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MICHE BRADEN (Sister Rosetta Tharpe) This is Miche’s first time at TheatreSquared. She has previously played this role at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Cleveland Playhouse, and the Arkansas Repertory Theatre. She appeared for many years in The Devil's Music: The Life & Blues of Bessie Smith by Angelo Parra, conceived/directed by Joe Brancato, serving as lead and Musical Director/Arranger and Composer. She and The Devil’s Music have received multiple nominations including Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Carbonell, Off-Broadway Alliance, AUDELCO, LA Critics’ Choice, Beyond Broadway and Connecticut Critics Circle Awards. Miche has appeared in and served as Musical Director/ Arranger for many other stage productions including The People’s Temple, Gee’s Bend, The Bluest Eye and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. She was a member of the band Rough Magic in three productions of The Tempest, which was adapted and directed by Aaron Posner and Teller. She served as Musical Director for their South Coast Repertory production, earning her an LA Critics Choice Awards nomination. She did vocal arrangements for Spike Lee’s Da Sweet Blood of Jesus and has appeared on Law & Order: SVU. She has recorded with Regina Carter, James Carter, Gayelynn McKinney, Postmodern Jukebox, and on her own CD, Diva Out Of Bounds – Ms. Miche. JOHNIQUE MITCHELL (Marie Knight) makes her TheatreSquared debut. She has also had the privilege of portraying Marie in Marie and Rosetta at The Arkansas Rep and The Detroit Public Theatre. Favorite roles include: Olivia in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Marie in Robert O'Hara's Barbeque, and Athena in Mary Zimmerman's Argonautika. She was a part of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2019 and 2020 acting company as Cindy/Dynamite in Hairspray and performed as the understudy to G.K. Marche in How To Catch Creation. She originated the role of Randy in Hansol Jung’s Double Think at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa, and the revised role of Janeece in the premiere of Ruben Santiago Hudson’s Your Blues Aint Sweet Like Mine. She was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. She received her BFA in Acting from Texas State University and her Masters in Acting from Penn State University. She has also studied with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England and Shakespeare’s The Globe in London, England. JORDAN STRICKLAND (Guitar) is a multi-instrumentalist creating with local artists on a range of different projects. He plays keys for Fayetteville based band Honey Collective who have toured the Northeast, but you can also find him singing with Mount Comfort. He is a graduate of the University of Arkansas. MATT NELSON (Piano) makes his TheatreSquared debut. Other theatre credits include: Trike Theatre’s A Year With Frog and Toad, and composed and arranged original music for Trike Theatre’s 2020 Sleepy Hollow and Peter and Wendy. He is a versatile keyboardist with performances ranging from local jazz clubs to international festival tours, spanning styles from jazz, to rock, to gospel and R&B. Chicago credits include performing and arranging for countless artists including Gary Sinise and the Lieutenant Dan Band, comedian,Sandra Bernhard, and hip-hop artist, Lupe Fiasco. Currently, Matt is musical director/arranger of local charitable singalong, Beer & Hymns, performs regularly with jazz group, the Forte Quintet, records frequently at Bentonville’s Haxton Road Studio, and is pianist/organist at First United Methodist Church in downtown Bentonville. Matt was also a featured artist in Crystal Bridges’ 2020 virtual Van Clibern Concert. He grew up playing the piano in the small town of Antioch, IL, and studied jazz performance and arranging at Columbia College Chicago STEVE H. BROADNAX III (Director)is a native Arkansan making his TheatreSquared debut. Thoughts of a Colored Man (Broadway) Katori Hall’s 2021 Pulitzer Prize Première The Hot Wing King at The Signature Theatre, Lee Edward Colston’s The First Deep Breath at Chicago’s Vineyard Theatre (Premiere and Winner of Jeff Awards Best New Work) Dominique Morisseau’s Blood at the Root at the National Black Theatre (Winner of Kennedy Center's Hip Hop Theater Creator Award) and William Jackson Harper’s Premiere Travisville at NYC Ensemble Studio. Ensemble Studio Theatre member and serves as the Resident Director at People’s Light Theatre. Professor of Theatre at Penn State University; Co-Head of MFA Directing. SHAWN IRISH (Production Designer) returns to TheatreSquared, where previous design credits include Shakespeare in Love, Once, Vietgone, The Humans, All the Way, Murder for Two (2020 & 2015), Amadeus, Hamlet, Superior Donuts, Proof, The Spiritualist, The Fall of the House, The 39 Steps,Underneath the Lintel, 'Twas the Night, The Drawer Boy, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Moonlight & Magnolias, and My Father's War (2009). He has also directed camera for the streaming versions of School Girls: or the African Mean Girls Play, At the Wedding, My Father's War, American Mariachi, and Designing Women. Recent credits include 1776, Gypsy (Best Lighting Nominee–broadworld. com) and Meet Me in St. Lous at Ocean State Theatre Company; The Man Who Came to Dinner and The Music Man (Arrowrock Lyceum); Arthur Miller's The Price (Northern Stage); and he serves as resident designer for The Playhouse in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His scenic design for Kin at the University of Arkansas won the 2016 Design Expo Competition in Salt Lake City and will be published in the summer issue of Theatre Design and Technology (TD&T) magazine. His lighting design for Big Love was featured in TD&T and American Theatre magazines and at the Prague Quadrennial. He is the head of lighting design at the University of Arkansas. HOLLY PAYNE (Costume Designer) Holly has designed for American Players Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Wildwood Park for the Arts, Argenta Community Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Skylight Opera, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theatreworks, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Florentine Opera (Milwaukee), Milwaukee Repertory Theater, First Stage Children's Theater (Milwaukee), University of Tulsa, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, University of Arkansas, Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School, Riverside Theater (Vero Beach, FL), Hendrix College, and TheatreSquared. She teaches technical theatre at Hendrix
College. She holds an M.F.A. in Costume Design and Technology from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She lives in Bigelow, AR with her dear husband Aaron and their darling dogs. MERIT GLOVER (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working with TheatreSquared for the first time. Recent regional credits include stage managing Marie & Rosetta and Primating, assistant stage managing Million Dollar Quartet (Arkansas Repertory Theatre), stage managing Charlotte's Web (Flat Rock Playhouse), and working as the COVID Compliance Officer for Sojourner (Quintessence Theatre). He graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a BA in Theatre Arts and Spanish. ROBERT FORD (Artistic Director) is an award-winning playwright, novelist & musician who helped found TheatreSquared in 2005, where he has co-produced 75 plays and musicals and facilitated the development of over 55 new works. The current season features his play My Father’s War, which premiered at T2 in 2008. With Amy Herzberg, he co-adapted two versions of A Christmas Carol for T2. T2 has produced several of his plays, including Fault, The Spiritualist, The Fall of the House (also Alabama Shakespeare Festival—Edgar Award nominee), Look Away, 'Twas the Night, and adaptations of Great Expectations and It's a Wonderful Life. His critically acclaimed first novel, The Student Conductor, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. He holds a M.Mus. degree from Yale and M.F.A.'s in acting from Rutgers and in playwriting & screenwriting from the University of Texas at Austin. MARTIN MILLER (Executive Director/Producer) joined T2 in 2009, and has since produced more than 100 plays and developmental works, grown the theatre's annual budget from $160K to $7MM, and expanded its audience twentyfold. He managed the design, construction and fundraising for T2's new 50,000-square-foot theatre center. He established the National Stages Program, a consortium of theatres offering reciprocal member benefits, and has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and Theatre Communications Group. As associate producer for Chicago Shakespeare Theater, he oversaw many projects including commissioning the bilingual Romeo y Juliet from Karen Zacarías, as well as tours and transfers of works by the Second City and Q Brothers. He holds a B.A. from Carleton College and M.F.A. in Arts Leadership from The Theatre School, DePaul. GEORGE BRANT Plays include Grounded, Marie and Rosetta, Into the Breeches!, Elephant’s Graveyard, The Prince of Providence, Tender Age, The Land of Oz, Dark Room, Grizzly Mama, Good on Paper, The Mourners’ Bench, Salvage, Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, Any Other Name, Defiant, Miracle: A Tragedy, Ashes, NOK, The Lonesome Hoboes, All Talk, One Hand Clapping, The Royal Historian of Oz, Lovely Letters, Three Men in a Boat, Borglum! The Mount Rushmore Musical, Tights on a Wire and Night of the Mime. Brant's work has been produced internationally by such companies as the Public Theater, The Atlantic Theater Company, Trinity Repertory Company, Cleveland Play House, The Alley Theatre, Studio Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory, City Theatre, Gate Theatre of London, Page 73, Traverse Theatre, Dobama Theatre, and the Disney Channel, among others. His plays have been generously developed by the Metropolitan Opera, The Playwrights' Center, Asolo Rep, McCarter Theatre Center, New Harmony Project, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, WordBRIDGE Playwright’s Lab, InterAct Theatre, Theatre @ Boston Court, Playwright and Director Center of Moscow, Florida Studio Theatre, Contemporary Drama Festival of Hungary, the Hangar Theatre, and Equity Library Theatre, among others. His scripts have been awarded a Lucille Lortel Award, an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, a Scotsman Fringe First Award, an Off-West End Theatre Award for Best Production, an NNPN Rolling World Premiere, the Smith Prize, the Keene Prize for Literature, a Theatre Netto Festival Prize, a Creative Workforce Fellowship, the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center and three Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards. He has received writing fellowships from the James A. Michener Center for Writers, the McCarter Theatre Sallie B. Goodman Artist's Retreat, the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Hermitage Artists' Retreat and the Blue Mountain Center as well as commissions from the Metropolitan Opera, Trinity Repertory Company, Cleveland Play House, Dobama Theatre and Theatre 4. George received his MFA in Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. He is published by Samuel French, Oberon Books, Fisher Verlage and Smith & Kraus.
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