2024 Guest Artists
Carlo Albán
Judge/Priest, The Light and The Dark
Broadway: Sweat. Off-Broadway: Sweat, Romeo y Julieta (radio play); References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot (Public Theater); Fandango for Butterflies and Coyotes (La Jolla Playhouse); Whitelisted (CATF); Tamburlaine (TFANA); A Small, Melodramatic Story, Intríngulis (Labyrinth); A Summer Day (Rattlestick); Pinkolandia (INTAR); Living Dead in Denmark (Vampire Cowboys). Regional: Sweat, The River Bride, Much Ado About Nothing, Timon of Athens (OSF); A Parallelogram, Lydia (CTG); Night of the Iguana (Guthrie); Dreamlandia (DTC). London: Rare Earth Mettle (Royal Court). Film: “Mile 22,” “Hurricane Streets,” “Hi Life,” “Strangers with Candy,” “Life Support,” “21 Grams,” “Whip It,” “Margaret.” TV: “Sesame Street,” “Law & Order,” “Oz,” “Thicker Than Blood,” “Prison Break,” “Girls,” “The Night Of,” “Black Bird.” Awards: 2017 Theatre World Award for an outstanding Broadway debut for Sweat. Member of Labyrinth Theater Company.
Inga Ballard
Understudy, Fabulation
Broadway Tour: Ragtime (1st and 2nd National tours (Livent/Pace & SFX Entertainment); Off-Broadway: Antigone (The Storm Theatre), Blind Lemon Blues (The York Theatre). Ragtime Concert (MCP/Avery Fisher Hall). Regional: Sweat (Capital Repertory Theatre); Having Our Say (George Street Playhouse); Chicken & Biscuits, The Colored Museum (Crossroads Theatre); Familiar (Wholly Mammoth Theatre); Romeo & Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Shakespeare Theatre Company); Yellowman (The Pittsburgh Public); Crowns (City Theatre Pittsburgh); All My Sons (Actors Theatre of Louisville); The Crucible (Syracuse Stage); Oklahoma (Weston Playhouse); Hairspray (Houston’s TUTS, Sacramento Music Circus, North Shore Music Theatre, The Cape Playhouse, Lyric Theatre, The New Theatre, Westchester Broadway, The Argyle Theatre); Les Misérables, Fame, Nine, (North Shore Music Theatre); Show Boat, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Ragtime (Sacramento Music Circus); Ella u/s (Arizona Theatre Company); Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (The Lyric Theatre); Abyssinia (Helen Hayes PAC); Finian’s Rainbow (The Goodspeed Opera House); Gypsy (California Music Theatre).
Janie Brookshire
Mrs. Owen/Dickey/ Patty, Ladies of Cambridge
CTC: Debut; Broadway: The Philanthropist (Roundabout). Select Off-Broadway: Brooklyn Laundry (MTC); The Mound Builders (Signature Theatre), Days to Come, Mary Broome, Wife to James Whelan (Mint Theatre Co.); Man and Superman (Irish Rep); The Misanthrope (Pearl Theatre Co & Molière in the Park). Select Regional: The Wanderers (World Premiere, Old Globe); Othello (Folger Shakespeare Theatre); Disgraced (Milwaukee Rep); A Delicate Ship (World Premiere, Cincinnati Playhouse); Cry It Out, Intimate Apparel, Dial ‘M’ for Murder (Dorset Theatre Festival); Murder on the Orient Express, Angel Street (Rep Theatre of St. Louis); Select TV: “Fallout,” “Blue Bloods,” “Forever,” “Louie,” “The Good Wife.” Education: MFA, UNC Chapel Hill/PlayMakers Rep
Kimberly Chatterjee
Understudy, The Light and The Dark
Broadway: Sweat. Off-Broadway: Sweat, Romeo y Julieta (radio play); References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot (Public Theater); Fandango for Butterflies and Coyotes (La Jolla Playhouse); Whitelisted (CATF); Tamburlaine (TFANA); A Small, Melodramatic Story, Intríngulis (Labyrinth); A Summer Day (Rattlestick); Pinkolandia (INTAR); Living Dead in Denmark (Vampire Cowboys). Regional: Sweat, The River Bride, Much Ado About Nothing, Timon of Athens (OSF); A Parallelogram, Lydia (CTG); Night of the Iguana (Guthrie); Dreamlandia (DTC). London: Rare Earth Mettle (Royal Court). Film: “Mile 22,” “Hurricane Streets,” “Hi Life,” “Strangers with Candy,” “Life Support,” “21 Grams,” “Whip It,” “Margaret.” TV: “Sesame Street,” “Law & Order,” “Oz,” “Thicker Than Blood,” “Prison Break,” “Girls,” “The Night Of,” “Black Bird.” Awards: 2017 Theatre World Award for an outstanding Broadway debut for Sweat. Member of Labyrinth Theater Company.
Rosalyn Coleman
Mother, Fabulation
Broadway: To Kill A Mockingbird, Travesties, The Mountaintop, Radio Golf, Seven Guitars, The Piano Lesson, Mule Bone. Off-Broadway: Wedding Band, The Woman’s Party, Native Son,Breakfast with Mugabe. Solo play: The Master’s Tools (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film: (upcoming) “Rob Peace,” “Game Nite,” “Miss Virginia,” “The Immortal Jellyfish,” “Frankie and Alice,” “Brooklyn’s Finest,” “Our Song,” “Brown Sugar,” “Music of the Heart.” TV: “Terror Lake Drive,” Bull,” “Jessica Jones,” “Blue Bloods,” “Madam Secretary, “Law and Order.”
Ceci Fernández
Ernestine Ashworth, Birthday Candles
Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons); Tiny Beautiful Things, Twelfth Night (The Public Theater); Bonnie’s Last Flight (NYTW). Regional: Men on Boats (Baltimore Center Stage); These Paper Bullets (Yale Repertory). International: Vanity Fair (The Old Vic, Theater Royal, England). TV and digital credits: “WeCrashed” (Apple+); “The Resident”, “The Exorcist” (FOX); “The Good Wife” (CBS). Ceci is the co-creator and head writer at @instaMiniSeries, and the creator of Writers’ Gym, a creative writing collective in NYC. She received her MFA from The Yale School of Drama.
Wynn Harmon
Orazio Gentileschi, The Light and The Dark
CTC: Debut. Broadway: Porgy and Bess (broadcast “Live from Lincoln Center” on PBS). International: Candide, The Music Man, West Side Story (France, Sardinia, Oman). Off-Broadway: The Lucky One (Mint Theatre); As You Like It (Pearl Theatre); Sawbones & The Diamond Eater (HERE). Regional: the premiere of Choice (McCarter) the premiere of Love All (La Jolla Playhouse); The Constant Wife, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, A Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and others (Old Globe); Candide, Show Boat, Lost in the Stars (Kennedy Center); Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Alchemist (Shakespeare Theatre Company); the premiere of Possessing Harriet, Baldwin vs. Buckley: The Faith of Our Fathers, Sylvia, Travels With My Aunt (Syracuse Stage); Pure Poe, The True, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Taming of the Shrew (Capital Rep); A Moon for the Misbegotten (Long Wharf/Hartford Stage/Alley); The Habit of Art (Studio Theatre); The Heidi Chronicles (Arena Stage); The Music Man, Lost in the Stars, Carousel, Camelot, Ariadne in Naxos (Glimmerglass Festival), As You Like It (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis); God of Carnage (TheatreWorks Hartford): The Way of the World (Huntington Theatre Company); Hamlet (Pioneer Theatre Company) A Christmas Carol, A Flea in Her Ear (Westport Country Playhouse); Native Gardens (Cleveland Playhouse), Shakespeare in Love (Cincinnati Playhouse/Baltimore Center Stage); A Christmas Carol, King Lear (Alabama Shakespeare Festival) August Osage County, Inherit the Wind (REP Delaware). TV: “Law &Order SVU,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Knick,” “All My Children.” Awards: Edwin E. Stein Award for Excellence in the Arts. Education: BFA from Boston University, MFA from American Conservatory Theatre.
Tyrone M. Henderson
Father/Ensemble, Fabulation
Broadway: The Skin of Our Teeth, Bring in ‘da Noise Bring in ‘da Funk. New York theater:Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Two Noble Kinsmen, The America Play (The Public Theater); Yellowman (The Billie Holiday Theatre); Rancho Viejo (Playwrights Horizons); The Piano Lesson (Signature Theatre). Film/TV: credits include “Theater Camp,” “The Upside,” and “Funny Pages.”Partner Barry on “The Good Fight four seasons),” “Sneaky Pete,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Search Party,” “God Friended Me,” “The Blacklist,” Recurring-Supreme Court Judge Arnold Pappas “Law and Order,” SVU & CI; “Suits,”- Pilot. Three-time Audelco Award Nominee. Founder-Artistic Producer of Quick Silver Theater Company.
DeJeanette Horne
Understudy, Fabulation
CTC: Fabulation: The Re-Education of Undine. Regional: Metamorphoses (Folger Theatre); Sunset Baby (Anacostia Playhouse); Macbeth, Hamlet, Henry V, The Adventures of Pericles (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company); SWEAT, Elegies: A Song Cycle, The Outsider, West by God, God of Carnage (Keegan Theatre); This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing (Theater Alliance); Sophisticated New Ones (Unexpected Stage); Blue Door (Perisphere Theater); My Children! My Africa! (Washington Stage Guild); The Infinite Tales (4615 Theatre Company); The Brothers Paranormal (Olney Theatre Center); Morning After Grace (Vally Place Arts Collaborative). Awards: Helen Hayes Award – Winner Outstanding Ensemble in a Play (twice), Helen Hayes Award – Nominee Best Supporting Performer in a Play.
Sharina Martin
Undine, Fabulation
Broadway: The Piano Lesson. Off-Broadway: Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Keen Co); Confederates (Signature Theatre/US); Round Table (59E59); The Talk, Showtime Blues, The Extinctionist (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Manhood, Untamed (National Black Theatre); The Beautiful Beautiful Sea Next Door (ArsNova). Regional: credits include: Black Moon Lilith (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Doubt (Westport Playhouse – CT Critics Circle Award); Everybody Black (Humana Festival); Familiar (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co); A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre); Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Metamorphoses (Arden Theatre Company); All’s Well That Ends Well, Major Barbara (American Players Theater); Black Diamond, Fedra (Lookingglass Theatre); The Voysey Inheritance (Remy Bumpoo); Macbeth (Lady M, greasyjoan & co.). Other credits: Richard III (Lady Anne, Boomerang Theatre Co), Heartbreaker (Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center). Film: “Queen of Glory,” “Blind,” “Requited,” “Nowheresville,” “Happily After.” Television: “Dear Edward” (AppleTV); “Z: The Beginning of Everything” (Amazon); “The Outs,” “Redrum” (Discovery ID); “In Between Men.” BTA Award Nomination, Best Actress. Training: Northwestern University, Steppenwolf Theatre, LAByrinth, Esper. Sharina is a proud member of Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Lizan Mitchell
Grandma, Fabulation
Broadway: Ohio State Murders, Electra, Having Our Say, So Long on Lonely Street. Off-Broadway: On Sugarland, Shadow/land, Cullud Wattah, Passage, Brownsville Song, Trojan Women, A’int Supposed to Die a Natural Death. Regional: Our Daughters, Like Pillars, Skeleton Crew, Raisin in the Sun, Richard lll, The Tempest, Gem of the Ocean. Film/TV: “Detroit,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “The Good Wife,” “The Preacher’s Wife,” “The Wire,” “Human Stain,” “Law & Order.”
Joey Parsons
Mother Superior/Maria/Tuzia/Matteo, The Light and The Dark
Off-Broadway: Vanity Fair (The Pearl Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Pearl Theatre/HVSF (Drama League Nomination); Stupid F#%*king Bird, The Rivals, Figaro, The Misanthrope, Wittenberg (The Pearl); A Little Journey (The Mint Theater). Theatre: Emma (Denver Center) Pride and Prejudice (Syracuse Stage, SALT Award: Best Supporting Actress); An Enemy of the People (Yale Rep.); The House on the Hill, Memoirs of a Forgotten Man, Not Medea, Gidion’s Knot, Dear Sara Jane, Fifty Words (Contemporary American Theater Festival); God of Carnage (Arizona Theatre Co./San Jose Rep – San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critic’s Circle Award: Outstanding Principal Actress); Blithe Spirit (Syracuse Stage); Rabbit Hole (Pittsburgh Public/Hartford TheatreWorks); Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Hartford TheatreWorks); The Shape of Things (St. Louis Rep.); The Tempest, As You Like It, Richard III, The Winter’s Tale, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of Verona (HVSF); Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure (Yale Rep.). Television: “Blacklist,” “FBI,” “Wu-Tang: An American Saga,” “Blindspot,” “Divorce,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Mysteries of Laura,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Law & Order: Trial by Jury,” “Third Watch,” “Deadline.” Film: “Before/ During/After,” “Lightning Jack.” Education: Proud recipient of the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship. MFA: Yale School of Drama. Thank you to my family, blood and chosen.
Matthew Saldívar
Agostino Tassi, The Light and The Dark
CTC: Build. Broadway: Bernhardt/Hamlet, Junk, Saint Joan, Peter and the Starcatcher, Act One, A Streetcar Named Desire, Honeymoon in Vegas, Grease, The Wedding Singer, first National Tour of Lincoln Center production of South Pacific. Off-Broadway: Breaking the Story, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Second Stage); Hamlet (The Public); Dracula,The Alchemist (CSC); Hadestown, Architecture of Loss (NY Theater Workshop); Cradle Will Rock (City Center); All in the Timing (Primary Stages); Sea of Tranquility (Atlantic); Julius Caesar (TFANA); Daphne’s Dive (Signature); Important Hats …(MTC); Toxic Avenger (New World Stages). Regional: The Royal Family, The Canterbury Tales, A Christmas Carol (The Guthrie); Guys and Dolls, Spamalot (Kennedy Center); Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels (Mark Taper Forum); Kiss My Aztec (Hartford Stage); Annie Get Your Gun (Bay Street); A Human Being of a Sort (Williamstown) Working (Long Wharf) Guys and Dolls (Pittsburgh CLO); Much Ado About Nothing (The Shakespeare Company). Film: “Savages,” “Boiler Room,” “Custody” and “Tony and Tina’s Wedding.” TV: “Dying for Sex,” “The Other Two,” “Rent: Live on Fox,” “The Code,” “The Good Cop” and “Elementary.” Education: B.A./M.A. Middlebury College, MFA NYU Graduate Acting.
Chris Thorn
Understudy, The Light and The Dark
CTC: Debut. Broadway: Death of a Salesman, Bernhardt/Hamlet. Off-Broadway: Pride and Prejudice (Primary Stages), Twelfth Night (Pig Iron), Greater Clements (Lincoln Center), I Ought to Be in Pictures (TBTB), four seasons with The Acting Company. Regional: The Guthrie, Two River Theater, CATF, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, TheaterWorks Hartford. Education: BFA Boston University. MFA University of Idaho. Chris is a native of South Berwick, Maine.
Sepideh Moafi
Emmanuelle, NPW: Tell Me You’re Dying
CTC: As You Like It, Everything Is Ours. Off-Broadway: Corruption (Lincoln Center Theater), A Thousand Nights & One Day. Regional: Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, The Fantasticks, The Wild Party, 9 Parts of Desire, Hecuba, The Rose Tattoo. Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro, Agrippina, L’Elisir d’Amore, The Bartered Bride. Film/TV includes “Blackbird” (AppleTV+), “Class of ’09” (FX/Hulu), “The L Word: Generation Q” (Showtime), “The Deuce (HBO),” “Scavengers Reign” (HBO Max), “Falling Water” (USA), “Notorious” (ABC), “ The Killing of Two Lovers” (Neon), “I’ll Be Right There” . Recitals/Concerts: David Geffen Hall w/the NY Philharmonic, Davis Symphony Hall, The John F. Kennedy Center. Ambassador to the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
Jason O’Connell
Cosimo/Deputy, The Light and The Dark
Off-Broadway: Judgment Day (Park Avenue Armory); Happy Birthday, Wanda June (Wheelhouse Theater/Duke on 42nd St); Pride and Prejudice (Primary Stages); Sense and Sensibility (Bedlam); The Dork Knight (Abingdon Theatre Company/Joe’s Pub); Becomes A Woman (The Mint); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Pearl); The Seagull (Bedlam). Regional: Cyrano, Noises Off, Merry Wives of Windsor (Two River Theater); Amadeus, Talley’s Folly, Play That Goes Wrong, Eureka Day, Murder on the Orient Express (Syracuse Stage); Twelfth Night (The Old Globe); The Mousetrap (Hartford Stage); God of Carnage (Cape Playhouse); Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson: Apt 2B (Kansas City Rep); 11 seasons with Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. TV: “Search Party,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” Awards: NYIT Award for Outstanding Lead Actor (Don Juan in Hell, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble). As playwright: Cyrano, The Dork Knight, Fat and Scant of Breath(or, Stabbing at Hamlet).
Daniel Pearce
John, Tell Me You’re Dying
CTC: One Man Two Guvnors, Amadeus, Close Up Space, Aracadia, Winter’s Tale, Reckless, Birthday Candles (NPW). Broadway: Machinal, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Off-Broadway: 11 productions with the Public Theater, including Hamlet, Mother of the Maid, Macbeth, King Lear, Ping Pong, Henry V, Henry VI, Measure for Measure, and Loves’ Fire. Additional productions include The Most Deserving (Women’s Project), Falling (Minetta Lane), Passion Play (Epic), and The Picture of Dorian Gray (Irish Rep), among others. Regional: Guthrie, La Jolla Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre DC, Denver Center, Long Wharf among others. Film/TV: “Great Performances: Hamlet,” “The Good Fight,” “The Last Thing Mary Saw,” “Murder of a President,” “Salt,” “Clowns,” “Godzilla,” “Bull,” “Chapelle’s Show,” “Law & Order,” “SVU,” “CI.” MFA: NYU. 2017 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.
Alex Weisman
Kenneth, Birthday Candles
Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (OBC) Regional: Hand to God (Victory Gardens); The History Boys, The Normal Heart, My Name is Asher Lev (TimeLine); Julius Caesar, Madness of George III (Chicago Shakespeare); Mary (Goodman); Dial M for Murder (Milwaukee Rep); American Rhapsody (Zoetic); Significant Other (About Face); and Lookingglass, Court Theater, Marriot Lincolnshire. Associate artist with Timeline Theater and AboutFace. Film: “A Complete Unknown”, “An Acceptable Loss”, “Another Happy Day”. TV: “Frank” on Sesame Street; “Chout” on Chicago Fire/Med/Pd, New Amsterdam, Empire, Inventing Anna, White House Plumbers. Awards: GLAAD Media Award; 2 Joseph Jefferson Award; Carbonell Nomination. Education: Northwestern University
Amelia Workman
Millicent, NPW: Tell Me You’re Dying
Broadway: American Son (Kerry Washington u/s). Off-Broadway: Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA); Coriolanus (The Delacorte); The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova); On The Shore of the Wide World (Atlantic); The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature); The Layover (2nd Stage); Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Ars Nova); The Shipment (The Kitchen). Regional: Residence (Humanafestival); By the Way Meet Vera Stark (The Goodman); The History of Light (CATF). Film: “ A Thousand and One” (Sundance Grand Jury Winner). TV: “American Rust” (Amazon Prime).