Kiss Me Kate Arts Center of Coastal Carolina December 7
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"A kinetic production…brimming with warmth, humor and sometimes irony."
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Immensely entertaining… stunning performance…the dynamite ensemble is insanely good."
BroadwayWorld
"You're certain to be inspired."
Shepherd Limited
"Rep'south Toni Stone Is a Winner…impressive…important new production."
Urban Milwaukee
Cast
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Amar Atkins
Elzie
Bio
Wait What God Has Done! Broadway Tour: The Colour Purple Revival (Mister/Harpo U/S). Off-Broadway: King Lear (Edmund). Select Regional: The Color Purple Revival (Paper Mill Playhouse), Rent (Gateway Playhouse), Sophisticated Ladies (New Venture), Clybourne Park (Swine Palace). Select Tv set/Moving-picture show: "Annie Live!," "America's Got Talent," "Metropolis on a Loma," "Blue Bloods," "Bull," "Wu-Tang: An American Saga." Numerous National/Worldwide commercials. MFA in Acting from LSU and BA in Theatre from Albany Land University. All my honey to my tribe and DGRW! @amaratkins_
Dimonte Henning
Woody
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Dimonte is excited to exist returning to Milwaukee Rep for Toni Rock. Dimonte serves as Artistic Director for Lights! Camera! Soul! and is a founding member of the Milwaukee Black Theater Festival. Dimonte'southward regional theater credits include: The Island and Deathtrap (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre), Stick Fly (Writers Theatre), Skeleton Crew (Forward Theater), A Midsummer Dark's Dream (Theatre LILA), Our Boondocks, A Christmas Ballad and Dreamgirls (Milwaukee Rep), The Wiz (First Stage), Black Nascency (Black Arts MKE). TV and commercial credits include: Guest starring roles on NBC's "Chicago PD" (Seasons 4 & 6), Disney's "Encore!," UBER, Inpro Designs and Harley-Davidson.
Enoch King
Millie
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Enoch is excited to make his Milwaukee Rep debut! Contempo credits include: The Bluest Eye (Synchronicity Theatre), Information technology's a Wonderful Life, Skeleton Crew, Between Riverside and Crazy, A Raisin in the Sun (American Stage), Paradise Blue, Skeleton Crew (True Colors Theatre), Hands of Color (Synchronicity Theatre – Suzi Bass Award for Best World Premiere), A Christmas Carol (Shakespeare Tavern), The Mountaintop (Heritage Theatre Festival), Anne and Emmett (Amsterdam, VA, NY, NC), The Christians (Actor's Limited – Suzi Bass Honour for All-time Supporting Actor). Be rubber, smile difficult and love gratis!
Sekou Laidlow
Alberga
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Sekou's craftsmanship can be seen in his recurring guest star role as Leon Payne in NBC's "Ordinary Joe." He is a recurring invitee star in ABC'southward "Women of the Movement" and plays Harrison Carter in the BET+ episodic "Kingdom Business organisation." He volition appear in the Warner Brothers feature "Black Adam." Some of his theater credits include two Broadway appearances inAirline Highway andBoys in the Band. Regional credits includeSkeleton Coiffure,A Doll's House,Father Comes Home from the Wars,The Mountaintop,Civil War Christmas andOf Mice and Men. Sekou is an alumnus of the Juilliard School of Drama.
Eric J. Little
King
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Eric is elated to be making his Milwaukee Rep debut. Eric is a proud graduate of Alabama A&M Academy and Louisiana State University. He has worked as an player and director with Theatrical Outfit, Actor's Express, True Colors, Aurora Theatre, Horizon Theatre, N Carolina Black Rep and others. Eric is a tenured tracked professor at Clark Atlanta University. Eric has won iii Suzi Bass Awards (the professional person theatre awards in Atlanta). Follow him on IG: iamejlittle
Lau'rie Roach
Jimmy
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Lau'rie (Luh-Ree) is originally from Atlanta and graduated from AMDA in NYC. Re has had the opportunity to piece of work with Alliance Theatre and Truthful Colors Theatre Visitor in Atlanta. Regional credits include North Carolina Black Repertory Company, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina and at present Milwaukee Rep! Film credits include "Rules to Rule," "Po' Psi Broke" (YouTube) and "This Globe Lonely" (Apple TV, Amazon Prime and now Hulu), where he won an award for Best Thespian in Italian republic! @Iamreanthony
Kedren Spencer
Toni Stone
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MFA, FSU/Asolo Conservatory. Select Regional: The Tempest (Shakespeare Theatre Co), Richard Iii, 12th Night, Dial 'K' for Murder (Monmouth), A Midsummer Nighttime'southward Dream (FSU/Asolo Solarium), Evita (Asolo Rep), Little Shop of Horrors (Trinity Rep). Television receiver: "New Amsterdam," "Manifest," "Law & Order: SVU" (NBC), "Search Political party" (HBO), "Bull" (CBS). Film: "Half Mean solar day" (brusque), "Reopening" (curt). Kedren is as well currently in post-production for her first motion picture and directorial debut, "Final Call." Grateful doesn't begin to cover it. For my family. For the Forgotten. For Toni.
dane troy
Stretch
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dane hails from Atlanta and is a graduate of the University of Georgia's professional person theatre plan. He has performed professionally in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, North Carolina, Milwaukee and the Bay Area. dane is grateful to Milwaukee Rep for this opportunity. He sends lots of honey to his family and his married woman Paige Mayes.
Geoffrey D. Williams
Spec
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Regional theatre credits include: Theatrical Outfit, Brotherhood Theatre, True Colors Theatre Company, Horizon Theatre Company, Theatre in the Square, Huntington Theatre, Geva Theatre Eye, Indiana Rep, Burt Reynolds Theatre, Jomandi Productions, Factory Mountain Theatre, amongst others. He has as well acted in more than a dozen film or boob tube productions for Marvel, First, Millennium Filmworks, Twentieth Century Fox, FX, CBS and HBO. Geoffrey trained at Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of Fine Fine art in Dallas, Texas, the Burt Reynolds Constitute for Film and Theatre in Florida and Northside Schoolhouse of Performing Arts in Atlanta, Georgia. Geoffrey dedicates this show to his sister, who wore a tutu in the dugout!
Artistic Team
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Lydia R. Diamond
Playwright
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Lydia R. Diamond is an accolade-winning playwright whose work includes Toni Stone (2019 premiere at Roundabout Theatre Company), Smart People, Stick Fly (Broadway run at Cort Theatre), Voyeurs de Venus, Harriet Jacobs and The Bluest Middle. Her work has been performed at Loonshit Stage, Arden Theatre Company, Second Stage Theater, The New Vic Theatre, Visitor One, Goodman Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, Hartford Phase, Huntington Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre and McCarter Theatre Center. Diamond has been a W. Eastward. B. DuBois Institute Young man at Harvard, a Sundance Playwright Lab Creative Advisor, a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Beau, a Sally B. Goodman Fellow, a Huntington Playwright Fellow and a National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group playwright. She is the 2020 recipient of The Horton Foote Prize, sits on the Dramatists Guild Legal Defense Fund board and is on kinesthesia at Academy of Illinois at Chicago.
Tinashe Kajese-Bolden
Director
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Tinashe is an award-winning director, histrion and producer. She is the Bold Creative Director Swain at Alliance Theatre and driven to create stories that celebrate our differences while edifice community. Tinashe is a Princess Grace 2019 Honour Winner for Directing, and Map Fund Laurels recipient to develop her devised new piece of work All Smiles for Theater for the Very Immature, centering the experience of children on the autism spectrum. Recent theatre directing credits include School Girls (Or the African Mean Girls Play) (True Colors Theatre), Ghost (Alliance Theatre), Native Gardens (Virginia Stage Company), Pipeline (Horizon Theatre), Nick's Flamingo Grill (World Premiere at Brotherhood Theatre), Eclipsed (Synchronicity Theatre, All-time Director Suzi Bass Laurels). Up next: Candrice Jone's FLEX at Theatrical Outfit. As a director and thespian, she has worked On and Off Broadway, including Imperial Theatre, Primary Stages, 59E59 Theaters, Classical Theatre of Harlem, and regionally at Yale Rep, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co, Cincinnati Playhouse, Geva Theatre, CTG'southward Kirk Douglas Theatre, among others, also as recurring roles on TV/Moving-picture show ("Suicide Squad," Curiosity'due south "Eagle," CW's "Valor," "Dynasty," HBO's "Henrietta Lacks" and currently filming Season two of Ava Duverney's "Cherish the Day"). She proudly serves on the ARTS-ATL Artist Advisory Council. "My mission is the pursuit of what connects our different communities and how nosotros create art that serves that."
Derek A. Graham
Original Music & Composition
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Sasha Smith
Intimacy Consultant
Martinique M. Barthel *
Phase Director
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Shaina Pierce *
Assistant Stage Manager
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Kai Liebenstein
Production Assistant
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Dell Howlett
Choreographer
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Dell is a New York-based, Virginia-built-in choreographer/director. Select credits include: Stick Fly (Plays in the House), R&H Cinderella (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Guys and Dolls (Ford's Theatre), Paradise Square (Associate to Bill T. Jones, Berkeley Rep), Guys and Dolls (Guthrie Theater), The Wiz (Ford'southward Theatre, Helen Hayes Nom.), Wig Out! (Studio Theatre, Helen Hayes Nom.), The C.A. Lyons Project (Alliance Theatre, Suzi Bass Laurels Winner), The Legend of Georgia McBride (Marin Theatre Company, BATCCA Nom.), YoungArts Presidential Scholars Show (Kennedy Centre), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (The Acting Company), Broadway Inspirational Voices (Foxwoods Theater), Is Everyone Listening? (Sheen Center). Dell is a full-time professor and Associate Head of Dance at NYU/Tisch Schoolhouse of the Arts in the Department of Drama's New Studio on Broadway. He dedicates this work and every piece of work to his muse, his married man Aaron.
Tony Cisek
Scenic Designer
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Tony has designed Milwaukee Rep'due south productions of 2 Trains Running, Gem of the Ocean and the premiere of The Night is a Kid. His work has also been seen at Roundabout Theatre, Loonshit Stage, Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Denver Center, Due south Coast Rep, Portland Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Ford's Theatre, Folger Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Baltimore Center Stage, Indiana Rep, Syracuse Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, Cleveland Play House, Pioneer Theatre, People'due south Light, Studio Theatre and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. tonycisek.com
Kara Harmon
Costume Designer
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Off Broadway credits include: Dot (Vineyard Theatre) and Lockdown (Rattlestick). Select Regional credits include: Steel Magnolias and Guys and Dolls (Guthrie Theater), The Wiz – Helen Hayes Costume Design Honour (Ford'due south Theatre), The Purists, The Niceties and A Guide for the Homesick (Huntington Theatre), Nina Simone: Four Women (Loonshit Stage), The Color Purple (Portland Center Phase), Charcoal-broil – NAACP Outstanding Costume Pattern Award (Geffen Playhouse), Much Ado About Cipher and The One-act of Errors (OSF) and earth premieres: Goodnight, Tyler and Angry…Gorgeous (Alliance Theatre). Her assistant costume design credits for television include "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (Amazon), "Daredevil" (Netflix) and "Boardwalk Empire" (HBO). karaharmondesign.com.
Thom Weaver
Lighting Designer
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Previously for Milwaukee Rep: Junk, The History of Invulnerability, The Royale, A Christmas Carol. His work has been seen at NYSF/Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre, Primary Stages, Signature Theatre (NY), Wilma, Arden, PTC, New Paradise Laboratories, Walnut, CenterStage, Huntington Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Syracuse Phase, Shakespeare Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Cleveland Play House, Round House Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Spoleto Festival, Pittsburgh Public Theater and Yale Rep, among others. 6 Barrymore Awards, ii Jeff Awards and ii AUDELCO Awards. Co-Founder of Dice-Cast with Brenna Geffers, founding lath member of Theatre Philadelphia and a member of Wingspace. Education: Carnegie-Mellon and Yale. He/him. Black Lives Matter.
Derek A. Graham
Original Music & Composition
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Derek is a composer based in North Carolina. Born and raised in Queens, New York, Derek holds an MFA in Sound Design from Ohio Academy and a BA in Music from Elizabeth City Land University. Recent composer credits include The Chinese Lady (Artists Repertory Theatre), Protocol and Redwood (Portland Eye Phase). Derek is invested in using sound and music to encapsulate emotion in storytelling and is excited to collaborate with Milwaukee Rep for the first time.
Sharath Patel
Sound Designer
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Sharath is an Oregon-based designer who works internationally focusing on experimental, commercial, academic, political and socially conscious theatre. Recent designs: Portland Center Phase, Indiana Rep, ACT Theatre, American Rep, Artists Rep, Seattle Rep, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cal Shakes, Alabama Shakes, Loonshit Stage. Affiliations: USA 829 IATSE, Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association, Department of State Arts Envoy, National Respondent for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Resident Creative person at Artists Rep. BFA: Ohio University. MFA: Yale School of Drama. www.sharathpatel.com
Shadana Patterson
Dialect Jitney
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Shadana is thrilled to work with Milwaukee Rep for the showtime fourth dimension. She has previously served as Banana Dialect Jitney on Frankenstein (Remy Bumppo). She is an actor, Lessac Kinesensics Practitioner and an Offshoot Kinesthesia of Vocalism and Oral communication at The Theatre School at DePaul University.
Nikiya Matthis
Wig Designer
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Broadway: Chicken & Biscuits. Off-Broadway: MCC Theater: Nollywood Dreams, Public Theater: For Colored Girls, Page 73 Productions: Stew, Soho Rep: For all the Women…, Women's Project: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Ars Nova: Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Hereafter, Ensemble Studio Theatre: Travisville, National Black Theatre: Crowndation. Regional: Baltimore Center Stage: The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks and Curls, La Jolla Playhouse: The Garden, Berkshire Theatre: Pilus, Long Wharf Theatre: An Iliad, Hudson Valley Shakespeare: The Most Spectacularly Pitiful Trial.... Awards: Henry Hewes Blueprint Honour, Antonyo Awards Drama Desk nominee. MFA: NYU Tisch Grad Acting.
Jody Feldman
Casting Director
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Jody began her theater career as an extra in Atlanta earlier moving into administration as the Banana Full general Manager at Frank Wittow's Academy Theatre. She started her career at Brotherhood Theatre every bit Casting Director in 1991 and added Producer to her title and responsibilities in 2001. She has cast and produced more than than 350 productions at the Alliance, encompassing a range of globe premieres that includes The Concluding Night of Ballyhoo, What I Learned in Paris, Bankrupt and Troubadour, In the Cherry-red and Brown Water and more than 20 years of Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition-winning plays plus such world and regional premiere musicals equally Tuck Everlasting, Aida, The Color Purple, Sister Act: The Musical, Bring It On: The Musical, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, Harmony, A New Musical and The Prom. Jody is almost proud of the thriving Alliance engagement activities and partnerships that recognize theatrical piece of work as a goad for community conversation and connection.
Sasha Smith
Intimacy Consultant
Martinique Yard. Barthel *
Stage Manager
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Martinique is thrilled to render to Milwaukee Rep this season equally Stage Manager for Toni Stone and New Age. Previous Milwaukee Rep credits include The Niceties and Nativity Variations. Regional credits include Milwaukee Black Theater Festival (2020 & 2021), Stew, Underneath the Lintel (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre), The Gospel at Colonus (Skylight Music Theatre), Belonging, Native Gardens, Sex with Strangers (Renaissance Theaterworks), Blackness Birth '17 and 'eighteen (Blackness Arts Milwaukee), Assassins, A Little Night Music, Buss Me, Kate (Iv Seasons Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, Lines, Constellations, The Bed (Theatre LILA), The Mojo and the Sayso (Theatre LILA/Bronzeville Arts Ensemble), Modify Your Mind, Change the World (2012) and The World We Make (2016) panel discussions with His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama.
Shaina Pierce *
Banana Stage Director
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Shaina is thrilled to brand her debut at Milwaukee Rep. Shaina hails from Atlanta, Georgia where she worked as an ASM on the world premiere musical Darlin' Cory and A Christmas Ballad at Brotherhood Theatre. Shaina is too the inaugural recipient of the Stage Direction Fellowship at Alliance Theatre. Shaina has worked on Disney's The Little Mermaid, A Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Disney's Beauty and the Beast at Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Other credits include Intimate Wearing apparel, Legally Blonde: The Musical and The Last Five Years. She is extremely proud to accept earned her MFA at The University of Alabama. She thanks her family and loved ones for their continued support.
Daniel Blanco
Assistant Managing director
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Daniel is an award-winning director, actor, author and editor, and a recent graduate of the BFA Acting Program at UCSB. Since graduation, Daniel has been focused on continuing his work in creating and presenting unique stories almost the Latinx experience through both film and theater. He is very excited to be joining Milwaukee Repertory Theater for the season! Daniel has almost recently co-directed On the Verge Santa Barbara's Home Project and directed Center Stage Theater's Malcolm and UCSB'due south Trumpus Caesar. Aside from theater, Daniel has also written and directed the Salsa-Noir film "Sorpresas," also as the SBIFF Stay-calm Showcase Audience Favorite "El Cantante" and is currently wrapping upward a new 3-part serial "De La Luna, Del Sol." Daniel's dream is to write and directly a jukebox Fania musical about his family, just volition settle on starting a Salsa band if that doesn't pan out.
Kai Liebenstein
Product Banana
*Denotes an artist represented by Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Featured Events
The Inclusivity of Women in Sports
After the Tuesday, January xi, 6:30pm performance of Toni Stone
Join us for this post-play panel, featuring moderator Melanie Ricks (Milwaukee Bucks) and all-star guests from the world of college and professional person sports, every bit we pay homage to history and history in the making.
Featured News
From Diamond in the Crude to Baseball Diamonds: Toni Stone's Story
Past Lindsey Hoel-Neds
Toni Stone follows the story of pioneering baseball game histrion Marcenia "Toni" Stone, the starting time woman to play in the Negro Leagues. Learn more nearly the true story of this trailblazing spirit.
Source: https://www.milwaukeerep.com/shows/show/toni-stone/
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