The Coffin Maker
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Your virtual ticket also includes bonus behind-the-scenes content from artists and educators that bring you closer to the story than ever before. THE COFFIN MAKER is available on Public On Demand for a 3-day rental period at any point now through July 14, while supplies last. For more information and to secure your virtual tickets, visit PPT.org/OnDemand.
WORLD PREMIERE • THIS INSTANT CLASSIC IS TO DIE FOR
In this new installment of his century-spanning chronicle of the Black experience inspired by his mentor August Wilson, Pittsburgh theater legend Mark Clayton Southers turns back the clock to 1849 Oklahoma. There, free man Lawrence Ebitt and his wife Eula live peacefully preparing bodies for burial with care and respect, until their world is turned upside down by a bounty hunter who gets more than he bargained for and a fugitive determined to forge his own future. This Western-Comedy-Revenge play is a genre-defying world premiere spiked with heart-stopping revelations.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.
THE COFFIN MAKER is rated MA (Mature Audiences) and is suitable for guests 18 and older, with parental guidance strongly suggested for anyone 17 and under. THE COFFIN MAKER dramatizes circumstances, characters, and themes inspired by true events from American history. As a result, this play contains adult situations, explicit language, racial slurs, depiction of death, violence, the use of prop guns, and depiction of blood on stage. For more details, please contact our Education Manager Jenny Malarkey at jmalarkey@ppt.org.
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Featuring
Garbie Dukes
Lawrence Ebitt
Professional credits include: World premiere of The Coffin Maker at Pittsburgh Public Theater; also Trouble In Mind; mainstage productions at City Theatre; the August Wilson Center; and numerous other companies and venues. TV appearances include Unsolved Mysteries, Outsiders, A League of Their Own, and national/regional commercials, including the Pennsylvania Lottery.
Robin R. McGee
Eula Ebitt
Robin is excited to be making her second visit to Pittsburgh! Robin was last seen as Fannie in The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. She began the role at Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre in Atlanta and won the 2022 Suzi Bass Award for the role. She later closed the three-theatre tour in Pittsburgh, PA, with City Theatre performing at August Wilson's African American Culture Center.
Randy Kovitz
Evan Wainwright Hollister
RANDY KOVITZ Past roles at The Public include Otto Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank and Charlie in Death of a Salesman. Randy has also staged fights for over a dozen productions at The Public and for hundreds of other film, TV and stage productions around the country. Other acting credits include numerous roles on and off Broadway and regional theaters and neary 100 film and television roles. www.randykovitz.com.
Brandon St. Clair
Dead Man
This is Brandon's first time at The Public and he's excited to be here. His recent credits include FBI on Peacock and Vacation Friends 2 on Hulu.
Connor McCanlus
Buchannon
The Public: The Coffin Maker, Barefoot in the Park. Additional theatre: barebones (Rules of Seconds, American Falls), Bricolage (SCarrie, Yinzer Scrooged), Kinetic (The Hound of the Baskervilles), Quantum (King Lear, The Current War) and CLO Cabaret (Boeing Boeing). TV: A League of Their Own (2022). Film: A Man Called Otto.
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