THE TALK premiered at The Fire This Time Festival in New York and has since been produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre in NYC, New Jersey's Crossroads Theatre, Bishop Arts in Dallas, Texas, and City Theatre Miami. Most recently, Benson's play Tigress of San Domingue was selected as a Finalist at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
Sharina Martin: Off Broadway: Round Table (59E59), Showtime Blues, The Talk (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Manhood, Untamed (National Black Theatre), The Beautiful Beautiful Sea Next Door (ArsNova). Regional credits include: Everybody Black (Humana Festival) Familiar (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co), A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre Ctr), Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Metamorphoses (Arden Theatre Company), All’s Well that Ends Well, Another Part of the Forest, Major Barbara (American Players Theater), Black Diamond, Fedra (Lookingglass Theatre),The Voysey Inheritance (Remy Bumpoo), Macbeth (Lady M, greasyjoan & co.). Other credits: Richard III (Lady Anne, Boomerang Theatre Co), Heartbreaker (Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center). Film: Blind, Requited, Nowheresville, Happily After. Television: Z: The Beginning of Everything (Amazon), The Outs, Redrum (Discovery ID), In Between Men. BTA Award Nomination, Best Actress. Training: Northwestern University, Steppenwolf Theatre, LAByrinth, Esper. sharinamartin.com
France-Luce Benson: In addition to her role as Community Engagement Coordintator at The Fountain Theatre, France-Luce Benson is an award winning playwright whose work has been produced and developed at Ensemble Studio Theatre NYC, The New Black Fest at The Lark, Victory Gardens Theatre, The Playwrights Center, and Global Voices in London, among others.
Lily Jo Ockwell: Immersive/ Off Broadway: Punchdrunk Sleep No More (NYC and Shanghai); Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man (London); The Faena Theater The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover (Miami); Third Rail Project The Grand Paradise; Dance Theater: Adam Barruch / Anatomiae Occultii Sweeney Todd; Luke Murphy / Attic Projects On Trimph and Trauma, Carnivore; Martha Clarke God’s Fool; The Apple Boys The Apple Boys. Artistic Direction: McKittrick Hotel’s The Lost Supper, Inferno, The Kings Masquerade, Mayfaire, Hitchcock Halloween. Dance: Gibney Dance; David Dorfman Dance; lonely goat dance. Television: The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. Film: After Yang. Training: Connecticut College, BA in Dance and French. www.lilyockwell.com