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Andre Lancaster
(Director)
Andre is a producing artist and Artistic Director at Freedom Train Productions. Director credits include: Origins of Us by Jerome A. Parker (Juilliard School) and A Love Like Damien's by Andrea E. Davis (HERE Arts Center, WOW Café Theatre). He has trained at University of Texas at Austin, SITI Company, Movement Research, and The Missoula Oblongata and he holds an associate membership at the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Andre would like to thank the cast and crew for their commitment to discovery and play. You can find him on Facebook.
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Aurin Squire
(Performer)
Aurin Squire (Dramaturg/Script Doctor): is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and reporter. Aurin has been produced around the country and has been a guest artist at Gettysburg College, New School University, and Malloy College among other places. In 2007 he spent most of the year working in Albuquerque, New Mexico as a research/writer with Tectonics Theatre on a historical drama. His dark comedy To Whom It May Concern won best play and best playwriting at the LGBT Fresh Fruit Festival and in 2009 was produced off-broadway at ArcLight Theatre. In 2009 Vital Theatre commissioned him to write the book for the family musical Matthew Takes Mannahatta which opened off-broadway at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre. Aurin is the co-creator of Bodega Ave, a web-based cartoon that has been featured in the New York Daily News, Ambiente Magazine, and LATV. As Director of New Play Development at Freedom Train Productions, he leads the new work creation processes at the theatre.
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Germono Toussaint
(Playwright)
Germono Toussaint is a playwright, composer, arranger and lyricist. Toussaint knew upon seeing the musical Dreamgirls at the age of eight that he wanted a career in theatre.
In 2005 Toussaint wrote the book, music, and lyrics for his original musical Caged, based on interviews he conducted with thirteen women at a halfway house. Caged premiered at the Broadway Theater Center in Milwaukee and was featured in the Not for Broadway Theater Festival in New York City in 2006. Toussaint and Marcus Gardley have also had a workshop of their new musical (L)imitations at the Lark Play Development Center. An article about this musical was featured in American Theatre Magazine.
As an active composer/arranger he has arranged music for such artists as Nhojj, Kenya Sollas, Steinman Dean and Chante Brown. He has transcribed original music for Katori Hall Inc, Common Thread Theater and was the arranger/producer of the Verve concert series with The Well Entertainment Group.
Toussaint has composed music for Skylight Opera Theatre, Handful Players, Fishgrease Productions, New Dramatist’s Nocturnal Commissions, Tripping: The Musical and productions of The Pied Piper, Hansel and Gretel, The Laramie Project and Love Rides the Rails.
Toussaint has a BFA in composition and has received grants and awards from The National Alliance for Musical Theatre, The Wisconsin Arts Board, The Helen Bader Foundation, The Community Chorale for Christ, The Center for Performance and Excellence of Music, and Cardinal Stritch University.
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Ronald De Suze
(Performer)
Ronald (RJ) was born and raised in Trinidad West Indies. Following his dream of becoming a working actor, he migrated to the United States in 1997. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors, in Theater from Brooklyn College and an MA in American Studies from Michigan State University. Ronald has done work in many of the main media, which include theater, film and television. His film credits include, I am Legend, The Soul Searchers, and Finding Me. He has performed both classical as well as contemporary works which include, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Le Malade Imaginaire,” “Twelfth Night,” “You Can’t Take it with You,” “Slave Trade,” “A Raisin in the Sun,” Our Country’s Good” and “Out of Order.” Ronald has also advertised for companies such as American Airlines, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and CitiBank. He is part of Hollie Harper’s American Candy rotating casts, the fastest rising sketch comedy show in New York City. Presently, Ronald is involved in the filming of the sequel, Finding Me – Truth. Ronald is slowly composing vignettes for a one-person show which he hopes to perform in New York and abroad in the future.
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Terell Richardson
(Assistant Director)
After participating in 2009's Open Workshops, Terell is thrilled to be working on a production with Freedom Train. A recent graduate of Hampshire College, his directing credits include The Last Stop Between Us, Hair, and The Sacred Marriage. Shout-out to family, Spirit, and all those who are doing the work!
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