Brittany Bradford
Brittany Bradford is an actor, 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 credits: Fefu and Her Friends (Theatre for a New Audience); Guys and Dolls (The Muny); Flyin’ West (Westport Country Playhouse); Family Resemblance (Eugene O’Neill); The Profane and Taming of the Shrew (Chautauqua Theater Company); Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ten Thousand Things Theatre); Neighbors, Avenue Q, and Next to Normal (Mixed Blood Theatre); Ragtime and Stick Fly (Park Square Theatre). Training: Juilliard. Line Producer on Say Her Name, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of HomeBase Theatre Collective.
A.J. Muhammad
As a dramaturg/researcher, A.J. Muhammad has worked on The Black History Museum...(HERE Arts Center), "CLASSIX: A Reading Series Celebrating Classic Plays by Black Playwrights" curated and produced by Awoye Timpo; "In The Case of..." (Columbia University); "Comida De Puta" (MultiStages) and others. He has been a dramaturg/research assistant for director, educator and activist Daniel Banks for over the past two decades. A.J. is currently on the producing team for the OBIE award-winning The Fire This Time Festival. He is also a librarian in the Jean Blackwell Research and Reference Division at the Schomburg Center.
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Dominique Rider
Dominique is a director and dramaturg based in Brooklyn, New York. They believe in l[i/o]ving like it is the end of the world. They have worked as a director, assistant, and collaborator at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Hatian Cultural Exchange, MCC, The Old Globe, The Lark, Soho Rep, The Atlantic, The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, Long Wharf, Flux Theatre Ensemble, WP, The Movement Theatre Company, and The Black Lady Theatre. They are the director in residence for the National Black Theatre through 2021, a NAMT 2019 observer, an inaugural member of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Directing Group, as well as an inaugural member of Mabou Mines’ Marker’s program.
Arminda Thomas
Arminda 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 & Baltimore Center Stage), The First Noel (Classical Theatre of Harlem), A Last Dance for Sybil, and the Obie-winning June and Jean in Concert (Signature Theatre). As literary associate and archivist for Dee-Davis Enterprises, she served as 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. She is associate artistic director and resident dramaturg for the Going to the River Festival and Writer’s Unit.
Awoye Timpo
Awoye is a New York-based director. Off- Broadway directing credits include In Old Age (New York Theatre Workshop), Good Grief (Vineyard Theatre), The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d (Playwrights Realm), and The Homecoming Queen (Atlantic Theater Company). Regionally she has directed Pipeline (Studio Theatre), Everybody Black (Actors Theatre of Louisville) and Paradise Blue (Long Wharf Theatre). Additional credits include Carnaval (National Black Theatre), Sister Son/ji (Billie Holiday Theatre) and Ndebele Funeral (59E59 Theaters, Edinburgh Festival/Summerhall, and South African tour). She is a Creative Director for music events and a Creative Consultant for the African-American Policy Forum.