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Bridget Kelso
(Performer)
Bridget Kelso is an actor and writer living in Harlem. Hailing from Chicago, she has performed on several prominent New York stages, and around the world. She has also appeared on daytime television and in several commercials. As a member of the Public Theater’s 2009 Emerging Writers Group, she completed a new play, “Hiding in the Garden." She is also working on a children’s book series based on her experiences with her son, and a book of poetry. Her writing has appeared in Essence and Harlem Parent Magazine.
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Nicole A. Watson
(Director)
Credits include Traffic Jam, (Secret Theatre), One Minute-Play Festival (Here), Derek Walcott’s Ti-Jean and His Brothers (NYU-Tisch), Foreclosure (NYTE), Just Exactly Like (The Flea), Eli and Cheryl Jump (2009 Fringe Festival), and The Snow Queen (Urban Stages on Tour) She assisted on Signature Theatre’s production of The First Breeze of Summer directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Nicole has worked with the 52nd Street Project, the Lark, the Women’s Project, the Tribeca Film Institute, the Lincoln Institute for Arts and Education, the Working Theatre, and the McCarter where was a teaching artist for The Hamlet Project. She currently teaches a playwriting course at the Museum of the City of New York and is the Teen Shakespeare Coordinator at the 52nd Street Project. BA History, Yale. MA interdisciplinary studies, NYU.
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Radha Blank
(Playwright)
Radha Blank began her career with her one-woman Hip-Hop b-ball ‘dramedy' Kenya (Dixon Place, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, Public Theater’s New Works Now, HERE; awards: New Professional Theatre's Annual Writers Award for Best Script, The NY Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship and Nickelodeon's Writers Fellowship). Radha later wrote for Nickelodeon shows The Backyardigans and Little Bill, debuted her original animated short, Papa Moco Jumbie and wrote a pilot for TeenNick based on her life as a young comic in NYC called My Life Is A Joke.
Radha returned to theater with seed, which was developed through Classical Theater of Harlem’s Future Projects initiative and will be presented in conjunction with The NYC Hip Hop Theater Festival in 2010. seed garnered Radha membership into the Public Theaters Inaugural Emerging Writers Group (2008) where she developed the satire nannyland. Her latest project is Happy.Flower.Nail, a solo show that explores gentrification through the women who inhabit a Bed-Stuy nail salon. Happy.Flower.Nail was developed at Voice & Vision’s Envision Retreat at Bard and most recently performed at the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference. Radha was also recently nominated for the Wendy Wasserstein prize in playwriting.
Seeing writing as a path to self-discovery and self-empowerment, Radha has instructed NYC youth in poetry and playwriting for over fifteen years. She finds inspiration in both the rhythm of youth culture and the pulse of social justice issues facing urban American communities of color.
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Rob Richardson
(Performer)
Rob was born in Baltimore Maryland and is a graduate of the American Musical & Dramatic Academy. He has recently been seen as Jeremy in the Kick-It One Act Festival, Mike in Stage Blood is Never Enough and the independent film Prayer for a Vengeful God. Other off off Broadway credits include Manuel in Manuel vs. The Statue of Liberty. Mr. Green in Aenigma, Todd in the one act [pwnd], Hamish Cornish the Blind bluesman in All Kinds of Shifty Villains. Insight 13 one act festival with the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, A’spress, Decadence, Southern Werewolf, HellCab, multiple Cabarets and independent films.
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Sharon Hope
(Performer)
Have enjoyed sharing my gift in Regional Theater, TV, Film, Storyteller and now as Older Woman in Reverb. www.slicesoflifeproductions.com
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