Charity Bedu-Addo will join the cast of Shifters Off-Broadway at Cherry Lane Theatre beginning August 17, succeeding original star Heather Agyepong as Des. Agyepong is currently reprising her performance from the play’s earlier U.K. runs through August 16. The extended run continues through September 13.
The production began July 6 and opened July 15. See what critics had to say about it here.
The new romance by Olivier Award-nominated writer Benedict Lombe follows Dre and Des, two gifted Black young adults on the precipice of change. In the end, he stayed, and she left. Years later, they come crashing back into each other’s lives, carrying new secrets and old scars. Caught between memory and reality, they must navigate the shifting borders that threaten to rewrite their past and reshape their future.
The Cherry Lane production co-stars Daniel Ezra (Netflix’s All American, The Running Man) as Dre. The production is directed by BAFTA-nominated and Evening Standard Theatre Award-winning director Lynette Linton, who led the Bush Theatre as artistic director from 2019 to 2025.
The Off-Broadway run is produced by Eleanor Lloyd Productions, Chuchu Nwagu Productions, and Cherry Lane Theatre, in association with Sonia Friedman Productions, Golden Globe-winning actor, producer, and director Idris Elba; Brit Award and Mercury Prize-winning musician and actor Little Simz; and Tony-nominated playwright and SAG Award-winning actor Danai Gurira.
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