Cast

Gbenga Akkinagbe
TV & Film credits include:
Edge of Darkness
The Good Wife
The Wire

Renzo Ampuero
Theater credits include:
Trojan Barbie
Ajax in Iraq
A Picture of Dorian Gray

Francois Battiste
Theater credits include:
Prelude to a Kiss (Roundabout)
Broke-ology (Lincoln Center Theater)
The Good Negro (The Public Theater)

Reed Birney
Theater credits include:
Blasted (Soho Rep, Drama Desk Award Nomination)
Bug (Obie Award)
Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons)

Megan Brotherton
Theater credits include:
Alice vs. Wonderland
Drums in The Night
Macbeth

David Cale
Theater credits include:
Present Laughter (Broadway)
The Threepenny Opera (Broadway)
Obie Award Winning Lillian and Palomino

Bill Camp Theater credits include:
Diary of a Madman (Yale Repertory Theater)
Saint Joan (Broadway)
The Seagull (Broadway
TV & Film credits include:
Tamara Drewe
The Dying Gaul

Louis Cancelmi
Theater credits include:
This (Playwrights Horizons)
The Singing Forest (The Public Theater)
Blasted (Soho Rep)

Reg E. Cathey
Theater credits include:
The Shawshank Redemption (London’s West End, Dublin)
The Green Bird (Broadway)
Talk (Obie Award, Foundry Theatre)

Kathleen Chalfant
Broadway:
Angels in America (Tony and Drama Desk Nominations)
M. Butterfly
Racing Demon
Off-Broadway:
Wit (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Obie and Outer Circle Critics Award)

Amari Cheatom
Theatre credits include:
On The Levee (LCT3)
Book of Grace (The Public Theater)
Zooman and The Sign (Signature Theatre)

Chad Coleman
TV & Film credits include
The Wire
Boldly Going Nowhere
The Green Hornet

Mike Colter
TV & Film credits include:
Salt
Taking Chance
Million Dollar Baby

Blythe Danner
Broadway:
Butterflies Are Free (Tony Award)
Film credits include:
Woody Allen’s Alice
Sylvia

Patch Darragh
Theater credits include:
Our Town (Broadway, With Paul Newman)
The Glass Menagerie (Roundabout)
All That I Will Ever Be (NYTW)

Keith David
Film credits include:
The Princess and The Frog
Coraline
Crash

Eisa Davis
Broadway:
Passing Strange (Obie Award)
Angela’s Mixtape (New Georges)
TV & Film:
Damages
The Wire

David Deblinger
Co-Founder, Labyrinth Theater Company, Numerous Productions
TV & Film credits include:
Damages
Sex and The City
Sopranos

Maria Dizzia
Theater credits include:
In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) (Broadway)
Eurydice (Second Stage)
Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons)

Adam Driver
Theater credits include:
Angels In America (Signature Theater)
Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Broadway)
The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons)

Charles S. Dutton
Broadway:
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Tony Award Nomination)
Jo Turner’s Come and Gone
The Piano Lesson
TV & Film credits include:
The Practice
Without a Trace
Oz

Gretchen Egolf
TV & Film credits include:
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Namesake
Quiz Show

Jesse Eisenberg
Film credits include:
The Social Network
Adventureland
The Squid and the Whale

Tate Ellington
Theater credits include:
The Philanthropist (Broadway)
TV & Film credits include:
Taking Chance
The Good Wife

Giancarlo Esposito
Film credits include:
The Usual Suspects
Do the Right Thing
Malcolm X
Rabbit Hole (with Nicole Kidman)

Frankie Faison
Theater credits include:
Fences (Broadway, Tony And Drama Desk Nomination For Best Supporting Actor)
TV & Film credits include:
The Wire
Mississippi Burning

Cyrus Farmer Theater credits include:
A Raisin in the Sun (Broadway)
TV & Film credits include:
Notorious
The Wire

Juliana Francis-Kelly
Theater credits include:
The Girl From Monday
Maria Del Bosco
Go Go Go

Peter Friedman
Theater credits include:
Ragtime (Broadway)
Twelve Angry Men (Broadway Revival)
Film credits include:
The Savages
I’m Not There
Synecdoche, New York

Seth Gilliam
Theater credits include:
Othello (Commonwealth Stage)
Richard III (New York Shakespeare Festival)
TV & Film credits include:
The Wire
Courage Under Fire

April Grace
Film credits include:
Magnolia
Fame
I Am Legend

Donnetta Lavinia Grays
Broadway:
In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play
Lisa Kron’s Well
TV & Film credits include:
The Wrestler
The Sopranos

Zach Grenier
Theater credits include:
33 Variations (Broadway)
A Man for all Seasons (Broadway)
Stuff Happens (The Public Theater)

Brendan Griffin
Theater credits include:
Clybourne Park (Playwrights Horizons)
TV & Film credits include:
Taking Chance
Generation Kill

Steven Louis Grush
Theater credits include:
True West (American Theater Company)
Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)

Francis Guinan
As a Steppenwolf Ensemble Member:
August: Osage County (Also Broadway)
The Seafarer
The Crucible

Josh Hamilton
Theater credits include:
Three Sisters (Classic Stage)
The Coast of Utopia (Lincoln Center Theater)
Proof (Broadway)
TV & Film credits include:
Ten Stories Tall
Away We Go
Mercy

Jason Butler Harner
Theater credits include:
Our Town (Barrow Street Theater)
The Coast of Utopia (Lincoln Center Theater)
The Paris Letter (Roundabout, Drama Desk Nomination)
Film credits include:
Changeling
The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3

William Jackson Harper
Theater credits include:
Measure for Measure (The Public Theater)
A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick (Playwrights Horizons)
Ruined (The Goodman Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club)

Brent Harris
Theater credits include:
Dido, Queen Of Carthage (American Repertory Theater)
The Lion King (National Tour)
Richard III (Pearl Theatre)

Frank Harts
Broadway:
A Raisin in the Sun
Theater credits include:
School for Lies (Classic Stage)
Fabulation (Baltimore Center Stage)

Jessica Hecht
Broadway:
A View from the Bridge (Tony And Drama League Award Nominations)
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Julius Caesar
After the Fall
The Last Night Of Ballyhoo

Jamie Hector
TV & Film credits include:
Spike Lee’s Clockers
The Wire
Third Watch

Arliss Howard
Film credits include:
Amistad
Full Metal Jacket
Natural Born Killers
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Dandelion
He adapted, directed and starred with Debra Winger in Big Bad Love

Marin Ireland
Theater credits include:
reasons to be pretty (Broadway, Tony Nomination, Theatre World Award, Drama League Nomination)
After Miss Julie (Broadway)
Three Sisters (Classic Stage)
In the Wake (Public Theater)
A Lie of The Mind (New Group, Outer Critics Circle Nomination)
Blasted (Soho Rep)

Michael Izquierdo
Theater credits include:
Mrs. Warren’s Profession (McCarter)
New Jerusalem (Classic Stage)
Mother Courage (New York Shakespeare Festival)
Taking Woodstock (dir. Ang Lee)

Peter Francis James
Broadway:
Merchant of Venice
Drowning Crow
On Golden Pond
Judgment at Nuremberg

Ty Jones
Artistic Director, The Classical Theatre of Harlem
Henry V (Title Role, The Classical Theatre of Harlem)
Broadway:
Enron
Judgment at Nuremberg
Julius Caesar

David Patrick Kelly
Theater credits include:
When I Come to Die (LCT3)
Twelfth Night (Broadway)
Film credits include:
Flags of Our Fathers
Third Watch
K-PAX
The Warriors

Jonathan David Martin
Theater credits include:
War Horse (Lincoln Center)
The Chosen (Portland Center Stage)
The Outsiders (Seattle Children’s Theater)

Elizabeth Marvel Theater credits include:
The Seagull (Broadway,)
St. Joan (Broadway)
Top Girls (Broadway)
Little Foxes (New York Theater Workshop)
Film credits include:
True Grit
Burn After Reading
The Dying Gaul

Patrese McClain
Theater credits include:
Pericles (The Black Rep)
Ruined (The Black Rep)
Two Trains Running (Geva Theatre Center)

James Vincent Meredith
As A Steppenwolf Ensemble Member:
The Crucible
The Bluest Eye
The Pain and The Itch

Jennifer Mudge
Broadway:
The Philanthropist
Reckless
TV credits include:
You Don’t Know Jack
Mercy

Polly Noonan
Theater credits include:
Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Helen Hayes Award)
Passion Play (Arena Stage, Helen Hayes Award Nomination; Goodman Theatre, Yale Rep Theatre, Epic Theatre Ensemble)
Eurydice (Madison Repertory Theatre)

Seth Numrich
Theater credits include:
Merchant of Venice (Broadway)
War Horse (Lincoln Center)
TV & Film credits include:
Private Romeo
Gravity

Brian F. O’Byrne
Theater Credits Include:
Doubt (Broadway)
The Coast Of Utopia (Lincoln Center Theater)
TV & Film Credits Include:
Mildred Pierce
Brotherhood
Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead

Evan Parke
TV & Film credits include:
Blue
King Kong
The Air I Breathe
The Replacements

Lina Patel
Theater credits include:
Sankalpan (Desire)
The Ragged Claws
TV & Film:
Numbers
The Day After Tomorrow

Austin Pierce
Theater credits include:
Dancing At Lughnasa
A Funny Thing…Forum
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Bryce Pinkham
Theater credits include:
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Broadway)
Concert Reading of Knickerbocker Holiday (Lincoln Center)
Horton Foote’s The Orphan’s Home Cycle (Signature Theater)

Maryann Plunkett
Broadway credits include:
Saint Joan
The Crucible
Me and My Girl (Tony Award)

Linda Powell
Theater credits include:
On Golden Pond (Broadway)
Wilder, Wilder, Wilder (Broadway)
The Overwhelming (Roundabout)
TV & Film credits include:
American Gangster
Morning Glory
The Good Wife

Ana Reeder
Theater credits include:
Hedda Gabler (Broadway)
Top Girls (Broadway)
Sight Unseen (Broadway)
Small Tragedy (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award)
TV & Film credits include:
You Don’t Know Jack
No Country for Old Men

Gloria Reuben
Theater credits include:
Conversations in Tusculum (The Public Theater)
Stuff Happens (The Public Theater)
TV & Film credits include:
The Sentinel
ER

Amy Ryan
TV & Film credits include:
Win, Win
Gone Baby Gone (Academy Award Nomination)
The Wire
The Office

Cedric Sanders
TV & Film credits include:
The Social Network
American Gangster
The Least Among You

Jay O. Sanders
Broadway credits include:
Hamlet
Pygmalion
Saint Joan
TV & Film credits include:
Edge of Darkness
The Green Hornet
JFK

Heidi Schreck
Theater credits include:
The Language Archive (Roundabout)
Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons)
TV & Film credits include:
Hedda Gabler
The Good Wife

T. Ryder Smith
Theater credits include:
War Horse (Lincoln Center Theater)
Equus (Broadway)
Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Playwrights Horizons)
Lebensraum (Drama Desk Award)
Waiting for Godot (Christopher McElroen, Site-Specific in New Orleans)

Michael Stahl-David
Theater credits include:
The Overwhelming (Roundabout)
TV & Film credits include:
My Generation
Mercy
Cloverfield

Katherine Stewart
Theater credits include:
West Side Story
Henry V
Taming of the Shrew

David Strathairn
TV & Film credits include:
Lincoln
Temple Grandin (Emmy Award)
Good Night & Good Luck (Academy Award Nomination)
The Uninvited
The Bourne Ultimatum

Michael Stuhlbarg
Theater credits include:
The Pillowman (Broadway)
Saint Joan (Broadway)
Hamlet (The Public Theater)
TV & Film credits include:
A Serious Man (Golden Globe Nomination)
Body of Lies

Erica Tazel
Theater credits include:
I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady From Rwanda (NAACP Theater Award)
TV & Film credits include:
Justified

Joanne Tucker
Theater credits include:
Little Doc (Rattlestick)
Graduate of The Juilliard School of Drama

Tamara Tunie
TV & Film credits include:
Sex and The City
Wall Street
City Hall

Greg Ungar
Theater credits include:
As You Like It (Shakespeare Orange County)
Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Orange County)
Waiting for Godot (Hunger Artists Theater)

John Ventimiglia
Theater credits include:
All My Sons (Broadway)
The Exonerated
TV & Film credits include:
I Shot Andy Warhol
Mercy
The Sopranos

Ben Viccellio
Theater credits include:
Oedipus Complex (The Goodman Theatre)
Cherry Orchard (Steppenwolf Theater)
Hamlet (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre)

Sara Waisanen
Theater credits include:
Proof
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Winter’s Tale
Much Ado About Nothing

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
Theater credits include:
The Iceman Cometh (Broadway)
TV & Film credits include:
The Wire
Goodfellas
The 25th Hour

Jeffrey Wright
Broadway credits include:
Topdog / Underdog
Angels in America (Tony Award)
TV & Film credits include:
Quantum of Solace
Syriana
Angels in America (HBO)

Karen Young
Theater credits include:
A Lie of the Mind (The New Group)
Film credits include:
Joe the King
Heading South
The Sopranos
Handsome Harry

Harris Yulin
Hedda Gabler
The Price
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Visit
A Lesson from Aloe
Watch on the Rhine