Directed by Belinda (Be) Boyd CAST (in alphabetical order) Evan...........................................................................................BRYANT BENTLEY* Jason...........................................................................................AUSTIN CARROLL Chris........................................................................................DYLAN T. JACKSON* Cynthia.................................................................................TRACEY CONYER LEE* Stan...........................................................................JOHN LEONARD THOMPSON* Tracey.........................................................................................KIM COZORT KAY* Jessie...........................................................................................JENNIFER JONES Oscar........................................................................................GABRIELL SALGADO Brucie........................................................................................BRANDON MORRIS Stage Directions...........................................................................IAIN BATCHELOR* SETTING Reading, Pennsylvania 2000/2008 *Member of Actors’ Equity Association the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States BRYANT BENTLEY (Evan) is a native TRACEY CONYER LEE (Cynthia) of Dayton, Ohio and now resides in appeared as Billie Holiday in PBD’s Columbus. He’s been a professional production of Lady Day at Emerson’s actor for 20 years, and is excited Bar & Grill. Recent stage includes to be a part of this reading. Bryant Clairee in Steel Magnolias and Ida made his PBD debut as Gabriel in Green in Into the Breeches (Alabama August Wilson’s Fences. Other credits Shakespeare Festival), Tanya Starr include Bono in Fences at American in On the Grounds of Belonging Players Theatre; The Watsons Go (Long Wharf Theatre), Cynthia in to Birmingham, Indiana Repertory Sweat (Pittsburgh Public Theatre), Theatre; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Between Riverside and Crazy, and her fifth production as Lady Day. Over 75 productions, including Studio Theatre; Pipeline, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati; as well as The original Off-Broadway shows; Carbonell, NAACP, and Barrymore Piano Lesson, Topdog/Underdog, Detroit ’67, Blues for an Alabama Award-winning productions; Yale Rep; Baltimore Center Stage; Sky, and many more. Film and television credits include the CBS Denver Center; Actors Theatre of Louisville; St. Louis Rep; Cincinnati series One Dollar; The Killing of a Sacred Deer; All or Nothin’; and Playhouse; Westport Playhouse, etc. Onscreen: The Path, Smash, most recently The Public, written and directed by Emilio Estevez. Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Ed, All My Children, Guiding Light. Ms. Lee’s playwriting includes developmental and premiere productions AUSTIN CARROLL (Jason) is excited in New York, Boston, DC, Vermont, and Chicago. Two of her plays, to be part of PBD’s reading of Sweat. Rabbit Summer and Retreat, had productions that were interrupted He was previously seen here in by Covid-19 in Chicago and New York, respectively. Retreat was The House of Blue Leaves (Ronnie) reimagined as an audio drama by National Black Theatre and will and Equus (Horseman). Some other stream November 19-22. www.traceyconyerlee.com theatre credits include A Chorus Line (Mike) at The Wick Theatre; West JOHN LEONARD THOMPSON Side Story (Snowboy/Bid Deal) at (Stan) was last seen at PBD in Maltz Jupiter Theatre; Gypsy (Tulsa), Equus. He has done many plays Cats (Tumblebrutus/Dance Captain), on Broadway (most recently the Newsies (Buttons/Spot/ Dance Captain), and Show Boat (Frank) at 2017 revival of M. Butterfly) and Interlakes Summer Theatre in New Hampshire. Facebook: Austin Off-Broadway (They Promised Her Carroll/Instagram austin_carroll09 the Moon; Love, Janis; Sin; and shows with Mint Theater Company DYLAN T. JACKSON (Chris) is and Negro Ensemble Company). grateful to be working with PBD He has been seen in the national again, having recently appeared as tours of Angels in America and The Graduate, and at theatres across Austin Reed in the reading of the United States including Syracuse Stage, Hartford Stage, Actors The Hero and The Scholar, part of Theatre of Louisville (premieres of Jack and Jill, Tony Kushner’s the Drama(in the)works series. Reverse Transcription, and Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom), A native of Palm Beach County, Dylan Seattle Rep, The Old Globe, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, and the is a recent graduate of the Carnegie Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. On film, work includes Guarding Tess, Mellon School of Drama, with a BFA Killer, Empty Chairs, and Apache Moon; on television, Dickinson, in musical theatre. Some of his recent Bull, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Person of Interest, The Good Wife, credits include Scarecrow in The Wiz (Virginia Repertory Theatre), Elementary, The Blacklist, Zero Hour, All My Children, Law & Order Miles/Rashaad/Shawn in Gloria (Hatch Arts Collective), and Henry in (the trifecta), Third Watch, Sesame Street, Summer Switch, The Shady Next to Normal (The Refuge). All thanks to God, my family and friends, Hill Kidnapping, A Woman Named Jackie, and Romeo and Juliet. and my mentors. KIM COZORT KAY (Tracey) is a GABRIELL SALGADO (Oscar) is a multiple award-winning actress who graduate of the New World School of most recently appeared at PBD in the Arts. Most recently, he played Luis The Night of the Iguana. National in The Dramaworkshop’s reading of tour: Death of a Salesman with Hal Dominic Finocchiaro’s how it feels to Holbrook. Regional: Steel Magnolias fall from the sky. His favorite credits (with Alison Fraser, directed by include Jose in his original one- Marcia Milgrom Dodge), Ghost-Writer person show There’s Really A Wolf, (Riverside Theatre), Born Yesterday Willmore in Aphra Behn’s The Rover, (with Andréa Burns), The Music Man and Frank Maurrant in Elmer Rice’s (with Richard Kind), Do Not Go Gentle (with June Havoc), Street Scene. Always. .Patsy Cline, Hank Williams: Lost Highway (directed by Randal Myler), The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, Detroit, and Dividing the Estate. BRANDON MORRIS (Brucie) Television: Bloodline, The Glades, and Burn Notice. Opera: Papagena in has been a professional actor for Die Zauberflöte with Greater Miami Opera and The Student Prince with almost 20 years. Favorite stage work OperaDelaware. Kim recently performed her one-woman show, Silver includes Frankie and Johnny in the Shadows: Dark Side of a Mountain, directed by husband Kenneth Kay. Clair de Lune and The Motherf**ker She is a resident artist of The Dramaworkshop. with the Hat (Kitchen Theatre Company), the title role in Macbeth JENNIFER JONES (Jessie) is the and Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar co-founder and producing artistic Named Desire (Greenbrier Valley director of StarStruck Academy & Theatre). He also starred in the world Theatre, created in 2000 to help premiere productions of Lee Blessing’s Black Sheep and Christopher young people spread their wings and Demos-Brown’s When the Sun Shone Brighter (Florida Stage). enhance their confidence through Recent TV: For Life ( recurring, 2020), The Flight Attendant (recurring, musical theatre. She most recently upcoming), Bluff City Law, The Act, Sistas, Doom Patrol, Dynasty, Bull, directed sold-out runs of Aida, Rent, Daredevil, Gotham, Veep, Madam Secretary, The Defenders, and a Fiddler on the Roof, A Chorus Line, recurring role as Agent Lane on USA’s Burn Notice. Also completed a Chicago, and Pippin. Jennifer won a Jerry Bruckheimer pilot, Main Justice, portraying FBI Agent Loomis. regional Broadway World Best Director Award for the play Next Fall, Film: Richard Jewell, Line of Duty, Noah’s Ark, and Street Survival. and is a recipient of the Martin County Arts Council mARTie Award for Brandon lives in New York City. Outstanding Performing Artist. She was named Best Director at Music Theatre International’s Junior Theater Festival for Annie Jr. and Once on This Island Jr., and directed the Florida premiere of Summer of ’42. She’s also had the opportunity to work with legendary composer Stephen Schwartz, creating student versions of his musicals My Son Pinocchio and Children of Eden. Jennifer has performed in PBD’s Young Playwrights 10-Minute Play Festival and Drama(in the)works. Favorite roles include Velma Kelly (Chicago), Sally Bowles (Cabaret), Sandy (Grease), Tessie Tura (Gypsy), and Golde (Fiddler on the Roof). Jennifer is the proud mother of Amanda and Kevin, who are both actors. IAIN BATCHELOR (Stage Thrifty Car Rental, Belk, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Food Lion. Be Directions) is an alumnus of the is also a consultant for corporations such as FARO, Engineering & world-renowned Royal Academy Computer Simulations, Association of Image Consultants International, of Dramatic Art (RADA) and a 2010 Tourism for South Africa – training for FIFA World Cup. Guest winner of the BBC Carleton Hobbs instructor credits include Ohio University and the New York Film Bursary Award for Radio Drama. Academy. She is currently the Region IV vice-chair for the Kennedy He is known for his role as Thomas Center American College Theater Festival. Seymour in the Emmy-nominated BBC/PBS Masterpiece series Wolf Hall LYNN NOTTAGE (Playwright) is the (2015, directed by Peter Kosminsky), only woman to have twice received as well as his work on Allied (2016, directed by Robert Zemeckis), the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. She and the STARZ mini-series The White Princess (2017, directed by won in 2009 for Ruined and 2017 Jamie Payne).