Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
A searing and heartfelt story of family, legacy, and the weight of history, Dominique Morisseau’s Sunset Baby follows Nina—a sharp, guarded woman carving out her path in present-day Brooklyn. When her estranged father, a former Black Panther, suddenly reappears seeking redemption, their collision sparks a reckoning over grief, betrayal, and the generational scars of revolution.
Directed by Artistic Director Margo Hall, Sunset Baby confronts the tension between dreams and survival, the fight to define identity on one’s own terms, and the quiet, radical power of forgiveness.
Cast & Creative Team
Nina | Courtney Williams
Damon | Titus VanHook
Kenyatta | Lamont Thompson
Margo Hall | Director
Lauren Quan | Stage Manager
Carlos-Antonio Aceves | Scenic Designer
Quinton Barringer | Scenic Builder
Michael Combs | Lighting Designer
Alex Fakayode | Sound Designer
Heidi Button | Props Designer
Jenn Stephens | Costume Designer
Jeunée Simon | Intimacy Choreographer
Dominique Morisseau is the author of The Detroit Project (A 3-Play Cycle), which includes the following plays: Skeleton Crew (Atlantic Theater Company), Paradise Blue (Signature Theatre), and Detroit ’67 (Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem and NBT). Additional plays include: Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theatre), Sunset Baby (LAByrinth Theatre); Blood at the Root (National Black Theatre) and Follow Me To Nellie’s (Premiere Stages). She is also the Tony-nominated book writer on the new Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations (Imperial Theatre).
Dominique is alumna of The Public Theater Emerging Writer’s Group, Women’s Project Lab and Lark Playwrights Workshop, and has developed work at Sundance Lab, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference. She most recently served as Co-Producer on the Showtime series Shameless (3 seasons).
Additional awards include: Spirit of Detroit Award, PoNY Fellowship, Sky-Cooper Prize, TEER Trailblazer Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Audelco Awards, NBFT August Wilson Playwriting Award, Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, Obie Award (2), Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, Variety’s Women of Impact for 2017-18, and a recent MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow.