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Denzel Washington is the most lauded stage and screen actor of his generation. His unforgettable performances have garnered him two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and countless other awards. He received his first Academy Award for the historical war drama Glory (1989) and his second for the crime drama Training Day (2001). In addition, he has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Cry Freedom (1987), Malcolm X (1992), The Hurricane (1999), Flight (2012), and August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences, in which he reprised his Tony Award-winning role opposite Viola Davis. Most recently he was nominated for an Academy Award for Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017). Other notable credits include A Soldier’s Story (1984), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), Remember the Titans (2000), Inside Man (2006), The Great Debaters (2007), and American Gangster (2007). Mr. Washington’s professional acting career began in New York, where he performed in theatre productions such as Ceremonies in Dark Old Men and Othello. He rose to fame when he landed the role of Dr. Phillip Chandler in the NBC long-running hit television series St. Elsewhere. In 2016, he was selected as the recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards.

LaTanya Richardson Jackson is a two-time Tony Award-nominated stage and screen actress, director and producer. Her onstage Broadway credits include Lena Younger in the 2014 revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (Tony nomination, Best Actress in a Play), as Calpurnia in Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird, and as Bertha Holly in the 2009 revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. She became the first woman to direct an August Wilson play on Broadway with the 2022 revival of The Piano Lesson, starring Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle Brooks, which received a Tony nomination for Best Revival of a Play. She was also a co-producer on the 2023 revival of Purlie Victorious (Tony nomination, Best Revival of a Play). Her extensive theater work includes Shakespeare in the Park’s Taming of the Shrew, For Colored Girls…, Spell #7, Casanova, Unfinished Women, Stop Reset, and August Wilson’s Century Cycle. Her screen credits include the HBO limited series Show Me A Hero (NAACP Image Award nomination, Best Actress), ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, Netflix’s Luke Cage, FX’s Damages, Blue Bloods, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Sidney Lumet’s 100 Centre Street and the films Freedomland, Losing Isaiah, The Fighting Temptations, U.S. Marshals, Juanita, Mother and Child, and Nicole Holofcener’s You Hurt My Feelings. As a screen producer, she executive produced the limited series The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey and the EPIX docuseries Enslaved; and as a filmmaker, she directed and starred in the acclaimed 2000 short film Hairstory, which will be revived for a Restoration West Coast Premiere this December at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Spelman College where she and her husband recently opened the LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Samuel L. Jackson Performing Arts Center.

Anika Noni Rose won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in Caroline, or Change (also receiving the Lucille Lortel, Theatre World, Obie and Clarence Derwent awards and a Drama Desk nomination). Her additional Broadway credits include A Raisin in the Sun (Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Cat on A Hot Tin Roof directed by Debbie Allen and Footloose. Additional stage credits include Carmen Jones (Lucille Lortel and AUDELCO awards; Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations); and the New York Philharmonic's production of Company. Rose drew notice for her acclaimed performance as Regina in Netflix’s most-watched limited series to date, Maid (2022 NAACP Image Awards nomination, one of nine she has received).  Rose appeared in Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (Netflix), Lena Waithe’s “Them” (Amazon) and Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu). Additionally, Anika led the cast of BET’s series The Quad as Eva Fletcher, starred in the film Everything, Everything and in the History Channel’s adaptation of “Roots” as Kizzy (NAACP Image Award nomination).  Anika starred as Lorell Robinson in Dreamgirls (AFI Ensemble Award, SAG Award nomination, Grammy Award nomination). Additional TV and film credits include The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (HBO), For Colored Girls, Half of A Yellow Sun, Assassination Nation and recently, Showtime’s Let the Right One In.  Anika voiced Princess Tiana in Disney’s The Princess and The Frog, featuring the first African American Disney Princess. The film received three Oscar nominations and Anika became the youngest inductee to ever be honored as a Disney Legend.  

Sophie Okonedo received a 2016 Tony nomination for playing Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible's Broadway revival. In addition to her 2014 Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun, Okonedo received an Oscar nod in 2005 for Hotel Rwanda. She will also star opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in the upcoming series The Hollow Crown. Her additional credits include The Secret Life of Bees, The Slap and Skin.

Stephen McKinley Henderson returns to Second Stage Theatre where he was a member of August Wilson’s celebrated Obie Award-winning Jitney ensemble (2002 Olivier Award for Outstanding Drama), as well as the off-Broadway staging of Between Riverside and Crazy. Six Broadway productions include Tony winners for Best Revival; Fences (Tony nomination) and A Raisin in the Sun. Stephen also delights in having played Torvald in the celebrated replacement cast of A Doll’s House Part 2 lead by Julie White. Six off-Broadway performances include The Last Days of Judas Iscariot directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Stephen appears in five Oscar nominated films. Films soon to be released are Causeway, Disappointment Boulevard, Civil War, and DUNE part 2.

David Cromer is a New York-based director and actor. He appeared on Broadway as Karl Lindner in the 2014 revival of A Raisin in the Sun, and Off-Broadway as the Stage Manager in Our Town, which he also directed, at the Barrow Street Theatre. He appeared in the HBO series The Newsroom, the Showtime series Billions, and in the motion picture The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected). As a director, his New York credits include The Band’s Visit (2018 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, Ethel Barrymore Theatre); the Broadway revivals of Brighton Beach Memoirs and The House of Blue Leaves; The Treasurer (Playwrights Horizons); Man from Nebraska (Second Stage Theatre); The Effect, Orson’s Shadow, and Tribes (Barrow Street Theatre); Women or Nothing(Atlantic Theater Company); Really Really (MCC Theater); When the Rain Stops Falling and Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center Theater); and Adding Machine(Minetta Lane Theatre). Other directing credits include Come Back, Little Sheba (Huntington Theatre Company); The Sound Inside (Williamstown Theatre Festival); and Our Town in London, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Kansas City. Cromer has received a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, three Obie Awards, three Lucille Lortel Awards, a Joe A. Callaway Award, four Jeff Awards, and in 2010 was made a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

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