The America Play

Terry Alexander has appeared at the American Repertory Theater as Tuck in Slaughter City and as the Foundling Father in The America Play. He appeared in Streamers and Playboy of the West Indies at Lincoln Center, No Place to Be Somebody on Broadway, Dancin' On Moonlight at the Public Theater, Naomi Court at Manhattan Theatre Club, Pantomime at Boston Shakespeare Company, To Die for Grenada at Cleveland Playhouse, Fences at San Jose Repertory, Two Trains Running at Alliance Theatre, Black Girl at Second Stage, To Die for Grenada at the Cleveland Playhouse, and Some Sweet Day at Longwharf Theatre. His feature films include All that Jazz, Day of the Dead, Deathwish, The Amateur, and Flashpoint, and he appeared on television in Hill Street Blues, Equal Justice, Fame, Bernie's Place, Angel on My Shoulder, Benson, and One Life to Live, among many others.

Siobhan Juanita Brown is from Roxbury, MA. Performance credits include Suzan-Lori Parks’s The America Play at the American Repertory Theater, The Emancipation of Valet de Chambre (premiere) at Cleveland Play House, Studs Terkel’s American Dreams: Lost and Found (premiere) with the Acting Company, and several seasons with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. She is currently the manager of performance programs in the Education Department at Citi Performing Arts Center in Boston. Siobhan began her work there as a teaching artist, and has also taught with the Strand Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and nationally with the Acting Company, America’s foremost touring company. She is a board member for Up You Mighty Race Theatre Company and will direct the premiere of Tears at the Hip Hop Nation, based on the lives of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, this season. Siobhan also holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in performing arts and African American studies from Emerson College, and completed the graduate acting program at the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

Vontress Mitchell appeared as Zeinvel Shmeckel in the American Repertory Theater's world premiere of Shlemiel the First and as the Man in the A.R.T. New Stages production of The America Play. He has recently appeared as Rodrigo in Othello with the Juggernaut Theatre in New York, which will be performed at the Royal Shakespeare Company in spring 1997. Other A.R.T. credits include Henry IV, Black Snow, and The Threepenny Opera. He is also a 1995 graduate of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.