American Menu
05/17/2024 - 05/26/2024 
$22 General Admission 
36 Church Street, Middletown NJ 07748
Dunbar Repertory presents American Menu by Don Wilson Glenn, directed by Mark Antonio Henderson and Damien S. Berger.
SHOWTIMES
Fri, May 17 at 8 pm | Sat, May 18 at 3 pm + 8 pm | Sun, May 19 at 4 pm
Fri, May 24 at 8 pm | Sat, May 25 at 3 pm + 8 pm | Sun, May 26 at 4 pm
TALK WITH PLAYWRIGHT DON WILSON GLENN
Don Wilson Glenn will be attending the performance on Sun, May 19 (4 pm) and will be giving a talk directly after the show.
ABOUT AMERICAN MENU
The play is set in rural East Texas in the kitchen of a segregated diner. The time is May 1968, a month after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and a month before the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Five African American women toil in this sweatbox where they must battle prejudice, poverty, ignorance and each other as they search for inspiration. These women are the daughters and granddaughters of slaves; each seeking hope and major change amidst the turbulent times.
There will be two casts during the run of the play: Melissa Cavalozzi (Waitress), Patricia Desormeau (Buella), Doris A. Dollard (Na), Octavia Harrell (Johnnie May), Tracie Johnson-Ashe (Mary), Rochelle Miller (Johnnie May), Malissa Y. Myers (Mary), Crystal Watford Nuchurch (Martha) and Lucia Williams (Buella).
DON WILSON GLENN received his BA from the University of Houston at Clear Lake. After moving to New York City, Glenn became an active member on the theater scene as director, actor, producer, and playwright. Glenn won the 2002 AUDELCO Award for his the H.A.D.L.E.Y Players production of his play American Menu in New York City.
Glenn returned to Texas in 2004 and continues to work in the theatre: teaching, directing and writing. He currently serves on the board of Angelina Community Theatre, Rooted Arts in Houston, is a guest artist at Classic Stage Company in California, and serves as co-executive producer in the theater category for the Vanport Mosaic Festival in Portland.
In addition to American Menu, his plays include American Summer Squash, American King Umps, American Rubble, The Collard Green Story, Sisters, William Shakespeare’s The Tempest: A Tropical Romance and Revival.
ABOUT THE DUNBAR REPERTORY COMPANY, RESIDENT THEATER COMPANY AT THE MIDDLETOWN ARTS CENTER
Known to residents of Central New Jersey as “Monmouth County’s African American Theater Company”, Dunbar Repertory Company is committed to its mission of perpetuating an appreciation of cultural diversity and celebrating African American culture
