Grace Bernardo is an actor, singer, and theatre maker based in NYC. She most recently made her Off-Broadway debut in Bedlam’s Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet. Other New York credits include Romeo and Juliet (Bedlam, FoST), Twelfth Night (Modern Shakespeare Project), Radium Prototype (The Tank), The Visitors, The Comedy of Errors, The Reigning Princess of Pop, and readings by Kimberly Pau, Michael John Garcés (Cornerstone Theater-LA), and Tatyana Khaikin. She has worked with such directors as Anne Bogart and Konstantin Raikin, and been both an actor and mentor for the Young Playwrights Festival at the O’Neill Theater Center. In 2018, she also filmed a television pilot and national commercial for two major networks and was edited out of both, so don’t be fooled by this. Training: Furman University, National Theater Institute (MXAT), SITI Company. Thanks to the Bedlam team and my miraculous family.

(DEUS)
Off-Broadway: White People Christmas (Cherry Lane Theatre);
Revolutionary Moments (The Century Association); the title role in
Gilgamesh (The 92 nd Street Y); The Lysistrata Project (BAM); Harry and the Streetbeat (Working Theater); Maiden Lane (Ensemble Studio Theater) Regional (select): Creon in Oedipus Rex (Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre); Papa Shakespeare in The African Company Presents Richard III, Charlie in Death of a Salesman and Captain Brice in Arcadia (American Players’ Theatre); chutes&ladders in Water by the Spoonful (TheatreSquared); Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Lord Hastings and others inRichard III, Prospero in The Tempest, the title role in Othello (Tennessee Shakespeare Company, 3 seasons); the title role in Julius Caesar, Cymbeline, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Merry Wives of Windsor
(Orlando Shakespeare Theater, 6 seasons); Bottom in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, Richard II, title role in Othello, A Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure, Richard III, Hamlet, Henry V
(Shakespeare & Company, 16 seasons); Harold Loomis in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Gospel at Colonus, The Road (The Goodman Theatre, Chicago); the title role in Everyman, Nomathemba (Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago); Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (Milwaukee Shakespeare); Flight (ACT, Seattle); King Lear (Yale Repertory); The Oedipus Plays (Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C., and Athens Festival); the title role and Iago in Othello (Second Age Theatre, Dublin, 4 seasons); Invisible Man (Studio Theatre, Washington, D.C., Helen Hayes Award).
Boston-area: Thurgood, The Whipping Man, and A House With No Walls (New Repertory Theatre); Akeelah and the Bee, It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Little Mermaid (Wheelock Family Theatre); Bootycandy (Speakeasy Stage); Beowulf (Poets’ Theatre); Walking the Tightrope and The Unbleached American (Stoneham Theatre); Pericles, Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labours’ Lost, and Hamlet (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Invisible Man and Vengeance Is the Lord’s (Huntington Theatre); Water by the Spoonful and Broke-ology (Lyric Stage Company, Elliot Norton Award and BroadwayWorld Boston Award); Neighbors (Company One,
BroadwayWorld Boston Award); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It (Commonwealth Shakespeare); A Raisin in the Sun, Richard III (Trinity
Rep).

Films & TV: Joy, Ascendants, Ted, Law & Order; The Fugitive, U.S.
Marshals, Chain Reaction, The Package, and The Blues Brothers.

Literaryperformer, Regie Gibson, has lectured & performed widely in the U.S., Cuba & Europe. As a representative of the U.S., Regie competed for & received the Absolute Poetry Award in Monfalcone, Italy as well as the 2018 Europa in Versi Award from the Casa della Poesia in Como, Italy. Himself & his work appear in “love jones” a feature-film based on events in his life. He’s been featured on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, various NPR programs, nominated for a Boston Emmy & has been a featured presenter for several Ted X events. He’s served as a consultant for both the National Endowment for the Arts “How Art Works” initiative & the “Mere Distinction of Color”: an exhibit at James Madison’s Montpelier, examining the legacy of slavery & the U.S. constitution. Regie has performed with & composed texts for, The Boston City Singers, The Mystic Chorale & the Handel+Haydn Society. He’s been published in Poetry Magazine, Harvard’s Divinity Magazine, & The Iowa Review, among others. His volume of poems, “Storms Beneath the Skin”, has received the Golden Pen Award and he is a recent recipient of a 2017 Brother Thomas Fellowship for Artistic Excellence from The Boston Foundation. Regie teaches at Grub Street, Clark University, is part of the Emerson College Summer Faculty & is both Poet-in-Residence and head instructor for the Mass Poetry “Poets in the Schools Program” through Lesley University. When Regie is not teaching, he is the lead singer for Atlas Soul: A world music, global funk ensemble & is Artistic Director of Shakespeare to Hiphop’s “Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy”: a multimedia performance focusing on the life, works & influence of William Shakespeare.

Carolyn is a lifelong performer who tells stories and sings songs all over the world. A longtime member of Actors Equity, her theatrical credits include Broadway, Broadway National Tours and regional theatres throughout the United States including Papermill Playhouse (NJ), Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Actors Theatre of Louisville and Connecticut Repertory. Now based in Boston, she’s worked with Greater Boston Stage, Front Porch Arts Collective, New Repertory Theatre, Christmas Revels @ Sanders Theatre, Wheelock Family Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage, Central Square Theater, North Shore Musical Theatre, Lyric Stage Company, Queen Mab Micro-Theatre, Starlight Square in Cambridge, the Outside the Box Festival and the Emerson Paramount. Her orchestral work includes the Boston Pops, Carnegie Hall, Teatro Colon, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, and the Buffalo Philharmonic. She is a member of the Boston Pops Gospel Choir, Millennium Choir, Sharing a New Song and the One City Chorus. An avid traveler who believes in the power of music to unite, she’s entertained audiences throughout Japan, Colombia, South Africa, Argentina and Uruguay. Film credits include ‘Sweet & Lowdown’, ‘Small Time Crooks’ and ‘The Curse of the Jade Scorpion’.

Kai Thomani Tshikosi (Artez Sabine, Also: Alabama Slim, The Soul Siren, The Alter Ego, and Police Officer 2)Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Malcolm in Macbeth, Armin in Equivocation, Ferdinand inThe Tempest (Actors Shakespeare Project); Othello in Othello, Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare & Company’s Northeast Regional Tour); Franklin (Boston Playwrights Theatre); Cymbeline (Brown Box Theatre Project); Julius Caesar (New Repertory Theatre’s Classic Repertory Company); Colossal (Company One). Additionally, Kai is an educator specializing in Stage Combat, Shakespeare, and Educational Equity, and has taught students in schools, universities, and correctional facilities across New England. He received a BA in Acting and Global Post-Colonial Studies from Emerson College