London’s Theatre Royal, 1833. Theatre history is made when Ira Aldridge becomes the first Black actor to take the stage as Shakespeare’s Othello. As a bill promoting the abolition of slavery sends shockwaves through Parliament, how will London react to Aldridge’s groundbreaking performance? Director Jade King Carroll makes her STC debut with Olivier Award winner Lolita Chakrabarti’s “gripping, intelligent, and passionate” (The Financial Times) Red Velvet, celebrating a pioneering actor who triumphed in his art despite a tempest of social injustice.

All titles, artists, and dates subject to change.


Reviews

“Amari Cheatom ASTOUNDS as Ira Aldridge…in director Jade King Carroll’s EXQUISITE production.” –The Washington Post

“A TRULY BRILLIANT production…Red Velvet is stunning in every sense of the word.” –BroadwayWorld

“BREATHTAKING…A spectacular creative team and an extraordinary group of actors brings us a production worthy of Aldridge’s remarkable achievement.” –DC Theater Arts

“SPLENDID…A powerful cast packs the performance with nuance and emotion.” –MD Theatre Guide

“HAUNTINGLY TIMELY and ASTONISHINGLY SHARP…Director Jade King Carroll transitions this production between comedy and drama seamlessly.” –Theatrely

“ELEGANT…Jaye Ayres-Brown excels at depicting Charles Kean…Emily DeForest is radiant as Ellen Tree.” –Talkin’ Broadway

“COMPELLING…With Jade King Carroll’s masterful direction, [Amari] Cheatom’s commanding performance as Aldridge showcases the complex character.” –District Fray

“EXCELLENT…The play’s world is lushly rendered by scenic designer You-Shin Chen…Yuki Nakase Link’s lighting design mixes tones beautifully…Rodrigo Muñoz’s costumes bring all three worlds of the play to life.” –Two Hours’ Traffic

“WONDERFUL…Playwright Lolita Chakrabarti weaves a fantastic story.” –Urban Milan


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Red Velvet

Jun 18, 2022 - Jul 16, 2022

By Lolita Chakrabarti
Directed by Jade King Carroll
Runtime: 2 hours and 40 minutes, including one 15 minute intermission
Production Sponsors:
Jean and David Grier
M Powered Strategies, Inc

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This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

2021/22 Season Sponsors:
Michael R. Klein and Joan Fabry
Harman Family Foundation

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The Performers
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  • Casimir/Henry Forrester: Samuel Adams
    Samuel Adams
    Casimir/Henry Forrester
    Casimir/Henry Forrester
    Samuel Adams

    STC: Academy for Classical Acting: As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Henry 60, The Two Gentlemen of Verona. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Hamlet, Leni & Joseph, The Bacchae, Summer & Smoke, Surface to Air, The Execution of Mrs. Cotton. REGIONAL: Folger Theatre: Amadeus | Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: Henry V Under Milk Wood, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Clockwork Orange, Summer I Disappeared. TELEVISION: Time After Time (ABC), Mildred Pierce (HBO). OTHER: Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games), The Unweeded Garden (YouTube). PERSONAL: Training: STC’s Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University: MFA in Classical Acting.


    * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.   

  • Charles Kean: Jaye Ayres-Brown
    Jaye Ayres-Brown
    Charles Kean
    Charles Kean
    Jaye Ayres-Brown

    REGIONAL: Texas Shakespeare Festival: Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night. FILM: Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin, Marcy Learns Something New, Last Ferry, DC Noir. TELEVISION: The Blacklist, Monsterland, The Deuce. PERSONAL: they/them/theirs. Training: Carnegie Mellon University: BFA in Acting/Musical Theater, UCB. Instagram: @jayeayresbrown.


    * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.   

  • Terence/Bernard Warde: David Bishins*
    David Bishins*
    Terence/Bernard Warde
    Terence/Bernard Warde
    David Bishins*

    STC: Red Velvet, Richard III, Twelfth Night, Othello, MacbethThe Tempest, The Winter’s Tale. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The Glass HouseWe Declare You a TerroristIncident at VichyCatch-22, The Boys in the Band, Sympathetic MagicThe Nest, Tower of EvilREGIONAL: Arena Stage: All the Way | Studio Theatre: Between Riverside and Crazy | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Appropriate | The Mark Taper Forum: Appropriate | Barrington Stage Company: Much Ado About Nothing | The Old Globe: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Life of Riley | Long Wharf Theatre: A Month in the Country, Rag and Bone | Vermont Stage: True West | Wilma Theater: Arcadia | Pittsburgh Public Theater: The Dybbuk. FILM: A Cure for Wellness; SALTThe Adjustment BureauHenry’s Crime; Sorry, Haters!; The War Within; The Magic Helmet. TVHouse of Cards, Homeland, Blue Bloods, Fringe, Babylon Fields (pilot), The Law & Order canon. PERSONAL: he/him | Member of AEA since 1989. | Training: The Juilliard School.

    * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

  • Ira Aldridge: Amari Cheatom
    Amari Cheatom
    Ira Aldridge
    Ira Aldridge
    Amari Cheatom

    NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Public Theater: The Book of Grace | Signature Theatre: Zooman and The Sign. U.S. TOUR: Jitney (MTC/ Ruben Santiago-Hudson). REGIONAL: Geffen Playhouse/The Old Globe: Skeleton Crew | Baltimore Center Stage/Detroit Public Theatre: Detroit ‘67 | Horizon Theatre: The Ballad of Klook and Vinette | Alliance Theatre: The Temple Bombing | True Colors Theatre Company: Fetch Clay, Make Man. FILM: Judas and the Black Messiah; Roman J. Israel, Esq.; Moths and Butterflies; Django Unchained; The Miki Howard Story. PERSONAL: he/him/his. TRAINING: The Juilliard School, Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta, Tri-Cities High School of Visual and Performing Arts.


    * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.   

  • Ellen Tree: Emily Deforest
    Emily Deforest
    Ellen Tree
    Ellen Tree
    Emily Deforest

    FILM: The Blind, Let’s Go With Sophie, Tired Eyes, Hi Mom. PERSONAL: she/her/hers. Emily is a founding producer and performer for IDWSTBK?!?!!. Emily is also a filmmaker and performance artist. | Training: University of North Carolina School of the Arts: BFA in Acting | Web: EmilyDeForest.com. 


    * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.   

  • Connie: Shannon Dorsey*
    Shannon Dorsey*
    Connie
    Connie
    Shannon Dorsey*

    NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Great MacDaddy, Power of the Trinity, The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller, Revelation. TOURS: Enchantment Theater’s Cinderella, Catharsis Productions’ Sex Signals, Pinpoints Theater’s 1001 Black Inventions. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Arena Riffs: The Freewheelin' Insurgents, All the Way | Ford’s Theatre: The Mountaintop, A Christmas Carol | Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: The Trip to Bountiful, Safe House, Two Trains Running | Round House Theatre: Two Trains Running | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: FairviewBLKSFamiliarAn OctoroonKiss | The Kennedy Center: Synetic Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s DreamCarmen, From the Mouths of Monsters | Studio Theatre: Skeleton Crew, Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet, In the Red and Brown Water | Mosaic Theater Company: Unexplored Interior | Everyman Theatre: Stick Fly | Perseverance Theatre Alaska: A Raisin in the Sun. FILM: Master (Sundance Film Festival). AWARDS: 2020 Theatre Communications Group Fox Fellowship Recipient, six Helen Hayes Award nominations (Fairview, BLKS, Familiar, An Octoroon, Carmen, Skeleton Crew), Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble (Synetic Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream). OTHER: STC: Gala performer, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. PERSONAL: Shannon is an award-winning actor/dancer and artivist. She is a Company Member at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. | Teaching: Pinpoints Theater | Training: Jones-Haywood School of Dance; Duke Ellington School of the Arts: Theatre; Temple University: BA in Communications and Theater and BA in African American Studies; The Ecole de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower, Cannes, France | Instagram: @cooldiscoshann | Web: Shannd.com.


    * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.   

  • Pierre Laporte: Michael Glenn*
    Michael Glenn*
    Pierre Laporte
    Pierre Laporte
    Michael Glenn*

    STC: Peter Pan and Wendy, The School for Lies. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Junk, Sovereignty, Good People, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery | Folger Theatre: Nell Gwynn, Sense and Sensibility, Arcadia | Round House Theatre: Gem of the Ocean, Small Mouth Sounds, Stage Kiss | Studio Theatre: Jumpers for Goalposts | Olney Theatre Center: Tiger Style!, Marjorie Prime | Theater J: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Photograph 51 | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Clybourne Park | Signature Theatre: The Lieutenant of Inishmore. AWARDS: Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble (Folger Theatre’s Sense and Sensibility). OTHER: Hundreds of characters in dozens of audiobook recordings for Graphic Audio. PERSONAL: he/him/his.


    * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.  

  • Halina/Betty/Margaret: Tro Shaw*
    Tro Shaw*
    Halina/Betty/Margaret
    Halina/Betty/Margaret
    Tro Shaw*

    NEW YORK: Broadway: West Side Story (Tony Award nomination, Best Revival of a Musical) | Off-Broadway: Together This Time. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Newsies (Helen Hayes Award nominations) | Musical Theatre West: Yankee Doodle Dandy, White Christmas | Utah Shakespeare Festival: The Matchmaker, Lend Me a Tenor: The Musical (World Premiere) | Theatre Under the Stars: The Little Mermaid | La Mirada Theatre: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Ovation Award nomination) | Son of Semele: Cherry Smoke (West Coast Premiere) | The Magic Theatre: Triptych (World Premiere) | Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geffen Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Cal Shakes. TELEVISION: NCIS: Los Angeles. OTHER: The Antaeus Company member. PERSONAL: she/her/hers. Tro is a proud AEA and SAG-AFTRA member and is honored to be making her Shakespeare Theatre Company debut. This one’s for Billie. | Training: STC's Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University: MFA in Classical Acting, Carnegie Mellon University: BFA in Acting | Instagram: @Troshaw | Web: TroShaw.com.

    * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.   


The Artistic Team
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  • Lolita Chakrabarti
    Playwright
    Playwright
    Lolita Chakrabarti

    Lolita Chakrabarti OBE is an award-winning actress and playwright. Her stage adaptation of Life of Pi has been a hit on the West End and won seven Olivier Awards, including Best Play. Her first play, Red Velvet, earned the Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright 2012, The Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright 2013, AWA for Arts and Culture 2013, and an Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre 2012. Writing credits include: Hymn (Almeida Theatre/Sky Arts); Life of Pi (Sheffield Theatres); Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre/St. Ann’s Warehouse/Garrick Theatre); an adaptation of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities (Manchester International Festival and Brisbane Festival); Stones of Venice, a VR film for New Vision Arts Festival in Hong Kong; The Greatest Wealth (The Old Vic) celebrating eight decades of the NHS; dramaturg on Message in a Bottle (ZooNation/Sadler’s Wells). Acting credits include: Fanny and Alexander (The Old Vic); Hamlet (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art); Vigil, Showtrial, The Casual Vacancy, Defending the Guilty (BBC); The Wheel of Time (Amazon Prime); Born to Kill (Channel 4); My Mad Fat Diary (E4); Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands (ITV); Riviera (Sky); Criminal (Netflix).


  • Jade King Carroll
    Director
    Director
    Jade King Carroll

    NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Primary Stages: New Golden Age | Audible/New York Theatre Workshop: Proof of Love | Lincoln Center Institute: Autumn’s Harvest | The Playwright’s Realm: Hello, From the Children of Planet Earth | SummerStage: The Etymology of Bird | Atlantic Theater Company: Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money. REGIONAL: Portland Stage: Perseverance, Native Gardens, Skeleton Crew, The Whipping Man, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Bad Dates | Hartford Stage/McCarter Theatre Center: Detroit ‘67 | City Theatre Company: The Revolutionists, Sunset Baby | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley/Marin Theatre Company: Skeleton Crew | McCarter Theatre Center: Intimate Apparel, The Piano Lesson | Hartford Stage/Long Wharf Theatre: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years | Hartford Stage: The Piano Lesson | PlayMakers Repertory Company: Trouble in Mind | Chautauqua Theater Company: The Tempest | Two River Theater Company: Trouble in Mind | People’s Light & Theatre: Seven Guitars, The Persians, Splittin’ the Raft | Perseverance Theatre: A Raisin in the Sun | The Juilliard School: Cardboard Piano, A Raisin in the Sun | Portland Playhouse: King Hedley II | Resident Ensemble Players at University of Delaware: From the Author of | Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival: A Member of the Wedding | Dorset Theater Festival: Laughing Wild | Milwaukee Rep: New Age. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: NEW YORK: Broadway: A Streetcar Named Desire, The Gin Game | Carnegie Hall: The Children’s Monologues. AWARDS: Paul Green Award from the National Theatre Conference and The Estate of August Wilson, TCG New Generations Future Leader, New York Theatre Workshop, Van Lier, Second Stage Theatre, Women’s Project, McCarter Theatre, SUNY 40 under 40, Gates Millennium Scholar. PERSONAL: Jade has taught, guest lectured, and directed at Juilliard, Princeton, New York University, Rutgers, Penn State, WVU, SUNY, Adelphi, Kean University, NYCDA, Point Park University, and Iowa University.



  • You-Shin Chen
    Scenic Designer
    Scenic Designer
    You-Shin Chen

    NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Mrs. Murray’s MenagerieWolf Play (World Premiere), Monsoon Season (NYC & Edinburgh), The Emperor’s NightingaleLessons In Survival. REGIONAL: The Repertory Theatre at St Louis: Mlima’s Tales | TheaterWorks Hartford: Walden (US Premiere) | American Repertory Theater: Moby DickWe Live in Cairo. OTHER: The Shed Open Call: Troy Anthony’s The Revival: It Is Our Duty | The feath3r Theory: The Kill One Race | New York Live Arts: Wednesday | 2021 ImPulsTanz/Vienna International Dance Festival: UGLY part 1 UGLY part 3 Blue | The Bushwick Starr: SKiNFOLK, Big Green Theater. AWARDS: Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Scenic Design for Mrs. Murray's Menagerie, Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award at The Lilly Awards, USA exhibition at 2019 Prague Quadrennial inclusion. PERSONAL: she/her/hers. Upcoming projects: Waterwell7 Minutes | Milwaukee Repertory Theater: New Age | Teaching: Assistant Professor at Muhlenberg College, PA | Training: New York University: MFA in Scenic Design, National Taiwan University: BA in Drama and Theatre | Instagram: @youshin.c | Web: YouShinChen.com.


  • Rodrigo Muñoz
    Costume Designer
    Costume Designer
    Rodrigo Muñoz

    NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Prospect Theater Company: Notes from Now | Theatre Row: This Space Between Us | The Bushwick Starr: Preparedness | Red Bull Theatre: Volpone, The Revenger’s Tragedy. REGIONAL: Huntington Theatre: The Bluest Eye | Arizona Theatre Company: how to make an American Son | Boston Lyric Opera: Fall of the House of Usher | Portland Stage: Bad Dates | Fordham Theatre: Water by the Spoonful | The Movement Theatre Company: Impulso Abrons Arts Center: jazz singer. PERSONAL: Rodrigo is a New York-based designer originally from Mexico City. | Web: RodrigoMunozdesign.com.


  • Yuki Nakase Link
    Lighting Designer
    Lighting Designer
    Yuki Nakase Link

    NEW YORK: Seven Deadly Sins, Rakugo. REGIONAL: Dallas Theater Center: Our Town/Nuestro Pueblo | Long Wharf Theatre: Tiny Beautiful ThingsQueen | Miami New Drama: Seven Deadly Sins, When Monica Met Hillary, The Cubans, Queen of Basel | Two River Theater: Theo, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Women of Padilla | Pittsburgh Opera: In A Grove | The Juilliard School: Stick Fly | Dorset Theatre Festival: Laughing Wild, Queen of the Night | Baruch Performing Arts Center: Blood Moon at Prototype Festival | La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club: Look Who’s Coming to Dinner. OTHER: Disney Hall/Kennedy Center/BAM Opera House: Triptych: Eyes of One on Another. AWARDS: Berkshire Theatre Awards nomination. PERSONAL: Yuki was born in Tokyo, grew up in Kyoto, Japan, and currently lives north of NYC in the woods of Hudson Valley. | Training: New York University: MFA in Design for Stage and Film | Web: YukiNLink.com.


  • Karin Graybash
    Sound Designer and Composer
    Sound Designer and Composer
    Karin Graybash

    NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet, The Chimes. REGIONAL: Hartford Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Yale Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, TheaterWorks Hartford, Long Wharf Theatre, Portland Stage, McCarter Theatre Center, and Alliance Theatre, among others. AWARDS: Bay Area Theatre Critics Awards for Polk County at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Skeleton Crew at Marin Theatre Company/TheaterWorks Silicon Valley, Helen Hayes Award nomination for Macbeth at Folger Theatre. OTHER: Live Sound Consultant for Freedom Rising at the National Constitution Center, Soundscape Design for the exhibit Your Brain at The Franklin Institute. PERSONAL: Member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829, Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA), Sound Supervisor for the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.


  • Danna Rosedahl
    Wig Designer
    Wig Designer
    Danna Rosedahl

    REGIONAL: Ford’s Theatre: My Lord, What a Night; Fences | Actors Theatre of Louisville: Angels in America | Portland Center Stage: Little Shop of Horrors, A Streetcar Named Desire, Great Expectations, The Second City's A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Cyrano, Dreamgirls, Fiddler on the Roof, Lizzie, Othello, The Mountaintop, The Whipping Man, Sweeney Todd, Anna Karenina, One Night with Janis Joplin. TOURS: Flower Drum Song, Annie Get Your Gun, The Phantom of the Opera.


  • Danica Rodriguez
    Resident Casting Director
    Resident Casting Director
    Danica Rodriguez

    STC: Here There Are Blueberries; King Lear; Jane Anger; Much Ado About Nothing; Red Velvet; Our Town; The Merchant of Venice. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: cullud wattah (World Premiere); Romeo y Julieta; Soft Power; for colored girls…; Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Park); Mojada; Ain’t No Mo’ (World Premiere). REGIONAL: Folger Theatre: Our Verse in Time to Come | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Incendiary | The Kennedy Center: The Day You Begin | Long Wharf Theatre: Passing Strange | JAG Productions: Next to Normal | The Civilians: El Condor Magico, and others. FILM: Braid of Time; Whole; Six Feet Apart. AWARDS: Theatre Communications Group 2021 Rising Leader of Color. PERSONAL: she/her | Danica is a Founding Trainer with Broadway for Racial Justice Casting Directive | Training: Dartmouth College: BA in Film & Media Studies | Instagram: @danicarodriguezcasting | DanicaRodriguez.com.


  • Dr. Soyica Colbert
    Dramaturg
    Dramaturg
    Dr. Soyica Colbert

    Dr. Soyica Colbert is STC’s Associate Director-Literary. STC: The Amen Corner. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: A Raisin in the Sun, Two Trains Running. AWARDS: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Mellon Fellowship. PERSONAL: she/her/hers | Soyica is the Idol Family Professor of the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University. She is the author of The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance and the Stage and Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics. She edited the Black Performance special issue of African American Review and co-edited The Psychic Hold of Slavery. Her book Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry was published by Yale University Press in April 2021. She is currently working on a co-edited collection, Race and Performance After Repetition. | Upcoming: Celia and Fidel at Arena Stage | Teaching: Georgetown University | Training: Rutgers University: Ph.D. in English, Georgetown University: BA in English |Twitter: @DrSoyica. 


  • Dr. Drew Lichtenberg
    Dramaturg
    Dramaturg
    Dr. Drew Lichtenberg

    STC: 50 productions over ten seasons, including 19 works from the 36-play Shakespeare canon and world premieres by David Ives, Robert Pinsky, Jeffrey Hatcher, Yaël Farber, and Heather Raffo. NEW YORK: Broadway: Roundabout: Time and the Conways (dir. Rebecca Taichman). REGIONAL: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Arsonists (German translation/Text Consultant) | Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Taming of the Shrew (Play on!) | STC/McCarter Theatre Center: The Winter’s Tale | Baltimore Center Stage: Caroline, or Change; Cyrano; Around the World in 80 Days | Yale Repertory Theatre: Lulu (dir. Mark Lamos) | Williamstown Theatre Festival: The Front Page, The Physicists, The Corn Is Green | New York Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth (dir. Moisés Kaufman). EDUCATION: DFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale School of Drama. 


  • Lisa Beley
    Voice and Text Coach
    Voice and Text Coach
    Lisa Beley

    STC: Much Ado About Nothing; Red Velvet; Our Town; Peter Pan and Wendy; Everybody; The Oresteia; Vanity Fair; Richard III; The Panties, The Partner and The Profit; The Comedy of Errors; Romeo and Juliet; Camelot; Noura; Hamlet; Twelfth Night; The Lover and The Collection; Othello (2017 Free For All); The School for Lies; Macbeth; King Charles III | ACA: As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Pericles, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus. INTERNATIONAL: Vancouver, Canada: Rumble Theatre: Indian Arm | Vancouver Playhouse: The Music Man | UBC Theatre: The Glass Menagerie, The Cherry Orchard, The House of Atreus, Arcadia | York University: Our Country’s Good. FILM: Dialect, voice, text: Warcraft, Horns, Firewall, Monster Trucks, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Suckerpunch, The Watchman, Hidden, Apollo 18, The Uninvited, Hot Rod, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Elektra. TELEVISION: Dialect: The Good Doctor, Tin Star, Bates Motel, The 100, Alcatraz, Rogue, Red Widow, The Secret Circle, Heavenly, Human Target, The Good Wife, Inseparable, Just Cause. PERSONAL: Directing: The Bay at Nice, Agamemnon | Teaching: STC’s Academy for Classical Acting: Voice, Speech and Text Instructor; Canada’s National Voice Intensive: Voice and Text Instructor | Training: York University: MFA in Acting, Voice Teacher’s Diploma; University of British Columbia: BFA in Acting.


  • Kim James Bey
    Voice and Text Coach
    Voice and Text Coach
    Kim James Bey

    STC: The Amen Corner. REGIONAL: Round House Theatre: School Girls, or the African Mean Girls Play; Once on This Island | Arena Stage (select): Turn Me Loose, Ruined, The Piano Lesson | Mosaic Theater Company: Fabulation,Queens Girl in Africa, Blood Knot, A Human Being Died That Night, Unexplored Interiors | Everyman Theatre:Queens Girl in the World, Queens Girl in Africa, Brothers Size, A Raisin in the Sun | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Octoroon, The Convert | Signature Theatre: The Scottsboro Boys | Studio: Passing Strange, In the Red and Brown Water | Adventure Theatre: Huckleberry Finn’s Big River, Three Little Birds, Mirandy and Brother Wind. PERSONAL: Teaching: Professor of Theatre Arts at Howard University, Duke Ellington School of the Arts | Training: Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts: MFA in Acting, Howard University: BFA in Acting, Certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework 


  • Sierra Young
    Fight and Intimacy Consultant
    Fight and Intimacy Consultant
    Sierra Young

    STC: Red Velvet. REGIONAL: Cape Fear Regional Theatre: The Color Purple | Mosaic Theater: The Till Trilogy (upcoming), Mary’s Seacole, Birds of North America | Olney Theatre Center: The Joy That Carries You, A.D. 16 | Prologue Theatre: The World Builders | Adventure Theatre MTC: Fantastagirl (upcoming World Premiere). PERSONAL: Training: University of Baltimore County: BA in Theatre & Performance | SAFD | IDC | SDC | Instagram: @Syoung_fights | SierraYoung.org.


  • Chelsea Pace
    Additional Fight and Intimacy Consultant
    Additional Fight and Intimacy Consultant
    Chelsea Pace

    NEW YORK: Broadway: A Strange Loop (Tony Award: Best Musical, Best Book). Off-Broadway: HELP, Bundle of Sticks. REGIONAL: Folger Theatre: A Midsummer Night's Dream | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: A Strange Loop; Hi, Are You Single? | Studio Theatre: John Proctor is the Villain, White Noise | Signature Theatre: Detroit '67, RENT, Daphne's Dive | Arena Stage: Seven Guitars. FILM: The Tender Bar, Forever Tonight, Mother's Instinct (upcoming). TELEVISION: Harlem, A League of Their Own, The Best Man: Final Chapters, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, The Equalizer, Ramy, Mashed. OTHER: Author of Staging Sex Best Practices, Tools, and Techniques for Theatrical Intimacy (Routledge Publishing 2020), Resident Intimacy Consultant and Choreographer at Studio Theatre and Signature Theatre, Resident Intimacy Consultant at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Co-Founder of Theatrical Intimacy Education. AWARDS: Kennedy Center Gold Medallion 2021. PERSONAL: Instagram: @professorpace | ChelseaPace.com. 


  • Anthony O. Bullock
    Production Stage Manager
    Production Stage Manager
    Anthony O. Bullock

    NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The School for Lies | Project Springboard: Developing Dance Musicals: A Nation Grooves, The Night Falls. REGIONAL: Signature Theatre, Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, McCarter Theatre Center, Barrington Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Studio Theatre, Theater J, Shakespeare & Company, TheatreSquared, Bristol Riverside Theatre. INTERNATIONAL: Wuzhen Theatre Festival/Goodman Theatre: The White Snake. OTHER: Resident Production Stage Manager for Theater J. PERSONAL: he/him/his | Training: Oklahoma City University: BFA in Stage Management. 


    * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.   


  • Samantha Wilhelm
    Assistant Stage Manager
    Assistant Stage Manager
    Samantha Wilhelm

    STC:Red Velvet.REGIONAL: Round House Theatre: The Tempest, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Gem of the Ocean, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Handbagged, The Book of Will, Uncle Vanya | Ford’s Theatre: Come From Away, Ragtime, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Christmas Carol, The Glass Menagerie |Kennedy Center: Me, Jane: The Dreams and Adventures of Young Jane Goodall | Signature Theatre: Escaped Alone, Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes | Mosaic Theatre: Birds of North America |Williamstown Theatre Festival: Mad Forest, Dixon Family Album.PERSONAL: Love to MJEKA. | Training: The University of Mary Washington.
    * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.



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