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

Hubens “Bobby” Cius (Omari) Central Square Theater: black odyssey boston. Other credits include Pass Over (SpeakEasy Stage Company), The Three Musketeers (Greater Boston Stage Company), A Free Man of Color (Salem State University). Training: BA in Theatre Arts at Salem State University. Awards: 2018 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 1 – NETC Best Scene Partner, 2019 KCACTF Region 1 – Irene Ryan 1st Honorable Mention. Online: @bobby_cius

Elle Borders is thrilled to be working with Front Porch after participating in their reading of A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes.  Her recent credits include The Wiz (Scarecrow), Sista Gurl in the staged reading of The Puppet Show, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia/Quince), the world premier of How Soft the Lining (Elizabeth Keckly), An Octoroon (Minnie), and Othello (Bianca/ Montana). She has had the privilege of working with Boston Public Works, Sleeping Weazel, 3050 Music Group, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, and Company One in addition to numerous readings and workshops with the Huntington Theatre Company, Quick Silver Theater Company, and Fresh Ink Theatre. Ms. Borders studied with the Atlantic Theatre Company and holds a BFA in Drama from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She is currently working to develop projects with her husband and collaborator, Brandon G. Green.

Journey-Ade King (Benevolence Naussica Sabine) is thrilled to be working with Central Square Theater in back odyssey boston! She is currently a sophomore at Thayer Academy. Journey has always loved the arts and began acting at a young age with Boston Children’s Theatre. Her recent productions include Wheelock Family Theater’s: Akeelah and the Bee (Akeelah) and Boston Children’s Theater: Into the Woods jr. (Cinderella). She is very thankful for the influence her mother has had in her love for theatre, as well the support her father and Gamma have given.