Greg Smith (he/him), is a Grammy- nominated composer and sound designer. He has scored numerous feature films and contributed music to dozens of network tv shows. Additionally, he has worked extensively in television advertising, providing music and sound design for MTV, ESPN, Disney, A&E and a host of other networks and consumer brands. Most recently, Greg provided sound design and composed all the music heard throughout the Greenwood Rising museum being built in Tulsa, Oklahoma to commemorate the 1921 Tulsa (Black Wall Street) Massacre.
As of August 2021
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Lauren J. Burke* (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working on her 3rd Ufot Family play. Central Square Theatre: Queens Girl in The World, Pipeline, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Regional: The Huntington, American Repertory Theatre, Boston Baroque, North Shore Music Theatre, Plays in Place, SpeakEasy Stage, Revels, Central Square, Lyric Stage, Hangar Theatre, WAM, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Reagle Music Theatre, Poets’ Theatre, Israeli Stage, Boston Ballet, Boston Opera Collaborative. University: Brandeis University, Boston University, Harvard University, Suffolk University. Education: BA from Suffolk University. Lauren is a member of Actor’s Equity Association.
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Abigail Wang (she/her), Lighting Designer, focuses on helping to tell the stories of underrepresented communities. Recent design credits include: The View Upstairs (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Turning the Tide (Moonbox Productions); We Create Festival 2019 (Danza Organica); Safety Net (NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts); Perfect Arrangement (UMass Lowell); The Earth Room (Fresh Ink Theatre). Training includes apprenticeships at Walt Disney World Live Entertainment and Seattle Repertory Theatre, and a BFA from NYU Tisch. Abigailwangdesign.com
As of August 2021
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DIGGLE (he/him), Scenic Designer, is a proud Gay Mexican-Latinx designer. Selected NYC credits include: Shakespeare Call & Response (The Public Mobile Unit), The Conversationalists (Bushwick Starr), Cowboy Bob (NAMT), Decky Does A Bronco (Royal Family), Sweeney Todd (Hangar), So Long Boulder City (SubCulture), Red Emma & The Mad Monk (Tank/ANT Fest) Regional & International: Electra, Fade (Dallas Theater Center); 10 Out Of 12 (Undermain Theatre); Why Do You Stand There In The Rain? (Edinburgh Fringe/Scotland Tour). Current Projects: Monstersongs (TheaterWorks Hartford) & Fires in the Mirror (Baltimore Center Stage/ Long Wharf). Associate Scenic Design credits include work for Clint Ramos, Dede Ayite, & Rachel Hauck.
Broadway Associate Scenic Design: Slave Play and Grand Horizons. Diggledesigns.com
As of August 2021
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Caleen Sinnette Jennings
Caleen Sinnette Jennings (she/her) is professor of theater at American University in Washington, D.C. She teaches acting, voice and speech, acting Shakespeare, playwriting and academic courses in theater. Jennings was a 2007 finalist for the O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, and she is a two-time Helen Hayes nominee for Outstanding New Play. In 2002, she received the Heidman Award from Actor’s Theatre of Louisville for her play Classyass. In 1999 she received a $10,000 grant from the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays for her play Inns & Outs. Her play Playing Juliet/Casting Othello was produced at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre in 1998. In 2000, her children’s play Free Like Br’er Rabbit was produced for the Kennedy Center’s New Visions/New Voices festival. Her two short plays Pecos Billand The People Could Fly are featured in Walking the Winds, which premiered at the Kennedy Center and toured nationally with Kennedy Center’s Programs for Children and Youth. Jennings received her bachelor’s degree in drama from Bennington College and her M.F.A. in acting from the N.Y.U. Tisch School of the Arts. She has been a faculty member of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Teaching Shakespeare Institute since 1994. She moderates panels, does workshops and presentations for cultural institutions such as the Smithsonian, Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Shakespeare Theatre. In 2003, she received American University’s 2003 Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award. That same year, she won the award for Outstanding Teaching of Playwriting from the Play Writing Forum of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education.
As of June 2021.
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