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Broadway: The Lyons, The American Play, Cats, Dreamgirls, The Mooney Shapiro Songbook. Off-Broadway: Proof of Love, Surely, Goodness and Mercy, The First Breeze of Summer, Mom How Did You Meet the Beatles?, Seven Guitars, Fran’s Bed, Goodwill, Marvin's Room, And The World Goes ‘Round-The Songs of Kander and Ebb (Outer Critics Circle Award), Blues In The Night. Regional: Trouble in Mind, The Skeleton Crew, The Old Settler (Freedom Theatre/ McCarter Barrymore Award – Best Actress) Intimate Apparel (Baltimore Centerstage/South Coast Rep), Blues For An Alabama Sky (Cincinnati Playhouse/The Old Globe), Jar The Floor (Syracuse), A Raisin In The Sun (Ford), To Be Young Gifted and Black (The Kennedy Center). Film: Detachment ,16 Blocks, Cradle Will Rock, Twisted, It Could Happen To You. Television: The Path, The Good Wife, Almost Family, Body of Proof, Law and Order, Deadline, Law and Order-SVU, New York Undercover, Daddy’s Girl, Harambee!, Lifestories, Brewster Place (with Oprah Winfrey). 

Off-Broadway: one in two (The New Group); Novenas for a Lost Hospital (Rattlestick); If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (Playwrights Horizons); Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Public); Measure for Measure (TFANA). Regional: Queen of the Night (Dorset Theatre Festival); King Lear (St. Louis Shakespeare Festival); Skeleton Crew (Westport Country Playhouse, Dorset Theatre Festival); Protect the Beautiful Place (McCarter Theatre Center); Seven Guitars (Yale Rep); The Taming of the Shrew, Tiny Houses (Chautauqua Theatre Company); Songs to Grow On and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Alliance Theatre). TV: City On A Hill. BA: Morehouse College. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

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Off-Broadway: Meet Me In St Louis, London Assurance, It’s A Wonderful Life, Ernest In Love (Irish Repertory Theatre), The Broken Heart, Macbeth (Theatre For A New Audience), Murder In The First (The Directors Company), Transport (Irish Arts Center), EightyThree Down (Under St Marks). Regional: This Bitter Earth (TheaterWorks Hartford), Stupid F#*@ing Bird (Woolly Mammoth production for Syracuse Stage & Portland Center Stage), The Great Gatsby (Virginia Stage), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Geva Theater), Dial ‘M’ For Murder (Dorset Theatre Festival), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Guthrie Theater), Dying City (Bottling Company) Ghosts (Commonweal Theatre). Television/Web: CoExisting, BOKtv, #ThatThingFromBefore, Onion News. Network Workshops: An Ideal Husband actor & adaptor (Irish Repertory Theatre), Look Upon Our Lowliness (New York Theatre Workshop), Measured (The Public Theatre), This Bitter Earth (TOSOS), we are continuous (Playwrights Center). Training: University of MN/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program.

dots is a design collective based in New York City specializing in designing environments for narratives, experiences and performances. Hailing from Colombia, South Africa and Japan, we are Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, Andrew Moerdyk & Kimie Nishikawa. We approach every project with diversity of thought and burning curiosity, and above all, we believe in the value of the whole being greater than the sum of its individual parts. www.designbydots.com. Recent credits: La Traviata (Wolf Trap Opera), Snow in Midsummer (CSC), While You Were Partying (Soho Rep), P.S. (Ars Nova) Single Care - national commercial starring Martin Short, Verme – MTV Latinx Heritage Month, Nations Lending – national commercial starring Dennis Rodman.

He/Him/His. Broadway: Thoughts of a Colored Man; Off-Broadway: TUMACHO, Between the Bars, EMERGENCY! and P.S. Additionally, Simmons has had the pleasure of working regionally at: The Geffen Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, Asolo Rep, The Long Wharf Theatre, Jean’s Playhouse, Syracuse Stage and Baltimore Center Stage. Other credits include RUSTIN (Netflix), three seasons of AMC’s television show TURN, the 2nd National Touring production of In the Heights and two seasons of PBS television series Mercy Street. Website:devariosimmons.com  IG: @devariosimmons. Member of United Scenic Artist 829. 

The Public, Second Stage, TFANA, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theater, Williamstown, Ars Nova, Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, The Atlantic, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Omaha, Opera Colorado, The Atlanta Opera. Dance works by Alexander Ekman, Liz Gerring, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Rennie Harris, Recipient of the Drama Desk and Henry Hewes awards. Assistant Professor of Lighting at The University of Maryland. 

Mauricio Escamilla, MOWRI, is a sonic artist, music producer, composer, drummer, percussionist and audio engineer based in Brooklyn, New York. Having a decade of experience composing and designing for theater, film, commercial, and live music performance, MOWRI thrives within creative collaboration and experimental applications. Mowri combines found sounds, digital sampling, original production, and creative layering within his designs. As a first generation artist of Central American immigrant parents, Mowri focuses his creative energy and expertise in collaboration with fellow BIPOC artists. Education: BFA Kinetic Imaging, VCU, Richmond, Virginia. MSc Sound Design, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Notable credits include: A Walk Into Slavery - The Billie Holiday Theatre, The Bandaged Place - Powerhouse Theatre, On the Grounds of Belonging - Long Wharf Theatre, WILD: ACT 1 - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, SOFT - MCC Theater. mescamilla.com // mowrichops.com

Paul Vaillancourt (Associate Lighting Designer) works as a designer, assistant and programmer both Off-Broadway and regionally. His designs have been seen at Hudson Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ithaca College, Massasoit Theater Company, The Company Theater, and others. He has been fortunate enough to work at theaters such as Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, La Mama, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dallas Theatre Center, Ogunquit Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, and others. pvaillancourtdesigns.com 

Germán Martínez is a NYC/NJ based Sound Designer. Germán is a Montclair State University alum (2018), and is the current Eastern Representative for the TSDCA (Theatrical Sound Designer and Composers Association). He recently opened his first Broadway show (Into The Woods). Other work has been featured at: MCC, American Repertory Theatre, Repertorio Español, GALA Hispanic, George Street Playhouse, Two River Theater, and Trinity Rep. As a designer, he seeks work that will uplift and support BIPOC, queer, and immigrant stories in innovative and beautiful ways. Germán calls this work, "art from the heart". He invites any like-minded artists to collaborate. You can keep up with his work on Instagram: @GermanTheSoundDesigner.

Nailah Unole didanas’ea Harper-Malveaux (she/her) is a queer multiracial theatre director focused on transformative new work that creates space for collective reimagination. She facilitates and curates artistic engagements that center and celebrate the beauty, complexity, resilience, healing, and joy of those living in the margins. Select directing credits include Dipika Guha’s world premiere of Getting There (postponed to Jan. 2022), Aimee Suzara’s new commissioned play The Real Sappho at Cutting Ball Theater and Loy A. Webb’s The Light at Shotgun Players. She has assisted numerous directors including, Awoye Timpo (School Girls), Tamilla Woodard (Men on Boats), Mina Morita (Church), Annie Kaufman (Becky Nurse), and Rachel Dart (Coming Soon). She is also a member of the inaugural cohort of the Artistic Caucus, a group of 4 freelance artists designed to initiate curatorial disruption and advocate for new artists at Woolly Mammoth, Baltimore Center Stage, the Rep of St. Louis and Long Wharf. She is a Resident Artist at Crowded Fire and former Directing Fellow at Berkeley Rep and Community Producing fellow at A.C.T. She graduated with a B.A. in Theatre Studies and American Studies from Yale University. 

Mykal Kilgore is an award winning actor and a Grammy and NAACP Image Award nominated singer/songwriter. His debut album “A Man Born Black” is a gumbo of American roots music and modern feels that highlight his ability to go from Broadway Showtune Storytelling to Soul and Jazz scatting to Gospel. Mykal was most recently seen performing at The Met Gala. Theatre credits include The Witch in Into The Woods at Barrington Stage Company, The Who’s Tommy at The Kennedy Center, Songs For A New World at Encores! Off-Center, Motown the Musical and Hair on Broadway, as well as Book of Mormon (1st National Tour.) He has also appeared in TV/Film with roles in NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar and The Wiz Live and Collateral Beauty.  Mykal’s racked up 10M plus views on social media with his videos including his viral “Reclaiming My Time” video.   #blacklivesmatter #translivesmatter #loveoneanother MYKALKILGORE.COM

Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, True Crime Obsessed. National Tours: Hamilton (Puerto Rico), On Your Feet!, An American in Paris. Off-Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club, Minetta Lane Theatre, Park Avenue Armory, The Public Theater, The Working Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company, Atlantic Theater Company. CCM Alumnus. For Danny and Olive.

WTF Debut! Select Theatre Credits: A Walk On The Moon (George Street Playhouse) Tambo and Bones (Playwrights Horizons) Sing Street (Broadway & NYTW) Notes On My Mother's Decline, Time's Journey, Oh My Sweet Land,Villa (PlayCo) Little Women (Primary Stages) This Is The Color Described By The Time (New Georges). Select TV/Film Credits: Tony Awards Ceremony, That Damn Michael Che, Younger, Beat Bobby Flay.