Tony-Nominee Camille A. Brown to Direct “for colored girls” on Broadway in 2022

Tony Award-nominee Camille A. Brown will direct the upcoming production of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf on Broadway in 2022. She will be the first Black woman to serve as both director and choreographer on Broadway in more than 65 years

Brown formerly served as choreographer on the 2019 production of the play at The Public Theater off-Broadway. Among the previous Broadway productions Brown has choreographed are Once On This Island and Choir Boy, for which she received a Tony nomination in 2019, making her the first Black female choreographer to receive the honor in more than two decades. She is also known for her work on Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert and the Oscar-nominated Netflix film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, as well as the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Porgy and Bess. She is the founder and artistic director of the award-winning dance company Camille A. Brown and Dancers.

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf originally premiered at The Public Theater in 1976, before a run on Broadway. The playwright/poet Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem tells the stories of seven Black women using poetry, song and movement. Each woman voices her survival story of having to exist in a world shaped by sexism and racism.