Zora Neale Hurston, Playwright Dorothy Waring, Playwright Kyle Donnelly, Adaptor/Director Cathy Madison, Adaptor Chic Street Man, Original Music and Music Direction Thomas Lynch, Scenic Designer Michael Krass, Costume Designer Allen Lee Hughes, Lighting Designer Karin Graybash, Sound Designer Dianne McIntyre, Choreographer Rudy Roberson, Fight Director and Dance Captain Alison Cote, Stage Manager Alan Filderman, Casting CAST (in order of speaking) Kevin Jackson, Lonnie Kecia Lewis, Big Sweet Rudy Roberson, Nunkie Gabrielle Goyette, Laura B. Carl Cofield, Sop-the-Bottom Lynda Gravátt, Bunch (November 19–December 19) Tonye Patano, Bunch (December 20–January 9) Michael Keck, Do-Dirty Mississippi Charles Bevel, Few Clothes Eric L. Abrams, Quarters Boss Perri Gaffney, Dicey Long Doug Eskew, Stew Beef Clinton Derricks-Carroll, My Honey Bill Sims, Jr., Preacher Marc Damon Johnson, Box Car Tiffany Thompson, Leafy Lee Aliza Kennerly, Maudella Deidre Goodwin, Ella Wall KYLE DONNELLY (Director/Adaptor) most recently directed the world premiere of Shakespeare in Hollywood at Arena Stage, where she also originally directed the world premiere of Polk County, which won the Helen Hayes Award for Best New Musical. She has also worked recently at American Conservatory Theatre on The Constant Wife, A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Old Globe Theatre and Philadelphia Here I Come! for the Williamstown Theatre Festival. She has had a long association with Arena Stage, having been associate artistic director from 1992 to 1998, and directed such productions as Tom Walker, The Women, Lovers and Executioners, The Miser, Molly Sweeney, A Small World, Dancing at Lughnasa (winner of Helen Hayes Award for Best Production), Summer and Smoke, A Month in the Country, The School for Wives, Misalliance and others. She directed the American premiere of Brian Friel’s Give Me Your Answer, Do! for Roundabout Theatre and worked at the Goodman Theatre (The Rover, Dancing at Lughnasa), Steppenwolf Theatre (Molly Sweeney), Old Globe (Orson’s Shadow), Huntington Theatre (Hyde Park, Aristocrats, Little Foxes), as well as Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, A Contemporary Theatre and other regional theatres. She is the head of the Professional Actor Training program at U.C.S.D. in San Diego. This one is for Ella. CATHY MADISON (Adaptor) served as literary manager of Arena Stage for seven seasons. Some of her favorite assignments included Keith Glover’s Coming of the Hurricane, Strindberg’s Dance of Death and Clare Boothe Luce’s The Women, directed by Kyle Donnelly. She has served as a regular panelist for the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and has taught at the School Without Walls high school for Young Playwrights Theater. Ms. Madison received her M.F.A. in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism from Columbia University. A few years back, Ms. Madison decided on a career change. She is currently a fundraiser for the Smithsonian. She has also raised money for an anti-hunger group. Ms. Madison proudly hails from the South Bronx, New York City. She offers all honors and praise to Zora Neale Hurston for giving us this joyful gift. Cathy thanks the McCarter and Berkeley Repertory Theatres for giving this play its second incarnation. CHIC STREET MAN (Original Music and Music Direction) composed the music for and starred in the Off-Broadway hit show Spunk, adapted by George C. Wolfe from three short stories by Zora Neale Hurston, the Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s world premiere of A Lesson Before Dying and the Cleveland Playhouse’s world premiere of Touch the Names—Letters to the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial. He was also a contributing author, performer and musical arranger for the Denver Center Theatre Company’s It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues. Chic was also a featured performer at the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York and the U.N. Human Rights Center in Geneva; the 1991 Paleo Festival, the 1992 Montreux Jazz Festival and the 1993 and 2002 Berne Jazz Festival in Switzerland. In 2002, he performed his one-man show, A Black History of the Blues for the Smithsonian. Chic has released six albums. THOMAS LYNCH (Set Design) Broadway: A Raisin in the Sun, The Music Man (Tony nomination), Contact, Thou Shalt Not, Swing!, The Heidi Chronicles (Tony nomination), Having Our Say, The Boys From Syracuse, Tintypes and Ah, Wilderness!. Off-Broadway: My Life with Albertine, All Over, Driving Miss Daisy, Still Life, Madame Melville, Far East, Valhalla and Betty’s Summer Vacation (OBIE). Regional: McCarter’s Marivaux trilogy Triumph of Love, Changes of Heart, Game of Love and Chance, directed by Stephen Wadsworth, A Doll’s House, Miss Julie, Edward Albee’s All Over, directed by Emily Mann. Productions at most major regional theatres with directors Robert Falls, Gordon Edelstein, Richard Nelson, Daniel Sullivan, Hal Prince, John Malkovich, Christopher Ashley, George C. Scott, Douglas Wager. Opera: Metropolitan Opera’s upcoming Rodelinda, Vienna Stattsoper, Netherlands National Opera, Royal Scottish Opera, Covent Garden, New York City, San Francisco, Houston, Santa Fe, Seattle Operas. Awards: two Joseph Jefferson Awards, the Applause Award, Elliott Norton, Michael Merritt Award; twice participant in Prix d’Or of Prague. MICHAEL KRASS (Costume Design) Berkeley Rep: The Art of Dining. Broadway: Reckless, Twelve Angry Men, ‘Night Mother, Match, After the Fall, Hedda Gabler, The Man Who Had All the Luck, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, A View from the Bridge, The Rehearsal (Drama Desk, American Theatre Wing nominations), An Almost Holy Picture, The Lion in Winter. Off-Broadway: Smashing, Beautiful Child, The Play About the Baby, This is Our Youth, Betty’s Summer Vacation, Full Gallop, The Credeaux Canvas, Eight Days Backwards, The Waverly Gallery, Lobby Hero, Stupid Kids, Chaucer in Rome, The Waves, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, The Scarlet Letter, Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Drama Desk nomination), Driving Miss Daisy. Regional: Nine summers at Williamstown, 10 at the Hangar Theatre, numerous productions for the Huntington (Boston), Old Globe (San Diego), Chicago Shakespeare (two Jefferson nominations) and many more. Film: Campbell Scott’s Hamlet. He heads the design department of the Playwrights Horizons Theatre School of New York University. ALLEN LEE HUGHES (Lighting Design) Broadway credits include: Having Our Say, Mule Bone, Strange Interlude, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Quilters and Once on this Island, which earned him a third Tony nomination. New York designs at Roundabout Theatre Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, New York Shakespeare Festival and Lincoln Center Theater and Off-Broadway. His work has been seen at major theatres throughout the country, including the Arena Stage, McCarter Theatre, Seattle Rep, Long Wharf Theater, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, Hartford Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Intiman Theatre, Kennedy Center, Denver Center and Alliance Theatre. KARIN GRAYBASH (Sound Design) is pleased to be working on Polk County once again. Most recently, she designed the gospel musical Tambourines to Glory at the Alliance Theatre and the Lincoln Theatre. Other design credits include: McCarter Theatre Center, Arena Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Olney Theatre Center, Bristol Riverside Theatre and the Ontological Theatre. In addition, she works with the National Constitution Center as the sound consultant for Freedom Rising. Karin is also associated with several university theatre programs, including Rutgers University, Arcadia University and University of the Arts in Philadelphia. DIANNE McINTYRE (Choreographer) did choreography for the film Beloved and HBO’s Miss Evers’ Boys (Emmy nomination). Her choreography has been seen in Polk County for McCarter and Arena Stage, and Regina Taylor’s Crowns for the Alliance, Goodman, Arena Stage and Hartford Stage. She was the director-choreographer for Crowns, recently at the Cleveland Playhouse, and her work has been on Broadway, at the La Jolla Playhouse, Center Stage, Karamu, Mark Taper Forum, Syracuse Stage, Crossroads, Kennedy Center, Negro Ensemble Company, New Federal Theatre and NY Public Theatre. Choreography includes: Mule Bone, King Hedley II, Miss Evers’ Boys and her own show, I Could Stop on a Dime…. Awards include: a Helen Hayes Award, three Helen Hayes nominations, two AUDELCO Awards, two Bessie Awards, a Woodie Award, Thelma Hill Award and countless dance grants. Film/Television: Langston Hughes: The Dreamkeeper and For Colored Girls…. Her new play, Open the Door, Virginia! premieres this season at Theater of the First Amendment. ALISON COTE * (Stage Manager) is excited to be working at Berkeley Rep with Polk County. She is in her ninth season at McCarter, where production stage management credits include: Candida; Fräulein Else (also Long Wharf Theater); Fiction; Sorrows and Rejoicings (also Second Stage and Mark Taper Forum); The Cherry Orchard; Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Lackawanna Blues; The Importance of Being Earnest. She was the production stage manager for the New York run of Crowns, written and directed by Regina Taylor. Other credits: The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (seven seasons); A Spoleto Evening at Lincoln Center; Williamstown Theatre Festival; Pittsburgh Public Theatre; Opera Festival of New Jersey; Westport County Playhouse; numerous projects in Philadelphia with InterAct Theatre, Philadelphia Shakespeare and Women’s Theatre Festival. ALAN FILDERMAN (Casting) Broadway, Off-Broadway and national tours: Marie Christine, Master Class, Once on this Island, Dessa Rose, Here Lies Jenny, Listen to My Heart, Miss Evers’ Boys, A New Brain, A Beautiful Thing, Three Tall Women, From the Mississippi Delta, Song of Singapore, The Sum of Us. Many regional theatres across the United States. Film: Ice Age, Broadway Damage, Anastasia. Television: Out of the Box. Member: Casting Society of America. CAST ERIC L. ABRAMS * (Quarters Boss) is a recent graduate of the University of Texas at Austin’s M.F.A. Acting program of 2004. Eric recently finished a successful run of Mahalia: A Gospel Play at the Vineyard Playhouse, where he had the opportunity to explore a multitude of characters, including the late, great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. Polk County marks his first appearance at the McCarter Theatre and Berkeley Rep. His credits include Utah Shakespeare, Austin State Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare, among others. Eric resides in New York. He would like to thank his wonderful family and friends for their love and support. “I serve an awesome God!” MISSISSIPPI CHARLES BEVEL * (Few Clothes) A multimedia artist who does as well with poetry, visual art, writing and lecturing as he does with singing and acting, Mississippi’s first appearance on stage came in 1986 with the East Cleveland Community Theatre in East Cleveland, Ohio. The following year he began working at Cleveland’s Karamu House, a well-known training ground for some of America’s finest black actors. At Karamu, he performed major roles in several productions, including August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson (Doaker) and Samm-Art William’s Home (Cephus Miles). His professional theatre debut came in 1994 with the Denver Center Theatre Company, where he co-wrote and performed in the world premiere of It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues—which was nominated for four Tony Awards during the 1999/2000 Season on Broadway. Other professional acting credits include I Am a Man, Spunk, Home, Let Me Live and Fire on the Mountain. CARL COFIELD * (Sop-the-Bottom) Off-Broadway: The Inn Gathering and Cobb produced by Kevin Spacey. Washington, D.C. credits include Polk County, The Misanthrope (Arena Stage), The Old Settler (The Studio Theatre, D.C.) For the Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Regina Taylor’s A Night in Tunisia, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors. For Shakespeare Santa Cruz: Hamlet, Coriolanus, Private Lives, Merry Wives of Windsor. For The Acting Company: Henry V, Mud, River, Stone, Arms and the Man. Television: Law & Order (NBC), Angel City (CBS), The Last P.O.W.: The Bobby Garwood Story (CBS). CLINTON DERRICKS-CARROLL * (My Honey) has enjoyed a varied career on both sides of the Atlantic. His notable theatre credits include the Broadway productions of I Have A Dream, Your Arms Too Short to Box with God, But Never Jam Today and Dreamgirls. In the U.S., Mr. Derricks-Carroll trained at H.B. Studios, The Urban Arts Studio and with Michael Shurtleff, David LeGrant and Joan Darling. Clinton also has many television achievements, such as Sandford, Sliders, The Steve Harvey Show, Any Day Now, Hill Street Blues, Highway to Heaven, and movies—Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, The Ambush Murders and many others. While residing in London, England, Clinton studied at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and was featured in the West End productions of Grand Hotel, Five Guys Named Moe, Time and Miss Saigon. He also appeared in many regional plays and productions in England. Mr. Derricks-Carroll is pleased to be re-creating his role as My Honey in this production of Polk County. DOUG ESKEW * (Stew Beef) makes his McCarter Theatre and Berkeley Rep debuts with Polk County. On Broadway, he originated the roles of Big Moe in Five Guys Named Moe and Reverend Dukes in Truly Blessed. Off-Broadway, he appeared in Thunder Knocking on the Door and Josephine Song. National tours include Cats, Dreamgirls, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Five Guys Named Moe (NAACP nomination and LA Ovation Award). Regional credits: Crowns, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Arena Stage, Baltimore’s Center Stage, Paper Mill Playhouse and The Marriott Lincolnshire), Thunder Knocking on the Door (Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Old Globe Theatre and GeVa Theatre) and Golden Boy (Long Wharf Theater). Doug has received two Helen Hayes nominations for his performances at Arena Stage. Television: The Tonight Show, The Today Show and Good Morning America. PERRI GAFFNEY * (Dicey Long) makes her McCarter Theatre and Berkeley Rep debuts with Polk County. She received a Helen Hayes Award nomination for her work in Polk County at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Other repertory and Off-Broadway credits include: Rose in Fences at the Weston Playhouse in Vermont, the role of Libby in Bee-Luther-Hatchee at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and the role of Shelita Burns in Bee-Luther-Hatchee at the Blue Heron Theatre in N.Y.C.. She has been seen and heard in a vast array of television and radio commercials and co-wrote a textbook, Managing Artists in Pop Music, with Mitch Weiss, available at Barnes & Noble, Borders and Amazon.com. Her first novel, The Resurrection of Alice (Perri Tales), should be available this fall. She dedicates her work to her parents, George and Lucille. To God goes all the glory. DEIDRE GOODWIN * (Ella Wall) Broadway: Chicago (Velma Kelly), Never Gonna Dance (Velma), Nine (Our Lady of the Spa), The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Boys from Syracuse. Encores! City Center: The Pajama Game (Gladys). Regional: The World Goes Round, Sweet Charity. Film: Chicago (June-Cellblock Tango). GABRIELLE GOYETTE * (Laura B.) is thrilled to become a part of the Berkeley Rep family and reprise the role of Laura B., which she originated. Theatre credits include: Kenny Leon’s Tambourines to Glory (Alliance), Polk County (Arena), Debbie Allen’s Soul Possessed (Kennedy Center and Alliance), Smokey Joe’s Café (Pioneer Theatre), Children of Eden (Arvada Center), Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George (Kennedy Center), To Kill a Mockingbird (Ford’s Theatre), Play On (Arena), Eric Schaeffer’s Gospel According to Fishman (Signature Theatre), Jazz Royalty (Milwaukee Rep), Three Sistahs, Little Shop of Horrors and Ain’t Misbehavin’. T.V. and film credits include: Chris Rock’s Head of State, True Lies, America’s Most Wanted, Homicide, Unsolved Mysteries and various commercials and voice-overs. Love to Bianca, Chachi, Kathryn, T and Ron. LYNDA GRAVÁTT * (Bunch: November 19–December 19) heads to Berkeley Rep direct from the McCarter production of Polk County. Recent credits include: Intimate Apparel at the Roundabout and the Mark Taper Forum (NY Drama Critics Circle, Best Play of 2004). She is a 2004 Helen Hayes Award winner for her performance in Arena Stage’s production of Regina Taylor’s Crowns. Lynda also garnered a 2003 AUDELCO for the Off-Broadway production of Crowns. Broadway: Neil Simon’s 45 Seconds from Broadway, August Wilson’s King Hedley II. Off-B’way: If Memory Serves with Elizabeth Ashley, The Old Settler with Leslie Uggams (AUDELCO nomination, Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut). Regional: A Night in Tunisia (Alabama Shakespeare), The Old Settler with S. Epatha Merkerson (Helen Hayes nomination, The Studio Theatre), The Alley Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Huntington, Crossroads Theatre, GeVa and the Eisenhower at the Kennedy Center, among others. T.V.: As the World Turns (recurring), Law & Order, Trinity (guest star), Sex and the City, The Hoop Life (series regular), HACK and Who Killed Atlanta’s Children with Gregory Hines and Jim Belushi. Miss Gravátt can be heard on voiceovers for HBO, Lowe’s Home Improvement and Liberty Mutual. She is a graduate of Howard University. KEVIN JACKSON * (Lonnie) is making his McCarter Theatre and Berkeley Rep debuts in Polk County. He has appeared on Broadway in Topdog/Underdog, Mule Bone and Fences. Other New York credits include: References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, Macbeth, Dancing on Moonlight, The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Spunk (OBIE Award) for The Public Theater/NYSF. His regional credits include: The Piano Lesson at Denver Center Theatre Company, Playboy of the West Indies at Yale Repertory Theatre, Spunk and The Cider House Rules (Garland Award, Ovation nomination) at Mark Taper Forum and The Tempest and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at Baltimore’s Center Stage. His television credits include: The Colored Museum, ER, Will and Grace, Chicago Hope, Living Single, One Life to Live, Loving and a recurring role on Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper. Mr. Jackson’s film credits include: Hero, The Walking Dead, Spy Hard, Bogus, Rosewood, Conspiracy Theory, A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, Brown’s Requiem, Cement, Stanley’s Gig, Sin Kitchen and the upcoming MVP and Brother to Brother. MARC DAMON JOHNSON * (Box Car) is honored to make his McCarter Theatre and Berkeley Rep debuts. Mr. Johnson was last seen in Mr. Fox: A Rumination at Signature Theatre in New York City opposite Bill Irwin, where he was nominated for the 2004 Drama League Distinguished Performance Award. Theatre: N.Y. Shakespeare Festival, Kennedy Center, The Acting Company, Long Wharf Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Great Lakes Theater Festival. T.V.: The Sopranos, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, 100 Centre Street, Third Watch, Deadline. Film: It Runs in the Family (dir. Fred Schepisi); Sweet and Lowdown (dir. Woody Allen); Grace & Glorie (dir: Arthur A. Seidelman); and the soon to be released On the One (dir. Charles Randolph-Wright). MICHAEL KECK * (Do-Dirty) New York: Lonnie Carter’s Lemuel (La MaMa E.T.C.), Charlie Peter’s Hollywood Scheherazade (Primary Stages). Other: Fred Gamel’s Wasted (American Critic’s Award), Miss Evers’ Boys and Dreams Against the State. Michael is co-author, composer and host of the Holidays for Children video series, and frequently tours his solo performance of Voices in the Rain. Michael’s music and soundscapes credits include: The Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, Arena Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, The Milwaukee Rep, Alliance Theatre and Portland Center Stage. He is the composer of A Village Fable, which was workshopped at Sundance Playwrights Lab (winner of the Distinguished Play Award from the American Association for Theatre & Education). Barrymore Award nominee for It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues at Prince Music Theatre in Philadelphia. A teaching artist, Michael designs and facilitates performance workshops in schools, universities, community centers and correctional facilities. ALIZA KENNERLY (Maudella) is a recent graduate of Princeton University, where she was fortunate to be cast in many plays, both on and off campus. Favorite roles include Tina McCoy in The Fix, Ti Moune in Once on this Island and Dr. Charlotte in Falsettos. KECIA LEWIS * (Big Sweet) is thrilled to be making her debut at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Broadway credits include Dreamgirls (Effie White), Big River (Alice), The Gospel at Colonus, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (standby for Nell Carter and Armelia McQueen) and the original Broadway cast of Once on this Island (Asaka). Television credits include Law & Order, The Hughleys and Kate Brasher (CBS). Favorite regional credits include The Sound of Music (Mother Abbess), South Pacific (Bloody Mary), The King and I (Lady Thiang) and Smokey Joe’s Café. Kecia won the Los Angeles Ovation Award for “Best Lead Actress in a Musical” in 2000 for her performance as Effie White in Dreamgirls. She has also produced and recorded two independent contemporary gospel CD’s, entitled “Someone’s Gotta Say It” and “WWW.” Her best production has been with her husband Twan…their one year-old son, Simon. To God Be ALL the glory! Romans 10:9, 10. TONYE PATANO (Bunch: December 20–January 9) is pleased to be joining this wonderful production at Berkeley Rep. Most recently she appeared in the Off-Broadway production of Ponies at Studio Dante in N.Y.C.. She performed on Broadway in Neil Simon’s 45 Seconds from Broadway. Off-Broadway credits include performances at The Public, Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center, The Promenade, Theatreworks/USA and Manhattan Punchline. Numerous regional theatre credits include shows at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Studio Arena, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, George Street, Coconut Grove, Syracuse Stage Company and Walnut Street Theatre. Ms. Patano has just finished shooting a pilot called “Weeds” for Showtime, starring Mary-Louise Parker. Other T.V. appearances include The Sopranos and Sex and the City, Monk, Hope and Faith, Law & Order (SVU), Deadline, Now and Again and a recurring role as Judge Virginia Lowell on the soap opera One Life to Live. Film credits include Fresh, A Price Above Rubies, Bringing Out the Dead, The Hurricane and a few yet-to-be-released features, including The Great New Wonderful, Messengers, Room, The Thing About My Folks and Little Manhattan, shot this summer in New York City for a spring release in 2005. RUDY ROBERSON * (Nunkie) has worked on and off stage as an actor, director and choreographer. Credits include: Jim Conley in Parade, Of Mice and Men, Driving Miss Daisy. He directed The Colored Museum, For Colored Girls… and On the Front Lines (premiere) at Western Carolina University. He received the Dallas Theatre Critics’ Forum Award for Roscoe in Avenue X, AUDELCO nominations for Black Codes and Rollin’ on the T.O.B.A.. Mr. Roberson appeared as the leading player in Pippin, The Leopard in Just So, Tee Tot in Lonesome Highway and Walter Sisulu in Mandela. Broadway credits include: Silky in The Life, Stewart in Rollin’ on the T.O.B.A. and Kat Diamond in Kat and the Kings. He portrays all the voices for the animated video The Galimoto and the voice of Mpolo in HBO’s English-dubbed Lumumba. T.V. credits include: Law & Order and 100 Centre Street. Pour ma famille, Nathalie et Kele. (Mom, I know you’re watching…) BILL SIMS, JR. (Preacher) is an internationally respected “Master of the Blues.” He was seen at McCarter and on tour in Lackawanna Blues, for which he also composed the original music (2001 OBIE Award for Music). Other stage credits: Deep Down (INTAR), Trick the Devil (Freedom Theater, Philadelphia) and Crowns (Intiman, Seattle). Mr. Sims was the subject of the documentary An American Love Story (PBS), for which he composed many of the songs for the soundtrack. Other film credits: Miss Ruby’s House, for which he composed the music for the soundtrack, New York Stories for DKNY and the recently completed film Lackawanna Blues for HBO. His voice can be heard in many T.V. and radio commercials (Mercedes Benz, Reebok, Coca-Cola and on the newly launched Sirius satellite radio). His critically acclaimed 1999 CD release “Bill Sims” (Warner Bros.) demonstrates his knowledge of the many facets of the Blues. TIFFANY THOMPSON * (Leafy Lee) is from Detroit, MI. She graduated from SUNY Purchase with a B.F.A.. Her Off-Broadway credits include As You Like It, No Place to Be Somebody, Flyin’ West and Smokey Joe’s Café. Broadway credits: Drowning Crow (u/s Mary and Hannah). Workshops include: Bootleg Blues performed at Tisch N.Y.U.. T.V. credits include: The Dave Chappelle Show and Miracle’s Boys. Tiffany would like to thank God for her talent. Only You! * The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. BACK TO TOP