Our Team

Brittany BradfordBrittany Bradford is an actor, director, producer, and teaching artist. Acting credits include: Broadway: Bernhardt/Hamlet, Off Broadway: MacBeth (Hunter Theater Project), Fiasco’s Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout), NYC/Regional cr… — **Brittany Bradford**
Brittany Bradford is an actor, director, producer, and teaching artist. Acting credits include: Broadway: *Bernhardt/Hamlet*. Off-Broadway: *Wedding Band* (Obie Award Winner, TFANA), *Fefu and Her Friends* (TFANA), *Mac Beth* (Hunter College), *Merrily We Roll Along* (Roundabout/Fiasco Theater), TV: “Julia” (HBO Max), “The Watcher” (Netflix), “The Gilded Age” (HBO Max), “Dead Ringers” (Amazon), “Fire Country” (CBS), “Fear The Walking Dead” (AMC), “New Amsterdam” (NBC). Film: “The Same Storm” (dir. Peter Hedges). Classix member and HomeBase Theater Collective founder. Training: Juilliard.
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A.J. Muhammad

A.J. Muhammad has served as a dramaturg for plays produced and developed by NEC Inc., New Federal Theatre, HERE Arts Center, MultiStages Theater and various plays directed by Daniel Banks in the U.S. and internationally. He is on the producing teams of the OBIE winning The Fire This Time Festival, CLASSIX, and is also a co-founder the Grove Theater NYC, Inc. with Nedra Marie Taylor. He collaborated with Neyda Martinez on the development and implementation of the New Audience Project which was the recipient of a Rockefeller Grant. He is also a librarian at the Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture.

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Dominique RiderDominique is a Brooklyn based director whose work seeks to answer the question: “What is a world unmade by slavery?” while attempting to analyze the layers of anti-blackness that maintain the world we live in. Deploying theatre and performance as tools of Afropessimism, Dominique has developed and staged work with Audible, The New Group, NYTW, Roundabout, The Atlantic, Princeton, Rattlestick, BRIC Arts, Two River, Portland Center Stage, and more. Past fellowships/residencies include TheaterWorks Hartford, NYSAF, BRIC Arts, Roundabout, and NAMT. Currently Dominique is a resident director at The National Black Theatre and a producer with CLASSIX.Photo credit: Sedderick Raphael — **Dominique Rider**
Dominique is a Brooklyn based director whose work seeks to answer the question: “What is a world unmade by slavery?” while attempting to analyze the layers of anti-blackness that maintain the world we live in. Deploying theatre and performance as tools of Afropessimism, Dominique has developed and staged work with Audible, The New Group, NYTW, Roundabout, The Atlantic, Princeton, Rattlestick, BRIC Arts, Two River, Portland Center Stage, and more. Past fellowships/residencies include TheaterWorks Hartford, NYSAF, BRIC Arts, Roundabout, and NAMT. Currently Dominique is a resident director at The National Black Theatre and a producer with CLASSIX.
Photo credit: Sedderick Raphael

Arminda ThomasArminda Thomas is a dramaturg, archivist, and musician. Selected credits include The Black History Museum…According to the United States of America (HERE), Jazz (Marin Theatre Company), Zora is My Name (New Federal Theatre), and The Fi… — **Arminda Thomas**
Arminda Thomas (she/her) is a dramaturg, director, and archivist. She is a resident dramaturg and producing member of CLASSIX, and a resident dramaturg/curator for New Perspectives Theatre’s On Her Shoulders reading series. She has served as associate artistic director and resident dramaturg for the Going to the River Festival and Writer’s Unit and as archivist and literary manager for Dee-Davis Enterprises, where she was an executive producer for the Grammy-awarded audiobook, “With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together,” and consultant for the film Life’s Essentials with Ruby Dee. Selected dramaturgy credits include *The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window* (Brooklyn Academy of Music and Broadway), *Death of a Salesman* (Hudson Theatre), *Wedding Band* (Theatre for a New Audience), *Black Picture Show* (Artists Space), *Mirrors* (Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop), *Black History Museum...According to the United States of America (HERE Arts Center), and Jazz* (Marin Theatre Company).
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Awoye TimpoAwoye is a Brooklyn-based Director and Producer. Off Broadway directing credits include In Old Age (New York Theatre Workshop), Good Grief at The Vineyard Theatre, The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d at The Playwrights Realm, a… — **Awoye Timpo**
Awoye is a Brooklyn-based Director and Producer. Her New York credits include *Elyria* by Deepa Purohit (Atlantic Theater), *Wedding Band* by Alice Childress (Theatre for a New Audience), *In Old Age* by Mfoniso Udofia (New York Theatre Workshop), *The Loophole* by Jay Adana and Zeniba Britt (Public Theater), *Carnaval* by Nikkole Salter (National Black Theatre), *Good Grief* by Ngozi Anyanwu (Vineyard Theatre and Audible) and *The Homecoming Queen* by Ngozi Anyanwu (Atlantic Theater Company). Regionally she has directed *The Bluest Eye* (Huntington), *Pipeline* (Studio Theatre), *Paradise Blue* (Long Wharf), *Everybody Black* (Actors Theatre of Louisville), School Girls (Berkeley Rep), *Jazz* (Marin Theatre Company). Other projects include concert performances for independent artists and for the NBA, Ndebele Funeral (59E59, Edinburgh, South African Tour), “Black Picture Show” (Artists Space/Metrograph), and Bluebird Memories (Audible). Awoye is a Creative Arts Consultant for the African American Policy Forum and a Founding Member of CLASSIX.
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