Round 3: Tossup 6

The career of an actress with this surname and the first name Theresa inspired Lynn Nottage’s (“NOT-idge’s”) play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. An actor with this surname directed and starred as a Detroit con artist in the 1989 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film Chameleon Street. A playwright with this surname worked with Janicza Bravo (“juh-NICK-zuh BRAH-vo”) to adapt a Twitter thread into the screenplay of the film Zola. An actress with this surname looks into the camera and says (15[1])“well, I’m your mama, ain’t I?” in a film in which her character is based on the mother of the screenwriter, (*) Tarell Alvin McCraney. That actress with this surname had just three shooting days during a press tour to play a woman who tells her son “you ain’t got to love me, but you gonna know that I love you.” That woman played by an actress with this surname buys drugs from Juan, a dealer played by Mahershala Ali. (-5[1])For 10 points, give this surname of the English actress who played Chiron’s (“shy-ROHN’s”) mother in Moonlight. ■END■ (10[1])

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