The Magnificent Dunbar Hotel
Directed by: Ben Guillory
Written by: Levy Lee Simon
Produced by: Ben Guillory
Scenic Design by: Michael D. Rick
Costume Design: Naila Aladdin Sanders
Sound Design by: Kimberly McCord-Wilson
Jovan Adepo as Reverend Donovan Clayton Russell
Tiffany Coty as Minnie Lomax/Lena Horne
Vanoy Burnough as Minnie Lomax/Lena Horne (Alternate)
Cydney Wayne Davis as Charlotta Bass
Eddie Goines as Duke Ellington/Joe Louis/Officer Tom Bradley
Julio Hanson as Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Tommy Hicks as WEB DuBois
Doug Jewell as John Somerville/City Worker
Melvin Ishmael Johnson as Leonard Lennox Jones
Elizabeth June as Vada Sommerville/Ethel Waters/Jan Perry
Kyle Connor McDuffle as Pee Wee aka Stanley Harrison
Jason Mimms as John Kinloch
Ashlee Olivia as Gloria Ann Pedigrew
Dwain A. Perry as Lucius Lomax
Vanja Renee as Vera Cunningham
Kem Saunders as Jack Johnson
Jah Shames as Paul Robeson/Police Officer
Petal d’Avril Walker as Almena Davis Lomax
Sammie Wayne IV as Chester Himes
Rhonda Stubbins White as Maybelle Smith
“Informative and engaging, this underappreciated chapter of our local history is portrayed with panache and grace.”
-Phillip Brandes, LA Times
“Levy Lee Simon has written a marvelous play that everyone should go out and see”
-Joe Straw, Blogspot
“Entertainers, socialites, athletes, intellectuals, and everyday folk, made The Dunbar Hotel their home before she stood forgotten and all alone.”
-Special by People’s World
“With ticket sales hotter than the Great Chicago Fire, the even greater Robey Theatre Company has just announced an extension of their wildly popular, sold-out The Magnificent Dunbar Hotel”
-Tony Frankel, Stage Cinema
