The Leonard Lopate Show interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and actors of Soho Rep.’s AN OCTOROON

“Directed with unhurried assurance by Awoye Timpo…Astonishing set design (by Jason Ardizzone-West)…The play becomes a delta…where tributary identities—Muslim, Yoruba, traditional,

“Re-encountering the work, he is painfully struck by his young self’s optimistic depiction of ‘a kind of hybrid community made

TFANA will present the off-Broadway premiere of Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka’s The Swamp Dwellers, directed by OBIE winner Awoye Timpo (Alice