WHAT I’M UP TO
AUGUST 2024
Will be playing Gravedigger/Player King/Doctor in a staged reading of Hamlet at Playwrights Horizons directed by Sarah Jack.
Performing in a staged reading of The World Only Spins Forward (Phase III), conceived by Lily Mannon and directed by Nate Flower, at the MSNR Alumni Creative Incubator.
JULY 2024
workshopped and devised with other Mercury Store cohort members Jing Dong’s adaption of War and Peace.
JUNE 2024
played Moth/PA in Smith Street Stage’s production of Love’s Labor’s Lost, directed by Raquel Chavez
may 2024
performed in a reading of Run Against the Wind, a piece developed by Taji Senior and Thalia Sablon. Run Against the Wind is a piece that uses text from Black feminist and scholarly writers and activists to be in dialogue with Palestinian resistance and liberaiton in the midst of the current genocide. This piece was presented at JACK and all proceeds were used to purchase E-sims for people in Palestine.
FEBRUARY 2024
Workshopped Dominique Rider’s RACIAL BONUS (former title) with Breaking the Binary.
Performed in a reading of Twelve Angry Black Women by Andrea Ambam and directed by Taylor Reynolds at New York Theatre Workshop.
JANUARY 2024
Acted in Joey Massa’s proof of concept film, Pink Noise.
OCTOBER 2023
Read stage directions for YOUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL by travis tate, directed by Dominique Rider and had the opportunity to work with a creative team comprised fully of trans, non-binary and two-spirit+ artists. <3
AUGUST 2023
Collaborated with director abigail jean-baptiste, one of New Georges Audrey Residents, to explore the destruction of the movie-musical White Christmas, and see the piece through the lens of the often uncredited black train car porters.
JUNE 2023
Had the pleasure of being in a Benefit Reading of A Long Time Since Yesterday by PJ Gibson, directed by Awoye Timpo at The New Federal Theatre.
Played Mayo, a fifth grader on a gender journey, in Ally Merkel’s The Bogeyman that went up at the Tank in the Under Construction 3 series.
MAY 2023
Time and Time Again, a collection of three short plays that experiment with time and structure, at The Chain Theater in NYC. Vann was featured in when superheroes die and how we mourn them… by Luis Roberto Herrera directed by Mia Fowler.
april 2023
Played Tilly in a reading of Troglobites by Zachary Desmond produced by Undiscovered Works.
FEBRUARY 2023 - may 2023
Returned to Mercury Store, “a start-up space for theatre artists – stage directors, choreographers, and devisers,” as a member of their resident acting company. They first started working with Mercury Store in the Fall of 2021 and continued on for their Spring 2022 Season.
december 2022
Had the opportunity to workshop a new queer black musical, Be Like Bone, by Storm Thomas and directed by nicHi douglas, with some of their favorite collaborators at Musical Theatre Factory.
pictured left to right: Vann Dukes, Storm Thomas, Ara Celia Butler, Danyel Geddie
september 2022 - November 2022
Appeared in Robert O’Hara’s production of A Raisin in the Sun at The Public Theater.
JULY 2022
Participated in the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals where they got to meet and collaborate with an amazing network of artists and make messy, fun, and meaningful theatre.
JUNE 2022
Performed at the Ars Nova Ant Fest with an ensemble of dancers in a piece entitled my saturday night did not go as planned by evan ray suzuki.
