Willa Bost
Biography
Willa Bost is a seasoned actor, singer, masterful interdisciplinary arts educator, and all-around renaissance woman from Lumpkin, GA. She has graced regional theatre stages across the country and recently made her Broadway debut in Purlie Victorious. Founder of www.innerartsproductions.com MFA: UNCG
Credits
Our Town, Purlie Victorious
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Heather Ayers
Broadway: Young Frankenstein, A Little Night Music, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, Groundhog Day. Selected Off-Broadway: Five Course Love, Sarah; Plain and Tall, Forbidden Broadway. Selected Regional: Old Globe, Yale Rep, Goodspeed. Selected TV: American Vandal, Brockmire, Scandal, No Activity. Thank you to Jim Carnahan. Love to Becca and Joe. This one’s for Mom and Dad.
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Ephraim Sykes
Ephraim Sykes was nominated for a Tony, Grammy, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama League Award for his performance as ‘David Ruffin’ in Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations. Other Broadway credits include: Hamilton (also streaming on Disney+), Motown The Musical, Newsies, Memphis and The Little Mermaid. Off-Broadway, Sykes co-starred in Black No More (The New Group, Antonyo Award nom.) and Rent (New World Stages). On screen, Sykes was seen in Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit as well asthe HBO series “Vinyl”, “Luke Cage” (Marvel/Netflix), “Crisis in Six Scenes” (Amazon) “Russian Doll” (Netflix) and in the NBC live broadcast of “Hairspray Live!” opposite Ariana Grande, earning an MTV Movie + TV Awards nomination for Best Musical Moment: “You Can’t Stop the Beat”.
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Shyla Lefner
Recent credits include Between Two Knees (PAC NYC, Yale Rep, McCarter, Seattle Rep, OSF); Bulrusher (McCarter & Berkeley Rep); The Cymbeline Project, Alice in Wonderland, Henry V, The Way the Mountain Moved and Manahatta (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Bernhardt/Hamlet, The Door You Never Saw Before (Geffen Playhouse); Fairly Traceable, Off the Rails, The Frybread Queen (Native Voices at the Autry). Readings and workshops: Sovereignty (TFNA); Wonderland (Dramatists Guild); (w)holeness (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Film/TV: credits include Whatever It Takes, Woo, Lies & Alibis, Fashion House.
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Katie Holmes
As an actress who has received critical acclaim for a spectrum of diversified roles on stage and screen, Katie Holmes has appeared in several notable films, ranging from the action blockbuster Batman Begins, directed by Christopher Nolan, to critically acclaimed art house pictures such as Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm and Peter Hedges’ Pieces of April. In 2021, Holmes launched her production company Lafayette Pictures. Her most recent project under the banner is Rare Objects, which she co-wrote, directed and starred in. She also wrote, directed, produced and starred in Alone Together along with Jim Sturgess, Derek Luke, Melissa Leo, and Zosia Mamet which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and was later released by IFC films. Holmes recently starred in The Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of The Wanderers directed by Barry Edelstein. She made her Broadway debut in the 2008 limited run of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, in which Holmes starred opposite John Lithgow, Patrick Wilson and Diane Wiest. Her portrayal of “Ann” garnered glowing reviews and established her as an accomplished actress on both screen and stage. In 2012, Holmes was also in the Broadway production Dead Accounts opposite Nobert Leo Butz. Holmes’ film career began in 1996 when she landed the role of ‘Libbets Casey,’ opposite Tobey Maguire and Sigourney Weaver in Ang Lee’s award-winning drama The Ice Storm. Since then, she has worked with some of Hollywood’s most prominent actors and directors. Her credits include Forest Whitaker’s First Daughter, Jason Reitman’s Thank You for Smoking, Sam Raimi’s The Gift, Stephen Gaghan’s Abandon, Doug Liman’s Go, Joel Schumacher’s Phone Booth, Simon Curtis’s Women in Gold, Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky, Keith Gordon’s The Singing Detective, Kevin Williamson’s Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Brahms: The Boy II, The Secret, Curtis Hanson’s Wonder Boys, David Nutter’s Disturbing Behavior and the Guillermo Del Toro produced thriller, Don’t Be Afraid of The Dark. Holmes also executive produced, in addition to starring in, writer/director Galt Niederhoffer’s The Romantics. On the small screen Holmes will always be best known, as ‘Joey Potter’ from the hit WB TV series “Dawson’s Creek,” which ran for 6 seasons. She returned to television in the summer of 2015 starring opposite Liev Schreiber in season 3 of Showtime’s hit drama, “Ray Donovan”. She portrayed First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the miniseries “The Kennedy’s: and “The Kennedy’s After Camelot.”
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Donald Webber, Jr.
Broadway: Purlie Victorious, Hamilton, Motown: the Musical (OBC), Holler If Ya Hear Me (OBC). TV/Film: “Severance” (AppleTV+), “The Punisher” (Netflix), “The WIZ: Live!” (NBC), “Da Bronx U.S.A.” (Music in Media nomination & Oscar short list), “Killing Me Softly With His Song” (Music in Media nomination). Off-Broadway/Tour: The Preacher’s Wife (World Premiere; Alliance Theatre), Children of Eden (Lincoln Center; Manhattan Concert Productions), Hamilton (‘Aaron Burr’), Jersey Boys, Born For This, Renascence, Whorl Inside A Loop, Bella: An American Tall Tale. University of Southern California, BFA Acting. “RC, for you always. We love you so much, D3 & LZ!”
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Bobby Daye
Bobby Daye’s career has crossed into stage, film, tv and radio. As a songwriter, he is the music and lyricist to the new musical LOVE AND SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT with book by Monica L. Patton. He’s also proud of his work withhttp://www.JustOneStepForDemocracy.com,an organization founded by Arnetia Walker and Stephen Nachamie to promote voting through the arts. Hear his song FOR AMERICA as well as THIS VOICE which was co-written by Sylvia McCalla and Yvette Cason. He also writes music for “The Young And The Restless” with writing partner Tom Kochan and he penned the theme song to the ABC-TV soap “Loving”, which was performed by Johnny Mathis. His Broadway credits include Moulin Rouge, Aladdin, After Midnight, Book of Mormon, Shrek the Musical, The Color Purple, The Lion King, Smokey Joe Cafe, Dreamgirls and The Wiz. He was a 9-time male vocalist winner on Ed McMahon Star Search where he used all of his own music and has appeared on television in Chicago PD, Empire, Law and Order and ED (‘mong others). Bobby has had the distinct ple’sure of teaching aa he developed with Alan Nusbaum at TVI Actor Studio. You can also catch Bobby in numerous television commercials, as well as hear his voice on many radio voiceovers.
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