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Marlin Thomas |
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Ashley Griffin |
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Khalif Cotton |
Darlene Elizabeth Joiner |
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Cast
Creative Team
Marlin Thomas
Ashley Griffin
Caspero Adonis
Meet the Company
Khalif Cotton

Darlene Elizabeth Joiner

Wayne J. Miller

Marlin Thomas
Ashley Griffin
Caspero Adonis
Multimedia

The Interviewer(Darlene Elizabeth Joiner) learns something about her past.

Lionel Russell (Khalif Cotton) remembers his past.

The Cartesian monotony of Queensbridge Houses.

First Tenants Arrive at Queensbridge

Closets Have No Doors

Welfare Families Too Wealthy

Slum Families Too Prosperous

A Year with No Shootings

Present Day Living Conditions

Playground, 1940’s

Lionel Russell (Khalil Cotton) and the Interviewer (Darlene Elizabeth Joiner)

Ashley Griffin directs Khalil Cotton.

Rehearsal

Khalil Cotton as Lionel Russell
Queensbridge Houses
Queensbridge Houses is one of the first public housing complexes to be built in the United States. With its 96 buildings spread over six city blocks and with more than 3,000 apartments and nearly 10,000 tenants, it is the largest public housing development in the country.
Its initial portrayal as a well planned, idyllic urban environment has, in recent decades, given way to its image as a dystopian landscape framed by drug use, violence, and governmental stances that oscillate between chilling indifference and malevolent paternalism.
Neither view captures the complexity of living through the tension between myths, both positive and negative, and multiple realities. Both ignore individuals in favor of stereotypes. Neither does justice to those living there.
Queensbridge, the play, attempts to present the dreams and anguish of the residents and their deeply textured humanity.