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24-25 Season

Wolf and Dromio

Extremely grateful to be joining The Acting Company! NYC Theatre: Twelfth Night (Classical Theatre of Harlem/Audelco Nominee). NYU: Pipeline, Cloud 9, The Tempest. Irene Ryan, Kingsley Colton & Mark Twain Award Recipient (KCACTF). MFA: NYU Grad Acting. BS: North Caroline A&T. Aggie Prid! @jlaneyallen. 

Hambone and Dromio

Lansing, MI native. Holds his BFA in Music Theatre Performance, from Western Michigan University. Chuckie comes to the Acting Company from being a proud, Jeff nominated Chicago actor. He is also an alum of Forbidden Broadway’s Spamilton, the Chicago cast as well the first National Tour. Having performed in The Three Musketeers presented by The Acting Company at OSF, it is an honor to reunite and to officially join the Acting Company family. Regional credits include: DreamGirls (McCarter, Goodspeed); RENT, Once on This Island, The Three Musketeers (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Color Purple (Drury Lane); The Wiz (Kokandy); Sophisticated Ladies (Porchlight Theatre); Heartbreak Hotel (Broadway Playhouse); Buddy in The Buddy Holly Story (American Blues Theatre); Hair (Mercury Theatre); Rent (Theo Ubique); Ragtime, Sister Act (Wagon Wheel), Big River, Hairspray (Timber Lake Playhouse). National Tour: Spamilton (1st National Tour). Love you Mom and Dad. IG:@chuckie.benson 

Luciana

is delighted to be telling these marvelous stories with The Acting Company. Originally from DC, she now resides in NYC. Most recently she was seen as Lady Macbeth at The Chenango River Theatre in New York and in productions of Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing at the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Minnesota. Other Select Regional: The Nacirema Society (Goodman Theatre); Murder on the Orient Express (Drury Lane); Henry V, The Winters Tale (First Folio); Murder on the Orient Express (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), The House that Will Not Stand (Victory Gardens), Our Town, Into the Breeches (Asolo Repertory Theatre); Measure for Measure, The Tempest, The Rover (Michigan Shakespeare Festival). TV/Film: Chicago Fire (NBC), Chicago Med (NBC), Deli Boys (hulu), and Emperor of Ocean Park (MGM+). She is represented by DDO Artists Agency and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Always for mom. 

Holloway and others

has been in August Wilson’s King Hedley II, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Seven Guitars (Two River Theater). New York credits include Broadway’s tour of August Wilson’s Jitney, (Manhattan Theatre Club) the best we could (A Family Tragedy), (Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3) On the Levee, (Working Theater), La Ruta, (Pan Asian Rep),The Brothers Paranormal, (Ensemble Studio Theatre) Travisville, (Classical Theater of Harlem), The Bacchae, The First Noel, (The Public Theater), The Merry Wives of Windsor and Two Gentlemen of Verona. Other Regional/Touring credits include productions at Mark Taper, Old Globe, Arena Stage, Seattle Rep, Shakespeare and Co, Pittsburgh Public, Huntington, Cincinnati Playhouse, Denver Center, Williamstown Theater Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Geva Theatre and others. Television credits include: “Queens”, “FBI: Most Wanted”, “Luke Cage”, “Boardwalk Empire”, “Law & Order”, “Law & Order: Organized Crime”, “Law & Order: SVU”, “JAG”, “Blue Bloods”, and “The Sopranos”. Mr. Coats is a graduate of the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts. 

West and others

hails from Chicago and is pleased to be working with The Acting Company. Most recently Robert has performed regionally in Jitney (Arkansas Rep), as Jean Charles in Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (Signature Theatre), Dreamgirls (Goodspeed Opera House and McCarter Theatre Center), Chicken and Biscuits (Front Porch Arts Collective), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Huntington Theatre). He has also done Blues for an Alabama Sky (Madison Rep), You Can’t Take it With You and The Rivals (Milwaukee Rep), Spunk (St. Louis Black Rep), and Great Expectations (Indiana Rep). In Chicago, he has performed in the World Premieres of Her Honor, Jane Byrne (Lookingglass Theatre), Lottery Day (Goodman Theatre), and Rightlynd (Victory Gardens Theater). Robert has also done Aida (Drury Lane Theatre), Raisin (Court Theatre), Picnic (American Theatre Company), Wit (The Hypocrites), Total Bent (Co-production with About Face and Haven Theatres (Joseph Jefferson Award nomination)), Hamlet (The Gift Theatre), The Taming of the Shrew (First Folio Theatre), and Wheatley, Takunda and Spiele 36 (Victory Gardens). A proud member of SAG/AFTRA, Robert can be seen on TV in “The Chi”, all three seasons of “South Side,” “Chicago PD,” “Shameless,’ and “Turks”. Robert also performs as a singer with the band Poi Dog Pondering and as singer songwriter of his own band, RC7.

Sterling and Antipholus

is a Boston native Haitian-American actor. He recently won a New England Theatre Critics award for Best Lead Performance as King Hedley in King Hedley II (Actors Shakespeare). He was also nominated for a Norton in his lead performance as Herald Loomis in Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Huntington Theatre). Mr. Milord appeared in the riveting premier of K-I-S-S-I-N-G (Huntington Theater). The previous year, he was seen in Common Ground Revisited (Huntington Theatre), while completing productions of Paradise Blue (Gloucester Stage) and the premier of Young Nerds of Color (Central Square Theatre). Prior to the pandemic, Mr. Milord was seen in Pipeline (WAM, Front Porch, & Central Sq. Theatre). Other credits include A Christmas Carol (Underground Railway), The Handmaid’s Tale (Boston Lyric Opera), The Agitators and Cyrano (Gloucester Stage), Anna Christie and Barbecue (Lyric Stage), Akeelah and the Bee (Wheelock Family Theatre), The Good Negro, Splendor, and The Brothers Size Trilogy, (Company One). Film credits include Salem’s Lot (Warner Bros. Pictures), Honest Thief (Solution Entertainment Group), Proud Mary (Screen Gems), The Brotherhood (Showtime), and a multitude of indies. Mr. Milord dedicates this tour to the late great Johnny Lee Davenport. “Hold a good thought”!  

Antipholus

Off Broadway: A Christmas Carol in Harlem (Classical Theatre of Harlem). Regional: Passover (Resident Ensemble Players), The Comedy of Errors, Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew (The Old Globe), Treasure Island (MSMT). Film: First Date (JazziDreamer Ent.), Time to Leave (Before the Crown Productions), Generational Curses (Fly in Rice Media/Black Hours). Education: B.F.A. - Howard University, M.F.A. - The Old Globe/USD Shiley Graduate Acting. www.JeffreyRashad.com.  @jeffyjeff_ on Instagram. 

Memphis and Dr. Pinch

Directing: Blood at the Root (Open Fist Theatre Company)- Los Angeles Drama Critic Circle nomination for Best Director; The Boy From Oz (Ovation Award, LADCC Award, Best Director); Rotterdam (The Kirk Douglas Theatre (LADCC Award Best Production, Stage Raw: Best Production and Best Director)); West Addams (Skylight Theatre (LA Times Critics Choice)); Laughter on the 23rd Floor (The Garry Marshall Theatre); Sucker Punch (The Couerage Theatre); Too Heavy for Your Pocket (Sacred Fools (LA Times Critics Choice)). 

Acting: Miss Trunchbull in Matilda (La Mirada), The Producers (Roger; Ovation Award nom.), Fences (Troy; Ovation, LADCC nom.), BootyCandy (LADCC nom. Ovation, Stage Raw Win), Mister in The Color Purple (Ovation Award), Steel (Ovation Award), Master Harold and the Boys (NAACP Theatre Award nom.), Intimate Apparel (NAACP Theatre Award), Choir Boy (NAACP nom.); Athol Fugard’s Valley Song (International City Theatre). Broadway/Regional: Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan; Little Shop of Horrors; Caroline, or Change; The Whipping Man.   

TV: “NCIS: Origins”, “Bosch”, “Why Women Kill”, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, “Hot In Cleveland”, “Wizards of Waverly Place”, “Monk”, “Criminal Minds”.  

Risa and Adriana

is a Philadelphia-born, New York City-trained actress.  A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she has also studied at the British American Drama Academy at the University of Oxford and the Actors Studio Drama School (MFA, Acting).  NYC Theater: American Rot (La Mama, dir: Estelle Parsons), The Winter's Tale (NYSX), On Strivers Row (Metropolitan Playhouse), Much Ado About Nothing (NYSX), The Trojan Women (The Flea Theater), Fires in the Mirror, Laundry & Bourbon, Platanos Y Collard Greens, and Romeo & Juliet. Regional Theater: The Garbologists (Shadowland Stages), B.R.O.K.E.N. code B.I.R.D. switching (Berkshire Theatre Group), The Niceties (Mile Square Theatre), Skeleton Crew (TheatreSquared). International Theater: Look/Alive (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). TV: “Elsbeth”, “Law and Order: SVU”. @deannasupplee