The Problem of the Hero

In 1940, author Richard Wright turns to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green to help adapt his best-selling book, Native Son, into a Broadway play. Days from opening night, they differ over a single page of the script.

• Lenora Zenzalai HelmOriginal Music Composer
• Ian L. FinleyScreenplay
• Shaun DozierDirector
• James A. HodgeScreenplay

• J. Mardrice HendersonRichard Wright
• David zum BrunnenPaul Green
• Derrick IveyRay Collins
• Brandon HaynesCanada Lee/Bigger Thomas
• J. Antoine HendrickYoung Richard Wright
• Dena KonkelJanet Green
• Josephine HallNell Harrison
• Charlie CannonOrson Welles
• Lex WilsonWalter Ash
• Alexa YeamesJean Rosenthal
• Annie McElroyAnne Burr
• Calliope GeorgeEllen Wright