Character Guide
Within Fires in the Mirror, there are a total of 26 real life characters. One character appears in solo in one monologue, with two characters, The Reverend Al Sharpton and Letty Cottin Pogrebin, appearing in two monologues each.
The character are as follows:
Ntozake Shange: 42-45 year old African-American playwright, poet, novelist.
Anonymous Lubavitcher Woman: White mid-thirties preschool teacher.
George C. Wolfe: African-American playwright and was the current director/producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival. (served 1993-2004)
Aaron M. Bernstein: man in his fifties. Physicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Anonymous Girl: A junior high, teen-age black girl of Haitian descent. Lives in Brooklyn. (near Crown Heights)
The Reverend Al Sharpton: Well-known African-American New York activist and minister.
Rivkah Siegal: Lubavitcher women. Graphic designer. Age unspecified.
Angela Davis: African American woman in her late 40s. Author, orator, activist and scholar. Was currently a Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Monique 'Big Mo' Matthews: African American Los Angeles rapper.
Leonard Jeffries: African American Professor of African American Studies at City University of New York. Was the former head of the department.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin: White author and founding editor of Ms. Magazine. Of Jewish descent and in her fifties.
Minister Conrad Mohammed: African American minister of New York who associates himself with Nation of Islam (presently Baptist). The minister for the Honorable Louis Farrakhan.
Robert F. Sherman: Director and Mayor of the City of New York’s Increase the Peace Corps.
Rabbi Joseph Spielman: Spokesperson in the Luabvitch community.
Reverend Canon Doctor Heron Sam: Pastor at St. Mark’s Crown Heights Church, of African American descent.
Anonymous Young Man #1: resident of Crown Heights, Caribbean American man in his late teens or early twenties.
Michael S. Miller: Executive Director at the Jewish Community Relations Council.
Henry Rice: Crown Heights resident.
Norman Rosenbaum: Brother of Yankel Rosenbaum, an Australian.
Anonymous Young Man #2: Crown Heights resident, an African American young man in his late teens or early twenties.
Sonny Carson: Activist, of African American descent.
Rabbi Shea Hecht: middle-aged Luabvitcher rabbi, spokesperson.
Richard Green: Director of the Crown Heights Youth Collective and Co-director of Project CURE. (a black-Hasidic basketball team that developed after the riots)
Roslyn Malamud: Lubavitcher resident of Crown Heights.
Reumven Ostrov: Lubavicher youth and member of project CURE, 17 years old at the time of the rioting and worked as an assistant chaplain at Kings County Hospital.
Carmel Cato: Father of Gavin Cato, originally from Guyana but now a resident of Crown Heights.
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