And deepest gratitude to Gloria Naylor, for letting us. We hope we’ve done you proud. As always, for my family.