(LEFT to RIGHT) DiShawn Gandy (Harry), Sequoia Franklin (Belinda), Mike Vails (George),Vivette Alston (Grace) and Bellamy Shivers (Sam). Photos by Fawn Nocera Photography

(MIDDLETOWN, NJ) --  The Middletown Arts Center, in conjunction with Dunbar Repertory Company, is presenting the Green Honey Love, May 16-25, 2025. The play, written by Gail Wynn Huland El and directed by Damien S. Berger, is a story about adultery, deceit, greed, and conspiracy of murder – your everyday comedy. Fawn Nocera Photography was on hand to take photos.

Except for her lover, everyone, including her husband George, thinks Belinda still has the mind of a child after being involved in a terrible car accident that caused severe head injury. What George doesn’t know is that Belinda and her lover are conspiring to kill him before the settlement check arrives. Dunbar Repertory Company’s production features Sequoia Franklin (Belinda), Mike Vails (George), Vivette Alston (Grace), DiShawn Gandy (Harry) and Bellamy Shivers (Sam).

Remaining performances are Friday, May 23 at 8:00pm; Saturday, May 24 at 3:00pm & 8:00pm; and Sunday, May 25 at 4:00pm. You can Meet the Playwright after the final performance on May 25th. Ticket prices are $22 and are general admission. Group ticket sales (10 or more) are also available for $17 per ticket. Purchase tickets online at middletownarts.org or call the MAC Box Office at 732.706.4100.

Damien S. Berger (Director)

Sequoia Franklin (Belinda) and Mike Vails (George)

Vivette Alston (Grace), Mike Vails (George) and Sequoia Franklin (Belinda)

DiShawn Gandy (Harry)

The Middletown Arts Center is located at 36 Church Street in Middletown, NJ (next to the Middletown train station). Free parking is available onsite with additional free parking available in station metered lot on weekday evenings after 6:00pm and on weekends.

Playwright Gail Wynn Huland El resides in New Jersey. She writes one-act and full-length plays, as well as poetry and essays. She is the Founder and President of the Channie Theater Company, Inc. She is a Founding Member of the Uptown Playwrights’ Workshop in Harlem and held the position of Director of the Uptown Playwright’s for 14 years. Ms. Huland El is also the President of the Theatrical Ministry at her church.

Ms. Huland El has written numerous plays which have been read and/or produced by Rejoti Productions, Voices from the Edge Festival of the New Perspectives Theater in New York, Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop, New York, National Black Theatre Festival, Winston-Salem, NC, Sista Style Productions, in Nashville, TN, Two Ladies Productions Dinner Theatre Readings, Teaneck, NJ, Spellbound Repertory Theatre, Medley of Words and Short-Play Festivals of Uptown Playwrights’ Workshop and numerous other venues. Some of her plays include Blessed Assurance, Kiss Of Guilt, That Seat Is Mine, A Helpin’ Hand, Green Honey Love, Sweet Puddin’ Pie, Like Family, Do No Evil, Gran’etta’s House, Need For Love, What’s Happening In That Church, Where Are We? and What Happened In Apartment 504? She has also directed some of her own plays and those written by other playwrights for productions.

Here are more photos from the production.

DiShawn Gandy (Harry), Bellamy Shivers (Sam) and Mike Vails (George)

(LEFT to RIGHT) DiShawn Gandy (Harry), Sequoia Franklin (Belinda), Bellamy Shivers (Sam), Mike Vails (George) and Vivette Alston (Grace)

Vivette Alston (Grace), Sequoia Franklin (Belinda) and DiShawn Gandy (Harry)

Sequoia Franklin (Belinda) and Bellamy Shivers (Sam)

Sequoia Franklin (Belinda) and DiShawn Gandy (Harry)

Known to residents of Central New Jersey as “Monmouth County’s African American Theater Company”, Dunbar Repertory Company is committed to its mission of perpetuating an appreciation of cultural diversity and celebrating African American culture through LIVE literary readings, main stage theatrical productions, education programs and services.

The Middletown Arts Center (MAC) is an award-winning, state-of-the-art facility in Middletown, New Jersey that offers performances, exhibits, classes, demonstrations and camps centering on the arts. Its convenient location across from the Middletown train station on Church Street enables easy access and its expanded MAC Annex Education Building is minutes away next to the Middletown Reformed Church. The MAC is operated by a non-profit 501c3, the Middletown Township Cultural and Arts Council dedicated to bringing quality arts programming and events to Middletown and surrounding communities.

Photos by Fawn Nocera Photography