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Guest: Katori Hall, Playwright of “The Hot Wing King”
Katori Hall
Signature produced the world premieres of Hurt Village and Our Lady of Kibeho as part of Olivier and Susan Smith Blackburn Award-winner Katori Hall’s Residency 5. Katori will complete her residency with the world premiere of the hilarious and heartwarming The Hot Wing King.
“The Hot Wing King” WORLD PREMIERE @ SIGNATURE THEATRE
The Pershing Square Signature Center
480 West 42nd Street
Ready, set, fry! It’s time for the annual “Hot Wang Festival” in Memphis, Tennessee, and Cordell Crutchfield knows he has the wings that’ll make him king. Supported by his beau Dwayne and their culinary clique, The New Wing Order, Cordell is marinating and firing up his frying pan in a bid to reclaim the crispy crown. When Dwayne takes in his troubled nephew however, it becomes a recipe for disaster. Suddenly, a first place trophy isn’t the only thing Cordell risks losing. Steve H. Broadnax III will direct this sizzling world premiere from Residency 5 playwright Katori Hall (Hurt Village, Our Lady of Kibeho).
The Hot Wing King is the recipient of The Edgerton Foundation Award for New Plays.
Katori Hall’s Residency 5 is generously supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.
Special thanks to The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust and The Michael and Betty Rauch Fund for Residency 5 for their generous support of the Residency 5 program.
Access to The Hot Wing King is generously supported, in part, by The Noël Coward Foundation.
Support for intimacy direction on The Hot Wing King provided in part through funding from Body Autonomy, a program of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York) in partnership with the New York Community Trust.
