Yewande Odetoyinbo

YEWANDE ODETOYINBO* (Beverly) returns to SpeakEasy having previously appeared in Once on This Island and The View UpStairs, and co-choreographed Choir Boy.   Area credits include:  The Light, Breath & Imagination [co-production with Front Porch Arts Collective], The Wiz, Little Shop of Horrors (Lyric Stage); Passing Strange, Caroline, or Change, Parade (Moonbox Productions); Macbeth in Stride (A.R.T); Hair (New Rep); Show Boat (Reagle Music Theatre and Fiddlehead Theatre); Finish Line, The Gay Agenda (Boston Theatre Company); In the Heights, Seussical, Ragtime (Wheelock Family Theatre); Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak On It! (Merrimack Rep); Waitress (Barnstormers Theatre).  Education: BFA, Musical Theater, Howard University; MFA, Musical Theater, Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Thank you to the SpeakEasy family and Pascale for having me back; Susan for the home away from home; and Mom, Dad, Yemisi, and the best friends who remain her biggest fans! (she/her)

Shows

Fairview

FEB 17 - MAR 11, 2023

WRITTEN BY

JACKIE SIBBLIES DRURY

DIRECTED BY

PASCALE FLORESTAL

Winner of 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, FAIRVIEW is a bold and disarmingly funny play that serves as “a glorious reminder of the unmatched power of live theater to rattle, roil, and shake us wide awake.” (The New York Times). When the …

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