Colman Domingo / Co-Writer

Colman Domingo made his British and Australian theatrical debuts with his self penned solo play A Boy and His Soul  at the Tricycle Theater and Brisbane Powerhouse Theaters, the production which originated at the New York City’s stalwart the Vineyard Theatre. He starred in his play Wild with Happy that had its debut at the Public Theater. His fourth play Dot premiered at the Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville and premiered Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre directed by the legendary Tony award winner Susan Stroman. Dot is enjoying regional productions around the country and is published by Samuel French. As a theatre director, Domingo has helmed at the People’s Light Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Actors Theater of Louisville and Berkeley Repertory Theater. This fall, Domingo will be seen as the lead in the limited series “The Madness” created  by Clement Virgo for Netflix. He is also currently in production on Michael playing Joe Jackson, directed by Antoine Fuqua. Lionsgate will release the film April 25th, 2025.

Patricia McGregor / Director & Co-Writer

Born in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, Patricia McGregor is the Artistic Director of New York Theatre Workshop, as well as a director and writer working in theatre, film, dance and music. McGregor has twice been profiled by The New York Times for her direction of world premieres. She was inaugural Artist in Residence for Adam Driver’s Arts in the Armed Forces and an Old Globe Resident Artist. Her productions include The Refuge Plays (Roundabout & NYTW); Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole (co-writer and director; Geffen Playhouse, People’s Light); Sisters in Law (Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts); Shakespeare: Call and Response, Krapp’s Last Tape, What You Are, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Measure for Measure (The Old Globe); Skeleton Crew (Geffen Playhouse); Good Grief (Center Theatre Group); Hamlet (The Public Theater); Place (Brooklyn Academy of Music); The Parchman Hour (Guthrie Theater); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout Theatre Company); brownsville song (Lincoln Center Theater); Indomitable: James Brown (Apollo Theater); Holding It Down (The Metropolitan Museum of Art); A Raisin in the Sun, The Winter’s Tale and Spunk (California Shakespeare Theater); Adoration of the Old Woman (INTAR Theatre); Blood Dazzler (Harlem Stage); Four Electric Ghosts (The Kitchen); and the world premiere of Hurt Village (Signature Theatre Company).

John McDaniel / Music Supervision, Arrangements & Orchestrations

JOHN McDANIEL is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning Music Director, Composer, Director, Arranger, Orchestrator & Producer and is an Artistic Director at the Tony Award winning Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Most recently, John arranged, orchestrated and was the Music Director for Carol Burnett’s 90th Birthday Special on NBC, which won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Primetime Variety Special. McDaniel produced and directed a virtual concert of Sticks & Stones, for which he is also the composer, starring Audra McDonald & Javier Muñoz. He is also a camp director of Kristin Chenoweth’s Broadway Boot Camp. Broadway credits include Bonnie and Clyde (Drama Desk Nomination, Best Orchestrations), Catch Me If You Can, Brooklyn (Producer and Orchestrator), Annie Get Your Gun (Grammy Award), Taboo, Chicago, Grease, Patti LuPone on Broadway and Company – the Original Cast in Concert at Lincoln Center. On Television: “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” (2 Emmy Awards & 8 nominations). John has collaborated with Cab Calloway, Shirley MacLaine, George Burns, Joel Grey, Betty Buckley, Bette Midler, Shirley Jones & Katy Perry and has guest conducted at 15 Symphony Orchestras across America, including 5 unique concerts with his hometown St. Louis Symphony. John initially studied piano with his mother and he received a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University. @johnmcd123

Edgar Godineaux / Choreographer

Edgar Godineaux is a Choreographer and Director who’s unique and highly stylized work is
represented throughout the entertainment industry.
Edgar choreographed Jelly’s Last Jam at NY City Center Encores!. He is a Lucille Lortel, Outer
Critics Circle, and Drama Desk Award Nominee 2023 for Outstanding Choreography for The
Harder They Come at The Public Theater. Barrymore Award for Outstanding
Choreography/Movement for Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole at Geffen Playhouse. NAACP
nomination for Best Director/Choreography for Larger Theatre in Los Angeles for Memphis, the
Musical. Jeff Awards Nominee for Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical (Studebaker Theater in
Chicago). Broadway Associate Choreographer: Ain't Too Proud – The Life and Times of the
Temptations, (Tony Award for Best Choreography), Memphis, the Musical (Tony Award for Best
Musical and Olivier Award for Best Choreography), and Leap of Faith. Edgar is currently the
Director/Choreographer for HITCity Temptations Edition, a new Broadway style concert and
Stompin’ at the Savoy (Delaware Theatre Company).
As a performer, Edgar has enjoyed the opportunity to travel the world touring with artists such
as Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Karyn White, and Diana Ross. He has performed on Dancing
with the Stars, The Oscars, and Motown 30th Anniversary (Associate Choreographer to Debbie
Allen). Select Broadway performance credits include: Aida, Swing!, The Pajama Game, Dance of
the Vampires, and Merrily We Roll Along (The Kennedy Center Honors). Select Film Credits:
Associate Choreographer for Idlewild featuring OUTKAST, Boldin, and The Five Heartbeats.

Jared Grimes / Tap Choreographer

BROADWAY: Funny Girl on Broadway (Tony and Drama Desk Nominated role, Eddie Ryan) After
Midnight on Broadway (Tap Mathematician); A Soldiers Play (Smalls)
OFF-BROADWAY: Radio City New York Spring Spectacular (Marshall), Encores’, Cotton Club
Parade, Encores’, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Spaces (Wynton Marsalis)
CHOREOGRAPHY: The Performance movie (Dir. Shira Piven), Lionsgate’s Breaking Brooklyn,
Louis Gossett Jr., Encores’, Tap Dance Kid (Dir. Kenny Leon), Transformations Concert (Dir.
Glenn Close), After Midnight on Broadway (Tap Mathematician) Cirque Du Soleil’s Banana

Shpeel, Muny’s; Anything Goes, Sig Thtrs’, Jelly’s Last Jam, Scottsboro Boys, Ain’t Misbehaving;
Ordway’s, 42nd Street
LIVE CONCERT: Mariah Carey (Mimi Tour), Bustah Rhymes (MTV VMAS), Kennedy Center
Honors (Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama)
FILM: Annapurna studios’s Swing Kids (Foreign Film, Lead-Jackson), Paramount’s The Marc
Pease Experience, Ben Stiller (Thomas Pickney), Elevation Filmwork’s First Born, Elisabeth Shue
TV: Netflix’s Manifest (Adrian Shannon), HBO’s Boardwalk Empire (Grover),
AWARDS: Broadway’s Astaire and Chita Rivera Award(Outstanding Performance); DC’s Helen
Hayes Award and Chicago’s Jeff Award for Best Choreography

Clint Ramos / Scenic Design

Katie O’Neill / Costume Designer

KATIE O’NEILL is a costume designer that connects under-resourced school and community theaters to the resources of their local professional theaters. Working at large theaters on the forefront of production like the Guthrie, ACT, OSF, Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep and the Huntington she builds worlds in collaboration with the country’s most skilled theater artists. Katie then develops adaptable design approaches that help school theaters produce meaningful work that resonates with their communities and students – making the production of exciting new works and innovative productions of classics possible in amateur settings. She holds a BA in Theater from Temple University and an MFA in Design from Yale. She does not hold a degree from Empire Beauty School because Katie is a beauty school drop-out. She received all of this professional training for free. As such, Katie advocates for a theatrical ecosystem where innovative new works can thrive in educational settings, creating meaningful artistic experiences for the next generation of theater artists and audiences – affordably, for everyone. Other work with Patricia McGregor includes “Romeo and Juliet,” “In the Meantime,” “Blood Dazzler,” and “The House That Will Not Stand” – all exciting productions that adapt beautifully to school settings. Katie expands the repertoire available to educational institutions beyond the standard canon by sharing tickets and resources daily on TheaterGoingHabit.substack.com.

Nikiya Mathis / Hair and Wig Design

Stacey DeRosier / Lighting Design

Alex Hawthorn / Co Sound Designer

Alex Hawthorn (they/them) is an artist whose work flows between performance, installation,
object-making, and sound-making. As a non-binary interdisciplinary artist, Hawthorn is most
comfortable outside prescriptive boxes, allowing their research to shape the form and medium
of their projects. They use their work as a lens through which to investigate the natural world,
specifically focusing on time: how we experience it, how we have codified it, and how we exist
within it.  Hawthorn’s recent research has focused on extremely long timescales: from the
geological to the galactic.

Hawthorn received an MFA in Art and Technology & Composition and Experimental Sound
Practices from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA in theater from New York
University’s Tisch School of the Arts.  They have performed at festivals in the United States and
internationally, most recently as part of Manifest:IO in Berlin, Germany.  Hawthorn’s work in
theatrical sound design has garnered them an Obie award, LA Ovation Awards, and has been
heard across North and South America, Australia, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
Their work has been featured in Live Design Magazine, Stage Directions Magazine, and
Performance Research Journal, and they contributed to Imagining Transmedia, published by
MIT Press.
As an artist with the Brooklyn-based Obie-award-winning experimental performance company
Theater Mitu for over 15 years, they have co-authored works that explore death, religion, and
futurity, including Mitu’s 2021 piece, Utopian Hotline, which is included in the Lunar Codex, an
archive of contemporary art deposited on the Moon.
Hawthorn has been a guest lecturer at Yale School of Drama and Emerson College and is
adjunct faculty at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and special faculty at the California Institute of
the Arts.  They are currently based in Berlin, Germany as part of their Fulbright Fellowship for
artistic research in Installation Art.

Drew Levy / Co Sound Designer

Drew Levy (Sound Design, he/him) –Broadway: Oh, Mary!, A Strange Loop (Tony nom.),
Oklahoma! (Tony nom., Drama Desk nom.), Honeymoon in Vegas (Drama Desk nom.), Chaplin
(Drama Desk Award), The Winslow Boy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Present Laughter.
West End: A Strange Loop, Oklahoma! (Olivier nom.). Off-Broadway: Oh Mary!, Brynolf &
Ljung's Stalker, The Gardens of Anuncia (LCT), Judgment Day (Park Avenue Armory), Oklahoma!
(St. Ann’s), Cleopatra, One Day the Musical, The Weir, Why Torture is Wrong…, Emergence-See!,
Rainbow Kiss, Dutchman (AUDELCO Viv nom.). Regional: ACT, CTG, The Old Globe, Heartbreak
Hotel (Chicago), ART,Williamstown, Huntington, Westport Country Playhouse, Two River
Theater, McCarter Theater, Arena Stage, Long Wharf. Other: Reconfiguration: An Evening with
Other Lives at BAM; Drama Desk Awards 2014 & 2015; Metropolitan Opera 125th Anniversary
Gala; annual holiday installations for Saks 5th Avenue, Cartier, and others.

David Bengali / Video Designer

David Bengali is an award-winning projection, media, and lighting designer based in NYC.
Broadway credits include Water for Elephants (2024 Tony Award Nominee and Outer Critics
Circle Nominee), Good Night, and Good Luck, Eureka Day, The Thanksgiving Play, and 1776.
Off-Broadway credits include We Live in Cairo (A.R.T, NYTW), Here There Are Blueberries
(NYTW, La Jolla Playhouse, Signature D.C.; Hewes and Helen Hayes Awards) Twilight: LA
1992 (Signature Theatre; Henry Hewes Award, Drama Desk Nomination); Anthony Rapp’s
Without You (New World Stages), The Visitor (The Public Theater; Lucille Lortel Award
Nominee); Circle Jerk (Obie Award, Drama League Nomination); Einstein’s Dreams (Prospect
Theatre, 59E59; Drama Desk Nomination); Van Gogh’s Ear (Signature Theatre; Drama Desk
Nomination); and The Great Leap (Atlantic Theatre Company). He was a 2017-2019 Arts Fellow
at the Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts and received his M.F.A. at New York
University.

Samantha Shoffner / Props Supervisor

Norman Anthony Small / Production Stage Manager

Norman Anthony Small (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: The Shark Is Broken,
Leopoldstadt, American Buffalo. Off-Broadway: Good Bones, Sally & Tom (The Public Theater);
Where We Stand (WP Theater); Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (Atlantic Theater
Company). Regional: Appropriate (The Old Globe); Ella – A Musical Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald,
EMERGENCY (Crossroads Theatre Company); The Year of Magical Thinking, Fires in the Mirror
(Long Wharf Theatre); Fires in the Mirror, A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction, Where
We Stand (Baltimore Center Stage); Measure for Measure, Art (Shakespeare & Company).
Tour: Twisted Melodies (Baltimore Center Stage/Apollo Theater); Water +/- (NPR). Education:
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Media Management, Metropolitan College of

New York; Bachelor of Music (BM) in Music Engineering Technology, University of Miami.
Award: Charlie Blackwell Symposium Scholarship for Stage Managers of Color.

Lafayette Harris / Music Director

Lafayette Harris performs and records with Houston Person. He has toured with some of the greats
including Max Roach, Ernestine, Anderson, Jon Hendricks, Donald Byrd, Archie Shepp, Melba
Moore, Jennifer Holliday, Slide Hampton, and The Ellington Orchestra.

Harris enjoys working as a musician by composing, performing and teaching.
His Theatre Credits include: Bobos 1992 in Philadelphia, Asst. conductor and keyboardist in
1995 hit Broadway musical: Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk.
And more recently two stints as pianist at City Center including Jelly’s Last Jam and Pal Joey.
He has released 10 CDs including: “You Can’t Lose With The Blues”, on Savant Records, which
was #1 for 2 weeks on the Jazzweek Jazz Chart starting in February 2020 and stayed top ten for
14 weeks.
His newest CD “Swinging Up In Harlem” also made it to the top 10 peeking at number four in
the spring 2023.
He’s currently in the process of finishing up CD number 11 due for release spring 2025.

Claire Yensen / Casting Director