GUTHRIE Presentations of The Mountaintop and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by Penumbra Theatre. THEATER Broadway: Jitney (touring company); Off-Broadway: All’s Well That Ends Well (The Public Theater); Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater); Regional: Head of Passes (world premiere), Hushabye, The Glass Menagerie (Steppenwolf); Detroit ‘67, A Brown Tale, Jitney, Two Trains Running, Fences (Penumbra Theatre); What I Learned in Paris (South Coast Repertory); Redshirts (Round House Theatre/Penumbra Theatre); April 4, 1968 (Indiana Repertory Theatre, world premiere); Endgame (Baltimore Center Stage); Brothers of the Dust (Congo Square Theatre, world premiere); South Side of Heaven (The Second City/Woolly Mammoth); Radio Golf (Court Theatre). AWARDS African American Arts Alliance Award for Best Actor; Ira Aldridge Award for Best Actor. FILM/TELEVISION “The Blacklist,” “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” “Empire,” “Blindspot,” “Boss,” “FBI,” “Power Book II: Ghost,” “Prison Break,” “Chicago P.D.” TRAINING M.F.A., Moscow Art Theatre School; The A.R.T. Institute at Harvard University. OTHER Member of Kappa Phi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity; Company member with Penumbra Theatre. @jamestalfred (FB, IG)

GUTHRIE Caroline, or Change. THEATER Company member with Penumbra Theatre and New Dawn Theatre Company; Sounds of Blackness: The Night Before Christmas (performed at the Guthrie Theater); Yellow Tree Theatre: Passing Strange, Skeleton Crew; Ordway: Resident Artist; Blues in the Night, 42nd Street; Park Square Theatre: Marie and Rosetta, The Color Purple; Mixed Blood Theatre: Passing Strange; The Lab Theater: Rent, The Rocky Horror Show; Penumbra Theatre: Black Nativity, Dutchman, The Owl Answers, Detroit ’67, Girl Shakes Loose, Get Ready, The Wiz; History Theatre: Lonely Soldiers; Hey City Theater: Beehive. AWARDS Three-time Grammy Award-winning artist; NAACP Image Award. OTHER Vocal coach; CEO for the artist development company Minnesota Movement, LLC. @jameciabennett (IG, TW)

GUTHRIE Appomattox, The Burial at Thebes. THEATER A Guthrie Experience 2017: Incurable: A Fool’s Tale; The Acting Company: Hamlet, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors; Court Theatre: Titanic; Goodman Theatre: Ohio State Murders. AWARDS Michigan Wilde Award for Best Supporting Actor. TRAINING M.F.A., Wayne State University; A Guthrie Experience; University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program. @bigernieb (IG)

GUTHRIE A Raisin in the Sun, Sweat. THEATER Dark & Stormy Productions: Jacuzzi; History Theatre: Diesel Heart, Parks by Harrison David Rivers, Not in Our Neighborhood!; Yellow Tree Theatre: Skeleton Crew; Penumbra Theatre: Pipeline, Detroit ’67; Park Square Theatre: A Raisin in the Sun, The Color Purple; Ten Thousand Things: Intimate Apparel; Jungle Theater: Bars and Measures; Children’s Theatre Company: Akeelah and the Bee; Mixed Blood Theatre: …Miz Martha, Colossal; Pillsbury House Theatre: Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet (Ivey Award for Best Ensemble); The Road Weeps, the Well Runs Dry; Broke-ology. FILM/TELEVISION Influencer; “Black Star,” ESPN Final Four commercial. OTHER Hip-hop artist. TRAINING B.A., St. Cloud State University. @dariusdotch (IG)

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Lincoln Center Theater:Pipeline (u/s); Hamilton (first national tour). FILM/TELEVISION “Luke Cage” (Netflix), “FBI” (CBS), “Kingdom Business” (BET+). TRAINING B.F.A., Acting, SUNY Purchase College. @drehallb (IG)

GUTHRIE Sweat, A Raisin in the Sun, West Side Story, The Parchman Hour, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Master Butchers Singing Club, His Girl Friday, Lake Hollywood. THEATER Off-Broadway: Odd Jobs (The American Place Theatre, actor and co-author); Regional: Shane (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); The Pavilion (Sacramento Theatre Company); Out! (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Penumbra Theatre); Annapurna, Last of the Boys, Fool for Love, Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Jungle Theater); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Of Mice and Men, Frozen (Park Square Theatre); Side Man, A Doll’s House (Madison Repertory Theatre); Cyrano, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Ten Thousand Things); Amber Waves, Huck Finn, Anon(ymous) (Children’s Theatre Company). THEATER DIRECTION Yellow Tree Theatre: Grace, The Pavilion. FILM/TELEVISION Factotum, A Simple Plan, Mallrats; “Dear White People,” “Drop Dead Gorgeous.” AWARDS 2003 City Pages Best Actor. TRAINING University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

GUTHRIE Appomattox, The Darker Face of the Earth. THEATER Penumbra Theatre: More than 30 productions, company member for 25+ years; Baltimore Center Stage: Gleam; Pan Asian Repertory Theatre (Off-Broadway): Monster; Alliance Theatre: Gem of the Ocean, Radio Golf, The Nacirema Society…; American Stage: Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Horizon Theatre Company: Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery, And Her Hair Went With Her; Steppenwolf; Mixed Blood Theatre; Illusion Theater; Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Pillsbury House Theatre; Lorraine Hansberry Theatre; Magic Theatre; True Colors Theatre; Theatrical Outfit; Trinity Rep; Children’s Theatre Company. FILM/TELEVISION A Chance of Snow, Saving My Daughter; “Atlanta,” “Black Lightning,” “Greenleaf,” “The Resident,” “The Quad,” “Outer Banks,” “Kingdom Business,” “Meet the Browns.” AWARDS TCG/Fox Foundation Distinguished Achievement Fellowship; Suzi Bass Award for Best Ensemble (Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery), plus five nominations for Best Actress; Jeff Norton Award nomination. @toniamjackson (IG), www.toniajackson.com

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Junie B. Jones Jr., Disney’s Frozen Jr., The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley Jr. ABOUT Joshaviah is 11 years old and has acted in musicals and plays since second grade. He is also a member of a drama troupe and practices to become a better actor every day.

GUTHRIE Debut. ABOUT Adolphe is a sixth grader who has a passion for arts and entertainment and has worked for his mother’s media company during red carpet events and exclusive interviews. He looks up to Will Smith and Kevin Hart and admires the path of Martin Luther King Jr.

GUTHRIE A Raisin in the Sun. THEATER Folger Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Ten Thousand Things: The Comedy of Errors; Women’s Theatre Festival: Othello; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, How To Catch Creation, Hairspray; The Old Globe: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; La Jolla Playhouse: Wild Goose Dreams; A Guthrie Experience 2017: Incurable: A Fool’s Tale; University of California, San Diego: La Bête, Damascus, Native Son, The Taming of the Shrew, Are You There?, What of the Night?, A Raisin in the Sun, 53% Of. AWARDS 2021–2022 Scratchpad Series Playwright at The Playwrights Realm; 2021–2022 Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights’ Center. TEACHING Narrative and Storytelling at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. TRAINING M.F.A., Acting, University of California, San Diego; A Guthrie Experience; B.A., Religion, Vanguard University. @_onlynubia (IG)

GUTHRIE Choir Boy. THEATER Yellow Tree Theatre: Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood; Pillsbury House Theatre: What To Send Up When It Goes Down; Springer Opera House: Fences; Park Square Theatre: Aubergine, A Raisin in the Sun; Dark & Stormy Productions: Dry Powder; Penumbra Theatre: Benevolence, Jitney, The Ballad of Emmett Till; History Theatre: Parks: A Portrait of a Young Artist, The Great Society, All the Way, The Highwaymen; Mixed Blood Theatre: P*ssy Valley, Colossal. FILM/TELEVISION Paulie Go!, Matthew 18, Emerald City. TRAINING B.A., Speech and Theatre, Grambling State University. @mosley_da_kidd (IG)

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Off-Broadway: Avenue Q (national tour); Little Rock (Sheen Center, world premiere); Panama Hattie (York Theatre Company); Regional: Aida (Axelrod Performing Arts Center); Ain’t Misbehavin’ directed by Tony Award-winning creator Richard Maltby, Jr. (Westchester Broadway Theatre); Hercules (The Public Theater, world premiere); Cincinnati King (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, world premiere); The Color Purple (regional premiere); A Raisin in the Sun (Triad Stage). FILM/TELEVISION Black Nativity, Stuck; The CROWN Act ad campaign for Dove, “The Last O.G.,” “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver,” “Nobirthatal,” “In the Spotlight.” AWARDS Member of Broadway Inspirational Voices, the 2019 Tony Award Honoree for Excellence in Theatre; New York Times Critic’s Pick; Two-time AUDELCO Award nominee for Best Actress. TRAINING The American Musical and Dramatic Academy. @nitabonita25 (IG), www.anitawelch.com

Playwright, activist and essayist Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago on May 19, 1930. After studying theater at the University of Wisconsin for two years and traveling abroad to raise awareness for various causes, she moved to Harlem in New York City. Hansberry finished A Raisin in the Sun in 1957, and it premiered on Broadway two years later. For the first time, a play hailed an all-Black principal cast, a Black playwright and a Black director. A Raisin in the Sun was nominated for four Tony Awards, and Hansberry was the first Black woman to be produced on Broadway. An important voice of her generation, Hansberry’s career was cut short when she died of pancreatic cancer in 1965 at age 34. Her other plays include The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window and Les Blancs, and her unfinished writings were adapted into the play To Be Young, Gifted and Black in 1969.

GUTHRIE Director: A Raisin in the Sun; Actor: Steel Magnolias, Familiar, Disgraced, Trouble in Mind, Crowns, The Darker Face of the Earth. THEATER DIRECTION Asolo Rep: Intimate Apparel; Yellow Tree Theatre: Rule of Thumb, Lady Day…, In the Next Room, Passing Strange, The Royale; New Dawn Theatre: Crowns; Ordway: Annie, Blues in the Night; Park Square Theatre: Gee’s Bend; History Theatre: Lonely Soldiers. THEATER Penumbra Theatre: Wedding Band, The Owl Answers, Detroit ‘67, Spunk, The Amen Corner, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Dinah Was, Blues..., Seven Guitars; Theater Latté Da: Aida; Ten Thousand Things: A Streetcar Named Desire, Henry IV, Into the Woods; Jungle Theater: In the Next Room; Children’s Theatre Company: Once on This Island; Ordway: Singin’ in the Rain

GUTHRIE A Raisin in the Sun. THEATER Longstanding relationships with Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Teatro Vista and Pregones Theater; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; American Players Theatre; Steppenwolf; Company member with Rivendell Theatre Ensemble (Chicago) and Boundless Theatre Company (San Juan/New York City); Regional associate member of the League of Professional Theatre Women; Founding member of La Gente: The Latinx/é Theatre Production Network. UPCOMING American Players Theatre (WI); Marriott Theatre (IL). AWARDS Fellowships with the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Theatre Designers and the Princess Grace Awards. TEACHING The Theatre School, DePaul University. www.garciaportfolio.com

GUTHRIE A Raisin in the Sun. THEATER Crafts Artisan and Painter/Dyer at the Guthrie Theater from 2009 to 2019; Costume design for MN Opera/Project Opera, Minnesota Orchestra, Skylark Opera Theatre, Theater Latté Da, Theater Mu, Stages Theatre Company, Yellow Tree Theatre, New Dawn Theatre, Lyric Arts (Anoka), Honolulu Theatre for Youth and Gallery Players (Brooklyn). TRAINING M.F.A., Costume Design, Rutgers University 

GUTHRIE Sweat, A Raisin in the Sun, We Are Proud To Present… THEATER Broadway: Associate to Jennifer Tipton on The Testament of Mary; Off-Broadway: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; The Hot Wing King; Fires in the Mirror (Signature Theatre); Harry Clarke (Vineyard Theatre, Lucille Lortel Award); Kill Move Paradise (National Black Theatre, world premiere, Drama Desk Award nomination); Regional: Pipeline, Skeleton Crew (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Detroit ’67 (Chautauqua Theater Company); Twisted Melodies (Baltimore Center Stage); Paradise Blue, Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole (Geffen Playhouse); Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge (Elevator Repair Service); Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Syracuse Stage); American Moor (Red Bull Theater); Native Son (The Acting Company); Bluebird Memories featuring rap artist Common (Audible); Seize the King, Dutchman, Antigone, Macbeth (The Classical Theatre of Harlem); Where We Dwell, Chasing Magic (Ayodele Casel). TEACHING Design faculty, Yale School of Drama. TRAINING Yale School of Drama. www.alancedwards.com

GUTHRIE A Raisin in the Sun. THEATER Asolo Rep: Intimate Apparel, The Royale; Park Square Theatre: Agatha Christie: Rule of Thumb; New Dawn Theatre: Divas After Dark, Crowns; The Hittite Empire/Walker Art Center: The Punic Wars; The Hittite Empire/Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival: Black Fathers and Sons; Theater Mu: Porch Swing. FILM/TELEVISION White Savior (Sparkhouse). OTHER Professional bassist who has performed with Jonatha Brooke, Mike Stern, Geoffrey Keezer, Fareed Haque, Charles Lazarus, Minnesota Orchestra, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Andrés Prado, Charley Drayton, Doc Martin, Eric Gravatt, James Moody and Joey McIntyre. TRAINING M.M., Bass Performance, McNally Smith College of Music; University of Minnesota (James Clute)

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER The Second City/Woolly Mammoth: Nothing To Lose (But Our Chains); Court Theatre: Electra, Man in the Ring; Yale Repertory Theatre: WAR, Cymbeline, Native Son, Cadillac Crew; TimeLine Theatre Company: Paradise Blue; Strawdog Theatre Company: Barbecue; Eclipse Theatre Company: Megastasis; Two River Theater: King Hedley II, Oo-Bla-Dee, Love in Hate Nation, Radio Golf. TRAINING M.F.A., Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of Drama; B.A., Biology and English, Johns Hopkins University

GUTHRIE Little Shop of Horrors, Skeleton Crew, The History Plays, A Raisin in the Sun. THEATER Fight Direction: She Kills Monsters, Troilus and Cressida (UMN); Man of La Mancha, Cabaret (Theater Latté Da); Hand to God, Noises Off (Jungle Theater); Of Mice and Men, Cyrano (Park Square Theatre); Cambodian Rock Band, Man of God (Theater Mu); Antigonick, Anon(ymous) (Full Circle); Hamlet, Macbeth (Shakespearean Youth Theatre); Intimacy Direction: Extremities, Fool for Love (Dark & Stormy Productions); Bernhardt/Hamlet (Theatre Pro Rata); Life Sucks (Girl Friday). MUSIC Founder of the band Annie and the Big Bang. TEACHING Stage Violence, University of Minnesota. AWARDS Grants: MSAB; MRAC; Jerome Foundation; 2010 McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship 

GUTHRIE Stage Manager: Skeleton Crew, A Raisin in the Sun; Assistant Stage Manager: English, A Christmas Carol, Murder on the Orient Express, The Little Prince. THEATER History Theatre: Behind the Sun, Handprints, The Boy Wonder, Diesel Heart, Parks; Collide Theatrical Dance Company: Clue, Romeo and Juliet; Yellow Tree Theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire, Another Miracle on Christmas Lake; Park Square Theatre (selected): Holmes and Watson, The Rocky Horror Show, Jefferson Township Sparkling Junior Talent Pageant, Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, The Diary of Anne Frank; Theater Latté Da: Candide, Beautiful Thing; Artistry: Godspell, Follies. TRAINING B.A., Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota

GUTHRIE Stage Manager: Little Shop of Horrors, For the People, Into the Woods, The Little Prince, Vietgone, Guys and Dolls; Assistant Stage Manager: A Raisin in the Sun. THEATER Broadway: Fosse, The Best Man, Holiday; Off-Broadway: Head of Passes with Phylicia Rashad (The Public Theater); Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TFANA); MCC Theater; Vineyard Theatre; Signature Theatre; Shakespeare in the Park; Roundabout Theatre Company; Playwrights Horizons; Second Stage Theater; Minetta Lane Theatre; NYTW; NYSAF; Regional: Over 60 productions at theaters across the country. OPERA MN Opera; Indianapolis Opera; Opera Memphis; New York City Opera. TRAINING B.A./B.S., Bemidji State University

GUTHRIE Caroline, or Change. THEATER Company member with Penumbra Theatre and New Dawn Theatre Company; Sounds of Blackness: The Night Before Christmas (performed at the Guthrie Theater); Yellow Tree Theatre: Passing Strange, Skeleton Crew; Ordway: Resident Artist; Blues in the Night, 42nd Street; Park Square Theatre: Marie and Rosetta, The Color Purple; Mixed Blood Theatre: Passing Strange; The Lab Theater: Rent, The Rocky Horror Show; Penumbra Theatre: Black Nativity, Dutchman, The Owl Answers, Detroit ’67, Girl Shakes Loose, Get Ready, The Wiz; History Theatre: Lonely Soldiers; Hey City Theater: Beehive. AWARDS Three-time Grammy Award-winning artist; NAACP Image Award. OTHER Vocal coach; CEO for the artist development company Minnesota Movement, LLC. @jameciabennett (IG, TW)

GUTHRIE Artistic Team member since 2003; More than 70 productions, workshops and readings since 2015, including The Lehman Trilogy, Little Shop of Horrors, The History Plays, Dial M for Murder, ‘Art’, For the People, The Importance of Being Earnest, Shane, Into the Woods, Hamlet, The Little Prince, Sally & Tom, Vietgone, Sweat, A Raisin in the Sun, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, Dickens’ Holiday Classic, Noura, Floyd’s, West Side Story, Familiar, Watch on the Rhine, Native Gardens and Disgraced. FILM/TELEVISION Casting Consultant: Master Servant. TEACHING University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; Universities in MN and the U.S. TRAINING B.A., Theatre, MSU Moorhead 

GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Steppenwolf: Familiar, Ms. Blakk for President, You Got Older; Goodman Theatre: How To Catch Creation, Graveyard Shift, The Winter’s Tale; Virginia Stage Company: The Bluest Eye; Writers Theatre: Smart People, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.FILM/TELEVISION Your Place or Mine (Netflix); “The Chi” (Showtime), “The Big Leap” (Fox), “4400” (CW), “Power Book IV: Force” (Starz), “Boo, Bitch” (Netflix), “Daisy Jones & The Six,” “Solos,” “With Love” (Amazon Prime Video)