Lena Younger played by Deanna Reed-Foster
Powerful, grounded, authoritative. The Matriarch of the Younger household. God-fearing and proud, sees what's best for her family, deciding how to best deal with her late husband “Big Walter's” life insurance check. Faithful and dutiful, she runs her house with what's best for everyone always on her mind.
Ruth Younger played by Gina Daniels
Dedicated, hopeful, Walter’s wife. Ruth is married into the Younger family and is the mother to Travis. Trying her best to stand by her husband and support her family. While times are hard, she tries her best - a mother, wife, and working woman who wants the best for her family.
Walter Lee Younger played by Gavin Lawrence
Walter Lee Younger is an ambitious man dissatisfied with his life; Ruth’s husband and father to Travis. Walter Lee feels emasculated due to his job chauffeuring rich white men while he dreams of becoming a business and liquor store owner. The consistent lack of opportunity in the world around him makes him desperate and he lashes out constantly at his family, especially his wife, his sister (Beneatha) and his mother (Lena). His irresponsibility with his father’s life insurance check causes rifts between the family as he struggles to be understood.
Beneatha Younger played by Charence Higgins
Beneatha represents the future of the Youngers' story. She is an assertive, confident student, princess, creative, seeker. Our Sister is in the household, and she is on track for medical school. We see different suitors visit her as she navigates the story of her own life and identity inside the cramped Chicago apartment.
Travis Younger played by Reece Davis and De'Anthony Jackson (pictured: De'Anthony Jackson)
Travis Younger, the youngest of the family, making the sixth generation of the Youngers in America. Travis has a life of his own and is adjacent to all of the family's happenings, being forced outside of his (living room) bedroom, when conversations are for “grown folk”.
Joseph Asagai played by Derrick Moore
Compassionate, encouraging, direct... and prince-like, describing himself as the prince from across and away, visits Beneatha to persuade her of his definition of the new world. In love with Beneatha and her search for herself, he tries to show her another life they could be living together.
George Murchison played by Rasell Holt
Affluent in style and life, George Murchison has an ideal way of life and relationships, for himself and for women. While Beneatha's physical beauty is all that he seems to prioritize, his tolerance for her wit and poetry gets shorter and shorter. Her eccentric nature is off putting to his lifestyle.
Karl Lindner played by Tim Gittings
Welcoming Committee and future neighbor to the Youngers, he twice attempts to convince them not to move into the neighborhood where they have recently purchased a house. Disappointed at the fact that the Youngers reject his offer of more money if they chose not to occupy the house in his neighborhood.
Moving Men played by Ethan Miles Perry, Jamaque Newberry, and Nathan Barlow
They move the Youngers from their old life into the new.
Overheard Characters
Big Walter. The late patriarch of the Younger family. Deceased, and of what remains, a $10,000 insurance check. This money is the main event for Walter and Momma.
Willy Harris. Willy Harris is Walter's corrupt business partner, who makes a deal with him only to run off with Walter's (and Bobo's) investment.
Credits:
Liz Lauren