April 11, 2020

LYNNETTE R. FREEMAN

DANIEL & PATRICK LAZOUR

Daniel and Patrick Lazour are brothers and music theatre writers. "We Live in Cairo" had a workshop wth the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference and at New York Theatre Workshop under the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award. It premiered at the American Repertory Theatre in May 2019. As a part of Jeanine Tesori’s Off-Center Jamboree, Patrick and Daniel  performed alongside Sutton Foster and Jonathan Groff at New York City Center. They have developed their work at, Ucross, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Theatre, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat and the American Repertory Theater. Patrick and Daniel were 2015-16 Dramatists Guild Fellows and are New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspects.  

Lynnette Freeman is a Jamaican-African-American actress, dancer, writer, teaching artist, and voice actor, raised in East Cleveland, OH, based in NYC. Brown/Trinity MFA; Member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, and The League of Professional Theatre Women. Favorite roles include: Charlotte in “The White Card,” Camae in “The Mountaintop”, God in “An Act Of God.” Georgia Dawson in “Travisville”, Lydia Namandu in “Human Rites”, Letitia in "On The Outs", Ruth in “A Raisin in the Sun”, Reheema Abu-Salaam in “In A Daughter’s Eyes”, Jenny/ Marge in “Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play”; Esther Mills in “Intimate Apparel” and Pretty Mbane in “The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane”. Lynnette believes in the divine and healing power of story telling.