Measure for Measure

Renea S. Brown (Isabella) Folger Theatre: Macbeth: A Tribute to the Federal Theatre Project; Metamorphoses, Our Verse in Time to Come, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Round House Theatre: Sally and Tom, The Mountaintop (Helen Hayes Award: Outstanding Lead Performer), Sojourners (Helen Hayes Award: Outstanding Supporting Performer), Nollywood Dreams; Theatre Alliance: Furlough’s Paradise (Helen Hayes Award: Outstanding Lead Performer), Covenant; Arena Stage: Tempestuous Elements, Change Agent; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Macbeth, The Tempest; Ford’s Theatre: The American Five. Co-founder of Imminent Theatre Company. Film/Television: Godfather of Harlem (MGM+), Law and Order (NBC), Beauty’s Keeper (Amazon). www.reneabrown.com  @TheRealDarkLady

Nathan Darrow (Duke)

Folger Theatre: debut; Arena Stage: Long Day’s Journey into Night. Off-Broadway: Soho Playhouse: (un)conditional (Drama Desk Nomination); Classic Stage Company/ Transport Group Theatre Company: Summer and Smoke. International: Richard III (Old Vic Theatre/World Tour/Brooklyn Academy of Music). Regional: Hartford Stage: Jekyll & Hyde, The Winter’s Tale (Connecticut Critics Circle Award); Music Theater Heritage: Guys and Dolls; Old Globe: Dial M for Murder; Kansas City Repertory Theatre: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; People’s Light: A Number; Heart of America Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet, Henry V; McCarter Theatre Center: Five Mile Lake; American Repertory Theater: Ajax; Weston Playhouse: Death of a Salesman. Film/Television: Chrystal Lake, House of Cards; Billions; Gotham; The Wizard of Lies; Preacher; Rectify; Godless.

Jonathan Feuer (Lucio) Folger Theatre: debut; Round House Theatre: Rules for Living; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Richard III, As You Like It; Signature Theatre: John; Theater J: Eureka Day, The Call; Mosaic Theater Company: Monumental Travesties, Charm; Kennedy Center TYA: How to Catch a Star, Flowers Stink; Imagination Stage: Charlotte’s Web, The Freshest Snow Whyte; Rep Stage: Antigone Project; Arena Stage, Studio Theatre, Prologue Theatre, Solas Nua, Spooky Action Theater, Keegan Theatre, Adventure Theatre, and more. Certified Personal Trainer: www.trainerjon.com

Sean Fri (Provost) Folger Theatre: Richard III, Timon of Athens; Signature Theatre: The Threepenny Opera, Billy Elliot. Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Tempest. Aquila Theatre Company: Cyrano de Bergerac/ Much Ado About Nothing (tour). Totem Pole Playhouse: Honus and Me, Travels with My Aunt, Murder in Green Meadows, more. Off-Broadway: Kirk Theater: Heat Lightning.

Maryanne Henderson (Juliet) Folger Theatre: debut. Avant Bard: Two Gentlemen of Killarney; Constellation Theatre Company: OR,; Imagination Stage: Tomás and the Library Lady; ExPats Theatre: Cold Country; Songs of the Goat: Antigone; Prince George’s Shakespeare in the Parks Tour: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy: Arden of Faversham, East of the Sun, West of the Moon, Taming of the Shrew, Or, Petruchio is Kated.

Ahmad Kamal (Pompey) Folger Theatre: As You Like It; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Guys and Dolls, Babbitt, Everybody, Richard III; Arena Stage: Holiday; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Gloria (Helen Hayes nomination – Best Supporting Actor), Kiss; Mosaic Theater Company: The Return, Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in The New World; Signature Theatre: 4,380 Nights; Studio Theatre, Olney Theatre Center. Regional: Northlight Theatre: Selling Kabul; OKC Rep: LIFE SUCKS; Amphibian Stage: Baba, The Handless King. Off-Broadway: The Public: Sumo (Lucille Lortel and Dorian Award nominations – Best Featured Actor).  @king_o_egypt 

Lee Osorio (Angelo) Folger Theatre: debut; Mosaic Theater: A Case for the Existence of God. Regional: Alliance Theatre: A Tale of Two Cities, The Temple Bombing. Off-Broadway: New World Stages: A Bullet for Adolf. Film/Television: Found (NBC), Mayor of Kingstown (Paramount), Your Honor (Showtime). LeeOsorio.com

Chinai Routté (Mistress Overdone) Folger Theatre: debut; Round House Theatre: The Trip to Bountiful; Everyman Theatre: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Piano Lesson, POTUS. Regional: Alliance Theatre: In the Red and Brown Water, The Nacirema Society; Cleveland Playhouse: The Trip to Bountiful; Alabama Shakespeare Festival: The Nacirema Society. New York: Rattlestick Theater: Room Enough (For Us Al); The Fire This Time Festival: Dream Awake. Film/Television: Air Junie, The Day Before Christmas (Paramount+), I Never Said Goodbye (Amazon Prime). @Chinawithani

Ryan Sellers (Elbow, Friar Thomas) Folger Theatre: The Second Shepherds’ Play; Round House Theatre: The Tempest (Helen Hayes Award – Best Supporting Performer); Signature Theatre: Pippin, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Pacific Overtures, West Side Story, The Threepenny Opera, Miss Saigon; Ford’s Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors; Studio Theater: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Adventure Theatre: Not Your Mothers Goose (Helen Hayes nomination – Outstanding Supporting Performer); Imagination Stage: The Snowman and the Snowdog, Ballad of Mu Lan, The Night Fairy, Anime Momotaro; Constellation Theatre Company: Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, School for Lies, White Snake; Keegan Theatre: Noises Off (Helen Hayes nomination – Outstanding Supporting Performer), Apropos of Nothing, The Undeniable Sound of Right Now, Shakespeare in Love. National Tour: Five Little Monkeys.

John Sygar (Froth and others/Music Director) Folger Theatre: As You Like It; Arena Stage: Swept Away; Studio Theatre: Purlie Victorious; Kennedy Center: Look Both Ways; Capital Repertory Albany: Once; Olney Theatre Center: Beauty and the Beast, A.D.16, Once; Signature Theatre: Light Years; Round House Theatre: Spring Awakening; Monumental Theatre Co.: Head Over Heels.
New York: Broadway: Swept Away. Other credits: Only Make Believe (Company Member), songwriter for baseball hat. Instagram: @jsyg

Holly Twyford (Escalus) Folger Theatre: Dark Lady: A Musical Theater Work (Reading Room Festival 2026), An English Garden (Folger Consort), The Love Birds: Chaucer’s A Parlement of Foules (Folger Consort), King John, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mary Stuart, The Taming of the Shrew, Orestes: A Tragic Romp, Arcadia, The Second Shepherds’ Play, Melissa Arctic, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Helen Hayes Award), Twelfth Night, Othello, As You Like It, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet (Helen Hayes Award), The Merchant of Venice. Over eighty productions at DC Area theater including: Shakespeare Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Round House Theatre, and others. Awards & Affiliations: 4 Helen Hayes Awards, Emery Battis Award for Acting Excellence, Lunt-Fontanne Fellow, Studio Theatre Cabinet Member, Ford’s Associate Artist.

Renee Elizabeth Wilson (Mariana) Folger Theatre:  Macbeth: A Tribute to the Federal Theatre Project , LEAR (Reading Room Festival 2026); Julius X: A Re-envisioning of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Reading Room Festival 2025), Romeo and Juliet, Metamorphoses (Helen Hayes Award nomination) Metamorphoses (Helen Hayes Nomination), Nell Gwynn;  Theater Alliance: American Fast (Helen Hayes Nomination); Mosaic Theater Company: Monumental Travesties (World Premiere),  Native Son,  Milk Like Sugar; Theater J: Eureka Day, Intimate Apparel;. Round House Theatre: Radio Golf, Nollywood Dreams; Constellation Theatre Company: Moon Man Walk; Woolly Mammoth Theatre:  Ain’t No Mo’; Imagination Stage: The Hula Hoopin Queen (World Premiere); Studio Theatre: Skeleton Crew, Doubt, White Noise; Arena Stage: Tempestuous Elements, Seven Guitars. International: Red Shoes (World Premiere) Film: Smoke Out, Veracity. @actpoetic88

Psalmayene 24 (Director) Folger Theatre: Metamorphoses (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Direction). Directing: Arena Stage: Tempestuous Elements; Studio Theatre: Purlie Victorious, The Colored Museum, Good Bones, Flow, Pass Over; Ford’s Theatre: Necessary Sacrifices: A Radio Play; Mosaic Theater Company: Young John Lewis: Prodigy of Protest (Librettist/Lyricist), Monumental Travesties (Playwright), Dear Mapel (Playwright/Actor), Les Deux Noirs (Playwright), Native Son (Director); Joe’s Movement Emporium: Out of the Vineyard (Playwright); Theater Alliance: Word Becomes Flesh (Director); Imagination Stage: Cinderella: The Remix (Playwright/Director); African Continuum Theatre Company: Free Jujube Brown! (Playwright/Actor). Television/Film: HBO’s The Wire (Actor). Helen Hayes Award and Victor Shargai Leadership Award recipient. @psalmayene24

Tony Thomas (Choreographer) Folger Theatre: As You Like it, Twelfth Night, Metamorphoses (Helen Hayes Award – Outstanding Choreography); Studio Theatre: P.Y.G. or the Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle (Helen Hayes nomination), Pass Over, Flow, Good Bones, Fat Ham (Helen Hayes nomination), People, Places & Things, The Colored Museum (Helen Hayes nomination), Imagination Stage: P. Nokio, Dory Fantasmagory, Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, Miss Nelson is Missing; Arena Stage: Tempestuous Elements; Mosaic Theatre: Young John Lewis; Woolly Mammoth Theatre: A Fine Madness; Theatre Alliance: Word Becomes Flesh (Helen Hayes nomination). Off-Broadway: Minetta Lane/Daryl Roth Theatre: Mexodus (Lucille Lortel nomination). @tonythomasii

KOKAYI (Composer) Folger Theatre: As You Like It; Mosaic Theatre Company: Young John Lewis. Artist: Kevin Hart’s Laugh at My Pain, Black Beauty, MTV’s Rebel Music, CNN Great Big Story, Nickelodeon, BET How I’m Living. Guggenheim Fellow Composition, Grammy Nominee Best Urban Alternative Song. www.kokayi.com, @kokayi

Mekala Sridhar (Adaptor) Folger Theatre: Metamorphoses (Associate Director), The Reading Room Festival 2025 (Artistic Consultant). Spooky Action Theatre Company: Hakawatis; NextStop Theatre Company: Guards at the Taj; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company / Theatre For A New Audience: Public Obscenities (Associate Director);Studio Theatre: Fun Home, Pass Over (Assistant Director); Solas Nua: Hakawatis (reading) (Director); Atlas Arts Lab: Nothing You Desire (workshop) (Director); Prologue Theatre: A Wake At Singh’s (workshop) (Director). Regional: The Old Globe: What You Are (Assistant Director); La Jolla Playhouse: Light Years Away (Assistant Director). www.mekalasridhar.com

Debra Booth (Scenic Designer) Folger Theatre: debut. Studio Theatre: Octet, People, Places & Things, Pass Over; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Richard III (Helen Hayes nomination), The Lover and The Collection; Mosaic Theatre: Sooner or Later; Round House Theatre: Small Mouth Sounds. NYC: New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public: Marisol; Actors Studio: Oedipus the King; New York City Opera at Lincoln Center: Marco Polo (opera); Julliard School: Angels in America Part 1 (NY premiere). International: Münchener Bienniale, The Holland Festival, Hong Kong Festival: Marco Polo (opera).  www.debra-booth.com

Mika Eubanks (Costume Design) Folger Theatre: Metamorphoses (Helen Hayes nomination); Arena Stage: The Motion; Baltimore Center Stage: Pray, Fires In The Mirror. Regional: The Old Globe: The XIXth; Barrington Stage: N/A; Classical Theatre of Harlem: Twelfth Night, Othello. Off-Broadway: Ars Nova: Heaux Church; Manhattan Theatre Club: The Monsters; Lincoln Center: Flex; Vineyard Theatre: Lessons in Survival: 1971. Film/Television: Candace (Amazon Prime), Souvenir. Awards: Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Audelco Award. mikaeubanks.com

Jesse Belsky (Lighting Designer) Folger Theatre: Henry IV, Part 1, The Winter’s Tale, Sense and Sensibility, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Arena Stage: JQA, The Year of Magical Thinking; Ford’s Theatre: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Baltimore Center Stage: Holes; Studio Theatre: Summer 1976, The Colored Museum, John Proctor is the Villain; Round House Theatre: Oslo, The Book of Will; Signature Theatre: Penelope, The Bridges of Madison County, Sweeney Todd; Olney Theatre Center: The Music Man; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Henry IV P.1. Teaching: Connecticut College, UNC Greensboro. jessebelsky.com

Matthew M. Nielson (Sound Designer) Folger Theatre: The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet; Arena Stage: Nina Simone: Four Women;  Round House Theatre: Sally & Tom, The Book of Will, The Prayer for Owen Meany (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Sound Design); Theater Alliance: Mnemonic (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Sound Design); Olney Theatre Center: Appropriate. Regional: Guthrie Theater/Cincinnati Playhouse/ Dallas Theater Center/Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Shane; Guthrie Theater: Little Women; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Last Wide Open; Milwaukee Rep: Peter and the Starcatcher. Off-Broadway:  Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival:  Shakespeare’s Villains. Film/Television : OWN: The Hero Effect, Netflix, Discovery Channel. matthewnielson.com 

Deborah Thomas (Props Designer) Folger Theatre: Measure for Measure, Metamorphoses, 1983-85 props assistant; Mosaic Theater Company: Andy Warhol in Iran, Confederates, Monumental Travesties, Bars and Measures, The Till Trilogy, Birds of North America, Eureka Day; Studio Theatre: Purlie Victorious, Props Director at Studio Theatre from 2009 to 2019. Studio Theatre: Set Designer: Terminus, Assistant Set Designer: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Props Designer: At The Wedding, Fat Ham, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, John Proctor is the Villain, Pass Over, among others; Theatre J: The Tale of The Allergist’s Wife, Freud’s Last Session. Television (selected): Sculptor and Sculpture Consultant: TLC’s DC Cupcakes; Set Designer:  Washington Bureau of TV Tokyo; Original Set Design: Discovery Channel’s Puppy Bowl; Production Designer: PBS American Experience’s Dolley Madison; Art Direction: PBS American Experience’s Alexander Hamilton; Set Designer: Discovery Channel’s Moments in History, “Jamestown: Against All Odds.”

LaShawn Melton (Hair and Wig Design) Folger Theatre: As You Like It, Julius X, The Winter’s Tale; Arena Stage: Disgraced, Smart People, Nina Simone: Four Women, The Pajama Game, Snow Child; GALA Hispanic Theatre: On Your Feet; Kennedy Center: The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963; Olney Theatre Center: Comedy of Tenors; Round House Theatre: School Girls; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Botticelli in the Fire, Describe the Night, Fairview. Regional: Utah Shakespeare Festival: A Raisin in the Sun, Emma: the Musical, The Play that Goes Wrong; Montgomery College: Little Women. Film: Lioness, White House Plumbers, Rustin. Education: Fashion Merchandising, Graphic Design at UDC, Stage Makeup at Montgomery College.

Nadia Guevara (Associate Director) Folger Theatre: Cymbeline: A Telenovela Dramatic Western (Reading Room Festival 2026), DC I Love You: First Dates; Imagination Stage: Cinderella: A Salsa Fairy Tale; Keegan Theatre: N; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Merry Wives (Helen Hayes Award – Outstanding Ensemble). Regional: Dallas Theater Center, McCarter Theatre. NYC/Off-Broadway: Keen Company/Drama League: Cell; National Queer Theatre: The Survival; The Public: Apple Bottom; The New Group: The Capitalist and the Factory Worker. Additional credits with New York Stage and Film, Red Bull Theater, Latinx Playwrights Circle. Awards: Drama League Stage Directing Fellow, NALAC Fellow, Actor of the Year – San Diego Critics Circle. nadiaguevara.com

Sierra Young (Intimacy Director) Folger Theatre: Julius X, Twelfth Night; Arena Stage: The Age of Innocence, Ja Ja’s African Hair Braiding, POTUS!; Ford’s Theatre: 1776, The American Five, Sister Act; Keegan Theatre: Everything Is Wonderful, Hand to God, Sweat; Monumental Theatre Company: Spring Awakening (Helen Hayes nomination); Mosaic Theater Company: Dodi & Diana (Helen Hayes nomination); Shakespeare Theatre Company: Frankenstein, King Lear (Helen Hayes nomination); Studio Theatre: Purlie Victorious, Jonah, Paradise Blue, The Scenarios; Washington National Opera: West Side Story, Porgy & Bess. Resident Fight & Intimacy Director: Baltimore Center Stage, Mosaic Theater Company.  www.sierrayoung.org @sierrayoungfights

Danica Rodriguez (Casting Director) Folger Theatre: As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Our Verse in Time to Come. New York: Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: cullud wattah*, Romeo y Julieta, Soft Power, for colored girls…, Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Park), Mojada, Ain’t No Mo’*. Regional (selected): Huntington Theatre Company: Purpose; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The World to Come*, The Great Privation, The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes*; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Othello, Guys and Dolls, Merry Wives, Frankenstein*, Kunene and the King, Leopoldstadt, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, The Lehman Trilogy, As You Like It, Macbeth In Stride, Evita, Here There Are Blueberries, King Lear, Jane Anger, Much Ado About Nothing, Red Velvet, and others. Awards: Theatre Communications Group 2021 Rising Leader of Color. Founding Trainer with Broadway for Racial Justice Casting Directive. DanicaRodriguez.com @danicarodriguezcasting | *world premiere

Lauren Pekel (Production Stage Manager) Folger Theatre: Metamorphoses; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Othello; Arena Stage: Fremont Ave. (world premiere), Data (world premiere); Studio Theatre: Paradise Blue, Fat Ham, Fun Home, Good Bones (world premiere), People, Places & Things, Vietgone, P.Y.G. or the Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle (world premiere), No Sisters (world premiere); Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The World to Come (world premiere), Teenage Dick; Signature Theatre: Job, Private Jones (world premiere). Regional: Peterborough Players, The American Conservatory Theatre.

Jazzy Davis (Assistant Stage Manager) Folger Theatre: Twelfth Night; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Nosebleed, Incendiary, My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion, The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes, A Fine Madness; Studio Theatre: The Hot Wing King; Imagination Stage: Nate the Great, New Kid Arts on the Horizon: Squeakers and Mr. Gumdrop, Fitting in (workshop); Flying V Theatre: MONSTRESS; Roundhouse Theatre: Sojourners; Kennedy Center: The Sea Beyond the Ocean (workshop), Operation Sisterhood (workshop). Regional: Baltimore Center Stage: Ain’t No Mo’; The Voxel: the dance floor, the hospital room, the kitchen table; THEARC Theater/Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: 19. Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: seven methods of killing kylie jenner;  The Flea/PlayCo: Amm(i)gone.