Kermit Frazier was an actor when he wrote KERNEL OF SANITY, his first play, in 1978.  His plays have been produced at such theaters as New Federal, Milwaukee Rep, Asolo, Baltimore Center Stage, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Ensemble Studio Theater and Detroit Repertory.  His latest work, ELSE, is part of the Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble’s upcoming Pandemic Play.  Other plays include: Modern Minstrelsy, Shadows and Echoes, Outside the Radio, Dinah Washington Is Dead, Class Reunion, Firepower (Broadway Play Publishing), Legacies (Broadway Play Publishing), Sacred Places, Interstices, An American Journey (Broadway Play Publishing), Smoldering Fires (Dramatic Publishing), and Little Rock. He has also written for several television series, including the popular children’s mystery series Ghostwriter, which he helped to create and for which he was a head writer.  And his fiction, creative nonfiction, articles, and reviews have appeared in such magazines and journals as The Missouri Review, Green Mountains Review, The Chicago Review, Callaloo, American Theatre, Black World, Essence, and The New York Times Book Review.  He has taught writing, theater, and African American literature at several colleges and universities and is Professor Emeritus at Adelphi University, where he taught in its MFA program in creative writing. A recipient of a McKnight Foundation Fellowship in Playwriting, Mr. Frazier has also twice had a play workshopped at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and has had artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, Yaddo, Millay, Norton Island, and Bogliasco.  He received his B.A. and M.A. in English from Syracuse University and his M.F.A. in acting from the New York University School of the Arts Theater Program. He grew up in Washington, DC, and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Abigail Breslin (Rita) Born and raised in New York City, films include Little Miss Sunshine, Signs,  Zombieland, August: Osage County,  Enders Game, The Call and more. Abigail made her stage debut in the play “Right You Are (If You Think You Are)” in New York City at the Guggenheim Museum starring in an ensemble cast including Cate Blanchett, Dianne Wiest, Natalie Portman and Peter Sarsgaard. She then starred in the 2010 revival of “The Miracle Worker” on Broadway as Helen Keller before returning to the stage in 2017 as Jenny in Erica Schmidt’s off broadway production of “All The Fine Boys”.

Josh Hamilton (Frank) theater includes The Antipodes(Signature), The Real Thing(Broadway), Wallace Shawn’s Evening at the Talk House(National, London), Sam Mendes’ The Bridge Project(BAM/Old Vic),  Kenneth Lonergan’s The Medieval Play(Signature), The Waverly Gallery(Promenade), and This is Our Youth( New Group), The Coast of Utopia(LTC), Lie of The Mind(New Group), Things We Want(New Group), Three Sisters and Cherry Orchard(CSC),  Hurlyburly(New Group) Dead Accounts(Broadway), Proof(Broadway) Film and TV includes 8th Grade,  Ray Donovan, Mrs. Fletcher, Blaze, 13 Reasons Why, Manchester by the Sea, Louie,  Gracepoint,  American Horror Story, Dark Skies, Francis Ha,  Away We Go, Margaret, Outsourced, The House of Yes, Alive, Kicking and Screaming. Upcoming: False Positive, At Home with Amy Sedaris, Tesla, This is Us and The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

Matthew Hancock (Roger) was last seen on stage as Junior in the Fountain Theatre’s Los Angeles Premiere of Between Riverside and Crazy.  Favorite theatre credits include: the LA premiere of the The Brothers Size (Oshoosi), Hype Man: A Break Beat Play. (VERB), I and You (Anthony), LA LGBT Centers' Hit The Wall (Carson), Rogue Machine Theatre's Honky (Frederick Douglass), The American Repertory Theatre’s Trans Scripts (Zakia), and Celebration Theatre’s The View UpStairs (Wes). Matthew recurs as Blair in the second season of Kidding (Showtime) and has most recently appeared in season three of Westworld.  While not on the stage or in front of the camera, Matthew enjoys musical endeavors as Michael Siren.   He is a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, Stage Raw award winner and NAACP and Ovation award Nominee. Matthew holds a BFA from Adelphi University (cum laude). Thank you to this stellar creative team for all their support. To his incredibly supportive Family, Thank you. Follow Matthew on instagram: @imatthewhancock.

Miatta Lebile (Nigerian-American actress Miatta is coming off a busy year, having performed in roles in the new feature, Mailman, executive produced by Gus Van Sant, and co-starring on HBO's Insecure and Amazon Prime's new show Them: Covenant.  Before arriving in L.A, she completed her time training at Cornell University in the Music Program. As a singer, she was recently chosen by Academy Award winners Bill Condon , Stephen Schwartz, and Dan Jinks to perform new, original music as part of a presentation for an upcoming movie musical. Additionally, she is also an alum of the 2016 NBC Diversity Showcase. You can currently see her as the spokesperson in the commercials for Drivetime.

Meg Miroshnik’s plays include The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, The Tall Girls, The Droll {A Stage-Play About the END of Theatre}, Lady Tattoo, and Quiver. In an alternate universe, she would currently be rehearsing her NYC debut, a stage adaptation of Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia about immigrants in 1890s Nebraska (commissioned by the Acting Company; directed by Devin Brain; music by Paul Lieber). MFA from Yale School of Drama under Paula Vogel; co-founder of the Kilroys.

The Dramatists Guild Foundation (DGF) is a national charity that fuels the future of American theater by supporting the writers who create it. DGF fosters playwrights, composers, lyricists, and bookwriters at all stages of their careers. We sponsor educational programs; provide awards, grants, and stipends; offer free space to create new works; and give emergency aid to writers in need. DGF's Emergency Grants program provides immediate financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and songwriters in dire need of funds due to severe hardship. While the program is currently dedicated to COVID-19 relief, it has supported writers in financial need for more than 50 years. By supporting and nurturing the creators of today, we protect the stories of tomorrow. For more information on how to support theater writers, visit DGF.org and follow us at @dgfound.

Parent Artist Advocacy League for Arts + Media (PAAL) is a national community, resource hub, and solutions generator for individuals with caregiver responsibilities and institutions who strive to support them. PAAL is raising funds for the designated emergency relief fund for artists with families to provide financial support for help with childcare, elder care, or general support due to unemployment, loss of income, or increased care responsibilities during the the COVID-19 crisis.

EISA DAVIS is a Brooklyn-based, Berkeley-born writer, composer, and performer working on stage and screen. A 2020 Creative Capital Awardee, Herb Alpert Award recipient, Cave Canem fellow, and Obie winner for Sustained Excellence in Performance, Eisa was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play Bulrusher, and wrote and starred in the stage memoir Angela’s Mixtape. Other work includes The Essentialisn’t, Ramp (Ruby Prize winner), The History of Light (Barrymore nomination), Paper Armor, Umkovu, Six Minutes, Warriors Don’t Cry, Mushroom, ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :|| and the collaborations Active Ingredients and Hip Hop Anansi. Eisa wrote for both seasons of the Spike Lee Netflix series She's Gotta Have It, penned the narration for Cirque du Soleil's first ice show Crystal, and has released two albums of music. Performance work includes Betty, Succession, The Looming Tower, After The Wedding, House of Cards, The Wire, Bluff City Law, Rise, God Friended Me, Carrie Mae Weems’ Grace Notes/Past Tense, Theatre For One (virtual platform), the musical adaptation of The Secret Life of Bees, Kings, Julius Caesar, Preludes, Luck of the Irish, The Call, This, and Passing Strange.

Sue Slagle (stage name SUE-C) is a video artist and educator working at the intersection of creative coding and live performance. For the past 20 years she has created handmade videos and live media performances, taught college level courses and workshops, and traveled extensively in the USA and internationally. Her works challenge the norms of photography, video, motion graphics and technology by blending them all into an organic and improvisational live performance setting. Employing a variety of digital tools to create an experimental animation "instrument," she synthesizes cinema from photographs, drawings, watercolors, hand-made papers, fabrics and lighting effects using custom software created in the Max programming environment.
Sue is the recipient of a 2020 Creative Capital Award and a MacDowell Fellowship. She has performed and exhibited at many national and international venues and festivals including the Library of Congress, San Francisco International Film Festival, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, SFMoMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, REDCAT, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Arts, Pacific Film Archive, EMPAC, Ars Electronica, MUTEK, SONAR, Sonic Light, Transmediale, Marco Museum, ICA London and Laboral. She has toured extensively throughout the USA and Europe.
Current and past collaborators include Negativland, Dynasty Handbag, Laetitia Sonami, Morton Subotnick, Luc Ferrari, Antye Greie (AGF), Golan Levin, Joshua Kit Clayton, Wobbly, Sutekh, Matmos and Vladislav Delay. Sue has taught courses and workshops at Mills College, California College of the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, Portland Community College, Pacific Northwest College of Art, UCLA, Open Signal and La Casa Encendida. https://www.sue-c.net/

Edmund Donovan: Theater: Broadway: The Snow Geese. Off Broadway: Greater Clements (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and Obie Awards, Drama League nomination; Lincoln Center); Lewiston/Clarkston (Drama Desk Nomination, Clive Barnes Award; Rattlestick); Xander Xyst, Dragon: 1 (Ars Nova). Film: The Vizitant, Akron. TV:  “Betty,” “High Fidelity,” “Hightown,” “The Blacklist,” "Blue Bloods,” “Unforgettable,” “Orange is the New Black.” Edmund is a graduate of Boston University; LAMDA and Yale School of Drama.

Sydney Elisabeth is a Detroit native and a 2020 graduate of the Graduate Acting Program at New York University.

André Holland’s film credits include High Flying Bird, Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, Moonlight (Academy Award for Best Picture), Selma (Academy Award Nominee), 42, Miracle at St. Anna, and the acclaimed 2008 independent film Sugar. Holland TV Credit’s include the Stephen King inspired series, Castle Rock (Hulu/Bad Robot) and Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick. Holland made his Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning 2009 revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and most recently performed in Othello alongside Academy Award and Tony-Winning actor Mark Rylance at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater. Other select theater credits include the Tony Award-Winning production of August Wilson’s Jitney, The Whipping Man at MTC, The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park productions of All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It.

Tanis Parenteau is an actor/producer and a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta (Cree). TV credits include Billions, FBI: Most Wanted, Designated Survivor and House of Cards. She has starred in plays at The Public Theater, Signature Theater, 59E59 Theaters and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Tanis also does frequent voice over work and narrates audiobooks for Penguin Random House, Audible, Hachette and Simon & Schuster. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from New School for Drama and a Bachelor of Physical Education from the University of Alberta. Tanis is on the producing team at Red House Studios developing a narrative drama series titled Red House and recently launched a podcast called "Not Invisible: Native Womxn on the Frontlines", in which Tanis is also the host. She is also the Events and Media Manager at the American Indian Community House and also runs the Fit Native TV program and the Native American Industry Roster. www.tanisparenteau.com

COREY STOLL. New York theater: Macbeth, Othello, Julius Caesar, Plenty, Troilus and Cressida, A View from the Bridge, and Intimate Apparel (Drama Desk nomination). Selected television: Mike Prince on “Billions,” “The Deuce,” “Baghdad Central,” “The Romanoffs,” Guillermo del Toro’s “The Strain,” “Girls,” and “House of Cards” (Golden Globe nomination). Selected films: The Report, First Man, The Seagull, Ant-Man, Black Mass, Cafe Society, This Is Where I Leave You, and Midnight in Paris (Independent Spirit Award nomination). Upcoming: Ryan Murphy’s “Ratched,” Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, and the Sopranos prequel, The Many Saints of Newark. MFA: NYU Grad Acting.

Kara Young: Harlem Born and raised to two Belizean Parents.  Film/TV: Chemical Hearts (Amazon, dir. Richard Tanne), After Yang (A24, dir. Kogonada), The lead in Hair Wolf, winner of Sundance 2018 Short film Jury Award: US fiction, Random Acts of Flyness (HBO), The Punisher (Netflix).  Theater: All The Natalie Portmans (dir. Kate Whoriskey, MCC) Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (dir. John Ortiz, Atlantic), New Englanders (dir Saheem Ali, MTC), Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll'd (dir. Awoye Timpo, The Duke), Syncing Ink (Written and Concieved by Nsangou Njikam), Pretty Hunger (dir. Martha Banta, The Public). 2020 Lucille Lortel Nominee for Outstanding Actress & 2020 Antonyo Award Nominee for best Actor in a Play Off-Broadway. Live Voice Over Announcer for 2018, 2019, 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, MTV's Girl Code (4 seasons). @karaakter