Playwrights debut. Regional: Father Comes Home From the Wars… (Yale Rep, ACT); Sojourners, runboyrun (Magic Theatre); Black Rider (Shotgun Players); Bootycandy (Brava Theater); A Raisin in the Sun (California Shakespeare Theatre); Choir Boy (Marin Theatre Company); multiple appearances with Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe, where he is a collective member. Solo plays: Homeless, Type/Caste. Co-writing: Seeing Red. Director: VS (TheatreFIRST). MFA in Acting from Northern Illinois University. rotimionline.com

Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: The Winter’s Tale, An Octoroon (TFANA); The Old Settler (BHT); Sweet, Facing Our Truth — Night Vision, No More Monsters Here (NBT); Mother Courage, Macbeth, The Blacks, Trojan Women (CTH). Regional: The Call, Seven Guitars, Antigone, Miss Julie. Film: Boy In A Backpack, Police State. Television: “Elementary,” “Show Me a Hero,” “30 Rock,” “Person of Interest,” “Mercy.” Princess Grace Awar Recipient. Training: Juilliard. maechi.net

Playwrights debut. Broadway: The Play That Goes Wrong. Off-Broadway: Alternating Currents (Working Theater), My Mañana Comes (Playwrights Realm). Regional: Native Son (Yale Rep); Jazz (Baltimore Center Stage); As You Like It, Black Odyssey (Denver Center Theatre Co.); Ruined (La Jolla Playhouse, Huntington, Berkeley Rep); A Raisin in the Sun, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Huntington). TV: “Blue Bloods,” “Madam Secretary,” “Elementary,” “Braindead,” “Law & Order: SVU.” Film: The Upside.

Playwrights debut. Anoinette graduated in 2018 from Yale School of Drama, where she played in shows such as The Three Sisters, Seven Guitars, and Our Lady of 121st Street. Born and raised in Texas, she attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas where she played in The Colored Museum, The Women, and more. TV: “Godfather of Harlem” premiering in 2019 on Epix.

Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Public); Measure for Measure (TFANA). Regional: Skeleton Crew (Dorset Theatre Festival); Protect the Beautiful Place (McCarter Theatre Center); Seven Guitars, Familiar (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). BA: Morehouse College. MFA: Yale School of Drama

Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play (MCC, Drama Desk Award); The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature); Iphigenia in Aulis (CSC). TV: “One Dollar,” “Seven Seconds,” “Divorce.” Training: The University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA. This production is dedicated to my family who supports me ceaselessly and the culture of the Yoruba and Igbo people of Nigeria whose blood run through my veins. nikeuchekadri.com

Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (MCC), The Homecoming Queen (Atlantic), The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature); Mother Courage and Her Children (CSC); Frontières Sans Frontières (Bushwick Starr); Autumn's Harvest (Lincoln Center). Regional: School Girls…, Skeleton Crew, Our Town, Christmas Carol. TV: “Bull,” “The Affair,” “Master of None,” “Broad City,” “Russian Doll.” Awards: Lortel, Drama Desk Ensemble, Rosemarie Tichler. BFA Adelphi University. miriraisithole.com

Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: Comedy of Errors, Othello (CSC), Yellow Card Red Card (New Ohio Theatre). Regional: Macbeth (Northern Stage); Little Foot (Market Theatre JHB). Tour: Antigone in The World. Television: “The Good Fight,” “Orange Is The New Black,” “Elementary.” Film: LostFound (Sundance). MFA: Columbia University. Phumzile is a South African actor and voice over artist.

Playwrights debut. Broadway: The Color Purple (Church Lady/Olivia). First National Tours: The Color Purple (Shug Avery), Ghost the Musical (Oda Mae). Regional: The Color Purple (Shug Avery, Paper Mill Playhouse), Little Shop of Horrors (Ronette, Sharon Playhouse), The Wiz (Dorothy, Arkansas Repertory), Rent (Joanne, Surflight), and others. A big thank you to my agents, HCKR! Galatians 6:9. Instagram: @mzzzruth. Facebook: Carla R Stewart.

Louisa Thompson is an award-winning set/costume designer and creator of theatrical work for young audiences. In 2018, she received an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Design.  Her designs have been seen Off-Broadway, on Regional stages, and internationally (with the 10 year tour of GATZ by Elevator Repair Service).  Known for explorations of audience space, site specificity, and the potential for materials on stage, Louisa is considered an innovator in the field and has been recently featured in the book Scene Shift.  Currently, Louisa connects her projects as Ground_Cloth, a container for past, present, and future explorations of cloth, play, and environmental justice.

Playwrights Horizons: The Profane, Rancho Viejo, A Life, Placebo, This, Grand Concourse, The Call, Go Back to Where You Are, She Stoops to Comedy. Other Off-Broadway: Everybody (Signature), All the Ways... (MCC), War (LCT3), Gloria (Vineyard), The Way We Get By (Second Stage), Buzzer (The Public), An Octoroon (Soho Rep., TFANA), Generations (Soho Rep.). Regional: For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday (Humana Festival 2016, Berkeley Rep).