Ari el Stachel and Cast Joan Marcus
Accents have long been the bane of performers. They are easy to get wrong, can pigeon-hole actors, and sometimes donât even properly reflect a character. Calls for better representation in recent years have made it even more important that when an accent is required, itâs done right both from a storytelling angle and a performance angle.
Take, for example,
The Visitor. In the 2007 film, the character Tarek has an accent. In earlier iterations of the musical adaptation by Tom Kitt and Bryan Yorkey, and Kwame Kwei Armah, Tarekâs accent remained, but something about it felt off to Ariâel Stachel (
Joaquina Kalukango on Mahalia Jackson & Mildred Falls
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Matthew Murphy
You have seen Clint Ramos’s work. You may have even spotted yourself in it. Ramos, Tony winner, and this season a double Tony nominee, created the set for Jeremy O. Harris’s
Slave Play, the much talked about and dissected mirrors, the Rihanna lyrics manifested on stage, all of it. He also designed the costumes for the revival of
The Rose Tattoo starring Marisa Tomei, a wardrobe that allowed her character’s immigrant status to be highlighted in a way it never had before. He also teachers theater and costume design at Fordham College, and is a lover of theater and a champion of a new and better Broadway. Is this the ultimate example of creative multitasking? Possibly. But for Ramos, all his work the set design, the costumes, the teaching, the activism fuels one unified purpose. To tell the stories, all of them.