Oak Park, IL 

CTC: First Season 

CTC: Black Like Me. Regional: Incendiary, Florissant and Canfield, American Teenager (Goodman Theatre); The Brothers Size (Steppenwolf); How to Raise a Free Man, Campaign (Center Theatre Group); Father, Father, L'Ouverture (Playwrights Center); The Cymbeline Project (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Black Like Me (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); End of Message, Suspension (Victory Gardens Theater); Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side (Center for New Performance); Fences (American Blues Theater); Kiss (Haven); Hamlet (Gift Theatre); The Hairy Ape (Oracle Productions). Film: Sons of Toledo (winner of Best African American Directed Short at Phoenix Film Festival, Short Stories Award at the International DC Film Fest, Outstanding Short and Outstanding Performance by a Cast at Film Invasion LA, Buckeye Choice Award at the Columbus Black International Film Festival, the Mosaic Award), Six Feet Apart (currently nominated for Outstanding Dramatic Directing at the Micheaux Film Festival in LA). BA in Theater Studies from Emerson College, MFA in Theater Directing from the California Institute of the Arts.