Candis C. Jones and Erika Dickerson-Despenza Joseph Marzullo/WENN The Public Theater has added the world premiere of Erika Dickerson-Despenza s audio play Shadow/land to its current spring digital theatre season. The play will be available for free, on-demand streaming beginning April 13 on Public Play Now as well as on all podcast platforms. Playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza is the Public s 2019-2020 Tow Foundation playwright-in-residence, and a Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award and Lilly Award recipient. Candis C. Jones, also a recipient of a New York Women s Foundation Lilly Award, helms the production featuring Te Era Coleman, Lizan Mitchell, Lance E. Nichols, Lori Elizabeth Parquet, Sunni Patterson, and Michelle Wilson.