This year’s installment of New York’s Shakespeare successful the Park volition beryllium a existent household matter for Lupita Nyong’o arsenic the Oscar winner’s babe member volition beryllium starring alongside her successful the production.
The Public Theater, which produces the yearly show, announced Thursday that Junior Nyong’o is among the star-studded formed of “Twelfth Night.”
Emmy Award winners Peter Dinklage and Sandra Oh, arsenic good arsenic Tony victor Jesse Tyler Ferguson, volition besides prima successful Saheem Ali‘s revival of Shakespeare’s classical romanticist drama astir mistaken identities.
Junior, who sometimes goes by Peter, volition represent the relation of Sebastian — the duplicate member of Viola, who his sister volition play. It marks the archetypal clip the 2 siblings volition prima onstage together. Lupita was announced to pb the forthcoming accumulation of Free Shakespeare successful the Park past July.
“Twelfth Night,” which besides features Broadway alums Khris Davis, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Bill Camp, volition service arsenic the main attraction astatine the Delacorte Theater erstwhile it reopens successful August aft 2 years of renovations.
Junior Nyong’o antecedently starred successful a assemblage accumulation of the beloved play arsenic a pupil astatine UC San Diego.
Junior had an aboriginal brushwood with fame erstwhile helium became a viral sensation astatine the 2014 Academy Awards aft photobombing a selfie that big Ellen DeGeneres took from the audience. He and his sister were pictured alongside Bradley Cooper, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Jared Leto, Channing Tatum, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
“He lives beingness successful an exclamation point… helium upstaged me… he’s rather the performer,” Lupita said of her member during an quality connected “Ellen” days aft winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “12 Years a Slave.”