Two Trains Running

Presented in repertory with The Comedy of Errors
CREATIVE TEAM
Playwright: August Wilson
Artistic Director: Kent Gash
Director: Lili-Anne Brown
Associate Director: Irvin Mason Jr.
Voice & Speech: Duane Boutté
Intimacy Director: Ann James
Original Music: Lindsay Jones
CAST
Wolf: J’Laney Allen
Holloway: Michael J. Asberry
Hambone: Chuckie Benson
West: Robert Cornelius
Sterling: James Milord
Memphis: Michael A. Shepperd
Risa: DeAnne Supplee
Understudies: Diana Coates, Jeffrey Rashad
Photos by Lore Photography Ventura
The Acting Company
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National Tour - 2025

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"Drawn from personal experience, the play’s characters are penned with remarkable specificity even by Wilson’s exacting standards. Director Lili-Anne Brown and her seamless ensemble bring them vividly to life in every detail."
San Francisco Gate
"[The] Acting Company is electric in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running … this engaging, effective production has a starry cast of characters. Their nonstop discourse about the hardtack lives of African Americans represents a timeless story."
Ventura County Reporter
"[An] American classic on track … riveting, humorous, insightful and full of human pathos."
BroadwayWorld
"With [August] Wilson’s signature poetic voice and vivid character development, this production, produced by the Tony Award-winning The Acting Company, sparkles with beautiful acting and a spirit of resilience and hopefulness."
San Francisco Chronicle
"Robert Cornelius, with a gritty voice as an undertaker named West, structures his lines with such masterful melodiousness that you picture a music staff running alongside his text."
The Santa Barbara Independent
"Still relevant in today’s America … The Acting Company tells the story with smooth, natural realism and a practiced balance of humor from ebullient to cynical, and serious musings on American social hierarchy."











