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Island and Big River (Joseph Jefferson Award nomination),
Apple Tree Theatre; Show Boat,
Sacramento Music Circus. The voice of “Sudden
Death” on NFL Rush Zone: Guardians of the Core.
“Lanette’s husband, Ayana and Isaiah’s papi.”
J.D. WEBSTER
Mingo
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway:
Wonderful Town, Ragtime,
Show Boat. New York: Two
Gentlemen of Verona, New
York Shakespeare Festival;
17 Encores!, City Center;
Mufti Series, York Theatre; Bernstein’s Mass, South
Pacific, Ira Gershwin at 100 and Spring is Here,
Carnegie Hall. Regional: Avenue X, Jesus Christ
Superstar Gospel, Alliance Theatre; An American in
Paris, Houston Alley Theatre; The Blackamoor
Angel, Bard Music Festival; Violet, Connecticut Rep;
Jam and Spice, Westport Playhouse; Guys and Dolls,
Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Finian’s Rainbow,
Coconut Grove; The Desert Song, Sacramento
Music Circus. Graduate of The College of William
and Mary and The Juilliard School.
LISA NICOLE
WILKERSON
Woman of Catfish
Row/Dance Captain
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: The
Lion King (Nala u/s, Shenzi
u/s). National Tours: Mamma
Mia! (Ali), The Lion King
(Nala). Off-Broadway: River Deep: Tribute to Tina
Turner, Playwright’s Horizons. Regional: Abyssinia
SASHA CALLAHAN
Violin
Assistant principal 2nd violin, Portland
Symphony; member of Rhode Island
Philharmonic and New Hampshire Music
Festival. Frequent performances with Boston
Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Lyric Opera,
Opera Boston, the Boston Pops and Boston
Pops Esplanade. B.M. in Violin Performance,
Rice University; M.M. in Violin Performance,
Boston University. Further studies:
Meadowmount School of Music, Mozarteum
Academy, Leopold Auer Academy, Tanglewood
Music Center.
28 AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER
Orchestra
(Lily), Goodspeed, North Shore; Once on This Island
(TiMoune), Gallery Players; Godspell (Robin), St.
Louis Black Rep; Purlie (with Blaire Underwood
and Loretta Devine, respectively), City Center
ENCORES!, Pasadena Playhouse. Television: “The
Tony Awards” 2008, “The Today Show,” “Oprah,”
“Jay Leno.” Film: Unconditional Love. Dance: xodus
dance collective, Karen Gayle, artistic director; Joel
Hall Dancers, Joel Hall, a.d.; Deeply Rooted (apprentice),
Kevin Iega Jeff, a.d. Broadway in South Africa cofounder.
Northwestern University, B.S., Journalism.
NATASHA YVETTE
WILLIAMS
Mariah
A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway:
The Color Purple (Sofia) and
Dessa Rose, Lincoln Center.
West End, London: Trevor
Nunn’s Gone With the
Wind (Mammy). National Tours: Xanadu
(Melponmene), The Drowsy Chaperone (Trix the
Aviatrix), All Shook Up (Sylvia), Seussical the Musical
(Sour Kangaroo), Cinderella (Grace). Selected regional
credits: Hairspray (Motormouth) and Ain’t
Misbehavin’ (Armelia), Paper Mill Playhouse;
Mahalia (title role), Cleveland Playhouse;
Abyssinia (Selma), Goodspeed/North Shore.
Featured soloist with the Indianapolis, Baltimore
and Ottawa symphony orchestras and The
Naples Philharmonic. NaTasha will be singing at
Carnegie Hall in October with the NY Pops. She is
the mother of newborn twins Mackenzie and
Nile. NaTasha’s CDs are available at www.digstation.com;
for more information, please visit her
website at www.natashayvettewilliams.com.
ASHLEIGH GORDON
Viola
Member of Neponset Valley Philharmonic
Orchestra and Juventas New Music Ensemble.
Performances with Callithumpium Consort,
Atlantic Symphony and Glens Falls Orchestra.
Anticipated Master of Contemporary Music from
International Ensemble Modern Academy
(Germany), Master of Music in Viola
Performance from New England Conservatory,
Bachelor of Music in Viola Performance from
Baldwin-Wallace College. Summer Festivals:
International Ensemble Modern Academy
(Austria, 2010), Pierre Monteux School for
Conductors and Orchestral Musicians (Maine,
2003/2007), Aspen Music Festival (Colo., 2005).