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Countless theater, television, film and comedic endeavors have pushed David Alan Grier’s career to remarkable heights. His ability to excel across all mediums and contexts is a testament to his inherent sense of comic timing and creative drive. The three-time Tony and Grammy Award nominee is trained in Shakespeare, receiving an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. Grier has received many accolades and awards throughout his career, not the least of which was his inclusion on Comedy Central’s list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time. Although Grier’s acting career is rooted in live theater, he perhaps is best known for his television work. He starred in all three seasons of the Image Award-nominated comedy series The Carmichael Show. He also starred as the iconic Cowardly Lion in the Emmy Award-winning 2015 live television production of The Wiz Live!, earning him two Image Awards and two Critics’ Choice Award nominations. Grier’s television work is highlighted predominately by his turn as a principal cast member on the Emmy Award-winning In Living Color from 1990-1994, during which he created and portrayed some of the show’s most memorable characters. He starred in DAG from 2000-2001 and Life with Bonnie in 2003, which earned him Image Award and Golden Satellite Award nominations. In 2008, Grier created, wrote and starred in Comedy Central’s Chocolate News. He also starred in 2013 network comedy series Bad Teacher. Additionally, Grier hosts the cable game show Snap Decision, and can be seen recurring in the second season of streaming comedy A Series of Unfortunate Events. Grier starred in the 2013 feature Peeples, opposite Kerry Washington and Craig Robinson, and produced by Tyler Perry; he appeared in the Wayans Brothers’ 2009 spoof, Dance Flick; and he was seen in the 1995 fantasy adventure Jumanji. He made his film debut in Robert Altman’s 1983 film, Streamers, for which he won the Golden Lion for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. Grier began his professional career on Broadway as Jackie Robinson in The First, for which he earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and won the Theatre World Award in 1981. He then joined the cast of Dreamgirls, before going on to star opposite Denzel Washington in A Soldier’s Play, for which both actors reprised their roles in the film adaptation in 1984. From 2009-2010, Grier starred in David Mamet’s acclaimed play, Race, opposite James Spader and Kerry Washington, for which he received his second Tony Award nomination. He received his third Tony nomination in 2012, for his performance in The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess. He received his first Grammy Award nomination in 2013, when the cast recording of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess was nominated for Best Musical Theater Album. Grier recently wrapped a nationwide comedy tour, during which he was joined by “In Living Color” co-star Tommy Davidson. He also portrayed Daddy Warbucks in a performance of Annie at the Hollywood Bowl. His recent films include Arizona, a dark comedy in which he stars opposite Danny McBride, Kaitlin Olson and Rosemarie DeWitt and Sprinter, about a Jamaican runner, in which he portrays the coach; and Native Son, the adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Richard Wright. He lives in Los Angeles with his daughter, Lulu.

A true multi-hyphenate, Blair Underwood is enjoying success in film, television and theatre, as an actor, director and producer.  Underwood is currently in production on Netflix’s Madam CJ Walker opposite Octavia Spencer. Most recently, he wrapped recurring roles on two other Netflix series: Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us, and the comedy series, Dear White People; and can be seen in Clark Johnson’s Juanita, opposite Alfred Woodard, also for Netflix.  He spent two years as a series regular on the ABC drama series, Quantico, while also recurring on another hit ABC drama, AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.  He also had a co-starring role in The After Party, from writer/director Ian Edelman, which Netflix released late in 2018. Past television credits include series regular roles on Dirty Sexy Money, The New Adventures of Old Christine, In Treatment, L.A. Law and The Event. Film credits include Rules of Engagement, Madea's Family Reunion and Full Frontal, for director Steven Soderbergh.  Underwood co-starred opposite Cicely Tyson in the Lifetime telefilm, A Trip To Bountiful, based on the Tony Award-winning play.  In 2012 he made his acclaimed Broadway debut in the iconic role of “Stanley" in Tennessee Williams' AStreetcar Named Desire, for which he earned a 2012 Drama League Distinguished Performance Award nomination.  Other theater includes: A Trip to Bountiful (Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum/Ahmanson Theatre),Othello (Old Globe Theatre; d: Barry Edelstein), and Measure for Measure (Shakespeare in the Park, 1993).  Underwood also has several projects in the development pipeline as a director, including Patch, an elevated genre feature based on a Gregg McBride script.  In 2010 he made his feature-film directing debut with The Bridge to Nowhere, which starred Ving Rhames, Danny Masterson, Bijou Phillips and Alex Breckenridge. Blair is an Emmy Award-winner (as producer of the philanthropy-centered NBC Saturday morning series, Give), a two-time Golden Globe Award nominee, and has been nominated for 17 NAACP Image Awards (three wins).  He won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word as co-narrator of Al Gore’s audiobook, An Inconvenient Truth.  A newly minted member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he is also active in several philanthropic endeavors.

Jerry O'Connell is an actor who began his career at age 11 when he co-starred as Vern Tessio in Stand By Me. Born and raised in New York City, Jerry graduated from New York University with a BFA before returning to feature films. He received critical acclaim for his role as quarterback Frank Cushman in Jerry Maguire. His additional film credits include Scream 2; Can’t Hardly Wait; Mission to Mars; Tomcats; the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced comedy Kangaroo Jack; Yours, Mine and Ours; Man About Town (with Ben Affleck); Obsessed (with Beyonce Knowles); Piranha 3-D; the big screen follow-up to the cult hit television series Veronica Mars; The Lookalike; and Deep Murder. In addition to his film work, O’Connell was recently seen on multiple hit television series, including Scream Queens, Mistresses, The Big Bang Theory, Billions and The Mysteries of Laura. This past summer, Jerry hosted his own daytime talk show Jerry O on Fox. He can currently be seen starring as Harley Carter in the show Carter on WGN.

Broadway credits include Fat Ham, A Soldier’s Play, The Book of Mormon, A Raisin in the Sun, The Trip to Bountiful, The Big Knife, The Mountaintop, Passing Strange, Radio Golf and Gem of the Ocean. Off-Broadway credits include Fat Ham (Public Theater [Obie Award]) On Sugarland (NYTW [Obie and Audelco Award, Drama Desk Nomination]), Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (Manhattan Theater Club), Much Ado About Nothing (NYSF), Pitbulls (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), The Jammer (Atlantic Theatre Company), In the Footprint (The Civilians), Waiting for Godot and Three Sisters (Classical Theatre of Harlem). Regional credits include Seven Guitars, Death of a Salesman, Good Faith, Richard II, Breath Boom (Yale Rep), Macbeth (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Good Negro (The Goodman), Stick Fly (Elliot Norton nomination for Best Supporting Actor/ Arena Stage and Huntington Theatre Company), Othello (CalShakes), Spunk (Actors Theatre of Louisville), The People Before the Park (Premiere Stages). Other stage credits include productions at Two River Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Hartford Stage, and numerous productions at The Dallas Theater Center. Billy is a graduate of Yale School of Drama.

Nnamdi Asomugha is quickly making a name for himself as an actor, producer and creative. Early next year, Asomugha will make his Broadway debut in the first Broadway production of Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A Soldier's Play. The play, directed by Tony-winner Kenny Leon, will open on January 21, 2020 for a limited engagement at the American Airlines Theater. Asomugha will play "Private First Class Melvin Peterson" opposite a cast that includes David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood. The story follows a tenacious investigator who must race against his white leadership to unravel who murdered a black sergeant on a Louisiana Army base. Asomugha recently completed production on the film Sylvie, which he stars in opposite Tessa Thompson and produces through his iAm21 Entertainment banner. The film, written and directed by Eugene Ashe, is a love story set in the cool jazz era of New York City in the late 1950’s/early 1960’s. Asomugha also recently finished filming a recurring role in the upcoming Quibi series When The Street Lights Go On opposite Queen Latifah, Mark Duplass and Tony Hale. The series is a coming-of-age murder mystery adapted from the Black List feature script by writers Chris Hutton and Eddie O’Keefe. In October 2018, Asomugha made his New York stage debut at the Vineyard Theater in Ngozi Anyanwu's play Good Grief, a first generation coming-of-age journey of love, loss and growing adulthood. He received critical praise for his performance and the play was hailed a The New York Times Critics’ Pick. In 2017, Asomugha produced and starred in the Amazon Studios film Crown Heights. His breakout performance, which was his first feature film lead role, earned him a Film Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, as well as an NAACP Image Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. The film followed the true story of Colin Warner (played by LaKeith Stanfield), a young man from Trinidad who spent 20 years in prison for a 1980 murder in Brooklyn that he did not commit. Asomugha played Carl King, Colin’s best friend who dedicated his life to proving his innocence. Crown Heights won the Audience Award in the Dramatic Competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. As a producer, Asomugha has helped bring various projects to the stage and screen, such as the award-winning film Beasts of No Nation, as well as the Broadway stage production of American Son, and the upcoming films The Banker and Harriet. Prior to his film career, Asomugha played 11 seasons in the National Football League. He was considered one of the best defensive players in the league, receiving multiple All-Pro and Pro Bowl selections over the course of his career.

Since graduating with an MFA from USC, McKinley Belcher III has been steadily building a strong body of work. Belcher appears on the critically hailed Netflix series Ozark as Agent Trevor Evans, in the limited series The Good Lord Bird opposite Ethan Hawke for Showtime, and was seen as Mark Fein in the Simon Curtis-directed film The Art of Racing in the Rain for Fox 2000. He can currently be seen as the series lead in David Simon’s We Own This City for HBO, and will next be seen in a recurring role in Netflix’s live-action adaptation of “One Piece.” He has recently come off playing the pivotal series role of convicted murderer and death row inmate Anthony Carter, in the FOX drama series The Passage. He was noticed for his work as Samuel Diggs, a free slave and self-educated laborer with the hopes of becoming a doctor, on the PBS series Mercy Street, and on David Simon’s HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero as the blue-collar Dwayne taking care of his diabetic mother. Prior to this, McKinley recurred on the Starz drama Power. His other film credits include the biopic Mapplethorpe opposite Matt Smith, which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, and Trial by Fire directed by Ed Zwick, as well as John Sayles’s independent film Go for Sisters. On stage, McKinley starred in The Light at MCC Theater for which he was nominated for an Outer Critic Circle Award. He made his Broadway debut in the revival of A Soldier’s Play for Roundabout Theatre Company.

Rob Demery is excited to make his Broadway debut. Theatre: Good Faith; Fetch Clay, Make Man; Too Heavy for Your Pocket; Holler If Ya Hear Me; Cardboard Piano; Sarafina!; Lombardi; To Kill a Mockingbird; A Christmas Carol; Othello: The Remix. Film/ TV: “The Gifted,” “The Resident,” “Second Generation Wayans,” Devil’s Knot, Get On Up, Underground, Lovecraft Country (upcoming). Rob is the founder/artistic director of Red Light Arts. Find out more at robdemery.com. Love to Amber and Leah!

Jared Grimes has been seen on Broadway in After Midnight. Off-Broadway: Radio City New York Spring Spectacular, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Broadway/Off-Broadway choreography: Holler If You Hear Me (Associate Choreographer), Cirque du Soleil’s Banana Shpeel. Film choreography: Breaking Brooklyn. Film: The Marc Pease Experience, Swing Kids (foreign film). Television: Boardwalk Empire, Fox’s Fringe, NBC’s Manifest. Awards: 2014 Astaire Award winner, Jeff Award (Best Musical Choreography), Helen Hayes Award (Best Musical Choreography).

Nate Mann is a 2019 graduate of The Juilliard School. He made his Off-Broadway debut in Kate Hamill’s production of Little Women for Primary Stages. He recently starred in the world premiere of The Coast Starlight at La Jolla Playhouse and will recur in the upcoming season of the Showtime drama Ray Donovan.

Warner Miller is pleased to be making his Broadway debut at Roundabout! Off-Broadway: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. Regional: The Old Settler (AUDELCO Award winner), SOUL: The Stax Musical, The Convert, Antony and Cleopatra, The Piano Lesson, A Raisin in the Sun, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences. Other theatres: Kirk Douglas Theatre, Goodman Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage. Film/ television: Marvel’s “Luke Cage,” “Boardwalk Empire,” American Gangster, Law & Order, CSI: NY and Chicago PD. With sincerest gratitude, I give thanks. Phil.1:2–3

J. Alphonse Nicholson is an American-born actor and percussionist. Notable credits include TV/film: upcoming series regular on P-Valley (STARZ), Just Mercy (Warner Brothers), Madam C. J. Walker (Netflix), Blue Bloods (CBS), Mr. Robot Season 2 (USA), Shots Fired (FOX), Marvel’s Luke Cage (Netflix), Tales (BET), The Blacklist (NBC), Chicago PD (NBC). Other credits: Off-Broadway: Signature Theatre’s Paradise Blue (Blue), FREIGHT (NFT). Love to my boy, my girl and my Nafeesha.

Lee Aaron Rosen's Broadway credits include Angels in America, The Big Knife (Roundabout) and The Normal Heart. National tour: Roundabout’s production of Cabaret. Off-Broadway: Indian Ink (Roundabout), Gabriel (Atlantic), The Lady From Dubuque (Signature). Regional credits include The Old Globe, Westport Country Playhouse, Huntington Theatre, Williamstown and many more. Selected TV: The Blacklist, The Enemy Within, Elementary, Limitless, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie, Damages, Person of Interest. Film: A Kid Like Jake, Saving Private Ryan, Sidewalk Traffic, Lawn Care. MFA: NYU Graduate Acting.

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