About this Performance

Broadway luminaries Charity Angél Dawson, Aisha Jackson, and Jennie Harney-Fleming honor iconic Black female jazz singers who’ve shaped music history. Their voices breathe new life into beloved songs—celebrating the brilliance, power, and lasting influence of the legends who came before them.

Cast: Aisha Jackson, Jennie Harney-Fleming and Charity Angél Dawson. 

Creative Credits

Suzan-Lori Parks

Performer

Suzan-Lori Parks is a multi-award-winning writer and musician. She is the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Topdog/Underdog which recently won the 2023 Tony Award, for best revival. Her other plays include Sally & Tom (2024) Plays for the Plague Year (Drama Desk Award, Best Music, 2023) and Father Comes Home From The Wars (2014). Parks’ first marathon-writing “micro diary plays” 365 Days/365 Plays were produced worldwide in what was the largest grassroots collaborative theatre project to date. She is a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, a novelist: Getting Mother’s Body (Random House), and a screenwriter: Girl 6, Genius: Aretha, and The United States vs Billie Holiday. Parks also writes songs and fronts her band “SLP & The Joyful Noise” with her punk-couture medicine show, The Tune Up world-premiering this summer. As a college student Parks is grateful to have studied creative writing with James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write for the theatre.