“An Octoroon”

Who: Johnique Mitchell, 26, conservatory actor. This summer, she is playing Judy in Jump as part of the New Play Workshops. She also opened the season as Grace in An Octoroon, for which Mitchell composed

In the prologue of An Octoroon, Larry Powell bares all on stage — and not just because he is in his underwear. The guest artist plays BJJ, a playwright who tells his therapist and the

In the stage directions for An Octoroon, playwright Branden Jacob-Jenkins admits that he has no idea what an enslaved person sounds like, “and neither do you.” The play, which opens Chautauqua Theater Company’s 2018 season