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Darell J. Hunt* (The Foundling Father) Triad Stage debut. Regional/Local: Black Nativity (True Colors Theatre); Middle Passage (Cyrus Art Production); Love Machine: The Musical, Smokey Joe’s Café (Barn Dinner Theatre); A Christmas Carol (NC Shakespeare Festival); Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope (National Black Theatre Festival); Once On This Island (Temple Theatre); Black Nativity (NC Black Repertory Theatre). |
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Cassandra Lowe Williams* (Lucy) Triad Stage: A Christmas Carol, Ethel Waters: His Eye Is on the Sparrow, From the Mississippi Delta, North Star, A Lesson Before Dying (understudy to Ms. Irma P. Hall). Regional/Local: Blue, Crowns (Actors’ Theatre of Charlotte); Mahalia, Queen of Gospel, Black Nativity (NC Black Repertory); The Life and Times of Fannie Lou Hamer (Touring Theatre of North Carolina); A Raisin in the Sun (UNCG). Guest artist: NC A&TSU, Bennett College. Film/TV: February 1: Greensboro Sit-Ins. Education: BA, UNCG. Fellowship, Northwestern University. Other: Retired theatre teacher, minister. |
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Nick Turner (Brazil) Triad Stage debut. Regional/Local: Shadow Box, The Dance on Widow’s Row, Soldier’s Play (NC A&T). Current student at North Carolina A&T University. |
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Terrance Johnson (Ensemble) Triad Stage: A Christmas Carol. Regional/Local: Rent, The Producers, For the Glory (Flat Rock Playhouse); Jesus Christ Superstar, A Man of No Importance, Blood Brothers (North Carolina Theatre); Les Miserables, Aida (Broadway Series South); Romeo and Juliet: A Rock Musical (Directed by Terrence Mann); Oklahoma!; Pericles; Balm in Gilead; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; Home on the Morning Train; The Revenger’s Tragedy (UNCG). Education: Junior in the BFA Acting Program at UNCG. |
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Chrystal Noéllë Vaughan (Ensemble) Triad Stage debut. Regional: On Striver’s Row, The Wiz, The Dance on Widow’s Row (Paul Robeson Theater); Black Nativity (Richard B Harrison Theater). Education: Currently a B.F.A Professional Theater Major at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. |
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Suzan Lori-Parks (Playwright) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screen writer, novelist and songwriter. Her plays include In the Blood (2000 Pulitzer Nominee), Venus (1996 OBIE Award), The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World and Topdog/Underdog (2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2002 Tony Nominee). Her first feature length screenplay was girl 6 for Spike Lee and was followed by works for Jodie Foster, Danny Glover, Brad Pitt and an adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God for ABC’s Oprah Winfrey Presents. She has received grants from The Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. A MacArthur Fellows “Genius” Grant recipient, She has taught on the faculty of New York University, California Institute of the Arts and Yale School of Drama. |
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Donna Baldwin-Bradby (Director) is Adjunct Professor and Director of Marketing and Publicity for the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at North Carolina A&T State University. Donna earned a BFA in Professional Theatre from NC A&T and an MFA in Arts Management from Virginia Tech. She has directed, choreographed and performed for professional, community and educational theatres locally and regionally. Donna appeared in Crowns at Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte, directed Eubie! at NC A&T. For Triad Stage, she was the director for Ethel Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow, From the Mississippi Delta and The Old Settler, choreographer for Das Barbecü, ballroom dancing coach for ‘MASTER HAROLD’…and the boys, and movement coach for The Matchmaker and The Diary of Anne Frank. Most recently she directed productions of Mad at Miles: A Black Woman’s Guide to Truth in Triad Stage’s Upstage Cabaret, at The National Black Theatre Festival and at North Carolina A&T State University.
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Nicholas Hussong (Scenic & Lighting Designer) Triad Stage: Artistic Associate of Design; MainStage: The Sunset Limited (2011), A Christmas Carol (2010), The Glass Menagerie (2010), Providence Gap (2010), Ethel Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow (2010), and Around the World in 80 Days (2010). UpStage Cabaret: Billy Bishop Goes to War (2011), An Evening of Southern DIScomfort(2010), The Santaland Diaries (2008-2010) and Mad at Miles (2009). |
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Andrew Landon Cutler (Costume Designer) has worked on 13 MainStage productions at Triad Stage. He is the Resident Costume Designer for The Upstage Cabaret who also freelances on numerous projects which most recently include the Amazed event at the High Point and Atlanta. He graduated in 2008 from Greensboro College with a BA in Costume Design for the Theater. Favorite past productions include Ghosts, the Blackbeard tour, and The Night of the Iguana. |
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Monica M. Falatic (Sound Designer) Triad Stage debut. Currently attending UNCSA and working towards a Masters Degree in Sound Design. Previous work includes sound designer and production engineer at PCPA in Santa Maria, California. |
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Emily J. Mails* (Stage Manager) Triad Stage: Oleanna, Blackbeard, Mad at Miles, The Santaland Diaries (2008, 2009, 2010), Billy Bishop Goes to War, Dracula (2008) and “MASTER HAROLD”…and the boys. Regional: A Thousand Cranes (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival); Rigoletto (Greensboro Opera); Crime and Punishment, Merry Wives of Windsor, Into the Woods (Orlando Shakespeare Festival). Education: BFA in Technical Production, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
