Crystin Gilmore*

(Margaret) returns to SpeakEasy having previously appeared as Shug Avery in The Color Purple (a role for which she won an IRNE Award & Arts Impulse Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical), and as Headmistress Frances in School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (for which she shared a 2020 Elliot Norton Award Best Ensemble nomination). Other credits include: Camae in The Mountaintop (Footlight Players); Violet in 9 to 5 – The Musical (Majestic Theatre); and Alberta Pearl Johnson in Black Pearl Sings! (Charleston Stage Company) to name a few. When not on stage, Crystin can be found directing, doing voiceover work, teaching acting classes via her company The Craft, or on her podcast POVwCrystinGilmore (available through all streaming services). Special thanks to family and friends. Phil 4:6-8. www.crystingilmore.com (she/her)  

Shows

JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING

May 2–31, 2025

by

Jocelyn Bioh

DIRECTED BY

SUMMER L. WILLIAMS

2024 Tony Nominee – Best Play! It’s a hot summer day in 2019, and in Harlem, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding salon is open for business, even though its eponymous owner is hours away from getting married. Presiding over the shop’s …

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POTUS

Written by

Selina fillinger

directed by

paula plum

“The likelihood that you will laugh until your face hurts is one of near certainty”– Entertainment Weekly Direct from Broadway! It’s 9 to 5 meets Veep in this riotously funny comedy that celebrates the women who keep things running behind …

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