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McGuire is the director of speech and dialects at Yale, author of African Accents: A Workbook for Actors, and previously worked with stars Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira on the latter’s Tony-nominated play Eclipsed.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2018

Last week Blackbird, Bright Star, Eclipsed and The Father also only earned half of what their full potential.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2016

"We still living in a time period where the most impoverished and disadvantaged people in the world are, without question, women and girls," said Gurira, the playwright of the Broadway show "Eclipsed," in an interview.

From US News • Mar. 6, 2016

Eclipsed finishes at the Public Theatre on 29 November and begins previews at Broadway's John Golden Theatre on 23 February, Hollywood Reporter said.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2015

Eclipsed and unnoticed in the metropolis, M. Albert, whose real name was Rodrigues, passed muster very well in country towns.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various