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Aimee K Bryant THEATER LATTE DA: Oh S#!%, I’m Turning into My Mother. THEATRE: New Dawn Theatre: Crowns. Congo Square Theatre: Spunk, Deep Azure, Black Nativity. Underdog Theatre: How It’s Gon’ Be. Ten Thousand Things Theatre: Music Man, Into the Woods, Winter’s Tale, The Most Happy Fella. Penumbra Theatre: A Raisin in the Sun, Jar the Floor, Con Flama, Black Nativity. Pillsbury House Theatre: Gospel of Lovingkindness, In the Red and Brown Water, Dat Black Mermaid Man Lady. Mixed Blood Theatre: Ruined, Two Queens, One Castle. Theatre Forever: The Nature Crown. Park Square Theater: The Color Purple, Nina Simone: Four Women. Guthrie Theater: Caroline or Change, My Fair Lady, A Christmas Carol. TV: The Detroiters. TRAINING: BFA, Howard University AWARDS: 2015 City Pages Actress of the Year, 2015-2016 McKnight Theatre Artist Fellow. aimeekbryant.com

Sanford Moore is a composer, pianist, arranger and producer. He is perhaps most noted as the founder, director and arranger for the award-winning vocal jazz ensemble Moore by Four. He has traveled extensively with his ensemble doing concerts and workshops in the US, Europe and Japan, and has shared the stage with such notable jazz artists as Bobby McFerrin, Harry Connick, Jr., the late Joe Williams, Sarah Vaughn, Dizzy Gillespie and Carmen McRae. In addition to his work with Moore by Four, Moore is sought after as a musical director, arranger and composer. He is currently Musical Director for Penumbra Theatre, musical directing Girl Shakes Loose, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Ballad of Emmet Till, The Amen Corner, Black Pearl Sings, Black Nativity, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Get Ready and Dinah Was. Other Musical Directing credits include, Smokey Joe’s Café at the Ordway Music Theater; The Wiz, Last Stop on Market Street, Three Little Birds at Children’s Theatre; Disgraced (composer), Parchman Hour, To Kill a Mockingbird, Choir Boy, Crowns at the Guthrie Theater; Thunder Knocking at the Door at Ten Thousand Things; Two Queens, One Castle, Black Belts I, II & III, at Mixed Blood Theatre; Nina Simone: Four Women at Park Square Theater and Pillsbury House; co-creator of the musical revue Always and Forever at Illusion Theater; and co-creator of When a Man Loves a Diva at The Lab Theater. Other projects include: composer for Warriors of Light at Threads Dance Company and Minister of Music for Kingdom Life Church in North Minneapolis.

Thomasina Petrus has recently enjoyed a wildly successful run of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill at the JUNGLE THEATER, channeling legend, Billy Holiday. Her stage credits include Black Nativity, Diva Daughters Dupree, Ain't Misbehavin' and Amen Corner with PENUMBRA THEATRE, Constant Star, Gee's Bend and To Kill a Mockingbird with PARK SQUARE THEATRE, Daughters of Africa, Two Queens One Castle and Point of Review with MIXED BLOOD, Amen Corner, Caroline or Change with GUTHRIE THEATRE. Thomasina has also given outstanding performances on the stages of TEN THOUSAND THINGS THEATER, ORDWAY MUSIC THEATER, THEATER LATTE DA, CHANHASSEN DINNER THEATRE, CAPRU THEATER and OLD ARIZONA THEATER. AWARDS 2016-17 McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship Award Winner 2016.

Regina Marie Williams THEATER Theater Latte da: CHICAGO; Guthrie Theater: Guys & Dolls (General Cartwright), Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (Tillie), The Bluest Eye, To Kill A Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol (Mrs Fezziwig), Othello (Emilia), The Burial at Thebes (Eurydice), Caroline or Change, Crowns; Penumbra Theatre: w/Mu Theater Brothers Paranormal , Seven Guitars, Dinah Was; Chanhassen Dinner Theater: Sister Act; Ten Thousand Things Theatre: Romeo & Juliet (Lady Capulet) , Doubt, Man of La Mancha (Dulcinea), Once On This Island; Mixed Blood Theater: Barbecue, Ruined, Pure Confidence; Pillsbury House Theater: Death Tax, Pa’s Hat, The Road Weeps: Park Square Theater: Nina Simone/Four Women, The Color Purple, Constant Star; People’s Light Theater & Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theater: Nina Simon/ Four Women; AFFILIATIONS: Penumbra Theater Company Member, TTT Core Member AWARDS: Helen Hayes Nomination, Ivey Award, McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship at the Playwrights’ Center.

Kelli Foster Warder THEATER LATTÉ DA: Chicago, Ragtime, Five Points, Once, Our Town. Kelli is grateful to have worked at the 5th Avenue in Seattle, Asolo Rep in Florida, The Zach Theatre in Austin and as a performer at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, Theater for the Thirsty, Artistry and Ruby’s Cabaret. She has worked as a choreographer, teacher, diversity coordinator, and has directed and choreographed internationally in La Paz, Bolivia and Panama City, Panama. Kelli is currently the Director of Education & Producing Associate at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts.Nicholas Tranby (Sound Designer & Engineer) is a freelance sound engineer and designer based in Minneapolis. Other Theater Latté Da projects include: Chicago, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Candide, A Little Night Music, Man of La Mancha, Peter and the Starcatcher, Ragtime, Gypsy, Assassins, Five Points, and Underneath the Lintel. He was the Sound, Video and Lighting Associate at Children’s Theatre Company for 4 years; while there he was Associate Sound Designer for Shrek: The Musical, Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland and Robin Hood. Head Audio Engineer for international tours of The Wedding Singer and The Wizard of Oz. Other venues have included Guthrie Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. A proud graduate of The College-Conservatory of Music at University of Cincinnati.