Jackie Sibblies Drury is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Her critically acclaimed play Fairview premiered in 2018 at Soho Rep. Other plays include We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915; Really and Social Creatures. Drury’s plays have been presented by New York City Players and Abrons Arts Center, Soho Rep, Victory Gardens, Trinity Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Undermain Theatre, InterAct Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Company One, and the Bush Theatre in London, among others. Her work has been developed at the Bellagio Center, Sundance, The Ground Floor, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ars Nova, A.C.T., the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, NYTW, PRELUDE, The Bushwick Starr, and MacDowell. Drury is a NYTW Usual Suspect, a United States Artists Gracie Fellow, has received a Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists, a Jerome Fellowship at The Lark, a Windham-Campbell Literary Prize in Drama, and is a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

Eric Ruffin, is the Artistic Director for Howard University’s Department of Theatre Arts.

His directing credits include Fabulation for Mosaic Theater, Stirring the Waters Across America at The Reach (Kennedy Center), Mountaintop and A Raisin in the Sun for Lyric Rep. Three Cheers for Grace for Young Playwrights Theater, Sarafina! at Kennedy Center, Black Nativity for Theater Alliance (3 Helen Hayes Awards including Best Musical) and 2-2 Tango at Studio Theatre. He has also directed Radio Golf, Hurt Village, Venus, Passing Strange, and Cut Flowers at the Ira Aldridge Theatre.

Ruffin holds a B.F.A. from Howard University and an MFA from Rutgers University. He is a Stage Directors and Choreographers Associate, a former Drama League Directing Fellow, Folger Theatre Acting Fellow, NY Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect and Princess Grace Grant recipient for dance. He was recently commissioned by Studio Theatre to develop the “Port Chicago 50” story and serves on Woolly Mammoth Theatre’s Board.

MOSAIC THEATER: After the War. DC AREA: Folger Theatre: Love’s Labor’s Lost, Second Shepherd’s Play, Twelfth Night, Gaming Table, As You Like It, The Game of Love and Chance; Shakespeare Theatre Co: Love’s Labor’s Lost, Lady Windermere’s Fan, School for Lies; Round House Theatre: Spring Awakening, Curious Incident, Alice, Wrinkle in Time, Crime and Punishment; Arena Stage: Age of Innocence; Olney Theatre Center: Fickle, Rancho Mirage, The Millionairess; Kennedy Center: American Scrapbook, Unleashed, Shear Madness; Studio Theatre: The Internationalist, The Long Christmas Ride Home; Theater J: Jewish Queen Lear, Yellow Face, Mikveh; Ford’s Theatre: Sabrina Fair; Constellation Theatre: Skin of Our Teeth (Helen Hayes Lead Actress nomination); also Solas Nua, 1st Stage, Imagination Stage; company member at Taffety Punk Theatre Company. REGIONAL: Cleveland Play House, Cincinnati Playhouse, Fulton Theatre, Totem Pole Playhouse, Public Theatre of Maine, Purple Rose Theatre, Human Race Theatre. tonyabeckman.com

Kim Bey is honored to be joining Mosaic Theatre for this production of Marys Seacole. Previous credits include in Round House Theatre’s Adrienne Kennedy Festival as Suzanne in Sleep Deprivation Chamber. Other recent credits include Raisin in the Sun (Lena Younger) at Utah’s Lyric Repertory Company; Beneatha’s Place (Auntie Fola) at Baltimore Center Stage; and Little Foxes (Addie) at Arena Stage. Additional NY acting credits include productions at Second Stage Theater, John Houseman Theater, and The Actor’s Studio. Regional credits include St. Louis Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Play House, and Delaware Theatre Company. Kim is a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, with multiple credits as a Voice and Dialect coach. Education: Howard University (BFA), Rutgers University (MFA), British American Drama Academy at Oxford, National Alliance of Acting Teachers, and The Shakespeare Theatre Fellowship.

Tina Fabrique is thrilled to be playing Duppy Mary in this marvelous production of Marys Seacole. Tina’s Broadway/New York credits include How To Succeed — Ragtime. — Gospel At Colonus — Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope — Bring In Da Noise — 70 Girls 70 — Truly Blessed — The Wiz 1st Nat’l Tour — “ELLA” The Musical — Once On This Island — South Pacific — The Women of Brewster Place. Television: New Amsterdam — Blue Bloods — The Last OG. — God Friended Me — Law and Order CI — Law and Order SVU

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Megan Graves is thrilled to be making her Mosaic Theater debut with Marys Seacole! Recent credits include The Thanksgiving Play, Oil (American premiere, Olney Theatre Center), The Great Society, The Little Foxes (Arena Stage), Love’s Labor’s Lost, King John, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Second Shepherd’s Play (Folger Theatre), Gloria (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), Translations (Studio Theatre), and Peter and the Starcatcher (Constellation Theatre Company). Upcoming: Dance Nation (Olney Theatre Center). Megan is a proud company member of Only Make Believe, a non-profit organization that creates theatre with children in hospitals, care facilities, and special education settings. www.onlymakebelieve.org

Amanda Morris Hunt is a Jamaican-born actor, playwright, and filmmaker based in Queens, NY.

After earning her B.F.A in Acting from Howard University she went on to lead the world premiere of Charly Evon Simpson’s play, form of a girl unknown at the Salt Lake Acting Company in Salt Lake City, UT. She also went on to play Beneatha Younger in Lorraine Hansbery’s A Raisin in the Sun. Amanda has been fortunate enough to share her craft at major venues such as The Mann Center in Philadelphia, The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and La Mama Experimental Theatre in New York City. She gives all the glory to God, always.

Claire Schoonover is originally from the North of England close to Manchester. Claire returned to acting in 2007, since which she has gratefully performed in and around the DMV as well as abroad on a regular basis. Married to an American for the last 30+ years she relocated with her family from Europe to Washington DC in 2013 attending the Theater Lab Honors conservatory. She holds an MFA from GWU graduating from the Academy for Classical Acting in 2017. Most recently she was in the cast of Oil at Olney Theater Center as well as Ripcord at Keegan Theatre. This is her debut at Mosaic and she is immensely grateful for the opportunity.

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Emily is a freelance designer based in Washington DC and a Helen Hayes Award Nominee for Outstanding Scenic Design for Princess & the Pauper - A Bollywood Tale at Imagination Stage. Recent credits include Little Shop of Horrors and The Wiz at ArtsCentric, The War Boys at Ally Theatre Company, Matilda at Nextstop Theatre Company, The Diary of Anne Frank and Dracula at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Elephant and Piggie: We Are In A Play at First Stage, and Always... Patsy Cline at Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Recent assistant credits include How To Catch A Star and She A Gem at The Kennedy Center. For more information on Lotz’s work please visit her website at www.emilylotzdesign.com

OFF-BROADWAY: Migration-Reflections on Jacob Lawrence (National Tour). TELEVISION (PBS): No Child. DC AREA: Daphne’s Dive, Mother Goose, This Bitter Earth, Topdog/Under Dog (Helen Hayes Nomination), Fabulation or the Re-Education of Undine, Marie and Rosetta, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Airness, Darius and Twig, Black Nativity, Disgraced, HERstory, Black Berry Winter, The Gospel at Colonus, Happiness (and Other Reasons to Die), King Lear, Broke-ology, American Moor, Anne and Emmett (National and European Tour). REGIONAL: Chad Deity, Quamino’s Map, Once, Kill Move Paradise, Paradise Blue, Skeleton Crew, Royale, The Snowy Day and Other Stories. UPCOMING REGIONAL: Sheepdog, House of the Negro Insane and Haint Blu. He holds a BFA in Lighting Design from North Carolina School of the Arts.

Mona Kasra is a new media artist and Associate Professor of Digital Media Design in the Department of Drama at the University of Virginia (UVA). Her selected design credits include: We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War (Golden Thread Productions, San Francisco), Keffiyeh/Made in China (Mosaic Theater DC), Holy Bone, Flesh World, (w)hole, T.N.B, blahblah (DWZ, Dallas), When the Rain Stops Falling, Seven Guitars, Arctic Circle, [I]nquiry, Phase 3-ii, She Kills Monsters (Charlottesville), PETE (Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, Dallas). Mona is a member of DWZ, a Dallas-based collective dedicated to post-disciplinary, place-based explorations of new, old and yet to be revealed forms of performance. She holds an MFA in Video Art and a PhD in Arts & Technology.

Moyenda Kulemeka is a costume designer returning to Mosaic after having designed Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine in 2019. Some of her recent credits include: John Proctor is The Villain at Studio Theatre; Daphne’s Dive and Detroit ‘67 at Signature Theatre; The Phlebotomist and The Brothers Size at 1st Stage; A Chorus Within Her at Theater Alliance; Cinderella at Synetic Theater; Distance Frequencies: Transmission with Rorschach Theatre; Working, A Musical presented on Black Lives Matter Plaza; and La Tía Julia Y El Escribidor and Exquisita Agonía at GALA Hispanic Theatre, as well as A Raisin in the Sun at Utah’s Caine Lyric Theatre, among others. Moyenda holds a BA in Theatre from the University of Maryland and is a proud member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829, IATSE. Photos of her work can be found at moyendadesigns.com

In 2012, Cresent received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Arts Technology, with a focus in Sound Design. In 2014, she received her first theatre review for her work as Sound Designer on the production Not About Nightingales directed by Eric Ruffin, describing her sound design as “an omniscient, foreboding force, ambitious in scope…” Since then, her credits include: Fabulation (Mosaic Theater Company), HER-story (Kennedy Center), The Laramie Project (Duke Ellington School of the Arts), BLKS, A Strange Loop (Woolly Mammoth Theater), N (Keegan Theatre), Use All Available Doors (Pinky Swear Productions), Hope in the Hood (Amazing Grace Conservatory) and more. Cresent Haynes is also a freelance Live Audio Engineer and Visual Artist. She has aspirations to one-day design on Broadway and continue touring with various performing artists as their Live Audio Engineer, all while continuing to fill spaces with her original art exhibits and paintings. Training: Howard University. (www.linktr.ee/cresentrochelle)

Deb Thomas is a set and props designer. Mosaic Props Design work: Private, Marys Seacole, Birds of North America, Eureka Day and Milk Like Sugar. Studio Theatre work: Props Director from 2009 to 2019; Studio set design for Terminus; Studio props design for John Proctor is The Villain, Pass Over, Fun Home, Love-Valor-Compassion, Sylvia, Suburbia, Slavs!; Theatre J props design for The Tale of The Allergist’s Wife and Freud’s Last Session. Currently in development: a production design project for NIST, a historical documentary set in 1947-1953. In addition to national commercials, TV/Film work includes: original set design for Discovery Channel’s Puppy Bowl, sculptor and sculpture consultant for 2011-2013 seasons of TLC’s reality show DC Cupcake; Washington bureau set design for TV Tokyo; Natty G pilot set design for National Geographic; production design for PBS American Experience Dolley Madison, art direction for PBS American Experience Alexander Hamilton, and set and props design for Discovery Channel’s Moments in Time: Jamestown, Against All Odds.

Teisha is a multi-and interdisciplinary performer/theatre maker who works as an actress, vocalist, movement artist, director, scholar and educator. Some of her Acting Credits include: Disney’s The Lion King, Caroline or Change, Tartuffe, Sarafina, The Secret Garden, Do Wager, Lysistrata, In the Jungle of Cities, Purlie, The Bluest Eye, and A Chorus Line. Directing Credits: Virtual Theatre (I Can’t Breathe, The Arithmetic of Memory, Good For You and Cloud Watching). Plays: *El Mito or the Myth of My Pain, Scarlet Letters, *The Children from the Blue Mountain, Get Off (The Bus), Agamemnon, Truth be Told, Morgue Memoirs, Anything for you, The Romantics, and Downside Up. Movement/Puppetry/Intimacy Direction: Heddatron, Baby Makes Seven, The Chaparral, Somewhere, Wiley and the Hairy Man, Little Shop of Horrors and Baltimore. Teisha is currently an Artist-In-Residence at Skidmore College where she is part of the Acting Faculty. At Skidmore Theatre, Teisha has worked as Movement Director, Puppet Choreographer and Intimacy Director/Coordinator for Mainstage and Black Box productions. Teisha proudly hails from Kingston, Jamaica (Xaymaca).  

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Shayna O’Neill is a stage manager, production manager, and producer. DC-area credits include Studio Theatre (White Noise, Wig Out!), Rep Stage, Folger Theatre, Imagination Stage, and The Kennedy Center (cue-caller/SM for the National Symphony Orchestra’s Pops! Series, including concerts with Diana Ross, Leslie Odom Jr., Babyface, Ingrid Michaelson, and will.i.am.) Off-Broadway credits include MCC Theater, Fault Line Theatre (Hindsight, Round Table, The Oregon Trail), Classical Theatre of Harlem, Page 73, National Yiddish Theatre, HERE Arts Center, The Tank, Target Margin, The Atlantic, EST, The Acting Company, and TFANA. Regionally, they’ve worked with Elm Shakespeare, International Festival of Arts & Ideas (5 years), Trinity Rep, Dorset Theatre Festival, Delaware REP, and numerous Chicago venues. Shayna was the Production & Operations Manager for the Yale Baroque Opera Project in New Haven, CT for 3 years, and their PSM for 5 years. He is the co-founder of Three Angry Ladies, producing fundraising events for Immigrant Families Together and the Ali Forney Center. Shayna is the co-producer of Dirty Laundry: Unpacking The Costume Closet, a podcast exploring the intersection of costumes and social issues. She holds a BFA in Stage Management from The Theatre School at DePaul University. For J.A.S.O.N.