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Chuck Cooper won the Tony Award for his performance in Cy Coleman’s The Life. He has been featured in 15 Broadway shows in every theatrical genre from Shakespeare to musical comedy. His most recent guest-starring TV appearances include The Good Wife, House of Cards, Madam Secretary, Gossip Girl, Nurse Jackie and Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight. His other awards include the Lucille Lortel Award for The Piano Lesson; the San Diego Critics’ Circle Award for Two Trains Running; the Audelco Award for Caroline or Change; two Drama Desk nominations for Choir Boy and The Life. His favorite role is Eddie, Alex and Lilli’s father. He is gratefully married to playwright Deborah Brevoort. 

Broadway: Skeleton Crew (Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Antonyo nominations), Jitney, All the Way, Clybourne Park, Enron, Prelude to a Kiss. Off-Broadway: The Piano Lesson (Obie, Theatre World, AUDELCO awards), The First Breeze of Summer, Day of Absence, Detroit ’67, Peter and the Starcatcher, TFANA’s Julius Caesar. TV: For Life, Evil, Public Morals, Manifest, The Get Down, The Accidental Wolf,”' The Quad, Mrs. America, The Americans. 52nd Street Project Volunteer. Member of Actors Equity Association.

Broadway: All the Way, Romeo and Juliet, Fences. Off-Broadway includes Help (The Shed); The Piano Lesson (Lortel Award, Drama League nomination), Seven Guitars (Obie Award), The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature Theatre); Fairview (TFANA, Soho Rep.); X, or Betty Shabazz v. The Nation (Drama League nom), Pudd’nhead Wilson, Taming of the Shrew (The Acting Company); Macbeth (Classical Theatre of Harlem also TFANA); and Scenes from a Marriage, Things of Dry Hours (Drama League nom), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, (NYTW). Regional includes Two River, Geffen Playhouse, Long Wharf, the Old Globe, McCarter Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Yale Rep., People’s Light & Theatre Co. and ART. Film: Every Little Thing, Detachment, The Help, Salt, Life During Wartime, Rachel Getting Married, In the Blood, No Vagrancy (short). TV includes Blue Bloods, Lincoln, Godfather of Harlem, Divorce, Madam Secretary, The Family, Doubt, Odyssey, and A Gifted Man.

Wilson, known as one of the premiere voices of the African American experience, first gained national attention when his play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom hit Broadway, earning critical acclaim and a Tony nomination for Best Play.

Tony, Drama Desk, and Obie Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson is the director of the recent Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Jitney which garnered several awards including the Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League, and the NY Drama Critics Circle Awards, along with six Tony nominations. Mr. Santiago-Hudson won a Tony Award as featured actor for his performance in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars and later went on to direct the play himself to critical acclaim. Other directing credits include: The Piano Lesson, Skeleton Crew, Othello, Gem of The Ocean, Paradise Blue, My Children! My Africa!,Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Cabin in the Sky, The Happiest Song Plays Last, Two Trains Running, Things of Dry Hours, The First Breeze Of Summer, and Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine, among many others. He made his Broadway acting debut alongside Gregory Hines in Jelly’s Last Jam. Other Broadway credits include Lackawanna Blues, Stick Fly and Gem of The Ocean. The multi-award winning director and actor most recently adapted August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom for producer Denzel Washington and NETFLIX starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman. Ruben wrote, executive produced, and co-starred in the HBO film Lackawanna Blues based on his OBIE Award-winning play. The movie received several honors including Emmy, Golden Globe, NAACP Image Award, Humanitas, National Board of Reviews, Black Filmmaker’s Foundation and Christopher Awards. Recently, Ruben co-starred in BET’s drama The Quad and played the role of Captain Roy Montgomery on the hit show Castle for three seasons on ABC. Ruben currently co-stars in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s new series David Makes Man for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network. Ruben has been seen in over three dozen movies. Among his favorites are Lackawanna Blues, American Gangster, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Coming to America, Forgotten Genius, and The Devil’s Advocate. Ruben earned his MFA in acting from The Hillberry Classical Repertory Theater at Wayne State University, his BA in theatre from Binghamton University, and he also holds Honorary Doctorate degrees from both Wayne State University and Buffalo State College. In a career that spans over four decades, Ruben considers opening The Ruben Santiago-Hudson Fine Arts Learning Center in 2014 in his hometown of Lackawanna, NY as one of his proudest and most cherished accomplishments.

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