Oh Happy Day!

Jordan E. Cooper had a hit right out of the gate at the Public Theatre's 2019 production of his debut play, the uproarious Ain't No Mo', in which he played an airport employee overseeing boarding for the last plane out in a mass African-American exodus. His follow-up play reunites him with director Stevie Walker-Webb to tell a different story of survival through transit: a modern riff on the story of Noah's Ark, in which Cooper plays the black sheep of a southern Black family who rises to an unexpected calling. Keith Randolph Smith and Tamika Lawrence costar as his relatives, and three exceptional singers—Tiffany Mann, Sheléa Melody McDonald and Latrice Pace—give voice to original gospel songs by Donald Lawrence.