UPCOMING
Beyond the Lights: Discovering Sammy Davis Jr. / One Man Show / MetroStage / Feb 2024
Fire Shut Up in My Bones / Community Engagement Series panelist / CAAPA, Strathmore, Washington Performing Arts / March 2024
Tiergarten / Featured Performer / Death to Classical / April 2024
Under the Influence / One Man Show / NIH Atrium / April 2024
Yes, I Can / Teaching Artist / Burgundy Farm / April 2024
Under the Influence / One Man Show / NIH Atrium / April 2024
Turandot / Chorister / Washington National Opera / May 2024
Under the Influence / One Man Show / La Ti Do Productions / May 2024
Our Time / Collaborator and Performer / DCAC / May 2024
Our Time / Collaborator and Performer / Josephine's Cafe / June 2024
Arts Envoy (Ongoing)
State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Cultural Programs Division
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
Creative Resonance (Creative Consulting and Arts Education)
Uncorked * Unplugged / Featured Performer / The Wine Store
Broadway: The Golden Age / Featured Performer / NoVA Lights Chorale
Antoine's Organ / Sound activation of Rashid Johnson installation / Gropius Bau
Durchlüften / Featured Performer / Humboldt Forum
CREDITS (Selected)
Performance
Grounded / Chorister / Washington National Opera
Der Fliegende Hollander / Chorister / The Metropolitan Opera
Gaban / Performer / Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present
Lohengrin / Chorister / The Metropolitan Opera
Gaban / Performer / Sydney Modern Project (AGNSW)
Gaban / Collaborator and performer of Brook Andrew installation / Gropius Bau
Death's Cabaret / Writer and Performer / Theatre im Delphi
Revelations / Singer / Alvin Ailey Dance Theater
Porgy and Bess / Chorister, Soloist / The Metropolitan Opera
Beyond the Lights: Discovering Sammy Davis Jr. / One Man Show / DuSable Museum of African American History
Passing Strange / Youth / Studio Theatre: 2nd Stage - Dir. Keith Alan Baker
Jerry Springer: The Opera / Tremont / Studio Theatre - Dir. Keith Alan Baker
Show Boat / Chorister / Lyric Opera of Chicago - Dir. Francesca Zambello
Les Miserables / Bishop of Digne, Legles / Signature Theatre - Dir. Eric Schaeffer
Porgy and Bess / Fisherman, Soloist / Washington National Opera - Dir. Francesca Zambello
Lost in the Stars / William / Washington National Opera - Dir. Tazewell Thompson
Appomattox (World Premiere) / Union Soldier / Washington National Opera - Dir. Tazewell Thompson
Broadway Three Generations (Side Show, Bye Bye Birdie, Girl Crazy) / Ensemble / The John F Kennedy Center - Dir. Lonny Price
Celebrate Broadway / Ensemble / The John F Kennedy Center - Dir. Gail Humphries
The Civil War / Featured Performer / Ford’s Theatre - Dir. Jeff Calhoun
25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee / Mitch Mahoney / Theatre Zone - Dir. Mark Danni
Ain’t Misbehavin / Andre / Forestburgh Playhouse - Dir Michelle M. Robinson
bobrauschenbergamerica / Carl / Forum Theatre - Dir. Derek Goldman
In the Red and Brown Water / Elegba (u/s) / Studio Theatre - Dir. Serge Seiden
Grand Hotel / Jimmy / Theatre Zone - Dir. Mark Danni
Dreamgirls / C.C. White / Winters Lane Production - Dir. Mark Briner
Aida / Mereb / Bucks County Playhouse - Dir. Louis Palena
Miss Saigon / John (u/s), Ensemble / Bucks County Playhouse - Dir. Michael Licata
john & jen / John / Indigo at Atlas - Dir. Billy Bustamante
tick, tick… BOOM! / Michael / Landless Theatre Company - Dir. Marina McClure
Once on This Island / Papa Ge / Winters Lane Production - Dir. Anya Nebel
The Wild Party / Black / Maryland Ensemble Theatre - Dir. Ray Cullom
Les Miserables / Jean Valjean / Middletown Stage Company - Dir. Ali Sinicrope
Concert / Readings
Kristin Chenoweth / Wolf Trap Filene Center
Sondheim: The Birthday Concert / Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center - Dir. Lonny Price
Written in the Stars / Snapdragon at Playwrights Horizons
Etudes (Carl Hancock Rux) / The John F Kennedy Center - Dir. Laurie Carlos
Every Tongue Confess (Marcus Gardley) / Arena Stage at Mead Center for American Theatre
The Last Black Play (Nathan Louis Jackson) / The John F Kennedy Center
Wig Out! (Tarell Alvin McCraney) / Factory 449
Concert for Hope: Next Generation Heroes / Anti Defamation League
Suite from Hold Fast to Dreams / Dave Brubeck: Music of Dave Brubeck
To Hope! A Celebration – Dave Brubeck / Dave Brubeck: Music of Dave Brubeck
Men in Black / Featured Performer / The Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts
Seven Last Words of Christ – J. Haydn / Riverdale Presbyterian Church
Requiem – G. Verdi / Riverdale Presbyterian Church
Easter Cantatas – J.S. Bach / The Bach Society of Baltimore
Messiah – G.F. Handel / Opera Company of Baltimore
The Cantata Requiem – Gabriel Faure / Riverdale Presbyterian Church
9th Diabetes Charity Gala / Featured Performer with Mo'Voce / The TIPI am Kanzleramt
TEACHING CREDITS
Teaching Artist / Applied Theatre Practice / Booker T. Washington Middle School, Baltimore, MD, Ongoing
Lecturer - Cultivating Your Creative Capital (Undergraduate / Graduate) / Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, NC *pending
Guest Lecturer - Music of a Nation / The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 2015
Voice and Acting Instructor / Bullis School, Potomac, MD, 2015
AWARDS / EDUCATION
Bachelor’s, Marketing and International Business, Howard University, Washington, D.C. December 2005
Winner Grammy Award
Winner Frammy Award
Winner of Actor's Equity Association Roger Sturtevant Musical Theatre Award, 2009
Liceu Studio at the Teatre Grec, Barcelona, Spain, 2007
New York Opera Studio: Nico Castel, Carol Kirkpatrick, Carol Castel, Louis Menendez, 2005
Manhattan School of Music Professional Musical Theatre Workshop: Paul Gemignani, Carolann Page, Austin Pendleton, Joanna Merlin, Paul Ford, 2005
The American College Theatre Festival at the Kennedy Center
Movement: Modern, Ballet
Languages / Accents: German, Spanish (conversational), Italian (basic); Can do Southern, English Accents