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James Earl Jones
Read BioJames Earl Jones
The Lion King,
The Hunt for Red October,
Coming to America,
Star Wars
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James Vincent Meredith
Read BioJames Vincent Meredith
As A Steppenwolf Ensemble Member:
The Crucible
The Bluest Eye
The Pain and The Itch -
Jamie Hector
Read BioJamie Hector
TV & Film credits include:
Spike Lee’s Clockers
The Wire
Third Watch -
Jason Butler Harner
Read BioJason 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 -
Jason Isaacs
Read BioJason Isaacs
Credits include:
The Harry Potter Series
Fury
The Patriot
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Jay O. Sanders
Read BioJay O. Sanders
Broadway credits include:
Hamlet
Pygmalion
Saint Joan
TV & Film credits include:
Edge of Darkness
The Green Hornet
JFK -
Jeffrey Wright
Read BioJeffrey Wright
Broadway credits include:
Topdog / Underdog
Angels in America (Tony Award)
TV & Film credits include:
Quantum of Solace
Syriana
Angels in America (HBO) -
Jennifer Mudge
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Broadway:
The Philanthropist
Reckless
TV credits include:
You Don’t Know Jack
Mercy -
Jesse Eisenberg
Read BioJesse Eisenberg
Film credits include:
The Social Network
Adventureland
The Squid and the Whale -
Jessica Hecht
Read BioJessica 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 -
Joanne Tucker
Read BioJoanne Tucker
Theater credits include:
Little Doc (Rattlestick)
Graduate of The Juilliard School of Drama -
John Doman
Read BioJohn Doman
Film and Television credits:
Blue Valentine
Mystic River
The Wire
Borgia
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John Turturro
Read BioJohn Turturro
Credits include:
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Do the Right Thing
The Big Lebowski
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John Ventimiglia
Read BioJohn Ventimiglia
Theater credits include:
All My Sons (Broadway)
The Exonerated
TV & Film credits include:
I Shot Andy Warhol
Mercy
The Sopranos -
Jonathan David Martin
Read BioJonathan David Martin
Theater credits include:
War Horse (Lincoln Center)
The Chosen (Portland Center Stage)
The Outsiders (Seattle Children’s Theater) -
Josh Hamilton
Read BioJosh 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 -
Juan Castano
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Juliana Francis-Kelly
Read BioJuliana Francis-Kelly
Theater credits include:
The Girl From Monday
Maria Del Bosco
Go Go Go -
Jumaane Williams
Read BioJumaane Williams
Jumaane Williams has served as the New York City Public Advocate since 2019. He formerly served as a member of the New York City Council from the 45th district.
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Karen MacDonald
Read BioKaren MacDonald
Theater credits include:
All My Sons, Bus Stop, (Huntington Theatre Co.)All’s Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, Twelfth Night (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company)
Founding Company Member of the American Repertory Theatre, has appeared in 70 productions including Endgame, The Seagull, Mother Courage and her Children.
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Karen Young
Read BioKaren Young
Theater credits include:
A Lie of the Mind (The New Group)
Film credits include:
Joe the King
Heading South
The Sopranos
Handsome Harry -
Kate Burton
Read BioKate Burton
Credits include:
Scandal
Grey’s Anatomy
The Ice Storm
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Katherine Stewart
Read BioKatherine Stewart
Theater credits include:
West Side Story
Henry V
Taming of the Shrew -
Kathleen Chalfant
Read BioKathleen 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) -
Kathryn Erbe
Read BioKathryn Erbe
Kathryn Erbe is best known for playing Detective Alexandra Eames in “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” Erbe’s television credits include playing the infamous death row inmate Shirley Bellinger on the acclaimed HBO series “Oz.” She also appeared on NBC’s “Homicide: Life on the Street,” the miniseries “George Wallace,” Showtime’s original production of “Naked City: Justice with a Bullet,” NBC’s “Another World” and the television movie “Breathing Lessons.”
Erbe also gained notice in the 1999 box office hit “Stir of Echoes” opposite Kevin Bacon and “Dream with the Fishes” with David Arquette. Her additional film credits include “Entropy,” “Kiss of Death,” “D2: The Mighty Ducks,” “Rich in Love”, “What About Bob?”, and “Speaking of Sex” with Lara Flynn Boyle and Bill Murray. Before appearing in feature films, Erbe began her career on the stage.
She is a member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company and has starred in many of their productions, including Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” as Stella, “Curse of the Starving Class” and “My Thing of Love.” She earned a Tony® Award nomination in 1991 for her portrayal of Mary in “Speed of Darkness.” Erbe is also an active member of the Atlantic Theatre Company.
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Kathryn Hunter
Read BioKathryn Hunter
Harry Potter
Rome
Tale of Tales
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Keith David
Read BioKeith David
Film credits include:
The Princess and The Frog
Coraline
Crash -
Kimberly Hèbert
Read BioKimberly Hèbert
Better Call Saul
Five Feet Apart
Red Hook Summer
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Lemon Andersen
Read BioLemon Andersen
Theater credits include:
HBO’s Def Poetry Jam (Broadway, Tony Award)
County of Kings (The Public)
Film credits include:
Inside Man
The Soloist
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Lesley Sharp
Read BioLesley Sharp
Credits include:
Vera Drake
The Full Monty
Afterlife
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Lili Taylor
Read BioLili Taylor
Film & TV Credits include:
The Good Wife
Six Feet Under
High Fidelity
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Lina Patel
Read BioLina Patel
Theater credits include:
Sankalpan (Desire)
The Ragged Claws
TV & Film:
Numbers
The Day After Tomorrow -
Linda Powell
Read BioLinda 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 -
Louis Cancelmi
Read BioLouis Cancelmi
Theater credits include:
This (Playwrights Horizons)
The Singing Forest (The Public Theater)
Blasted (Soho Rep) -
Mare Winningham
Read BioMare Winningham
Film and TV credits include:
St. Elmo’s
FireTurner & Hooch
Hatfields & McCoys
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Maria Dizzia
Read BioMaria Dizzia
Theater credits include:
In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) (Broadway)
Eurydice (Second Stage)
Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons) -
Marin Ireland
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Marjolaine Goldsmith
Read BioMarjolaine Goldsmith
Credits Include
Compromise
Afterwords
Henry IV
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Martha Plimpton
Read BioMartha Plimpton
Credits include:
Raising Hope
The Good Wife
The Mosquito Coast
Goonies
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Martin Sheen
Read BioMartin Sheen
Credits Include:
The West Wing
The Departed
Apocalypse Now
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Maryann Plunkett
Read BioMaryann Plunkett
Broadway credits include:
Saint Joan
The Crucible
Me and My Girl (Tony Award) -
Matthew T. Starr
Read BioMatthew T. Starr
Mayor of the City of Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, OH
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Megan Brotherton
Read BioMegan Brotherton
Theater credits include:
Alice vs. Wonderland
Drums in The Night
Macbeth -
Michael Imperioli
Read BioMichael Imperioli
Credits include:
The Sopranos
GoodFellas
The Lovely Bones
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Michael Izquierdo
Read BioMichael Izquierdo
Theater credits include:
Mrs. Warren’s Profession (McCarter)
New Jerusalem (Classic Stage)
Mother Courage (New York Shakespeare Festival)
Taking Woodstock (dir. Ang Lee) -
Michael K. Williams
Read BioMichael K. Williams
Credits include:
The Wire
Boardwalk Empire
The Night Of
12 Years A Slave
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Michael Stahl-David
Read BioMichael Stahl-David
Theater credits include:
The Overwhelming(Roundabout)
TV & Film credits include:
My Generation
Mercy
Cloverfield -
Michael Stuhlbarg
Read BioMichael 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 -
Michael Yare
Read BioMichael Yare
TV & Film credits include:
Game of Thrones
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Neverland -
Mike Colter
Read BioMike Colter
TV & Film credits include:
Salt
Taking Chance
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Moses Ingram
Read BioMoses Ingram
The Queen's Gambit
Macbeth
Day 74
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Nandita Shenoy
Read BioNandita Shenoy
Credits include:
Love, Repeat
Arranged: The Musical
After Forever
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Nick Choksi
Read BioNick Choksi
Credits include:
Happyish
One Life to Live
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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Nick Holder
Read BioNick Holder
Les Misérables
The Four Feathers
Anna Karenina
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Nilaja Sun
Read BioNilaja Sun
Nilaja Sun is an actor, playwright and teaching artist. She recently performed an extended run of a critically acclaimed solo piece Pike St. that was commissioned and produced by Epic Theatre Ensemble and performed at the Abrons Arts Center. This year, a tour of the show started at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in D.C., and has continued to theaters in Minneapolis; Edinburgh, Scotland and Melbourne, Australia.
Nilaja’s Obie award winning solo piece "No Child…", was directed by Hal Brooks and commissioned and produced by Epic Theatre Ensemble. For her creation and performance of "No Child..." and its subsequent national tour, Nilaja garnered 21 awards including: an Obie Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards including the John Gassner Playwriting Award for Outstanding New American Play, a Theatre World Award, the Helen Hayes Award, two NAACP Theatre Awards, and was awarded the soloNOVA Award for Artist of the Year by terraNOVA Collective. For “Pike St.”, Nilaja was recently awarded the Edinbugh Award and Ivey Award.
TV/FILM: Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, BrainDead, 30 Rock, Law & Order: SVU, Unforgettable, Louie, The International, and Rubicon.
A native of the Lower East Side, she is a Princess Grace Award recipient, and has worked proudly as a teaching artist in New York City for more than 15 years.
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Nina Turner
Read BioNina Turner
Former Ohio State Senator.
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Nyasha Hatendi
Read BioNyasha Hatendi
The Front Runner
Into the Dark
Alex Rider
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Obi Abili
Read BioObi Abili
Obi Abili was recently seen in a recurring role on the third season of the Showtime Series Billions and will soon be in the upcoming film Faraway Eyes. He recently finished starring in the Irish Rep’s production of The Emperor Jones and just had a lead role in the new Sky comedy miniseries Delicious with Dawn French, which premiered on New Years’ Day overseas.
He just starred opposite Juliette Binoche in Ivo van Hove’s production of Antigone at BAM. He also has a major supporting role in the upcoming feature London Fields opposite Amber Heard, Billy Bob Thornton and Theo James, which just premiered at Toronto. He had a leading role in the feature Tula: The Revolt opposite Danny Glover and was also seen opposite Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz in Gambit. He was a regular on the UK minis The Take with Tom Hardy, Injustice with James Purefoy, Moses Jones with Eamonn Walker and The Nativity with Tatiana Maslany.
He has guest starred on the Cinemax series Strike Back and BBC’s Foyle’s War. Screen International named him a “Star of Tomorrow” in 2010 and IndieWire called him “an actor to watch."
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Oscar Isaac
Read BioOscar Isaac
Ex Machina
Inside Llewyn Davis
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Patch Darragh
Read BioPatch Darragh
Theater credits include:
Our Town (Broadway, With Paul Newman)
The Glass Menagerie(Roundabout)
All That I Will Ever Be (NYTW) -
Patrese McClain
Read BioPatrese McClain
Theater credits include:
Pericles (The Black Rep)
Ruined (The Black Rep)
Two Trains Running (Geva Theatre Center) -
Patricia Buckley
Read BioPatricia Buckley
Credits include:
Portland Stage Company
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Patrick Walshe McBride
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Paul Giamatti
Read BioPaul Giamatti
Credits include:
John Adams
Cinderella Man
Sideways
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Paul Juhn
Read BioPaul Juhn
Credits include:Salt
Michael Clayton
30 Rock
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Peter Francis James
Read BioPeter Francis James
Broadway:
Merchant of Venice
Drowning Crow
On Golden Pond
Judgment at Nuremberg -
Peter Friedman
Read BioPeter Friedman
Theater credits include:
Ragtime (Broadway)
Twelve Angry Men (Broadway Revival)
Film credits include:
The Savages
I’m Not There
Synecdoche, New York -
Phillippe Chang
Read BioPhillippe Chang
Credits include:
Nobody’s Perfect
She Spies
Gift
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Polly Noonan
Read BioPolly 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)
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Raphael Sardina
Read BioRaphael Sardina
Theater credits include:
Sea of Tranquility (Atlantic Theatre)
Sleepwalkers (Alliance Theater)
Film credits include:
War of the Worlds
The Brave One
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Reed Birney
Read BioReed Birney
Theater credits include:
Blasted (Soho Rep, Drama Desk Award Nomination)
Bug (Obie Award)
Circle Mirror Transformation(Playwrights Horizons) -
Reg E Cathey
Read BioReg E Cathey
Theater credits include:
The Shawshank Redemption(London’s West End, Dublin)
The Green Bird (Broadway)
Talk (Obie Award, Foundry Theatre) -
Renzo Ampuero
Read BioRenzo Ampuero
Theater credits include:
Trojan Barbie
Ajax in Iraq
A Picture of Dorian Gray -
Reynaldo Piniella
Read BioReynaldo Piniella
Reynaldo Piniella was previously seen in Terminus (NYTW Next Door), Venus, The Death of the Last Black Man...(Signature Theatre Company), The Skin Of Our Teeth (Theatre For A New Audience), Romeo & Juliet (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis), The Tempest, The Three Musketeers (Classical Theatre of Harlem), and Honky (Urban Stages).
TV credits include "Sneaky Pete", "Louie", "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart", "Law & Order: SVU", "NYC 22", "The Carrie Diaries" and "Flesh & Bone". Film credits include "Madeline's Madeline", "Broken City", "One Percent More Humid" and "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close". He will next be seen in the McCarter Theatre Center production of "A Christmas Carol."
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Rich Orlow
Read BioRich Orlow
Credits include:
Law & Order
Grand Theft Auto
Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers
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Rob Belushi
Read BioRob Belushi
TV credits include:
The Joe Schmo Show
The Defenders
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Rob Cameron
Read BioRob Cameron
Credits include: Fenix Theatre Company
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Sally Wood
Read BioSally Wood
Stage credits include:
Portland Stage Company
Fenix Theatre Company
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Samira Wiley
Read BioSamira Wiley
SAMIRA WILEY is best known for her SAG Award winning performance as inmate Poussey Washington on “Orange is the New Black.” She most recently starred in the Off Broadway play Daphne’s Dive, directed by Thomas Kail (Hamilton). Wiley’s current projects include roles in Hulu’s original drama series “The Handmaid’s Tale”, FX show “You’re the Worst” and independent feature 37.
Her past film projects include Nerve, Rob The Mob, Being Flynn and The Sitter. Television appearances include “The Catch”, “Law and Order: SVU”, “Person of Interest” and a recurring role on “Unforgettable.”
Wiley is a graduate of The Julliard School.
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Sara Waisanen
Read BioSara Waisanen
Theater credits include:
Proof
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Winter’s Tale
Much Ado About Nothing -
Seth Gilliam
Read BioSeth Gilliam
Theater credits include:
Othello (Commonwealth Stage)
Richard III (New York Shakespeare Festival)
TV & Film credits include:
The Wire
Courage Under Fire -
Seth Numrich
Read BioSeth Numrich
Theater credits include:
Merchant of Venice (Broadway)
War Horse (Lincoln Center)
TV & Film credits include:
Private Romeo
Gravity -
Sonja Sohn
Read BioSonja Sohn
Credits include: The Wire, Body of Proof, Bringing Out the Dead
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Steven Louis Grush
Read BioSteven Louis Grush
Theater credits include:
True West (American Theater Company)
Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theater) -
T. Ryder Smith
Read BioT. 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) -
Tamara Tunie
Read BioTamara Tunie
TAMARA TUNIE starred as "Marvelous" in the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run of Tony nominated playwright Danai Gurira’s Familiar, at Playwrights Horizons.
Broadway credits include: Julius Caesar, Dreamgirls, Oh, Kay!, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music.
Tamara also starred Off-Broadway in: The Library (Public Theater), Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare in the Park), Sheba, Loose Knit. . Regional: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Les Liaisons Dangereuse, Tartuffe, Antony and Cleopatra, All's Well That Ends Well. Film: Flight, Snake Eyes, The Devil’s Advocate, Wall Street and Caveman’s Valentine (Independent Spirit Award).
Television: Dr. Melinda Warner on “Law & Order: SVU,” Jessica Griffin on “As the World Turns,” “The Red Road” (opp. Jason Mamoa), “Elementary,” “Billions,” “24,” “Alpha House,” “The Good Wife,” “Sex and the City.”
An accomplished singer, Ms Tunie is a regular headliner in New York City’s cabaret venues .Tamara is also a successful Broadway producer, whose credits include: Spring Awakening (Tony Award), Radio Gold (Tony nom.), and Magic/Bird.
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Tate Donovan
Read BioTate Donovan
Broadway: 'Good People' (MTC), 'Amy's View' (Barrymore) 'Picnic' (Roundabout) Off Broadway: Kenneth Lonergan's 'Medieval Play' (Signature) and 'Lobby Hero' (Playwrights Horizons), 'American Plan' (MTC). Also appeared in productions at the Wiliamstown Theatre Festival, Long Wharf, Mark Taper, and The Geffen.
Tate has appeared in over 40 films, including MANCHESTER BY THE SEA, ARGO (SAG award), ELVIS AND NIXON, GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK, MEMPHIS BELLE, LOVE POTION #9, CLEAN AND SOBER, and the title voice in Disney’s HERCULES.
TV credits include Man in the High Castle, Masters of Sex, 24, Damages, The OC and Friends amongst others. Directing credits include Madam Secretary (CBS), Bloodline (Netflix), Damages (FX), Glee (Fox), Weeds (Showtime) and the ESPN 30 For 30 Documentary Short 'Arthur and Johnnie', for which he won an EMMY.
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Tate Ellington
Read BioTate Ellington
Theater credits include:
The Philanthropist (Broadway)
TV & Film credits include:
Taking Chance
The Good Wife -
Taylor Schilling
Read BioTaylor Schilling
Orange is the New Black
Argo
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Thomas Derrah
Read BioThomas Derrah
Credits include:
100+ productions at American Repertory Theater, including
Endgame
R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE
Film:
Mystic River
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Tracie Thoms
Read BioTracie Thoms
Credits include:
Rent
The Devil Wears Prada
Annie
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Ty Jones
Read BioTy Jones
Artistic Director, The Classical Theatre of Harlem
Henry V (Title Role, The Classical Theatre of Harlem)
Broadway:
Enron
Judgment at Nuremberg
Julius Caesar -
William Jackson Harper
Read BioWilliam 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) -
Willie Woodmore
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Zach Grenier
Read BioZach Grenier
Selected credits: Broadway: 33 Variations, A Man For All Seasons; Off-Broadway: A Question of Mercy, The Fiery Furnace, and, at the Public Theatre, Stuff Happens, Woyzeck, Talk Radio. Regional: the title roles in Uncle Vanya and Tartuffe at Yale Repertory, the latter also at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre, and Yvan in Art in Chicago. Films include Tommy Boy, Twister, Ride With The Devil, Fight Club and Zodiac. On television, series regular on C16:FBI and Touching Evil; featured on Deadwood, 24, and The Good Wife.