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 Leslie Lee (Playwright) Mr. Lee's plays include The War Party, Colored People's Time, Blues in a Broken Tongue, The Rabbit's Foot, Black Eagles, Elegy To A Down Queen, Cops and Robbers, The First Breeze of Summer, Hannah Davis, and the musicals Golden Boy, with Charles Strouse and Lee Adams; Martin, with Charles Strouse; and Phillis with Micki Grant. A new play, The Book of Lambert, will open at La MaMa ETC in February, 2009. Mr. Lee's extensive television and film work includes The Vernon Johns Story, with James Earl Jones and Mary Alice; Two Mothers, Two Sons; The Killing Floor, with Alfre Woodard and Moses Gunn; and adaptations of Richard Wright's short story, Almos' A Man, with LeVar Burton, and his own award-winning play, The First Breeze of Summer. His documentary work includes Langston Hughes, the Dreamkeeper; The Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment; Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey; and Culture Shock: Huckleberry Finn. Mr. Lee's many awards include an OBIE, the Outer Circle Critics Award, the Arthur Miller playwriting Award, the Audelco Best Play Award, the Isabelle Strickland Award for Excellence in the Field of the Arts, the Joe A Callahan Award, and a Tony Nomination. He currently teaches playwriting and screenwriting in the Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing Program, Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
 Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Director, Associate Artist) Broadway acting credits include Seven Guitars (1996 TONY AWARD for Best Featured Performer), Jelly's Last Jam and Gem Of The Ocean. Other Stage credits include A Raisin In The Sun, Glengarry Glen Ross, East Texas Hot Links, Henry VIII and Measure For Measure among many others. Television: "Their Eyes Were Watching God", "Forgotten Genius", "Rear Window", "Law and Order", "West Wing", "NYPD Blue", "Solomon and Sheba" (which marked the first biblical movie starring actors of color) and Lackawanna Blues which he also wrote for stage and film. Feature film: American Gangster, Mr. Brooks, Devil's Advocate and Shaft. In 2007 Santiago-Hudson was given an honorary Doctorate Degree from Buffalo State College. Other honors include a Humanitas Award, NAACP Image Award, Obie Award, Christopher Award, two Audelco Awards and two Helen Hayes Awards.
 Harvy Blanks (Reverend Mosely) Off Broadway: TableTop, (Drama Desk Award), Regional: Cuttin UP, Pasadena Playhouse ( 2008 NAACP Image Award ), Death of a kings Horseman, The Goodman Theater, The Kennedy Center, We hold these Truths, Seattle Rep., American Buffalo, Peoples Light and Theater Company, Piano Lesson, Joe Turner, Jitney, Seven Guitars, Gem of the Ocean, The Denver Center Company, SomeOne Who'll Watch Over Me, The Man who came to Dinner, A StreetCar Named Desire, Home, Arsenic And Old Lace, Denver Center Company, A Christmas Carol, Alabama Shakespeare. TV: "Martin Short Special", "Married With Children", "Saved By The Bell", "Crime Story".
 Yaya DaCosta (Lucretia) is proud to be making her professional stage debut. Films: The Messenger, Racing For Time, Lifetime movie directed by Charles Dutton; Honeydripper, directed by John Sayles, starring Danny Glover; Take the Lead, opposite Antonio Banderas and Rob Brown. Television: "All My Children," "Always There," Nickelodeon pilot, "Eve," UPN and ANTM. Born and raised in Harlem, New York, DaCosta graduated from Brown University.
 Sandra Daley (Gloria Townes) Off-Broadway: Defying Gravity (The American Place Th.), As Bees in Honey Drown (Drama Dept.), The Trojan Women: A Love Story (En Garde Arts), The Love of Bullets (Young Playwrights Festival at The Public). Regional: King Hedley (Philadelphia Theatre Co.); Ol' Settler (The Old Globe), Nomathemba (The Huntington Th.); July 7th, 1994 (Humana Festival); Black Orpheus (Crossroads Theatre); Night Sky (Philadelphia Theatre Co.) Film: The Savages, School for Scoundrels, Marci X, Alma's Rainbow, Advice From a Caterpillar. Television: "The Sopranos," "Sex and the City," "Queens Supreme," "Hey Joel," "Law & Order, " "Unchained Memories," "Now & Again," "Guiding Light."
 Crystal Anne Dickinson (Hope) This is Crystal's Signature Debut. Regional Credits: 365 Plays (The Alliance); Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors, Metamorphoses, Cherry Orchard (Georgia Shakespeare); Maria Kizito (7 Stages- World Premiere); Women + War (Synchronicity- World Premiere); Bus Stop (Theatre-in-the-Square); Love's Labour's Lost (Illinois Shakespeare). Television: "Tyler Perry's House of Payne". In January 2008, Crystal directed the new play, A Song for Coretta, written by acclaimed writer, Pearl Cleage. Member of Lincoln Center Director's Lab. Training: MFA, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
 Brandon Dirden (Nate Edwards) Signature Theatre debut. Broadway: Prelude to A Kiss. Regional: Playmakers Repertory (Topdog/Underdog), True Colors Theatre (Ceremonies in Dark Old Men), Georgia Shakespeare (Othello, Twelfth Night, Metamorphoses, Comedy of Errors, and others); Alliance Theatre (A Death in the House...,A Christmas Carol, The Breach); Theatre in the Square (Take Me Out); Horizon Theatre (Times Flies); 7 Stages (Come On in My Kitchen), Alley Theater (Joe Turner's Come and Gone), Utah Shakespeare Festival (Harvey, Othello), and North Carolina Shakespeare Festival (Julius Caesar, As You Like It). Television: "Tyler Perry's House of Payne". Training: BA- Morehouse College, MFA- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
 Jason Dirden (Lou Edwards) Off-Off Broadway: Smoke and Mirrors (The Flea Theatre) Regional: August Wilson's 20th Century: Piano Lesson, Two Trains Running, King Hedley II (Kennedy Center); Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (True Colors Theatre); Jitney (Theasal Henderson Playhouse); Sundown Names and Nightgone Things (The Ensemble Theatre) Television: Recurring on "Tyler Perry's House of Payne."
 Quincy Dunn-Baker (Briton Woodward) Off-Broadway: The Good Negro (The Public) Dir. Lesyl Tommy, Romeo and Juliet (The Public, NYSF) Dir. Michael Grief, Mr. Marmalade (Roundabout) Dir. Michael Grief. Regional: Magnetic North (World Premiere, Portland Stage) Dir. Richard Hamburger, Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire (Triad Stage) dir. Preston Lane, Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (The English Theater of Frankfurt, Germany co-production with Theater Basel, Switzerland), The Faithful (World Premiere) dir. Ian Morgan. Television: Guest Stars on "Law and Order: SVU", "CSI: NY", and the upcoming Showtime pilot, "Nurse Jackie", recurring roles on "Guiding Light", "One Life to Live" and "As the World Turns". Education: The North Carolina School of the Arts, BFA Acting. Proud Member of AEA. Thanks To AAA, and much love to my family.
 Marva Hicks (Hattie) Broadway: Caroline or Change, The Lion King, Lena Horne: The Lady and her Music. Off-Broadway: Thunder Knocking on the Door, Staggerlee. Regional: Porgy and Bess (Zach Scott Theatre), The Women of Brewster Place (Arena Stage, Alliance Theatre), Cuttin' Up (Arena Stage, Alliance Theatre), Thunder Knocking on the Door (Arena, Helen Hayes Award), Twist (Walnut Street Theatre). Film: Asunder, Preaching to the Choir, Virtuosity. Television: "One Life to Live", Recurring on "Star Trek: Voyager", "Mad About You" and "LA Law".
 John Earl Jelks (Harper Edwards) Broadway: Radio Golf (Tony Award Nomination - Best Featured Actor in a Play), Gem of the Ocean Regional: Radio Golf (McCarter, Goodman, Huntington, CenterStage, Mark Taper Forum, Yale Repertory Theatre), Gem of the Ocean (Huntington, Mark Taper Forum, Goodman), Joe's Turner Come and Gone (Penumbra Theatre Company, Missouri Rep), The Piano Lesson (Lorraine Hansberry Theatre) Film: Miracle at St. Anna, Compensation, Magic Love, Dark Exodus, A Powerful Thing, One Small Step, Crocodile Conspiracy, Tucker.
 Tuck Milligan (Joe Drake) Broadway: Gem of the Ocean, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Herbal Bed, The Kentucky Cycle (Pulitzer), The Crucifer of Blood, Equus. Off-Broadway: Stuff Happens; Book of Days; Everybody's Ruby; The Grey Zone. Regional: A Moon for the Misbegotten (Arena Stage), Of Mice and Men (Philadelphia Drama Guild); The Kentucky Cycle (Kennedy Center-Helen Hayes); Romeo and Juliet (Seattle Rep); Blue Window (SCR-LA Critics Circle); Big River/As You Like It (La Jolla PH); The Real Thing (Mark Taper). Film: State of Play, Kinsey, Company Man, Heaven's Prisoners, Of Mice and Men, The Russia House. Television: "Canterbury's Law," "Rescue Me," "Chappelle's Show," "Ed," "Law & Order: SVU & CI," "Oz," "ER," "The X-Files," "Picket Fences," "Chicago Hope."
 Gilbert Owuor (Sam Green) Off-Broadway: The Brothers Size (world premier, NYSF Public Theatre), Hamlet (NYSF Delacorte Theatre, Shakespeare in the Park). Regional: A Fair Country, The Blue Demon (Huntington Theater); Mother Courage, Pericles (American Repertory Theatre); Miss Julie (Yale Rep); As You Like It, King Lear (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Macbeth, Henry V, Twelfth Night, The Tempest (Commonwealth Shakespeare, Boston); The Brothers Size (Studio Theater, Washington D.C); International: Romeo & Juliet, Stage Struck (Phoenix Players, Nairobi Kenya). Television: "All My Children." MFA Yale School of Drama.
 Brenda Pressley (Aunt Edna) Broadway: Dreamgirls, CATS, The Monny Shapiro Songbook. Off-Broadway: Fran's Bed, Marvin's Room, And the World Goes Round - The Songs of Kander and Ebb. Regional: The Old Settler (McCarter), Jar the Floor (Syracuse Stage), Blues For An Alabama Sky (Old Globe). Film: Sixteen Blocks, Cradle Will Rock, Twisted, It Could Happen to You. Television: "Brewster Place," "Law & Order," "New York Undercover," "Matt Waters," "Life Stories," "Daddy's Girl," "Here And Now," "Ghostwriter," "All My Children," "Loving," "One Life to Live."
 Keith Randolph Smith (Milton Edwards) Broadway: Come Back, Little Sheba, The Piano Lesson, King Hedley II, Salome. Off Broadway: A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Public Theatre/NYSF), Holiday Heart (MTC), Jitney (Second Stage), Fabulation (Playwrights), Speak Truth to Power (Culture Project), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (CSC), Regional: Seattle Rep, Goodman, Huntington Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville. Film/TV: Girl 6, Three Windows, Path to Paradise, "Law & Order", "Cosby," "I'll Fly Away" and "NY Undercover." AEA.
 Leslie Uggams (Gremmar Edwards) Broadway: On Golden Pond, Thoroughly Modern Millie, King Hedley II (Tony nomination), Anything Goes (Lincoln Center), Jerry's Girls, Blues in the Night, Her First Roman, Hallelujah, Baby! (Tony Award). Off-Broadway: The Old Settler (Audelco Award) and Thunder Knocking on the Door (Audelco Award). Regional: The Rink (Cape Playhouse), Stormy Weather (Prince Music Theater), Master Class (NJ TheatreFest), Hello, Dolly, and Blue. Film: Toe to Toe, Skyjacked, Black Girl. TV: Kizzy in "Roots" (Emmy and Golden Globe nominations), "Fantasy" (Emmy Award), "The Leslie Uggams Show". Concert appearances with the Cincinnati Pops, Indianapolis Symphony Orhcestra, Washington Symphony Orchestra, and Rhode Island Symphony, among others.
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