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Bernard K. Addison: recent: King of France, All’s Well That Ends Well (A Noise Within). LA: Chutes&Ladders, Water by the Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum), Citizen: An American Lyric (Kirk Douglas), Romeo and Juliet (Ahmanson), Solly Two Kings, Gem of the Ocean (u/s, A Noise Within), As You Like It, The Curse of Oedipus (Antaeus), Off the Rails (Native Voices), Prometheus Bound (Getty Villa), Citizen: An American Lyric, The Ballad of Emmett Till, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Fountain Theatre), Mother Courage (Theatre @ Boston Court). Regional: Shakespeare Santa Cruz: Ghost/Claudius, Hamlet, Bottom, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in San Francisco, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, the Denver Theatre Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Long Wharf Theatre, the Shakespeare Theatre (DC), PlayMakers Rep. New York: Broadway (Electra). Film: Celebrity, The Farm. television: Modern Family, Rake, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Weeds, Frasier, Law and Order. Awards: Ovation and LADCC for Acting Ensemble: The Ballad of Emmett Till. Bernard is also an educator, teaching acting and voice and directing at Los Angeles High School of the Arts and Cortines High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, as well as a teaching artist for Center Theatre Group.

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LEITH BURKE Other theater credits include Judgement at Nuremburg on Broadway; Multiple seasons with the Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and Oregon Shakespeare Festivals; Antony and Cleopatra at the Guthrie; Miss Julie at San Jose Rep.; National tours with the S.F. Mime Troupe; the premieres of Neighbors at the Matrix Theater and Citizen at the Fountain. Film includes: The Tiger Hunter; 11th Green; Bloodline and Suburbicon. Television includes: Life in Pieces, Hawaii Five-O, Cherish the Day; You; Bosch; Real Husbands of Hollywood; Grey’s Anatomy; Parenthood; NCIS; Criminal Minds; CSI: NY; Eastsiders; and the West Wing.

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Some theatres include the Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Pasadena Playhouse, the Fountain Theatre, Odyssey, Plaza de la Raza, Stages, John Anson Ford Theatre, LA Theatre Works, Playwrights Horizons and the Cherry Lane Theatre. Tony has received six Drama-Logue Awards, three LA Weekly Awards, a Garland Award, an Ovation Award, three Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Circle Nominations and one LACCD Award for his various performances. He has acted in over 40 film and television roles.

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Adenrele Ojo is a multi-AUDIE Award winner, has received several Earphone Awards and was one of Audiofile’s Best Voices of the Year 2015. She is a wearer of many creative hats: actress, audiobook narrator, producer and photographer. Adenrele is a professional actor and has performed in such plays as: August Wilson’s Jitney and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (nominated for an L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Featured Actress) and The Ballad of Emmett Till (winner of the 2010 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award & the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Ensemble) both at The Fountain Theatre. As well as the Fountain’s production of CITIZEN: An American Lyric. Some of her film credits include Family, ELEVATE and Lifetime’s Within. Ojo's many audiobooks include: Stacey Abrams’s, While Justice Sleeps, The Premonition by Michael Lewis, The Queen: Aretha Franklin by Mikal Gilmore, The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America by Marcus J. Moore and The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones.

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is honored to be a member of the Fountain Theatre family, Monnae Michaell’s work spans TV, film, theatre, animation and commercials. Nominated for an NAACP Theatre Award for her role as Tanya in King Hedley III (Mark Taper) and considered for an Emmy nomination for her work in Flight ’93, as Lisa Jefferson, some of her favorite stage roles have been Half George in the road weeps, the well runs dry/LTC, Martha Pentecost/Joe Turner’s Come and Gone/ ASF, & Ruth Younger in A Raisin In The Sun/ Filmed for Lincoln Center Archives). Recent films - The Drop (Hulu) and Going For Two (soon) Currently she can be seen on S.W.A.T., Criminal Minds Evolution and Survival of the Thickest (soon) in recurring roles.

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Television guest stars include: Hacks,The Mentalist, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Parenthood, Without A Trace, Criminal Minds, Cold Case and a recurring role on Seinfeld. Film work includes: The M Word and Queen of the Lot directed by Henry Jaglom and Stealing Roses with the late John Heard. Lisa also directed and acted in her first short festival film, the award winning comedy Wedding Jimmy. Besides acting in numerous LA theater productions over the last 20 years, Lisa was a co-founder/ producer with the Beverly Hills Playhouse Production Company developing mostly original works. Currently she is enjoying her newest venture of traveling and teaching acting seminars around the world.

It’s been an honor and a dream come true to work at the Fountain Theater and Grand Performances with this amazing group of dedicated artists on such a life changing play.

Production Stage Manager

Sati Thyme is thrilled to be the Stage Manager for CITIZEN. Sati has been involved in Theatre her entire life in many different aspects, from performing to tech to management and more. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Stage Management from CSU Fullerton and typically works as a Stage Manager all over the LA/OC area. This past year, she has been expanding her travel/tour experience having traveled to Abu Dhabi & Alaska for work. Sati is incredibly grateful for all of the opportunities she has had in Theatre so far and is overjoyed to be working with The Fountain Theatre again on this incredible show!

Author

is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely. For Citizen, Rankine won the Forward Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the PEN Open Book Award, and the NAACP Image Award. A finalist for the National Book Award, Citizen also holds the distinction of being the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category. She lives in New York City and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry.

Adaptor

is the author of 13 plays, including Citizen: An American Lyric (adaptor), Cyrano (L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award), Bakersfield Mist (London’s West End, starring Kathleen Turner), Central Avenue (PEN Award finalist), Sweet Nothing in My Ear (PEN Award finalist), and others. He wrote the teleplay for Sweet Nothing in My Ear for CBS starring Marlee Matlin and Jeff Daniels. Sachs was honored by the Los Angeles City Council for “his visionary contributions to the cultural life of Los Angeles.”

Director

is an award-winning international director and actress. She has worn her director’s hat in some of the most respected theatre houses across the country including McCarter Theatre, The Pasadena Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Play House, The Fountain Theatre, L.A. Theatre Works, Crossroads Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville

Lighting Design

Alison Brummer - Lighting Design.

Alison designed the lighting for “ROE” and “Flicker” at the Fountain Theater and is currently working on the upcoming production of “”The Lifespan of a Fact”.

From 2011 - 2015 Alison was the Lighting Director at Grand Performances.

(Scenic and Media Design) is a scenic and projection designer for theatre, opera, and all forms of live performance. Her most recent design credits include set and projection design for Sweep at Aurora Theatre directed by Abigail Vega; Single Black Female at Crossroads Theatre Company directed by Shirley Jo Finney; and projection design for A Mexican Trilogy: An American Story directed by José Luis Valenzuela at LATC. Yee Eun is a recipient of the Cirque du Soleil Fellowship Award. www.yeeeunnam.com s here

(Costume Design). Credits include Neighbors, The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water, The Ballad of Emmett Till, Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Scottsboro Boys, The Color Purple, The Women of Brewster Place: The Musical. The Robey Theatre Company: The Magnificent Dunbar Hotel, Anna Lucasta, Bronzeville, The River Niger, A House With No Walls, Permanent Collection, and all three parts of The Haitian Trilogy.

(Original Music and Sound Design). Select theatre credits include South Coast Repertory, Boston Court, A Noise Within, The Fountain Theatre, Antaeus Theatre Company, The Colony Theatre, The Actors Gang, Rogue Machine Theatre, Skylight Theatre Company, and The Elephant Theatre Company. Other regional credits include American Repertory Theater, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and Shakespeare and Company. Bayne is active as a composer in film and television. He produces leftfield dance music and performs as a multi-instrumentalist.

(Movement Director) was nominated for an NAACP Award for Best Choreography for Citizen at The Fountain Theatre. As an actor, she was recently in Mac Wellman’s The Offending Gesture at Son of Semele, Jonathan Caren’s Friends in Transient Places, and Gypsy on Netflix. Ms. Magazine named Anastasia’s award-winning solo show Gracie and Rose the “Top 10 Feminist Pick of the Hollywood Fringe