Nikki M. James
Biography
Broadway: The Book of Mormon (Tony Award), Les Misérables, All Shook Up, …Tom Sawyer. Favorite Theater Credits: Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day (The Public), Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Encores!), Romeo & Juliet, Caesar & Cleopatra (Stratford Theater), Julius Caesar and Shaina Taub’s Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park), Bernarda Alba (Lincoln Center), Preludes (LCT3). Notable TV/Film: “Daredevil: Born Again” (Disney+), “Severance” (AppleTV+), “Proven Innocent” (FOX), “Braindead” (CBS), Spoiler Alert (Focus). BFA from NYU’s Tisch. A proud mama, wife, New Yorker, voter. As always, for Poppy.
Credits
Suffs, Once on the Island, Les Misérables, The Book of Mormon, All Shook Up, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Dana Costello
Broadway: Finding Neverland, Pretty Woman, Jekyll & Hyde. Other: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Lincoln Center), Jerusalem Syndrome (York), Trading Places (Alliance), Joy (George Street Playhouse), Dave (Arena Stage). TV: “Law & Order.” Dedicated to the bravest women I know: Melissa (hi mom!), Diane & Claire. And to Mikie: thank you, I love you.
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Shaina Taub
Shaina is an Obie Award-winning songwriter/performer and an Artist-in-Residence at the Public Theater, where Suffs first premiered. Broadway debut! She created and performed in musical adaptations of Twelfth Night and As You Like It at Shakespeare in the Park with the Public Works community that have since been produced by London’s National Theatre, the Young Vic, and hundreds more theaters and schools worldwide. Taub has won a Jonathan Larson Grant, Kleban Prize, and Fred Ebb Award. She performed Off-Broadway in Hadestown, Great Comet (Lortel nom), Bill Irwin and David Shiner’s Old Hats, which featured her songs, and played Emma Goldman in the Ragtime on Ellis Island concert. She wrote the lyrics for The Devil Wears Prada, with music by Sir Elton John, opening in the West End this year. Her three solo albums include Songs of the Great Hill on Atlantic Records. Television songwriting: “Sesame Street,” “Central Park,” “Julie’s Greenroom” starring Julie Andrews, and the Emmy-nominated opening number for the 2018 Tony Awards, co-written with Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban. She co-chairs the NYCLU’s Artist Ambassadors and received the organization’s Michael Friedman Freedom Award for activism. Love to Matt and Mom. For every loud little girl.
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Chessa Metz
Broadway debut! Singer-songwriter. Regional: Ogunquit (Ado Annie, Oklahoma!), NC Symphony (Mabel, Pirates of Penzance). Also Elsa in Frozen in the middle of the ocean. Proud UNCSA grad and client of Lohne/Graham Management. To my family, friends, and therapist–thank you for seeing me through to my biggest dream.
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Jenna Bainbridge
Broadway debut! Theatre: Bring Down the House, Hairspray (OSF), Into The Woods, Beauty and the Beast (Phamaly), Macbeth (Merrimack Rep). TV: “Found.” Audiobooks: Unbroken. BM, Lamont School of Music. Jenna is a proud disabled artist and the Co-founder of ConsultAbility, a consulting agency working to make theatre more accessible.
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Monica Tulia Ramirez
Broadway debut! Off-Broadway: Suffs. Regional: A Crossing (Barrington Stage Company), Footloose (Marriott), Evita (Fulton), Godspell (ACT), Snapshots (ACT, Grammy Award nomination). TV: “Uncoupled,” “Elementary,” “Madam Secretary,” “Evil.” Ball State University. Gratitude to HCKR and WAM. Love to my parents, brother Christopher, Logan and Alvaro! Pase lo que pase.
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Tsilala Brock
Official Broadway Debut! Honored to bring this nuanced character to life. Off-Broadway: Suffs. Tour: The Book of Mormon (2nd National). Select Regional: Blues for an Alabama Sky (Barrington Stage), Parable of the Sower (SIFA, NYUAD), Twelfth Night (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse). TV: “Mysteries of Laura,” “Happyish,” “Broad City.” Carnegie Mellon Alum. Thank you Mommy, Bermuda, Saks&, and KMR.
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