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RON CANADA’s acting career spans 41 years in Theatre, Film and Television. Broadway: Network; Off-Broadway: Headstrong (Ensemble Studio Theatre) and Zooman and the Sign (Signature Theatre/Audelco Award Nomination). Other performances include Othello (National Shakespeare Theater, Washington, D.C.) opposite Patrick Stewart, The Boys Next Door (Dramalogue Award), The Whipping Man (George Street Playhouse), Macbeth (Inkululeko), Miss Julie and Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks (The Odyssey Theater), The Task and Private Battle (The Mark Taper Forum), Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting (Old Globe), Fences (The GeVa Theater). Ron recently directed Spin Off (The Riverside Theatre, NY), The Invested (The 4^th Street Theatre, NY), Lights Up On The Fade Out (Lillian Theater, LA). Feature films include: The Discovery, Crown Heights, The Empty Man, Ted 2, Wedding Crashers, Cinderella Man, National Treasure, The Human Stain, United States of Leland, The Hunted, Lone Star, An American President, Just Like Heaven, Adventures in Babysitting. Notable Television performances include: “Star Trek” (The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager), “Weeds,” “Boston Legal,” “The West Wing,” “The Shield,” “NYPD Blue,” “Frasier.” More recently: “Jack Ryan” (Amazon), “Seven Seconds” (Netflix), “Designated Survivor” (ABC), “The Good Fight” (CBS All Access), “The Strain” (FX), “The Affair” (Showtime), “Madam Secretary” (CBS).

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PATRICE JOHNSON CHEVANNESis an award-winning actress, writer and director, whose Broadway acting credits include Racing Demonand, The Crucible, (starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney). Off-Broadway her credits include: Mies Julie, Good Grief, The Homecoming Queen, Henry V, Tamburlaine and Pericles. Regional: Steel Hammer, Othello (as Desdemona, opposite Sir Patrick Stewart). Patrice is so very proud to be part of Season 2 of “POSE” (FX) playing Candy’s mom in the iconic episode 4. Patrice is also thrilled to be part of the Netflix TV Series “Chambers” starring Uma Thurman and Tony Goldwyn and also to be part of the second season of “Shrill,” a new comedic series starring SNL’s Aidy Bryant, now streaming on Hulu. Patrice considers herself Jamaican/American. She began writing because she wanted to tell stories about her experience as an immigrant growing up in America. Patrice formed a production company with her siblings, God and all o wee Productions, Jamaican patois for “God and all of us”. With the support of her brothers and sisters she has written, directed and produced, three award winning independent feature films: Kings County, NY’s Dirty Laundry and Hill and Gully.

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KARL GREEN has appeared Off-Broadway in both Socrates and Eve’s Song at the Public Theater. Regional credits include Revolution, Un-American, Anne & Emmett, Veni-Vidi-Vici, and Hero Worship (Signature Theatre, D.C.). International credits include Sacred Sky and Sacred Earth in Florence, Italy. Green is a recent graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts, BFA with honors and a recipient of the NYU Department of Drama Outstanding Achievement Award for 2019.

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CHIKÉ JOHNSON is happy to be making his NYTW debut. He most recently appeared as Sterling Johnson in Two Trains Running in a co-production between Cincinnati Playhouse and the Milwaukee Rep. Other recent productions: Brucie in Sweat at American Conservatory Theatre; Cyrus Smith in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea at Lookingglass Theatre; Dr. Gibbs in Our Town at the Milwaukee Rep; Walter Lee in A Raisin in The Sun, a co-production between Indiana Rep and Syracuse Stage; American Players Theatre where he played Vershinin, Lebret and Ageus; Dr. John Prentice in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, another co-production between Indiana Rep and Geva Theatre. Chiké has an extensive film and television background. Some of his film credits include: Captive State, The Surface, Ass Backwards and Friends with Benefits. Some of his television credits include but not limited to: “Empire,” “Suits,” “Chicago P.D.,” “Chicago Justice” and “Orange is the New Black.”

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ADRIANNA MITCHELL is thrilled to be making her Off-Broadway debut in Mfonsio’s runboyrun at NYTW! She is an actor-director-writer originally from Atlanta, GA. Recent Theater: Noises Off (Two River Theater), Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew (Chautauqua Theater Company), Hamlet, A Christmas Carol (A.C.T.), Measure for Measure (Actor’s Shakespeare Project). TV: “Little America” (Apple TV+), “Lincoln” (NBC). Film: Sympathy, Clean Woman. Adrianna recently directed and co-created The Crooked Room, a play about a black queer woman’s journey towards healing and taking ownership of her body and identity; it premiered in the National Queer Arts Festival 2019 (San Francisco Bay Area Theater Co). She also co-authored A Subtlety: The Sugar Play, a magical satire exploring the impact of sugar on Black history and bodies. Adrianna is an alumna of American Conservatory Theater, Chautauqua Theater Company, British American Drama Academy, and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Spelman College. To God be the glory! @adriannamitchell

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ADESOLA OSAKALUMI is thrilled to be making his NYTW debut! He was an Original Broadway Cast member, in the Tony Award winning musical FELA! and starred in the title role on the National and International Tours. Additional Theater credits include the revival of Equus on Broadway, Syncing Ink (The Flea Theater), Skeleton Crew (Atlantic Theater), In Your Arms (Old Globe Theater) & Goddess (Powerhouse Theater)

Television: “Ice” (Direct TV). Film: Isn’t It Romantic, IBRAHIM, Sex & The City 2, Across The Universe, Enchanted, Idlewild, The Accidental Husband.

Adesola served as Movement Director for The Public Theater’s Othello (dir. Ruben Santiago–Hudson), Cullad Wattah (dir. Candis Jones), and Movement Consultant for The Vineyard Theater’s Good Grief (dir. Awoye Timpo). He is also a Bessie Award recipient & Drama Desk Award Choreography Nominee for Jam 0n The Groove (Minetta Lane Theater), a Curator of E-Moves (Harlem Stages) and BAAD Mentor.

Adesola is an Afro–Caribbean NY native, Sundance Theater Lab Alumni and Co-Founder of Cultural Consultations Inc. He believes in the transformative & healing power of Arts, Culture and Faith. Special thanks to my Ancestors, Mother & Father, Africa 1 Dance Theater & Egbe Omo Nago, Jill & Okanjobi. Ase ooo!

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NYTW debut. Broadway: The Crucible. Off-Broadway: Lockdown (Rattlestick), School Girls (MCC Theater), Henry V (The Public), The Homecoming Queen (Atlantic Theater Company), Mother Courage and Her Children (Classic Stage Company). Regional: Imogen Says Nothing (Yale Repertory Theatre). Film & TV: “Chicago Fire,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Good Fight,” “The Defenders,” “Daredevil,” Black Panther, The Mess He Made. Education: Yale School of Drama MFA, BADA.