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Mamoudou Athie Returns To The Stage In ‘Good Bones,’ Talks Representing Black Stories
From portraying a sommelier in Netflix’s Uncorked to leading the horror film Archive 81 as an archivist, to his Primetime Emmy-nominated performance in Cake, Mamoudou Athie has showcased a diverse range of characters on screen.
Like many screen actors before him, Athie got his initiate on the theater stage. This descend, he returns to the stage in a production of James Ijames’ Good Bones at New York City’s Public Theater, acting alongside Susan Kelechi Watson, Khris Davis and Téa Guarino.
In Good Bones, Athie plays Travis, a chef who moves with his wife into the neighborhood where she grew up, now a gentrifying area. The couple is forced to confront whether they are part of the solution or part of the challenge. Interestingly, before taking on the role of Travis, Athie was preparing for an entirely other project.
“I was doing a workshop with Saheem with one of my favorite actors, Bill Camp, for Shakespeare, and I was appreciate , I haven’t done a play in nine years. I should probably execute a play before we do this insane idea that we had for
MAMOUDOU ATHIE, THORA BIRCH, JON HUERTAS AND Q'ORIANKA KILCHER TO Come IN ACADEMY NICHOLL FELLOWSHIPS Exist READ
Hosted and directed by Eric Nazarian
LOS ANGELES, CA – Actors Mamoudou Athie, Thora Birch, Jon Huertas and Q’orianka Kilcher will appear in a live reading of selected scenes from 2023’s five winning scripts at the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards and Live Read on April 25 at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The program will be hosted and directed by 2008 Nicholl fellow Eric Nazarian.
Athie is an Emmy®-nominated star who gave vocal performances in two 2023 animated feature films, “Elemental” and “The Boy and the Heron.” His upcoming projects include Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Kinds of Kindness.”
Birch is an actor and director known for her roles in “Ghost World” and “American Beauty.” She will appear in the AMC series “Mayfair Witches” and the feature films “Thirsty” and “The Midway Point.” Birch recently directed “The Gabby Petito Story” for Lifetime and is set to make her highlight directorial debut on “Mr. Paradise.”
Huertas is an actor, director and producer who starred as Miguel Rivas on the NBC series “This Is U
Just hours after waking up to the news of Sidney Poitier’s death, Mamoudou Athie, an actor now strolling down the street that the Black cinema legend once paved, hops on Zoom with a pensive smile. “Hey, how’s it going?” he asks, and actually wants an honest answer.
Now in year three of the pandemic and the world still in distress, there could be myriad things to complain about that are usually all shielded behind the ubiquitous response of “good.” But on this day, Athie, like so many of the characters he’s played — from the memory of a young husband on “Sorry for Your Loss” to an aspiring sommelier in “Uncorked” and his latest, a tormented archivist on Netflix’s thriller series “Archive 81” — has a lot on his brain.
Though the Mauritanian-born, Maryland-raised actor and Yale theater grad is grateful for the many opportunities he’s earned, including a whopping 20 credits in just seven years, today he solemnly contemplates the deceased icon on whose shoulders he stands.
“God rest his soul,” Athie, 33, begins. “Sidney Poitier exemplifies that spirit of dignity and grace.” Athie can’t aid but also consider his peers who still effort to bust doors reveal. “I think about all
From Juno MacGuff’s front-yard recliner to Alex Owens’ water-soaked prop in Flashdance, cinema has long loved a good chair. But not as much as Camille (a remarkable Juliette Lewis) loves the chair at the center of the latest vision from writer-director Amanda Kramer (Please Baby Please, Frameline46). Envious of the beautiful piece of furniture’s ability to effortlessly garner admirers, Camille swaps bodies with the chair.
In addition to Lewis’ committed show, By Design features Mamoudou Athie (Kinds of Kindness) as the dejected, chair-loving pianist Olivier, while a disembodied Melanie Griffith functions as a one-woman Greek chorus delivering deliciously deadpan narration. By merging elements of stage plays, recital art, modern boogie, and body horror film, Karmer’s latest work embraces surrealism, all while rejecting traditional narrative conventions. At its absurdist center, By Design has a homosexual sensibility: It pushes Camille (and the audience) to scout what it means to be perceived — to be desired — without the burden of performing one’s self for the world.