{"id":326057,"date":"2026-08-20T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326057\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:30:09","slug":"gabby-beans-and-elizabeth-marvel-to-lead-play-about-anita-hill-and-christine-blasey-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326057\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabby Beans and Elizabeth Marvel to Lead Play About Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"

A play inspired by the Supreme Court confirmation hearing\u00a0testimonies of Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford\u00a0will run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this fall.\u00a0The Ford\/Hill Project<\/a>\u00a0will be led by Elizabeth Marvel<\/a>\u00a0(House of Cards, Homeland) as Ford\u00a0and Tony nominee Gabby Beans<\/a> (The Skin of Our Teeth,\u00a0Romeo + Juliet) as Hill.\u00a0The Ford\/Hill Project, produced by Waterwell, will run September 8\u201320.<\/p>\n

The work centers on the headline-making Supreme Court confirmation hearings for\u00a0Clarence Thomas in 1991 and Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. Both men were accused of sexual assault, and the women involved\u2014Hill in the case of Thomas and Ford in the case of Kavanaugh\u2014testified in front of Congress.\u00a0The play, created by Obie-winning Waterwell Artistic Director Lee Sunday Evans<\/a> (who’s also directing) and Marvel, is made up of verbatim passages from the hearings’ transcripts.<\/p>\n

The show first premiered in 2024 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company<\/a> in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Teagle Bougere (currently in\u00a0The\u00a0Winter’s Tale at Free Shakespeare in the Park) will play Thomas and Josh Hamilton<\/a> (What We Did before Our Moth Days, 13 Reasons Why) will play Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ford\/Hill Project has always been about bringing these two extraordinary testimonies into the room and allowing Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford\u2019s words to speak for themselves\u2014to listen across time, and to sit with the complexity, courage, and humanity in their stories,\u201d says director Evans in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to welcome Gabby Beans to this incredible ensemble for our BAM run. Gabby is one of the bravest actors I know, with riveting emotional depth and an electric, unflappable presence. She has an overarching vision for what live performance can do in and for the world. I can\u2019t wait for audiences to experience what this ensemble can do together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBAM has always been a place where artists can ask big questions, take risks, and invite audiences into the conversation\u2014and The Ford\/Hill Project does all three,\u201d adds Amy Cassello, BAM\u2019s artistic director. \u201cLee Sunday Evans and Elizabeth Marvel have made something that is both deeply theatrical and wonderfully alive: it takes two extraordinary pieces of testimony and gives us the chance to really listen, together, in a room\u2014with curiosity, openness, and care. We\u2019re delighted to welcome this remarkable company and especially thrilled to have Gabby Beans joining them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The creative team\u00a0includes production stage manager\u00a0Tia Harewood-Millington, co-sound designer and audio editor\u00a0Jeffrey Salerno, co-sound designer\u00a0Mikhail Fiksel<\/a>, lighting designer Oona Curley<\/a>, costume coordinator\u00a0Amanda Roberge, associate directors\u00a0Francesca Sabel and Rachel Gita Karp, and original prop designer\u00a0Faye Armon-Troncoso<\/a>.\u00a0ShowShow serves as co-producer.<\/p>\n

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