CREATIVE TEAM

Lynn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play RUINED has received an Obie, the Lucille Lortel Award, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play (Manhattan Theatre Club, Goodman Theatre). Other plays include INTIMATE APPAREL (New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play; Roundabout Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, South Coast Repertory); FABULATION, OR THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE (Obie Award; Playwrights Horizons, London's Tricycle Theatre); CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY; LAS MENINAS; MUD, RIVER, STONE; POR'KNOCKERS, and POOF! Nottage is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2007 MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant," the National Black Theatre Festival's August Wilson Playwriting Award, the 2004 PEN/Laura Pels Award for Drama, and the 2005 Guggenheim Grant for Playwriting, as well as fellowships from the Lucille Lortel Foundation, Manhattan Theatre Club, New Dramatists, and New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, an alumna of New Dramatists and a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, where she is a visiting lecturer. More About Lynn

Adrienne is a New York based actor/director. Her directing credits include ANGELA’S MIXTAPE, ELECTRA, BUS STOP, TROUBLE IN MIND, NORA, WHAT NOW?, UNCLE VANYA, PIPELINE, CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY, A LIMBO LARGE AND BROAD, LUCK OF THE IRISH, JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE, ANTIGONE, INTIMATE APPAREL, IPHIGENIA AT AULIS, ZOOMAN AND THE SIGN, THE COLORED MUSEUM, BEFORE IT HITS HOME, JUST PASSIN’ THROUGH, and (opera) THE TALES OF HOFFMAN Upcoming directing projects include LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO a film that focuses on Housing Discrimination and Civil rights. Her acting credits include Honeyman in A WALK IN THE WOODS (MV Playhouse}, Clytemnestra in IPHIGENEIA AT AULIS, Alma in YELLOWMAN (Best Actress nominee IRNE awards Boston), Andrea in AL FRESCO with Craig Lucas, and Rose in FENCES (MV Playhouse). Television and film credits included Bull, Blindspot, Blue Bloods, Law and Order, The Sopranos, Tags, The Architect, and Corn.

National Tour: Bedlam’s Hamlet/Saint Joan. Regional: The Cake (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis) Saint Joan (Alabama Shakespeare Festival) Cadillac Crew (Yale Rep) Saint Joan (Folger Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival); The Revolutionists (Gulfshore Playhouse) Off-Broadway: #NEWSLAVES (Playwrights Realm); CRH (Kraine Theater). TV: Resistance Radio: The Man in the High Castle Album. Broadway Advocacy Coalition's Chief of Staff @dria.brown

Regional: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS, RUINED (Florida Studio Theatre), CLYBOURNE PARK, A SOLDIER'S PLAY, FENCES (Arkansas Repertory Theatre), RIP TIED (freeFall Theatre), TAKE ME OUT (Caldwell Theatre Company), Triad Stage, Charlotte Repertory Theatre, North Carolina Black Repertory Company, Negro Ensemble Company. National tours: AND STILL I RISE, (written and directed by Maya Angelou), CAMP LOGAN, THE SWEET SPOT. Television: All My Children, Another World, Ryan's Hope, As the World Turns, One Life to Live, The Good Wife, Law & Order. Film: State Property II, The Devil Wears Prada. Studied theatre at Jackson State University and the University of Michigan.

Danielle is a senior at Barnard College majoring in American History and minoring in Spanish. She has continued to pursue theatre throughout her time at Barnard being a part of the Columbia University Black Theatre Ensemble executive board and performing in productions with other theatre groups. Last year she played Titania in the King Crowns Shakespeare Troops production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and played Myrtle in the Great Gatsby the previous fall. She also performed in the senior thesis festival in the production of Pool (No Water). She is so grateful to be a part of this zoom reading of Crumbs from the Table of Joy and can't wait to see how it turns out!

Elijah is a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Theater includes Richard II (The Public Theatre); The Rolling Stone (Lincoln Center); The Many Deaths of Nathan Stubblefield (Humana Festival); Macbeth, A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Airness, As You Like It (Chautauqua Theatre Company). Education: current MFA student at The Juilliard School; BA from Penn State University.

Abigail has acted with Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse (Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Passionata) Manhattan Theatre Club, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Women’s Project, and New Georges, among others. TV and Film includes Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Odd Mom Out, Sex & the City, Law & Order, NYPD Blue and a recurring role on Days of Our Lives. MFA from NYU Graduate Acting Program. Abigail founded Rosalind Productions Inc, a Tony nominated and Drama Desk award-winning company, with the mission to help eradicate gender and racial bias through storytelling. www.RosalindProductions.com and www.AbigailRoseSolomon.com

The Great Novel (New Light Theatre)Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Martha’s VIneyard Playhouse)Dead&Breathing (National Black Theatre) Intimate Apparel(Westport Country Playhouse/SyracuseStageJungle Book,A Raisin in the Sun (Arden Theatre), Flagmaker of Market Street (Alabama Shakespeare), A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre), Gee's Bend (Denver Theatre Center), The Dreams of Sara Breedlove (Goodman Theatre), Doubt (Geva Theatre), Classyass (Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival),Theatre, DC). FilmTV: Blended, Orange Is the New Black, Do No Harm, Deception, Unforgettable, Bored To Death, 30 Rock, The Sopranos, Law & Order, Trial by Jury, Criminal Intent, Sex and the City. Numerous commercials and voiceovers.