Blair Underwood as Stanley
Blair Underwood is an award-winning actor/writer/director/producer. Mr. Underwood has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, ten NAACP Image Award nominations (six wins) and was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word for former Vice President Al Gore’s album An Inconvenient Truth. Theatre: The one-man show IM4: From the Mountaintop to Hip Hop, Purlie, NYSF’s Measure for Measure, The Game of Love and Chance, Love Letters. TV: "The Event," "In Treatment, "Dirty Sexy Money," "The New Adventures of Old Christine," "Sex and the City," "Mama Flora’s Family," "Murder in Mississippi," "Soul of the Game," "City of Angels," "The Wishing Tree," "Heat Wave," "L.A. Law." Films: On the 7th Day, Homework, Madea’s Family Reunion, Something New, Full Frontal, Rules of Engagement, Deep Impact, Just Cause, Posse, Set It Off, The Second Coming (director, executive producer, writer and star), The Bridge to Nowhere (directorial debut). Cofounder of Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA). The AIDS Healthcare Foundation opened the Blair Underwood Clinic (2009), a full-service, state-of-the art HIV/AIDS treatment clinic in Washington, DC. The clinic was named after him due to his longtime charity advocacy. He has served as an artist in residence at Harvard and holds an honorary Doctorate from Emerson College.

Nicole Ari Parker (official website) as Blanche DuBois
Nicole Ari Parker is a seven-time NAACP Image Award nominee, best known for her performance as Teri Joseph on Showtime’s award-winning original series, "Soul Food." Nicole starred in the ABC drama "The Deep End." Films include Remember the Titans; Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins; Boogie Nights. Theatre: For Colored Girls (dir. Jasmine Guy) and The Vagina Monologues. Nicole is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Circle in the Square Studio. She received a special award at the Urban World Film Festival for Outstanding Body of Work as an Actress. In 2008, Nicole and husband Boris Kodjoe established Sophie’s Voice Foundation (www.sophiesvoicefoundation.org), a charitable organization to raise awareness about children and adults living with spina bifida. Nicole dedicates this performance to her grandmother Mama Minnie. She has the deepest love for her husband Boris for making this debut possible. Thank you also to her parents, her children and to Rosie. Thank you Adam, Stephen, Jessica and Tony. She knows Shirley is watching from above.

Daphne Rubin-Vega (official website) as Stella
Daphne Rubin-Vega is a two-time Tony and Drama Desk nominee and recipient of Theatre World, Obie and Blockbuster Awards. She is perhaps best known for the roles she originated, including Mimi (Rent) and Conchita (Anna in the Tropics), both Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway shows for which she was nominated. Ms Rubin-Vega is a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company, which is scheduled to produce her first musical play, Frequently Unanswered Questions. Other selected credits: B’way – The Rocky Horror Show (Magenta), Les Misérables (Fantine). Off-B’way: Blood From a Stone (Yvette), Jack Goes Boating (Lucy), Bernarda Alba (Martirio), Suzan-Lori Parks’ Fucking A (Canary Mary), Nilo Cruz’ Two Sisters and a Piano (Sofia) and Gum (Rahmi). Film: Wild Things (Blockbuster Award for Best Supporting Actress), Flawless, Sex and the City, Jack Goes Boating (Independent Spirit Nomination for Best Supporting Actress). She was a member of the girl group Pajama Party (Atlantic Records), and has recorded several albums and contributed to various musical projects. daphnerubinvega.com

Wood Harris as Mitch
Wood Harris a native of Chicago, holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School. Wood landed his first role in Jeff Pollack’s sports drama Above the Rim, starring opposite the late Tupac Shakur. Wood’s breakthrough year included the sports drama Remember the Titans, as well as the role of Jimi Hendrix in Showtime’s “Hendrix.” Harris’ rise continued, playing Avon Barksdale on HBO’s drama “The Wire” and Dion Warner (aka Dion Element) in Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales. Wood’s more recent work includes roles in “House MD,” Not Easily Broken, Next Day Air and “Hawaii Five-0.” Recent films: Judge Dredd in South Africa and Jay Chandrasekhar’s The Baby Makers.

Amelia Campbell as Eunice
Broadway: Our Country’s Good (Tony nom.), A Small Family Business, Translations, The Herbal Bed, Waiting in the Wings. Recent Off-B’way: The Fall to Earth (59E59), Philip Roth in Khartoum (LAByrinth), The Misanthrope (NYTW), Tryst (Promenade). Regional includes Janis Joplin in Love, Janis (San Diego Rep, Village Theater, NYC); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (La Jolla); The Night of the Iguana (BTF); Desire Under the Elms (A.R.T.). Film/TV: What Maisie Knew, Leaves of Grass, Coming Up Roses, The Paper, A Simple Twist of Fate, “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: CI,” “Mercy,” “A Dog Year” (HBO), “My Lousiana Sky” (Showtime). Member of the Actors Center Workshop Company.

Matthew Saldivar as Steve
Broadway: Originated Sammy – The Wedding Singer (dir. John Rando), Kenickie – Grease (dir. Kathleen Marshall). Other: Luther Billis, first national tour of Lincoln Center Theater’s South Pacific (dir. Bartlett Sher), Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels – Mark Taper Forum (dir. Jerry Zaks); Much Ado About Nothing – Shakespeare Theatre, DC (dir. Ethan McSweeny); Massacre – LAByrinth Theater Company (dir. Kate Whoriskey); The Toxic Avenger (dir. John Rando); Sea of Tranquility – Atlantic Theater (dir. Neil Pepe); Hamlet in Hamlet (dir. Douglas Sprigg); NY Theatre Workshop, NY Shakespeare Festival, Blue Light, WPA, TFANA, CSC, Guthrie, Long Wharf, 52nd Street Project…. Film/TV: Savages (Oliver Stone), Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, Boiler Room, “Law & Order.” BA theater, MA Spanish – Middlebury College; MFA – NYU.

Rosa Evangelina Arredondo as Matron (u/s Blanche, Stella)
ROSA EVANGELINA ARREDONDO makes her Broadway debut! Films: Babygirl, Silver Tongues, Feel the Noise, Preaching to the Choir, Husband for Hire and “The Suitor.” TV credits: “The Mentalist,” “Fringe,” “White Collar,” “Six Degrees,” “Conviction,” and “Law & Order” “SVU,” “Trial by Jury” and “Criminal Intent.” My love always to my James.

Carmen De Lavallade as Mexican Woman, Neighbor
CARMEN de LAVALLADE first appeared on Broadway in Harold Arlen and Truman Capote’s House of Flowers. After a long career in dance, she joined the Yale Repertory Theatre in the ’60s where she performed in productions of Macbeth, Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream and taught movement for actors. Theatre credits include Roundabout’s Othello, House of Bernarda Alba (Pearl Theatre), Blood Wedding (Intiman Theatre), Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Three Sisters, Step- Mother by Ruby Dee (EST) and Post Black by Regina Taylor (EST). She is presently a member of the dance company Paradigm.

Aaron Clifton Moten as Young Collector
Recent NY credits include Regan in King Lear (dir. Ed Iskandar), Henry V in The Life of King Henry the Fifth (dir. Nigel Smith), The Seagull (dir. Richard Feldman), A Raisin in the Sun (dir. Jade King Carroll). Regional: Much Ado About Nothing (Claudio), Sweeney Todd (Texas Long Center). Film: Soft Focus (Roderick Gailes OBC Productions). Alumnus, the Juilliard School.

Jacinto Taras Riddick as Pablo Gonzalez
JACINTO TARAS RIDDICK is honored to be making his Broadway debut in this production. Two-time AUDELCO Award nominee. Regional theatre: Yellow Man (Virginia Stage Company), August Wilson’s Jitney (Denver Center, Studio Theater, Kansas City Repertory), Coming of the Hurricane (Crossroads Theatre), Police Boys (Baltimore Centerstage), Between the Lines (Actors Theatre of Louisville). TV: “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “White Collar,” “Numb3rs,” “Army Wives,” “Third Watch,” “NYPD Blue,” “New York Undercover” and “One Life to Live.” Film: Cop Out, In the Cut, Color of the Cross; upcoming You’re Nobody Till Somebody Kills You.

Count Stovall as Doctor
Broadway: Driving Miss Daisy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Inacent Black, The Philadelphia Story and No Place to Be Somebody. Off-Broadway: Bill Irwin’s Scapin and Shades of Brown (AUDELCO Recognition Award for Best Actor). TV: “NYC 22,” “The Good Wife,” “Army Wives,” “As the World Turns” and “All My Children.” Film: Jack Goes Boating, The Dig, A Nick in Time and Deep Trouble. Stovall Foundation: Kyra, Count-Paul, Eugene, Cianna, Savannah and Amianna Esq.

Danielle Lee Greaves as (u/s Eunice, Mexican Woman, Neighbor Woman, Matron)
Broadway: Rent, Hairspray (OBC), Sunset Boulevard, Show Boat (OBC). National Tours: The Lion King, Rent. Television: “Smash,” “The Big C,” “Rescue Me,” “Damages,” “Whoopi,” “100 Centre Street”. Voiceover: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

J. Mallory-McCree (official website) as (u/s Young Collector)
Theatre: Zooman and the Sign (Signature), Milk Like Sugar (La Jolla, Playwrights Horizons). Film: The Last Keepers, Real Talk, We Need to Talk About Kevin, White Sugar in a Black Pot, Recreator. TV: “Law & Order,” Roland Emmerich pilot. BFA from Rutgers University; Globe Theatre, London, England.

Morocco Omari as (u/s Stanley, Mitch, Steve, Pablo, Doctor)
Regional theatre: Race at St. Louis Rep, Knock Me a Kiss at New Federal Theatre, Space and Intimate Apparel at Steppenwolf Theatre, Blues for an Alabama Sky and The Ballad of Emmett Till at Goodman Theatre, Trust and Fedra: The Queen of Haiti at Looking Glass Theatre and Elmina’s Kitchen at Congo Square.

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