Rebecca Hart and Jacinth Greywoode - both Cycle 27
IRON JOHN by Rebecca Hart (cycle 27) and Jacinth Greywoode (cycle 27) was presented at Theatreworks Silicon Valley.
REBECCA HART (Book and Lyrics) is an actress, singer/songwriter, and ‘wordsperson’ for the theatre based in NYC. Recent credits include: “Jessie” in the Public Theatre National Mobile Unit tour of Sweat; a Helen Hayes Award nomination for a song in Gloria at Woolly Mammoth; gigs at the Rockwood Music Hall, the Irish Arts Center; and the SoFar Sounds series; her album “The Magician’s Daughter”; and the workshop of Iron John at NYU Tisch New Studio on Broadway (Kent Thompson, director; Byron Easley, choreographer). She is an alum of Brown University, and a recent MFA from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.
JACINTH GREYWOODE (Book and Music). Recent credits include: Encores! Off-Center Lobby Project at New York City Center, Master, a short-form opera in collaboration with America Opera Projects, and a new opera commission from Cerise Jacobs/White Snake Projects premiering in Boston in November 2022. A graduate of Princeton University, Mr. Greywoode received his MFA from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at Tisch and is currently finishing his PhD in Composition at Stony Brook University.
IRON JOHN is set in small town America, 1915--an Irish housemaid falls for an African-American blacksmith. A century later a rebellious white debutante befriends a mixed-race neighbor. Will the outcome be the same? Weaving past and present, this poignant new musical explores a haunting legacy of racism buried but not forgotten.