Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Director) is honored to continue this journey with August Wilson’s Jitney whose recent Broadway production garnered several awards for Outstanding Revival including the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League, and the NY Drama Critics Circle Awards, along with six Tony nominations. Ruben’s directing credits include: The Piano Lesson, Skeleton Crew, Othello, Gem of The Ocean, Paradise Blue, My Children! My Africa!, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Cabin in the Sky, The Happiest Song Plays Last, Two Trains Running, Things of Dry Hours, The First Breeze of Summer and Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine, among many others. Mr. Santiago-Hudson received a Tony Award as featured actor for his performance in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars. He made his Broadway acting debut alongside Gregory Hines in Jelly’s Last Jam. Other Broadway credits include Stick Fly and Gem of The Ocean. The multi-award-winning director/writer/actor wrote, executive produced, and co-starred in the HBO film Lackawanna Blues based on his OBIE and Helen Hayes Award-winning play. The movie received several honors including Emmy, Golden Globe, NAACP Image Award, Humanitas, National Board of Reviews, Black Filmmaker’s Foundation and Christopher Awards. In a career that spans over four decades, Ruben considers opening The Ruben Santiago-Hudson Fine Arts Learning Center in 2014 in his hometown of Lackawanna, NY as one of his proudest and most cherished accomplishments.

Toni-Leslie James (Costume Designer) Broadway: Come From Away (2017); Amazing Grace; Lucky Guy; The Scottsboro Boys; Finian’s Rainbow; Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; King Hedley II; One Mo’ Time; The Wild Party; Marie Christine; Footloose; The Tempest; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Angels in America: Millennium Approaches; Perestroika; Chronicle of a Death Foretold; and Jelly’s Last Jam. Awards: Tony nomination,three Drama Desk nominations, six Lucille Lortel nominations, Hewes Design Award, Irene Sharaff Young MastersAward and the 2009 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Costume Design.

Darron L West (Sound Designer) Previouslyat the Friedman: The American Plan, To Be or Not to Be, The Royal Family, Top Girls and Time Stands Still. He is a Tony and Obie Award-winning sound designer whose work fortheater and dance has been heard in more than 500 productions nationally and internationally, on Broadway andoff. His accolades for sound design also include the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and AUDELCO awards. He is a two-time Henry Hewes Design Award winner and a proud recipient of the Princess Grace Award statue.

Bill Sims Jr. (Original Music) is an internationally respected “Master of the Blues.” He is a 2012 Grammy nominee for And Still I Rise and an Obie Award winner for Lackawanna Blues. Recent theater credits: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Two River), The Piano Lesson (Hartford Stage and Signature Theatre), August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and Jitney (Two River). Mr. Sims was the subject of the documentary An American Love Story (PBS), for which he composed many of the songs for the soundtrack. Other film credits: Lackawanna Blues, New York Stories, Miss Ruby’s House, American Gangster and Cadillac Records. Training: Ohio State University. heritagebluesorchestra.com

Thomas Schall (Fight Director) has worked on more than 60 Broadway shows, including The Front Page, The Crucible, Blackbird, The Color Purple, Waitress, The King and I, War Horse, This Is Our Youth, Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet, Lucky Guy, Death of a Salesman, Venus in Fur, and A View from the Bridge. He has worked extensively at Lincoln Center (Disgraced, Blood and Gifts), the Public Theater (Hamlet, King Lear, Mother Courage, Father Comes Home from the Wars), MTC (Ruined, Murder Ballad), NY Theatre Workshop (Red Speedo, Othello) and the Met Opera (Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Trovatore).

Nancy Piccione (Broadway Casting) Broadway credits include Choir Boy, Jitney, Heisenberg, The Father, Venus in Fur, Wit, Time Stands Still, Top Girls, Shining City, The Assembled Parties, Outside Mullingar, Casa Valentina and Constellations. She cast the original productions of Proof and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife Off- Broadway and on Broadway as well as their national tours. Off- Broadway credits include Sugar in Our Wounds, Cost of Living, Linda, Incognito, The Explorers Club, Choir Boy, The Whipping Man, Ruined, Equivocation and The World of Extreme Happiness. Prior to working at Manhattan Theatre Club, she was a member of the casting staff at the New YorkShakespeare Festival for 10 years, where she worked on Shakespeare in the Park and numerous productions at the Public Theatre. She cast the American actors for the first two seasons of The  Bridge Project, produced by BAM and the Old Vic London. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a member of the Casting Society of America.

Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC), under the dynamic leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, MTC has become one of the country’s most prominent theatre companies. Productions at its Broadway and Off-Broadway venues have garnered numerous awards, including 27 Tony Awards® and 7 Pulitzer Prizes. MTC premieres include August Wilson’s Jitney and The Piano Lesson, Ink, Choir Boy, Wit, Vietgone, Venus in Fur, Ruined, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Proof, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Crimes of the Heart and Ain’t Misbehavin’. manhattantheatreclub.com.

Senovva (Production Supervisor) is built on the vast experience and personal relationships of our producers, managers, designers and technical specialists; SenovvA focuses on solution driven services in Theater, Broadcast, and Architecture throughout the world. Current Theatrical projects include: Freestyle Love Supreme, The Sound Inside, American Moor, Cirque du Soleil — Twas the Night Before..., Audible @ Minetta Lane, Jersey Boys, Only Human, Mrs. Doubtfire.