FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA Who's Who
| Cast | Creative Team |
| Woman One / Soara-Joye Ross | Director / Donna Baldwin-Bradby |
| Woman Two / Bria Walker | Scenic Designer / Andrew Layton |
| Women Three / Cassandra Lowe Williams | Costume Designer / Gregory J. Horton |
| Lighting Designer / Stuart Nelson | |
| Sound Designer / Ryan J. Gastelum | |
| Vocal Coach / Reverend George Pass II | |
| Casting Director / Cindi Rush | |
| Stage Manager / Catherine Hagner |
Cast
Soara-Joye Ross* (Woman One) Triad Stage Debut! Broadway: Les Misérables, Dance of the Vampires. Off-Broadway: Jerry Springer: The Opera (Carnegie Hall), Dessa Rose (Lincoln Center Theater-Original Cast Recording), Single Black Female (Playwrights Horizons). Regional: Aida (Aida; Colorado Theater Guild: Outstanding Leading Actress Nominee), Tick, Tick…Boom (Susan; The Alliance Theater), Ragtime (Sarah; Gateway/Weston Playhouse), Once on This Island (Asaka; Sacramento Music Circus/ Bay Street), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Armelia; Huntington Theatre Co). Film: Garden State (Handi-World Cashier). Education: The American Musical and Dramatic Academy.
Bria Walker* (Woman Two) Regional: Crowns, A Christmas Carol, King Lear, Amadeus, Working, The Elephant Man, 365 Days/365 Plays (Denver Center Theatre Company); It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues (Theatre Aspen); Shakespeare on Nature (Aspen Ideas Festival). La Dolce Sondheim, Romeo & Juliet, Caucasian Chalk Circle (National Theatre Conservatory). The World Goes Round (Summer Stage Wright). Film: 1903: The Wings of Dreams (ThinkTV16); Wallstrip.com. Education: MFA, National Theatre Conservatory; BFA, Wright State University.
Cassandra Lowe Williams* (Woman Three) Triad Stage: North Star and understudy to Ms. Irma P. Hall in A Lesson Before Dying. Regional: Mahalia: Queen of Gospel & Black Nativity (NC Black Repertory Company); Crowns (Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte & NC A&T State University guest artist); Peace in the Valley (Barn Dinner Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (UNCG Theatre guest artist); The Wiz (Livestock Musical Theatre). Film: Greensboro Sit-Ins. Education: UNC-Greensboro; Fellowship, Northwestern University. Other: retired theatre teacher, Guilford County Schools; minister.
Creative Team
Donna Baldwin-Bradby (Director) is Adjunct Professor and Director of Marketing and Publicity for the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at North Carolina A&T State University. Donna earned a BFA in Professional Theatre from NC A&T and an MFA in Arts Management from Virginia Tech. She has directed, choreographed and performed for professional, community and educational theatres locally and regionally. Donna appeared in Crowns at Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte, directed Eubie! at NC A&T, and was the director for The Old Settler, choreographer for Das Barbecü, ballroom dancing coach for ‘MASTER HAROLD’…and the boys, and movement coach for The Matchmaker and The Diary of Anne Frank at Triad Stage.
Andrew Layton (Scenic Designer) is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA) and The University of Washington (MFA), and is excited to be back in North Carolina, working with Triad Stage again. Recent favorite designs include Dissonance (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Suor Angelica, Soledad, an adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude; Orphee Aux Enfers and Tom Jones. Andrew is currently Resident Scenic Designer and faculty member at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts (PCPA) where he enjoys teaching and designing.
Gregory J. Horton (Costume Designer) is an associate professor at NC A&T. Production designs include Sweet Charity, The Visit, A Woman from the Town, Something’s Afoot, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Company of Wayward Saints, The Crucible, The Heiress, The Glass Menagerie, Dreamgirls, Foreigner, The Wiz, The Colored Museum, Crowns, Fences, Tartuffe, Waiting to be Invited, My Fair Lady and Seven Guitars. Directing credits include Pretty Fire, Dreamgirls, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Nunsense, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Godspell. Guest Director and Costume Designer at The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Columbia Basin College, Western Washington University, Hampton University, The Ensemble, The Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Penumbra Theatre, Swine Palace, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Play House on the Square, Memphis Black Repertory, Kuntu Repertory and the St. Louis Black Repertory Company.
Stuart Nelson (Lighting Designer) Triad Stage: Syncopation, On Golden Pond, August Snow, A Dickens of a Christmas, Suddenly Last Summer (ALD). New York: Rats, The Indian Wants the Bronx, The Mercy Plays (Center Stage); Birth Story (Barrow Group); The Seagull (Theatre at Lake Lucille); The Substance of Fire (78th St Theater Lab); plus numerous ballets throughout the Northeast. Four years as associate lighting director for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Education: BFA, North Carolina School of the Arts. Grew up in Winston-Salem, NC, spent 6 years in NYC, and now lives in Fraser, CO.
Ryan J. Gastelum (Sound Designer) Triad Stage: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Beautiful Star, Sleuth, The Diary of Anne Frank (Assistant Sound Designer). Regional/Local: The Tempest, As You Like It, King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Cats (The Little Theater of Winston Salem); West Side Story (NC School of the Arts, Assistant Sound Designer). Education: BA, UC Santa Cruz. Other: Sound Intern, The Guthrie Theater.
Reverend George Pass II (Vocal Coach) has appeared in Mahalia, Jubilation Morning and Peace Like a River (Barn Dinner Theatre) and in Crowns and Black Nativity (NC A&T SU). He has recorded with gospel music greats Yolanda Adams, John P. Kee, Larnelle Harris, BeBe and CeCe Winans, as well as the Richmond Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony and Greensboro Symphony, among others. Reverend Pass is the spiritual leader of Open Door Church in Greensboro, and can be seen onstage in the upcoming Motown LoveMachine at the Barn Dinner Theatre.
Cindi Rush (Casting Director) New York: Jacques Brel, Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks, The Thing About Men, Showtune, I Sing, Urinetown, Say Goodnight Gracie. Regional: Triad Stage; Northern Stage Company; Cape Cod Theatre Project; NOHO Arts Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville. Film: Home Movie, The Girl Next Door, Headspace, Funny Valentine, Master Class. Other: Hats (Denver, New Orleans, Chicago). Upcoming Tours: Made for Each Other, The Thief. Casting Society of America Member, Consultant for National Alliance for Musical Theatres, Consultant for NYU Graduate Program for Musical Theatre Writing.
Catherine Hagner* (Stage Manager) Triad Stage: 36 productions from The Rainmaker through Doubt. She joined the company after serving as Production Stage Manager for American Stage in St. Petersburg, Florida, for four seasons. Ms. Hagner received a BA in Theatre and English from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and completed an apprenticeship in Directing/Dramaturgy at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
*Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
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