The Seven
Company Biographies

Uzo Aduba
Second Woman / Amphiarus
NYC: Roots of Rap Poetry (Woman #1, Interborough Rep), DUCHESS IN ALICE (York Theatre Co.). Regional: TREMBLING SALLY IN ABYSSINIA (The Goodspeed & Shubert Theatre), TEREUS IN FRAGMENTS (BCA). Thanks to family, friends, cast and crew for their work and support.

Shawtane Monroe Bowen
Third Man / Hippomedon
Recent Roles: Desire Under the Elms (Simeon Cabot), Provok'd Wife(Cornet)The Trans-figuration of Benno Blimpie (Benno Blimpie), Spring Awakening (Moritz). Shawtane is a recent graduate from the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theatre School Institute for Advanced Theatre Training.

Jamyl Dobson
Polynices
Off-Broadway debut! NYTW: Workshop of THE SEVEN. Regional: Alliance Theatre, Freedom Theatre, PA Shakespeare Festival, Philadelphia Public Theatre Co., and Iowa Summer Rep.

Amber Efé
DJ/Dance Captain
Broadway: DAMN YANKEES (Amas). Regional: DREAMGIRLS (Arkansas Rep), DISS DISS... (New Federal), ABK...(Columbia), IKENS PERVERSION (New Center), BREATHE (Hip Hop Theatre Festival). Choreography: BLACKFOOTNOTES (EST), HUE (Bosakowski). Print: Nike, Coca-Cola, Nordstrom, fitness, Self, Readers’ Digest, XM. Alumna-Howard University, North Atlanta HS for the Arts, Jacobs’ Pillow, Broadway Theatre Project.

Edwin Lee Gibson
Oedipus / Laius
Off-Broadway: THREE SECONDS IN THE KEY (PS 122), FIVE ‘TIL (Dixon Place), MO’NIN’ (Intar Theatre), KNUCKLEHEAD (78th St. Theatre Lab). Regional: BREATH BOOM (Huntington Theatre), CHECKMATES (Ensemble Theatre). Writing credits: KNUCKLEHEAD (1999), MO’NIN’ (2000), FIVE ‘TIL (2001), PLACEBO (2004).

Benton Greene
Eteolcles
Off-Broadway and Regional: comedy of errors (Princeton Rep Shakespeare Festival), dream on monkey mountain (Classical Theater of Harlem), MANILOVA, ENRICO IV (American Conservatory Theater), TWO GENTLEMAN OF VERONA (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), LANGUAGE OF ANGELS, REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DALI MAKE ME HOT. Film & TV: She Smokes, Technolust, “Law and Order: SVU,” “Nash Bridges.”

Manuel Herrera
Eteoclus/First Man
BROADWAY: THE MUSIC MAN (Tommy Djilas), WICKED (Chistery, Original Cast), SWEET CHARITY (Herman the Fandango Owner, Original Revival Cast). Off-Broadway: GOLDEN BOY (City Center Encores). National Commercials: Joe Boxer, Winterfresh, Optimum Online and Mervyns.’ Many thanks to Mom, Dad, Mike, El, Mac and always and forever my heart and life my wife Corinne.

FLACO NAVAJA
Tydeus
NYTW: SLANGUAGE. Credits: DEF POETRY (International Tour, HBO), MOMM 92 BOYZ (Cast Theatre LA), TEA (PS122). Flaco is a member of the Nuyorican Rule (Sketch Comedy Group), Yerbabuena (Puerto Rican Music). Film: On the Outs (in Theatres Jan 15th).

Tom Nelis
Right Hand
NYTW: SCORE, THE MEDIUM. Broadway: AIDA. Off-Broadway: GROSS INDECENCIES (Cherry Lane), HOT AND THROBBING (Signature), HOT MOUTH (MTC), RICHARD III, HENRY VI, MERCHANT OF VENICE, TI’S PITY SHE’S A WHORE, HENRY IV, MOBY DICK (Ahab), PEARLS FOR PIGS, 14 years with the SITI COMPANY. Awards: OBIE

POSTELL PRINGLE
Greek Hip-Hop Chorus/ Capennus/ Second Man
Off-Broadway: DRIVING ON THE LEFT SIDE, ROMEO & JULIET. Regional and Touring: LOBBY HERO, MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS, HERCULES IN HIGH SUBURBIA, BOMBITTY OF ERRORS, A SOLDIERS’ PLAY, THE ACTION AGAINST SOL SCHUMANN, A GUIDED CONSIDERATION OF A LAMENTABLE DEAD. Film: Just Another Story, Unknown Soldier, The Making of Americans, The Edge of Town, Orange Bow. TV: “Law and Order,” “Law and Order: Criminal Intent,” “Guiding Light.” Pos was born and raised in Decatur, GA and is a graduate of Bates College and the Marymount London Dram Conservatory, is a hip-hop emcee, producer and AEA member since 1998.

Pearl Sun
First Woman / Parthenopaeus
Recent credits: reading of Legally Blonde: the musical, The Irrationals (ATA), Shout! (AMAS) James McBride’s The Corner (Radio Pilot for NPR). Tours: Sheila in Hair (European Tour), and Comrade Chin in M. Butterfly. BFA: NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Pearl is thrilled to be part of THE SEVEN after originating the role of Parthenopaeus in the NYTW readings.

Charles Turner
Recorded Voice / Aeschylus
Broadway: ON GOLDEN POND (stepped in for James Earl Jones). Other Credits: Gloucester (Yale Rep, King Lear), CHERRY ORCHARD (Gayev) , THE ASPHALT KISS (Aprigio), MANDELA (lead), AMAS/CROSSROADS, THE OEDIPUS PLAYS (Athens Festival), The Persians (NAT). Awards: Audelco Award- Best Director for BESSIE SMITH. TV: “Law and Order,” “Dave Chappelle Show.” Charles is a native of Harlem and Bronx, New York.

Will Power
Playwright
NYTW: FLOW. Off-Broadway: THE GATHERING (Performance Space 122). Regional: HIP HOP THEATER ALL STARS (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ASU Public Events, Walker Arts Center, Mark Taper Forum P.L.A.Y), St. Louis Black Rep, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Theater Artaud, The Painted Bride, Penumbra Theater, Phoenix Theater, Legion Arts, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, The Warhol Museum, Carpet Bag Theater. International: Battersea Arts Center in London, Croydon Clocktower Theater, DerbyPlayhouse, Centre for Contemporary Arts in Scotland, Crime Jazz in Rotterdam); 2017: CURE NO CURE (Lorraine Hansberry Theater). Music for Film and TV: Drylongso, “Moesha,” “Kingpin.” Music: OMAR SOSA SEXTET (Lead vocals on Free Roots, Spirit of the Roots, Bembon, Prietos); MIDNIGHT VOICES (Lead vocals and music composition on Dreams Keep Blowin' My Mind, Late Nite at the Upper Room, Howlin' at the Moon). Awards: 2005 Joyce Award, a 2005 NYFA Fellowship, a 2004 Jury Award for Best Theatre Performance at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, and a 2004 Drama Desk nomination for Best Solo Performance.

Jo Bonney
Director
Off-Broadway: Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Play (Second Stage), Neil LaBute's Fat Pig (MCC), References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (The Public Theater), Christopher Shinn's On The Mountain (Playwrights Horizons), Diana Son's Stop Kiss (The Public Theater), Lisa Loomer's Living Out (Second Stage), Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July (Signature Theater) subUrbia (Studio Theatre), Jessica Goldberg's Good Thing (The New Group), Slanguage by Universes (New York Theater Workshop, Mark Taper Forum), John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (Classic Stage Company). Bogosian's Funhouse, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails In The Floor with my Forehead, and Wake Up and Smell the Coffee. Regional: Jose Rivera's Adoration of The Old Woman (La Jolla Playhouse), Eric Bogosian's Humpty Dumpty (McCarter Theater) Nilo Cruz's Anna In The Tropics (Arena Stage). Bonney is the recipient of a 1998 Obie for Sustained Excellence of Direction and the editor of Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century (TCG).

Richard Hoover
Scenic Designer
Theatre: DEATH OF A SALESMAN
(Guthrie), AFTER THE FALL (Roundabout), A BEAUTIFUL CHILD, (Vineyard), AFTER THE FALL (Roundabout), EMBEDDED (Public). THE THING ABOUT MEN
(Promenade), NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES (Circle in the Square and the Royal National), BAT BOY (Union Square); THE TEMPEST (McCarter); FIFTH OF JULY (Signature); SPEAKING IN TONGUES (Roundabout); THE IDIOT (Manhattan); TWELFTH NIGHT (Guthrie); TROJAN WOMEN (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) and HOUSE ARREST (Public). Film: The Assasination of Jesse James, North Country, Drunkboat, Girl Interrupted, Live From Baghdad The Cradle Will Rock, Dead Man Walking, Bob Roberts, Payback, Apt Pupil, Ed Wood ,Torch Wood Song Trilogy and Mothman Prophecy. Television: “Twin Peaks,” “Fail Safe,” “Heat Wave,” “Family of Spies.” Several music videos: Lonsome Day (Bruce Spingsteen), TV Pilots for current newtwork and cable shows including “Numbers,” and “Entourage.” Awards: 2001 Drama Desk Award nomination 1999 Drama Desk, Outer Critics' Circle, and Tony Awards, 1998 London Evening Standard, London Critics' Circle Award and Olivier Award nomination.

Emilio Sosa
Costume Designer
NYTW:EYEWITNESS BLUES. Broadway:TOPDOG/UNDERDOG (and London and Regional productions). Off-Broadway: CROWNS (Audelco Award '03, also various regional theatres), CALIGULA (Classical Theater of Harlem), BIRDIE BLUE, LIVING OUT (Second Stage Theater), THE STORY, RADIANT BABY (Public Theater). Regional: SENOR DISCRETION, HIMSELF (Arena Stage), AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' (Pittsburgh Public Theater), PIPPIN, ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (Bay Street Theater), ADORATION OF THE OLD WOMAN (La Jolla Playhouse), THE PIANO LESSON (Madison Repertory Theater). Dance: Alvin Ailey, New York City Ballet (Artist-in-Residence), Ballet Hispanico, Complexions. Mr. Sosa is Image Consultant for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, featuring Wynton Marsalis

David Weiner
Lighting Designer
Broadway: DINNER AT EIGHT (LCT), BETRAYAL (Roundabout), THE REAL THING. Selected Off-Broadway credits include A SOLDIER'S PLAY, R.F.K., THIS IS HOW IT GOES, ON THE MOUNTAIN, RODNEY'S WIFE (2005 Lortel Award), WHITE CHOCOLATE, HENRY V, LIVING OUT, and 36 VIEWS (Lortel and Outer Critics noms). Regional: Baltimore Center Stage, The Alley, The McCarter Theater, The Huntington Theater Company, The American Repertory Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, Bard Summerscape, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, A.C.T. - Seattle, New York Stage & Film, Dallas Theater Center, Berkeley Repertory Theater. www.DavidWeinerDesign.com.

Darron L. West
Sound Designer
Usual Suspect and member of Anne Bogart's SITI Company.NYTW: A NUMBER, SHOPPING AND FUCKING, VIEW OF THE DOME, RENT, QUILLS, THE MEDIUM (SITI), SLAVS!, THE SECRETARIES, LOVES FOWL, BOB (SITI, 1998 OBIE Award), CULTURE OF DESIRE (SITI) THE MOST FABULOUS STORY EVER TOLD, and SLANGUAGE. Broadway: WAIT UNTIL DARK. His work has been heard in Over 380 productions Off Broadway and Regionally, Nationally and Internationally. Awards include: 1997 Princess Grace, 1998 OBIE, 2000 Entertainment Design Magazine EDDY, 2000 TCG artist in residence, 2001 Austin Critic’s Table Best Director, 2003 Prague Quadrennial Design Award, 2004 and 2005 Henry Hewes Design Award.

Daryl Waters
Music Director/Vocal Arranger

Longtime music director for Eartha Kitt. Co-Composer: BRING IN DA NOISE /BRING IN DA FUNK (Grammy and Tony Nominations), CROWNS. Orchestrator: Miracle Brothers, ABYSSINIA. Dance Music Arranger: THE COLOR PURPLE, JELLYS’ LAST JAM. Daryl is an alumni of Livingstone College, an HBC in Salisbury, NC.

Wendy Ouellette
Production Stage Manager
Recent credits include an award/talent show by United Way at the Apollo Theater, featuring pillars of the hip-hop and spoken word community. Regional:FORBIDDEN VEGAS, (Las Vegas); the O'Neill (CT); Kennedy Center (DC). Off-Broadway: Perfect Crime, American Place, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage. Many Off-Off Broadway shows and corporate events.

Judith Schoenfeld
Rehearsal Stage Manager
NYTW: THE Beard of Avon, First Love. On The Mountain, Spatter Pattern, Young Girl and the Monsoon (Playwrights Horizons). Pericles, Don Juan, Cymbeline, Saved, Waste (Theatre for a New Audience), Peter and Wendy (Mabou Mines). Also Spoleto Festival USA, Lincoln Center Festival, Classic Stage, Goodspeed Opera House, and Great Lakes Theater Festival.

Missy Guisinger
Assistant Stage Manager
NYTW: FIRST LOVE. Off-Broadway: SPATTER PATTERN (Playwrights Horizons). Regional: CATS, AS YOU LIKE IT, THE WIZ (Hangar Theatre), ON THE MOUNTAIN, PHANTOM. Tours: SCOOBY-DOO LIVE. Opera: TAMERLANO, DIDO & AENEAS, I CAPULETI, DIE VOGEL, BELLA DORMANTE NEL BOSCO (Spoleto Festival USA).

Sharika Niles
Assistant Stage Manager
NYTW: EYEWITNESS BLUES, FLOW, SLANGUAGE and CAVEDWELLER. Off-Broadway: SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE, RICHARD III, WELL, FUCKING A, TAKE ME OUT, HELEN, TWELFTH NIGHT, A WINTERS’ TALE, HOUSE ARREST, TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, THIS IS HOW IT GOES, CAROLINE OR CHANGE (The Public Theater). United Way Caps Annual Showcase (The Apollo). Film: Our Song.


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