Oberon K.A. Adjepong* (Christian) has performed Off Broadway in Like I Say and Cellophane (The Flea Theater); Mother Courage and The Blacks (Classic Stage Company, The Classical Theatre of Harlem); Wabenzi (Ohio Theatre); Hieroglyphic Graffiti (Hip-Hop Theater Festival); The Hamlet Project (La MaMa E.T.C.); and Oya (National Black Theatre). Regional credits include The Piano Lesson (Arden Theatre Company); Timon of Athens and Coriolanus (Shakespeare Theatre Company); and A Rhyme Deferred (National Black Theatre Festival, The Kennedy Center, Nuyorican Café). He has appeared on film and television in Margin Call, Son of No One, "Hope & Faith," and "Law & Order: SVU." He trained at Lola Louis' Creative and Performing Arts Studio, Oxford University, and Howard University.

Pascale Armand* (Salima) has off Broadway credits include Breath, Boom (Playwrights Horizons) and Four (Manhattan Theatre Club). Her regional credits include Let There Be Love (Baltimore Centerstage), Eclipsed (Yale Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre), Dance of the Holy Ghosts (Yale Repertory Theatre), Gee's Bend (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Doubt (Vermont Stage Company), Gem of the Ocean (Arena Stage), Jitney and The Piano Lesson (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Hamlet and Blues for an Alabama Sky (Syracuse Stage), Pericles (American Repertory Theater), and A Raisin in the Sun (Pittsburgh City Theatre). She performed on the European tour with Peter Sellars for An End to the Judgment of God. Film and television credits include Strangers with Candy, Kinsey, "The Good Wife," "Law & Order: Trial by Jury," and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."

Jason Bowen* (Fortune) previously appeared at the Huntington as Tom in Prelude to a Kiss and Walker Lewis in A Civil War Christmas. Other regional credits include Othello in Othello, Antonio in The Duchess of Malfi, Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice, and Ferdinand in The Tempest (Actors' Shakespeare Project), Thami in Groundswell (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston), Little Monk in Life of Galileo (Underground Railway Theatre), and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Mr. Bowen received a B.S. in theatre from Skidmore College.

Carla Duren* (Sophie) has been seen on Broadway as Snookie in 110 in the Shade and Little Inez in Hairspray. Regional credits include Myrrhine in Give It Up (Dallas Theater Center) and Taylor in High School Musical 2 (North Shore Music Theatre). Ms. Duren is an accomplished singer/songwriter, and her solo project "BlackFolkRockStar" has been released on carladuren.com and iTunes.

Wendell B. Franklin* (Jerome Kisembe) has New York credits include Speak Truth to Power (Culture Project) and The Desire (Billie Holiday Theatre). His regional credits that include Walter Lee in A Raisin in the Sun (Virginia Stage Company, Weston Playhouse Theatre Company); Willie in "Master Harold" . . . and the boys (Weston Playhouse Theatre Company); Macon in Gee's Bend (The Cleveland Play House); Lyons in Fences (Arkansas Repertory Thetre); David in Benefactors (Pennsylvania Centre Stage); and Duke Solinas in A Comedy of Errors and Helicanus in Pericles (Illinois Shakespeare Festival). He has appeared on television in “Law & Order.”

Zainab Jah* (Josephine) was born in London. Theatre credits include Maima in Eclipsed (Yale Repertory Theatre); Azmera in Tranced (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Mayme in Intimate Apparel (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater); Helen of Troy in Trojan Women (Drama Desk Award) and Regan in King Lear (The Classical Theatre of Harlem); Hamida in In Darfur (The Public Theater/NYSF); Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Queen Isabella in Edward II (The Queen’s Company); and Macaria in Peter Sellars’ Children of Herakles. Film and television credits include Dinner Rush with Danny Aiello; principal roles in “100 Centre Street,” directed by Sidney Lumet; and “Law & Order: SVU.” Ms. Jah received the Best Actress Award for Nick Mwaluko’s Waafrika, which was presented as part of the 2007 Fresh Fruit Festival and again for Nick Mwaluko’s S/HE in 2009. She also recently received a 2010 AUDELCO Best Supporting Actress nomination for Koffi Kwahule’s Bintou (The Movement Theatre Company). Ms. Jah spent her childhood in Sierra Leone where she was a regular on children's television shows. She studied dance at the London School of Contemporary Dance and Leeds University in Yorkshire.

Joseph Kamal* (Mr. Harari) appeared on Broadway in Dinner at Eight (Lincoln Center Theater). Off Broadway credits include Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Lark Theatre Company), Homebody/Kabul (New York Theatre Workshop), Roar (The New Group), Guantanamo (The Culture Project), Ecco Porco (Mabou Mines), and The Brave (Atlantic Theater Company). Regional credits include Zorro in Hell (La Jolla Playhouse); Fete De La Nuit (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Omnium-Gatherum (Seattle’s A Contemporary Theatre); Anthems-Culture Clash (Arena Stage); Gum (Baltimore Centerstage); Coriolanus, St. Joan, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Theatre Company). Film and television credits include Preaching to the Choir, David and Layla,  “24,” “NCIS,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Lincoln Heights,” “The Unit,” and “Blind Justice.” He is currently recurring as Dr. Cliff Brown on “All My Children.” JosephKamal.com.

Adesoji Odukogbe (Musician 2) began his music career performing internationally as lead guitarist for five years with the late Fela Anikulapo Kuti. He has recorded and performed with such artists as Femi Kuti, Baba Ken Okulolo, Babatunde Olatunji, Orlando Julius Ekemode, and the afrobeat group Kotoja. As a founding member of the musical groups Afrobeat Connexion, West African Highlife Band, and the Nigerian Brothers, he has performed extensively in the U.S. and Canada. He was born in Nigeria. This is his theatre debut.

Kola Ogundiran* (Laurent) has theatre credits that include The Godbotherers (59E59
Theaters), Dreamplay (The Cleveland Play House), and Babel (Avignon International Theater Festival). His has appeared on film in Bella, Siri Oko Fo, From Other Worlds, and the upcoming Fair Game and on television in “Law & Order,” “Johnny Zero,” “Law & Order: SVU,” and “Third Watch.”

Okieriete Onaodowan* (Simon) has New York credits that include Neighbors (The Public Theater/NYSF), Langston in Harlem (Urban Stages), The Shipment (The Kitchen), and Pontius Pilate in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Richmond Sheppard Theatre). Regional credits include Son of the Prophet (NYSF) with F. Murray Abraham and Joanna Gleason, Coalhouse in Ragtime (New Jersey Performing Arts Center), and many others.

Tonye Patano* (Mama Nadi) garnered multiple nominations and an award for her performance as Heylia James on Showtime’s “Weeds.” She has appeared in numerous Off Broadway and regional productions, including Legends (national tour), 45 Seconds from Broadway (Broadway) and, most recently, Neighbors (The Public Theater/NYSF). Film credits include The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, The Hurricane, The Savages, Trainwreck, Little Manhattan, The Great New Wonderful, A Price Above Rubies, Fresh, and Messengers. Television credits include “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Monk,” “Hope and Faith,” “Sex and the City,” “Third Watch,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Eli Stone, ” and “Bunker Hill.” Upcoming projects include the features The Company Men, Stolen, and Ponies.

Adrian Roberts* (Commander Osembenga) appeared as Asagai in the Huntington’s production of A Raisin in the Sun. Mr. Roberts was last seen as Shaka in Tough Titty (Magic Theatre). Other regional credits include Ken in Playboy of the West Indies (Lincoln Center Theater), Booth in Topdog/Underdog (Sacramento Theatre Company), Daniel Jamison in First Person Shooter (The SF Playhouse), plus two seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has also appeared in such television shows as “Scrubs,” “Brothers & Sisters,” “Criminal Minds,”and the Sci-Fi channel movie Vampires: Out for Blood. He is a graduate of American Conservatory Theater's M.F.A. program.

Alvin Terry (Musician 1) performed in the Company One production of The Emancipation of Mandy and Miz Ellie by Lois Roach, directed by Victoria Marsh, at the Boston Center for the Arts. His music is rooted in Funk, R&B, Jazz, Gospel and Samurai Taiko drumming with The Academy of Kobudo. He has performed with such artists as the late Horace C. Boyer, Archie Shepp, Avery Sharpe, Valerie Pomaroff, Ricky Ford, John Faddis, Leonard Brown, Bill Lowe, and many others. Recordings under the leadership of Mr. Terry include Bipology, Common Denominator, and The Art of Boston. Mr. Terry is currently part of the music ministry at Grant A.M.E. Church. Mr. Terry makes his home just outside of Boston, MA. His musical career started in Springfield, MA.

Lynn Nottage’s (Playwright) Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined has also received an Obie, the Lucille Lortel Award, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play (Manhattan Theatre Club, Goodman Theatre). It premiered in London at the Almeida Theatre in April 2010 and is touring several U.S. regional theatres in 2010-2011. Other plays include Intimate Apparel (New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play; Roundabout Theatre, South Coast Repertory); Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (Obie Award; Playwrights Horizons, London’s Tricycle Theatre); Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone; Por’knockers; and POOF!. Ms. Nottages’s many honors include the 2010 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, the inaugural Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play (Ruined), the 2007 MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant,” the National Black Theatre Festival’s August Wilson Playwriting Award, the 2005 Guggenheim Grant for Playwriting, and the 2004 PEN/Laura Pels Award for Drama. She is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama.

Liesl Tommy (Director) has recent credits that include Peggy Pickett Sees the Face of God, by Roland Schimmelpfennig world premiere (Luminato Festival/Volcano Theatre); Ruined, by Lynn Nottage (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Eclipsed by Danai Gurira world premiere (Yale Rep, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre); Angela's Mixtape, by Eisa Davis, world premiere (Synchronicity Performance Group, New Georges); The Good Negro by Tracey Scott Wilson, world premiere (The Public Theater/NYSF, Sundance Theatre Institute, Dallas Theater Center); A History of Light, by Eisa Davis, world premiere (Contemporary American Theatre Festival); Yankee Tavern and Stick Fly (CATF); A Christmas Carol (Trinity Repertory Company); In the Continuum (Playmakers Repertory Company); Flight (City Theatre); A Stone's Throw by Lynn Nottage, world premiere (Women's Project); Bus, Family Ties (Cristian Panaite Play Company) for the Romania Kiss Me! Festival. Ms. Tommy was awarded the NEA/TCG Directors Grant and the New York Theatre Workshop Casting/Directing Fellowship, and is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. She has also been a guest director and teacher at The Juilliard School, Trinity Rep/Brown University's M.F.A. Directing and Acting Program and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She is a native of Cape Town, South Africa.

Randy Duncan (Choreographer) has credits that include Ruined (Goodman Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Drowning Crow, Heartbreak House, Vigils, and Zoot Suit (Goodman Theatre); The Tempest (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Antigone, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and The Clean House (South Coast Repertory); Carousel (Court Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre), and others. Dance credits include Joffrey Ballet, River North Chicago Dance Company, Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, and Bat Dor Dance Company (Israel). Film and television credits include Save the Last Dance, Love in Four Acts, and Man on the Move (PBS). Mr. Duncan has been awarded three Ruth Page Awards for Outstanding Choreographer of the Year, the Chicago National Association of Dance Masters Artistic Achievement Award, three Black Theatre Alliance Awards, and a Jazz Dance World Congress Award. Mr. Duncan is chairman of the Dance Department at Chicago Academy for the Arts. He studied with, among others, Harriet Ross, Joseph Holmes, Geraldine Johnson, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Center.

Clint Ramos (Scenic Designer) has recent sets and/or costumes design credits that include Ruined (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), After the Revolution (Playwrights Horizons), Angels in America (Signature Theatre Company), The Winter's Tale (The Public Theater/NYSF), When the Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theater), The Temperamentals (New World Stages), and The Good Negro (The Public Theater/NYSF). He has worked regionally at American Repertory Theater, The Guthrie Theater, Alliance Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, Folger Theatre, Asolo Rep Theatre, Baltimore Centerstage, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and others. Honors include the 2010 Lucille Lortel Award, the 2009 Theatre Development Fund Irene Sharaff Award, the 2007 and 2009 American Theatre Wing Henry Hewes Award, and 2008 and 2010 Drama Desk Award nominations.

Kathleen Geldard (Costume Designer) most recently designed A Fox on the Fairway, a world premiere written by Ken Ludwig and directed by John Rando; Chess, directed by Eric Schaeffer; and Sycamore Trees, a world premiere written by Ricky Ian Gordon and directed by Tina Landau (Signature Theatre). Ms. Geldard has also designed for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Eclipsed, directed by Liesl Tommy), Studio Arena Theatre, Vineyard Playhouse, Imagination Stage, Everyman Theatre, Round House Theatre, Olney Theatre, Folger Theatre, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and many others. Ms. Geldard lives in the Washington, D.C. area.

Lap Chi Chu (Lighting Designer) has design credits that include The Public Theater/NYSF, New York Theatre Workshop, Second Stage Theatre, Dance Theater Workshop, PS 122, The Kitchen, Primary Stages, Juilliard Opera, Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, South Coast Repertory, The Old Globe, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Dallas Theater Center, Intiman Theatre, and Portland Stage Company. He has received multiple Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards and a “Drammy” Award for Best Lighting, as well as Lucille Lortel Best Lighting Award nominations for The Good Negro at The Public Theater/NYSF in New York.

Broken Chord (Sound Design/Original Music/Music Direction) Daniel Baker and Aaron Meicht created the sound design and original music for Ruined. Lyrics and rap for hip-hop tracks are by Kacy-Earl David (production by Broken Chord). New York credits include Atlantic Theater Company, Cherry Lane Theatre, Juilliard, La MaMa E.T.C., Primary Stages, Manhattan Theatre Club, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, and Women's Project. Regional credits include Dallas Theater Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Geva Theatre Center, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, People's Light & Theatre, Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Westport Country Playhouse, and Portland Center Stage. brokenchordcollective.com.