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Education: University of California, San Diego (MFA in Acting), Point Park University (BA Theatre Arts). Acting: The Pittsburgh Public Theatre, The City Theatre, Barrington Stage, Philadelphia Theatre Co, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and The Mark Taper Forum. Television credits include starring in the upcoming limited series “Invitation to a Bonfire” on AMC. Playwriting: Seven Deadly Sins (Drama Desk Award), Good Grief, The Homecoming Queen, and Nike or We Don’t Need Another Hero. Good Grief (Kilroys List 2016, Semi Finalist Princess Grace, Humanitas Award) was produced at Center Theatre Group (the Kirk Douglas) in Los Angeles (2017) and Off-Broadway at The Vineyard Theatre (2018), which Anyanwu also starred in. NIKE (Kilroys List 2017) was workshopped at The New Black Fest in conjunction with The Lark, The Strand Festival, A.C.T, Space on Ryder Farm, and New York Stage and Film. The Homecoming Queen (Kilroys List 2017, Leah Ryan Finalist) had its world premiere at The Atlantic theater in 2018, which had a sold-out run. She also recently wrote and starred in her play The Last of the Love Letters at The Atlantic Theatre Company (2021). Anyanwu has also received residencies from LCT3, Space on Ryder Farm, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The New Harmony Project, New York Stage and Film, and Page 73. She is also commissioned with NYU, Two Rivers, The Old Globe, Steppenwolfe, The Atlantic Theatre, and is recipient of the Creative Rebuild New York program, where she will be an artist in Residence with Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre.

Broadway: Death of A Salesman, American Son, Jitney, Stickfly and Seven Guitars opposite Viola Davis. Off-Broadway: Most recently Playwrights Horizon’s Freedom Freedom Freedom (podcast), The Public Theatre, Beckett Theatre, Circle Rep, and The Billie Holiday Theatre. Regional: Yale Rep, The Old Globe, Denver Center, TheatreWorks Silicone Valley, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Folgers Theatre, Arden Theatre, Goodman Theatre, and The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Conference to name a few. Television: HBO’s OZ as Travis Smith, All My Children as Derek Frye, Law and Order SVU, NY Undercover, NYPD Blue. Film: Marvel's Wastelanders Black Widow series, Peeples opposite Kerry Washington, Shaft 2000, Musical Chairs, Tio Papi, Popous Pane, Something to Give… Screenwriter: Jimi Exit Before the Toll. Playwright: Augusta Brown, Electric Lady, The Jimi Hendrix Experiment. Director: The Man in Room 306 @ Luna Stage. I’m grateful to Roundabout Theatre and Patricia McGregor for this opportunity.

Jessica Frances Dukes has been acclaimed for her multi-season series regular role on Ozark (Netflix), with The New York Times calling her performance “divine.” She can currently be seen starring in the Project Greenlight feature on Max, Gray Matter, as well as the series itself, and in a supporting role in the Paramount feature, Organ Trail. She made her Broadway debut at Roundabout in Trouble In Mind, and has graced Off-Broadway and regional stages all over the country. She won an Audelco Award and was nominated for a Drama League Award for playing the title role in Lynn Nottage’s By The Way, Meet Vera Stark at Signature Theatre and won an Obie for Robert O’Hara’s Bootycandy at Playwrights Horizons. She recurred on Marvel’s Jessica Jones (Netflix) and guested on The Good Wife, NBC’s New Amsterdam, and NCIS: New Orleans.

Jon Michael Hill joined the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble in 2007. Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Purpose, Leroy and Lucy, True West (also Galway Arts Festival), Pass Over, Constellations, Head of Passes, The Hot L Baltimore, The Tempest,Kafka on the Shore, The Unmentionables. Broadway: Superior Donuts, Pass Over. Off-Broadway: The Refuge Plays (New York Theatre Workshop) Pass Over (Lincoln Center). Film: Pass Over, Widows, In The Radiant City, No Pay, Nudity. Television: A Man in Full (Netflix), Elementary (CBS), Detroit 1-8-7 (ABC), Eastbound and Down (HBO), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC) and Person of Interest (CBS). 

Mallori Johnson will be seen in the upcoming Amazon MGM/Orion feature, Is God Is, written and directed by Aleshea Harris based on her critically acclaimed play. Along with Kara Young, she leads an all-star cast, including Sterling K. Brown, Janelle Monae, Vivica A. Fox, Mykelti Williamson, and Erika Alexander. The film will be released on May 15, 2026. She recurs opposite Rachel Weisz in the upcoming Netflix Series, Vladimir, set to debut on March 5, 2026. She premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival as the lead, with Angourie Rice, in the acclaimed Filmmaker Clement Virgo’s feature, Steal Away. Mallori was the lead of the FX Series Kindred, a role she landed after graduating from The Juilliard School. The series is based on the seminal novel by Octavia E. Butler and was adapted by creator/showrunner Branden Jacob-Jenkins. Janicza Bravo directed the series’ pilot and Darren Aronofsky, Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg served as executive producers. Her other credits include the Hulu Series Genius: MLK/X, as Malcolm X’s former love interest; the Apple+ Series WeCrashed, opposite Anne Hathaway; the feature film, and The Other Zoey, with Josephine Langford and Drew Starkey. On Stage, she co-starred in the Roundabout’s acclaimed The Refuge Plays written by Nathan Alan Davis and directed by Patricia McGregor.

Broadway: Electra, Having Our Say, So Long on Lonely Street. Off-Broadway: Bodies They Ritual, On Sugarland, Cullud Wattah, Trojan Women, The Visitor, Passage, First Noel, Brownsville Song, Cell, Rosmersholm, for colored girls…, Gum, Ma Rose and Salt. Regional: STC, CATF, Rep Theater of St. Louis, The Old Globe, Trinity Rep, Arena Stage, Cleveland Play House, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, Victory Gardens, NBT U.K., Cincinnati Playhouse, Roundhouse Theater. Film/TV: Detroit, We’ll Never Have Paris, The Human Stain, The Preacher’s Wife, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Deadbeat, Golden Boy, John Adams, The Good Wife, Sesame Street, The Wire.

Seven-time NAACP Image Award nominee Nicole Ari Parker (actor/producer/entrepreneur/philanthropist) is best known for her outstanding performance as Teri Joseph on Showtime’s award-winning original series Soul Food. Next up, she will be returning in the second season of the Max reboot of the iconic comedy Sex and The City, And Just Like That…, alongside original cast members including Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis, expected to hit the streamer later this month. Parker has previously been featured in a variety of hit television series including NBC’s Chicago P.D., Fox’s Empire, TV Land’s Younger, Amazon’s The Romanoffs, and Showtime’s I'm Dying up Here. In 2016, she starred in the Universal ensemble comedy Almost Christmas opposite Danny Glover and Gabrielle Union and co-starred in the ABC drama series Time After Time. In 2018, she co-starred in the Netflix film How It Ends, alongside Forest Whitaker, Theo James, and Kat Graham. In 2015, Parker recurred opposite Morris Chestnut in the FOX series Rosewood and guest starred with Kevin Hart and husband Boris Kodjoe in the hit BET series The Real Husbands of Hollywood. Late last year she made a guest appearance in the TV series The Best Man: The Final Chapters where she joined the iconic cast to wrap up the ongoing drama series. Parker commanded the stage at the Broadhurst Theater in her 2012 Broadway debut as Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire opposite Blair Underwood for director Emily Mann. Her powerful performance as Blanche earned her an Outer Critics Award nomination. In 2014, she reunited with director Emily Mann as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the McCarter Theatre Center. Parker is a graduate of NYU’s famed Tisch School of the Arts, Circle in the Square Studio. She has received a special award at the Urban World Film Festival, for Outstanding Body of Work as an Actress.

Daniel J. Watts has been nominated for a Tony Award® for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical for his performance as Ike Turner in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. He is an accomplished spoken word artist, whose solo-show, The Jam: Only Child, was a tremendous success at The Public Theater’s 2020 Under TheRadar Fest. His Jams Series online installments during the pandemic earned him an inaugural Antonyo Award for Best Quarantine Content. Watts has appeared in eight Broadway shows including Tina, Hamilton, In The Heights and Memphis. TV credits include recurring roles on NBC's Blindspot, and HBO's Vinyl & The Deuce; The Good Wife (CBS); Blue Bloods (CBS); Odd Mom Out (Bravo); The Night Of (HBO); Boardwalk Empire (HBO); Person of Interest (CBS); Broad City (Comedy Central); & “Smash” (NBC). Film: Breakup at a Wedding; Among Brothers; & Freedom. He appeared as Felony in Tracy Morgan's new comedy series The Last OG on TBS. An educator, Watts has also served as an adjunct professor of NYU's Tisch New Studio. He teaches his own course on how to truly engage in one's self in order to contribute meaningful and personal artistic work. BFA Graduate Elon University Music Theatre Program. 2011 Young Alumnus Award Recipient. Most recently, Daniel was featured in a major role debuting in the MCU opposite GAEL Garcia in Marvel’s special Werewolf By Night on Disney+.

Lance Coadie Williams' s credits include Sweat on Broadway and at The Public Theatre; War and Shows for Days at Lincoln Center; and received an Obie Award for BootyCandy at Playwright's Horizons. His regional theatre credits include Sucker Punch, Marcus: or The Secret of Sweet at The Studio Theatre; The Convert at The Wilma Theatre; Fences, The Children's Hour, My Children! My Africa, Blues for an Alabama Sky at Everyman Theatre; Love's Fire and Shoot the Piano Player at The Berkshire Theatre Festival; The Oedipus Plays with The Shakespeare Theatre (Athens, Greece) and the title role of Hamlet with The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. His television credits include The Wire, Elementary, High Maintenance and The Good Fight. Lance received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Purchase College Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film and is graduate of The Baltimore School for The Arts.

JJ Wynder-Wilkins, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, is ecstatic to make his theatrical debut in The Refuge Plays! He is an alumna of Carnegie Mellon University’s BFA Acting Program and LaGuardia HS of Music and Arts. His television credits include The Equalizer (CBS), Gossip Girls (HBOMAX), The Michael Che Show (HBOMAX), Law and Order SVU (NBC) and Blue Bloods (CBS). He thanks God, his mom, dad, sisters, extended family, Marianne Leone at Terrific Talent Management, and Victoria Kress and Sam Yabrow at A3 Artist Agency.

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