Crystal Fox
(Annette Raleigh)
Crystal is
delighted to return to her home
theatre,
the Alliance stage, after
enjoying
a "back by popular demand"
performance
of
3 Sistahs
last summer
at
Horizon Theatre Company. She
recently
completed a successful run
of
Two Trains Running
at Penumbra
Theatre
Company, in St. Paul, Minn.,
her
seventh August Wilson play. She
received
a 2009 IRNE (Independent
Reviewers
of New England) Award and
the
2010 Elliot Norton Award for best/
outstanding
actress for her work in
Fences,
directed
by Kenny Leon. Other
credits
include:
Every Tongue Confess
(Arena
Stage);
For Colored Girls
(Portland
Center Stage and True Colors
Theatre);
and
Antony & Cleopatra,
Comedy
of Errors
(Oregon
Shakespeare
Festival).
Film and TV credits include
“In
the Heat of the Night,” “House of
Payne,”
“Law & Order,” “Sopranos,”
Old
Settler, Mama Floras’ Family, When We
Were Colored and Driving Miss Daisy.
Jasmine Guy
(Veronica Novak)
Broadway:
The Wiz, Leader of the Pack,
Grease
and Chicago,
starring as Velma
Kelly.
Regional:
Fool for Love
opposite
Kenny
Leon. Television: Created the
iconic
Southern belle Whitley Gilbert on
“A
Different World,” for which she won
six
consecutive NAACP Image Awards
and
numerous other honors; “Queen,”
with
Halle Berry; Anne Rice’s “Feast of
All
Saints”; “America’s Dream,” with
Wesley
Snipes; “Touched by an Angel”;
“Fame”;
“NYPD Blue”; “Melrose
Place”;
“Drop Dead Diva”; “Vampire
Diaries”;
and Showtime’s “Dead
Like
Me.” Film: Spike Lee’s
School
Daze,
Eddie
Murphy’s Harlem Nights,
Klash,
Diamond Men, Guinevere
and
The
Heart Specialist.
Jasmine’s
stage
directing
credits include productions of
For
Colored Girls,
with
Nicole Ari Parker
and
Robin Givens;
The Bluest Eye
at
Spelman
College;
I Dream,
the world
premiere
musical/opera about the
life
of The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.;
Brownie
Points
at
Theatrical Outfit; and
The
Colored Museum,
for
Kenny Leon’s
True
Colors Theatre Company. Jasmine
wrote
Evolution of a Revolutionary
(Atria
Books)
about the life and journey of
Afeni
Shakur, and released her debut
album
(Warner Bros. Records) in 1990.
She
is Producing Director of Kenny
Leon’s
True Colors Theatre Company
in
Atlanta, where she resides with
her daughter.
Keith Randolph Smith
(Michael Novak)
Alliance:
King Hedley II.
Broadway:
Fences
;
King Hedley II
;
Piano
Lesson
;
Come Back Little
Sheba
; Salome.
Off-Broadway: Jitney;
Fabulation
; Midsummer Night’s
Dream;
First
Breeze of Summer
;
Holiday
Heart
; Before It Hits
Home; A Soldier’s
Play
. Regional: Looking
Over the
President’s
Shoulder
;
Seven Guitars;
Le
Trois Dumas
;
The Dreams of Sarah
Breedlove
; Cobb; The
Heliotrope
Bouquet
; Resurrection;
Three Sisters;
Death
of a Salesman
.
Film: Malcolm
X
; Girl Six; Three
Windows; Backstreet
Justice
; Warrior Class;
Journeymen; Path
to
Paradise
.
Television: “Onion Sports
Network”;
“Cosby”; “NY Undercover”;
“Law
& Order”; “Law & Order: SVU”;
“Law
& Order: CI”; “I’ll Fly Away”; “One
Life to Live”; “All My Children.”
Geoffrey Darnell Williams
(Alan Raleigh)
Geoffrey most recently appeared in the Horizon Theatre production of Tree by Julie Hebert. Happy to be returning home, Alliance Theatre audiences may remember Geoffrey from False Creeds, King Hedley II, A Question of Mercy, A Raisin in the Sun and six seasons of A Christmas Carol. Geoffrey has enjoyed performing on various regional stages throughout the years and would like to thank Kent Gash for this wonderful opportunity.
Danyé Brown
(US Veronica/Annette)
Danyé is a native of Detroit, holds a master of fine arts in acting from UCLA. Her acting abilities and performance skills were further developed through such characters as Marta in Sorrows and Rejoicings, Lady Ann in Macbeth, Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew and Inez in Our Lady of 121st, to name a few. While in Atlanta, she has been fortunate enough to work with directors such as Freddie Hendricks, Kenneth Green (In the Midnight Hour), Hilda Willis (In Her Defense: Afeni Shakur) and Tom Jones (Holler!). Danyé’s interests also lie in the hearts of young artists. She teaches theatre at Clark Atlanta University and the Southwest Arts Center where she is also on staff. She thanks God for His unconditional love and appreciates her family and friends near and far for their continued love and support.
Jon Chaffin
(US Michael Novak/Alan Raleigh)
A
Stone Mountain native,
Jon
began his professional acting
career
in 2008 with supporting roles
in
the indie films
Jack Squad
(2009)
and
Dirty Martini
(2009). That same
year,
he had guest-starring roles on
“Atlanta
Homicide” and the Lifetime
series
“Army Wives.” Jon’s most
recent
credits include Tyler Perry’s
“House
of Payne” (2011); Embree
Perry’s
“No Mo’ Games” (2012); “Life.
Less”
(2011); “Altered” (2012); and
“96
Minutes” (2012). Jon is also an
accomplished
writer, having authored
six
screenplays. In 2010, he co-wrote,
produced
and starred in the thriller,
Eros
. Jon is a graduate
of Fort Valley
State
University and a member of
Phi
Beta Sigma Fraternity. He lives
in Atlanta.
Kent Gash
(Director)
Kent
is director
of
the NYU Tisch School of the Arts’
New
Studio on Broadway, where he
has
directed
Assassins
and
The Who’s
Tommy
. Mr. Gash is
co-author and
director
of
Langston in Harlem
, winner
of
an NYC Audelco Award for best
musical.
New York:
Broke-ology
at
Julliard;
the premiere of
Miss Evers'
Boys
for
the Melting Pot Theatre
Company;
Duke Ellington’s
Beggar’s
Holiday;
and
the first revival of Home.
Mr.
Gash is the former associate
artistic
director of the Alliance Theatre,
where
he directed and choreographed
26
Miles
(world
premiere); Wilson’s
Radio
Golf
;
Duke Ellington’s
Sophisticated
Ladies
;
Sleuth; Elliot, A
Soldier’s
Fugue
;
Jelly’s Last Jam; Tick,
Tick…
Boom
;
Five Guys Named Moe;
Suzan-Lori
Parks'
Topdog/Underdog
(with
Trinity Repertory Company and
New
Repertory, winner of Boston
Critics
Circle Elliot Norton Award for
best
director, 2004-05); Wilson’s
King
Hedley II
;
Shakespeare’s R&J;
and
Pacific Overtures
(with Cincinnati
Playhouse
and North Shore, Elliot
Norton
Award for best musical and nine
IRNE
Awards including best musical
and
best director of a musical).
Productions
in Atlanta: Actor's
Express'
premiere of
Love Jerry
as
well
as
Some Men
and
Steel Magnolias
for
Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre
Company.
Regional productions:
Seven
Guitars
at
Marin Theatre
Company;
the Cleveland Playhouse
production
of
Mahalia
;
Crowns
,
Gee’s
Bend
and Pure
Confidence for the
Denver
Center Theatre;
The Brothers
Size
for
the McCarter; Wig Out at
Sundance;
adapting and directing the
Intiman
Theatre’s
Native Son; and
nine
productions
of
Ain’t Misbehavin.’
For
Shakespeare
Santa Cruz:
Private Lives
and
Coriolanus
. As associate artistic
director
of the Alabama Shakespeare
Festival:
The Negro of Peter the
Great
(Southern
Writers' Project —
world
premiere),
Guys and Dolls
,
Godspell
, Beehive, A
Night in Tunisia
(SWP
— world premiere),
Troilus and
Cressida
, Twelfth Night and
Five Guys
Named Moe
.
Edward E. Haynes, Jr.
(Set Designer)
Edward
is excited to be returning to the Alliance
Theatre
where he previously designed
Gem
of the Ocean, Radio Golf
and
Sleuth.
Regional
credits include:
The
Mark Taper Forum
(School for
Scandal,
Having Our Say, Carpa
Clash)
; The Kirk Douglas
Theatre
(Solomania,
All Wear Bowlers);
The
Intiman
Theatre
(Native Son)
; The
Geffen
Playhouse
(Emergency!)
; Trinity
Rep.
(Voir Dire, From The Mississippi
Delta)
; Berkeley Rep (Having
Our
Say,
All Wear Bowlers)
;
South Coast
Rep.
(Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and
Grill)
; The Alley
Theatre (Having Our
Say)
; The Hollywood Bowl (My
Fair
Lady)
; Alabama Shakespeare
Festival
(Tunisia,
Blues for an Alabama Sky,
Aaronville
Dawning);
and
many he can
no
longer remember. Television credits
include
“MTV’s Spring Break 2011,”
“Hip
Hop Harry” for Discovery Kids/
TLC
and “Culture Clash” for Fox TV. Ed
is
the proud father of 17-year-old twin
boys,
Denis and Wesly, and husband to
director Elizabeth Bell-Haynes.
Kara Harmon
(Costume Designer)
Credits include A Midsummer Night’s
Dream
(Shakespeare Theatre of
NJ);
Assassins
,
The Who’s Tommy
,
A
Midsummer Night’s Dream
and St.
Joan
(NYU); They Call Him Young Lou
(The Cherry Pit);
The Trouble With
Doug
(Cap 21); The Music Man and
A Muse in Love
(STONC); Stretch, a
fantastia
(New Georges); Office Sonata
(Impetuous Theater);
The Life
Pasolini
(Act French Theatre Festival);
and multiple productions with the OC
Theatre Company. Ithaca College:
Chicago
, The Waiting Room, Seussical
the Musical
and Our Country’s Good.
Film credits include
With You, Without
You
; The Roe Effect (ABFF winner); How
to Rock a First Date;
and Esquinero.
Kara’s assistant credits include:
The
Illusion
(Signature Theatre,) White
Noise
(Chicago), Compulsion (Public
Theatre),
American Idiot
(Berkeley Rep),
Memphis
(Schubert Broadway) and
multiple productions at the Juilliard
School. Kara is an alumnus of Ithaca
College and NYU's Tisch School of
the Arts.
Liz Lee
(Lighting Designer)
Liz always enjoys her
work at the Alliance. Her
previous designs include
Sleuth, Cuttin’
Up, Tick, Tick …
Boom!,
and
Top Dog/
Under Dog.
Based in Atlanta, she is
producer and resident
lighting designer
for the Center for
Puppetry Arts, where
her most recent projects
include
Space!
and
Ruth and the Green
Book
.
Other recent designs
include
Shrew the
Musical
for Georgia Shakespeare.