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Season 1
The Gaze Season 1
Episode 109 Director: Bianca LaVerne Jones
a satiric dramedy series about the decolonization of the black imagination.
In between BLM protests and existential quarantine queries, Larry Powell adapted his play The Gaze...No Homo (2020/2021 Eugene O'Neill NPC Finalist) into a New Media Series.
This series of twelve short-form episodes produced through artistic protest in support of Black Lives. In support of All Black Lives-- in these streets, in the entertainment industry and in the decolonized future we are demanding to see! It’s about an openly black queer artist navigating all the things while in a rehearsal process at a very white American Theatre festival.
THE GAZE is a cycle of plays that examines the process of building culturally specific and queer works of color in historically white spaces. It tackles hard topics like racism head on. It wrestles with the question:
Why strain to be free under a gaze fixed on your imprisonment when it’s you who is holding the key? Why stay? Go where? No Homo is the first play in the cycle.
THE CAST
Galen J. Williams
as Jerome Price
Galen J. Williams was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended Tri-Cities High School where his artistic journey began in the Visual and Performing Arts Magnet Program, from where he proceeded on to graduate with his BFA in Theatre Arts from Howard University in 2013. Upon graduating, he went on to tour the nation, including Canada, in the first and second national tours of Motown the musical. He then made his Broadway debut at the Nederlander theater as a member of the returning Broadway cast. He is currently approaching his final year of graduate school, pursuing his MFA in Acting at the University of Southern California. BROADWAY: Motown the Musical TV: POSE (FX Networks) Off-Broadway: Three Little Birds, Regional theaters: 2-2 Tango (Studio Theatre, DC), The Little Mermaid (Musical Theatre West, Long Beach).
TC Carson
as Buddy DuBois
TC Carson is perhaps best known for his role as Kyle Barker on the hit 90's sitcom Living Single. His character was a series regular for the first four seasons, and Carson provided the voice of Samuel in the PBS Kids animated series Clifford the Big Red Dog. Other credits include the Star Wars: Clone Wars series, Final Destination 2 and the voice of multiple character in video games, including the male voice of Guillo in the GameCube RPG Baten Kaitos Origins and Touchstone in the PlayStation Portable shooter Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror.
Eugene Byrd
as Kendrell Thompson
Eugene Byrd's movie appearances include Star Wars, Dr. Clark Edison in the FOX hit Bones, Arrow, The Mentalist, Numbers, Life, Crossing Jordan, Heroes, Law and Order: SVU among several others. His feature film credits include Julia, Sleepers, 8 Mile, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid and How to Make Love to a Woman. Other highlights include the Sundance favorite Lift with Kerry Washington and a pivotal role in the 2009 feature Easier with Practice. In 2006 he won the Break-Out Performance Award at the Method Fest Independent Film Festival for his leading role in the movie Confess.
Jason “Freckle” Greene
as Tee
Freckle Greene is an American actor, internet personality, and model known for his work on The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo, Everything Is Free, and Something Round.
Sharon Lawrence
as Miranda Cryer
Sharon Lawrence may be best-known for her multiply Emmy Award-nominated and SAG Award winning portrayal of ADA Sylvia Costas Sipowicz in NYPD Blue. She has also appeared, among many roles, in Desperate Housewives, Monk, Criminal Minds, Law and Order: SVU, and Rizzoli & Isles -- not to mention having bantered with Alfred Molina on Ladies Man and beat up Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
A former Chair of Women In Film Foundation, she is affiliated with the Board of Directors of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation as well as WeForShe.org, HealTheBay.org, and UNC-Chapel Hill General Alumni Association.
Devere Rogers
as Shaun Korey
Devere Rogers is an actor, playwright, screenwriter, producer, and director. Born and raised in Atlanta, GA and a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts. As an actor, he has performed in plays, musicals, and workshops on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally, as well as having roles on such TV shows like Grey's Anatomy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and Will & Grace. Most recently, he starred in the NBC pilot Friends-In-Law, is recurring on IFC’s Sherman’s Showcase, and co-starring in the action comedy My Spy with Dave Bautista and Ken Jeong on Amazon Prime this summer. As a writer, he wrote the critically acclaimed short film Ying & Yang as well as having an Off-Broadway workshop production of his play Excuse Me Ladies and Gentlemen. He is currently developing a TV show with Paul Feig’s PowderKeg and Fox 21 in addition to writing and developing several film and TV projects.
Yvette Cason
as Sherry Grosse
Yvette Cason is American television, theatre, and film actress, and a former Miss Black America from Washington, D.C. Her films include A Wrinkle in Time and My Name is Myeisha and Dreamgirls,, in which she played May, the mother of Deena Jones, portrayed by Beyoncé Knowles in the feature film version of Dreamgirls. She also appeared in an episode of the sitcom The King of Queens as Mrs. Blanchard in the episode "Road Rayge". Her early musical training (while growing up in Washington, DC) was at The Sewell Music Conservatory.
CREATED BY
Larry Powell
LARRY POWELL is a writer, actor, director and producer born and raised in South Central LA. As an actor he’s originated and premiered roles in some of the most exciting new plays in America including The Christians by Lucas Hnath, The Legend of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez, Father Comes Home From The Wars by Suzan Lori Parks opposite Sterling K. Brown, Brokeology by Nathan Louis Jackson, and While I Yet Live by Billy Porter (playing the lead role based on Billy Porter). He is a two-time Ovation Award nominee, three-time NAACP Theatre Award Nominee, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Award Nominee, two-time LA Drama Critics Circle Award Winner, as well as an Audelco and Audie award nominee. Stars as Lawrence in the movie The Browsing Effect (Now Streaming). Larry is also a published playwright and professional screenwriter. He most recently finished as screenwriter on an upcoming feature film which wrapped in NYC spring 2019. He has three plays that will receive world premieres over the next two years. He is a core playwright at the Lark Play Development Center. As a director he has worked with several contemporary playwrights on exciting new works directing fancy staged readings and workshops. As well as his own feature film project Mother’s Milk. He has been mentored by the likes of Michele Shay, Robert O’Hara, Elizabeth Van Dyke and Phylicia Rashad (Assistant Director; Center Theatre Group’s production of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom). Larry is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Southern California’s School of Dramatic Arts MFA Acting program. Larry is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama and the Founder/Creative Director of The Freedom Workshop a master-class acting intensive program providing high-performance training and resources to historically marginalized artists on the rise in the mainstream entertainment industry.
Angelica Robinson
ANGELICA ROBINSON is a Creative Producer committed to creating engaging content that embraces diverse images of the multicultural human experience. After 15 years at major studios and production companies including NBC Universal, Chernin Entertainment, ITV Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, Ms. Robinson formed Tell Me A Story Productions, which develops and produces premium content for Film, Television and digital media, highlighting the African American experience and diversity at the center of each story. Recently, she produced Season 2 of comedy web-series Gym Life, the multimedia feature drama, Mother’s Milk, and Season 1 of the virtually-produced new media series, The Gaze. She currently has two projects in development that were finalists at the 2020 National Playwrights Conference at the O’Neill Theater Center and another feature project in development with Kronicle Media.