Black No More

Mary Page is thrilled to be making her New Group Debut with this incredible piece. She was seen on Broadway in The Great Comet, Finding Neverland and the First National Tour of Bright Star. Off Broadway: Encores!, When Change Comes, The York Theatre. She often develops new work, including: Lempicka, A Beautiful Noise, and others. TV/Film includes: “Dick Johnson is Dead” (Netflix), “The Tony Awards”, “GMA”. Mary Page also works creatively in other mediums including her paper goods business a page of mary, and her Production Company, Monocle Productions. Learn more at marypagenance.com @marypagenance @apageofmary @monoclenyc

“The first Grenadian woman on Broadway”. Credits: Tony Awardwinning FELA! (Broadway National/International Tours) and Spongebob Squarepants. Violet (Asst to Choreographer), Amazing Grace (Ensemble/Asst. Choreographer). Additional credits: 50th Anniversary International Tour West Side Story, Christopher Gattelli’s In Your Arms, Tusk, Jermaine Rowe’s Children from the Blue Mountains, Leonora—a Caribbean interpretation of Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”. Abdel Salaam’s Forces of Nature Dance Theatre. Upcoming: 2022 revival of 1776 exploring contradictions and consequences of America’s Declaration of Independence. Oneika is a proud ambassador of Caribbean representation in American Arts. Deep appreciation to my indomitable Support System and BNM! IG: @DragonPassionFruit

Nicholas (he/him) is a 2014 graduate of The Juilliard School. He is thrilled to be returning to the stage in Black No More. Performance credits include The Phantom of the Opera (25th Anniversary Tour), Brigadoon (Encores! dir./chor. Christopher Wheeldon), Joseph… Dreamcoat (dir./chor. Andy Blankenbuehler), Keigwin & Co., and Seeing You (dir./chor. Ryan Heffington). Nicholas is slated to choreograph the Chicagoland Theatre Fund’s upcoming production of Children of Eden starring Norm Lewis and Deborah Cox, and has received creative support from Dance Lab NY, DanceBreak, and the 92nd St Y. Immense gratitude to my family, friends, and Sofia at CESD.

Off-Broadway: Miss You Like Hell (ass. choreographer); The Fortress of Solitude; Cabin in the Sky (Encores!). National tours: Fela!. Regional: The Wiz (The Muny); Staggerlee; Man in the Ring (movement director). TV: “The Get Down,” “Dickinson,” “The Wiz: Live!,” “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.” Film: Coming 2 America, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Other credits: The Metropolitan Opera: Porgy and Bess.

A multi-disciplinary artist, creator, thinker and genderqueer being. They seek for the intersection of their passions through music, dance, modeling, and acting. Some of their projects include: “Brenda” in Smokey Joes Cafe at John W. Engeman Theater, “Gamble Gold” in the developmental workshop of Hood. “Alline/Ikette” in the original Broadway cast of Tina and “Rochelle” in the upcoming film Major, directed by Christopher D. Betts and produced by Tarell Alvin McCraney & Phylicia Rashad. They are grateful to collaborate and create with other artists. (They/them) @mars_the_mantis

Film: A Case Of Blue, Can Hitler Happen Here, How You Look at It, Jeromes’s Bouquet. TV: “Homeland”, (final season 8: Ambassador Janet Gaeto), “The Affair”, “Blindspot”, “Law & Order”, “Law &Order (CSI)”, “Kennedy Center Honors”, “Baryshnikov On Broadway”. Broadway: Bronx Bombers: Carmen Berra, Chicago: Roxie Hart, Phantom: Christine Daae, Les Miserables: Cosette (also Cosette on Grammy Award-Winning London Symphonic Recording), A Chorus Line: Bebe. Off-Broadway: Voice/Betty in The True (The New Group), Marion Fronde, Biography (Mint Theater), Sunny, Regional Premiere of The Exonerated, Martha, world premiere of Missing Footage (The Old Globe Theater).

Broadway: HAIR (revival), Green Day’s American Idiot (OBC), American Psycho (OBC).  Off-Broadway: Steve Rubell in This Ain’t No Disco (Atlantic Theatre), David Rabe’s An Early History of Fire (The New Group). TV credits include “Law & Order: SVU,” “Shades Of Blue,” “Inside Amy Schumer,” “The Following,” “Private Practice,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Blue Bloods,” “CSI,” “30ROCK,” as well as HBO’s “High Maintenance” & “Olive Kitteridge”. Recent film: Stephen King’s A Good Marriage. Theo can currently be seen playing Josh in both seasons of Rightor Doyle’s “Bonding” on Netflix. Upcoming: Jacob in Apple TV’s “WeCrashed,” opposite Jared Leto & Anne Hathaway.

most recently starred as David Ruffin in Broadway’s Ain’t Too Proud –The Life and Times of The Temptations. He earned a Tony nomination, a Chita Rivera Award, the Helen Hayes Award, the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award, Theater Bay Area Award, The Actors’ Equity Clarence Derwent Award, and nominations from the Drama League and Outer Critics Circle. Sykes is currently recurring on “Russian Doll” for Netflix. His Broadway credits include Hamilton: An American Musical (OBC), Memphis (OBC), Newsies (OBC), Motown (OBC), and The Little Mermaid. Additional TV/Film credits include: “Seaweed J. Stubbs’ in NBC’s “Hairspray Live!”, “Marvin” on “Vinyl,” “Luke Cage,” “Smash,” “30Rock,” Leave It On The Floor, Woody Allen’s Crisis in Six Scenes, and Detroit, directed by Katheryn Bigelow. A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, Ephraim graduated from the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University BFA program with departmental honors and toured with the Ailey II Company for two years.

As Co-Founder of The Roots, a critically acclaimed solo artist, actor, writer, producer, and creator, Tariq Trotter—aka Black Thought—has quietly affirmed himself as one of the most prolific, prescient, and powerful voices in hip-hop. Over the course of his career, he has won four GRAMMY® Awards and three NCAAP Image Awards. Not only did he deliver eleven applauded albums with The Roots, but the group also joined “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” as the house band and now a beloved mainstay of late-night television for over a decade. Beyond collaborations with everyone from Eminem, John Legend, J Dilla, and Big Pun to Linkin Park, Logic, and Fall Out Boy, he co-produced the multiplatinum GRAMMY® Award-winning Original Broadway Cast Recording of Hamilton. Alongside fellow The Roots co-founder Questlove, he launched the production company Two One Five Entertainment, executive producing the AMC documentary series, Hip-Hop: The Songs That Shook America. Teaming up with Academy® Award winner John Ridley, he makes his theater debut with the musical Black No More in 2021. His presence has also seamlessly translated into roles in film in television such as HBO’s “The Deuce”. Black Thought’s solo career accelerated at full speed with his Streams of Thought series in 2018. Pairing him with a legendary producer for each release, Streams of Thought, Vol. 1 with 9th Wonder generated millions of streams as Pitchfork proclaimed he “is somehow still improving decades after his peers’ primes, which in hip-hop sounds almost as crazy as a professional athlete doing the same.” He joined forces with Salaam Remi on Streams of Thought, Vol. 2 before returning with producer Sean-C for 2020’s Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able. Marking his debut for Republic Records, it features collaborations with Portugal. The Man and ScHoolboy Q as well as the lead single “Good Morning” [feat. Swizz Beatz, Pusha T, & Killer Mike]. Lyrically dexterous, politically provocative, and consciously incisive, Black Thought encourages the game to move forward with him yet again.

Dallas, TX native. His Broadway credits are Bobby in The Color Purple Revival, Trevor in The Play That Goes Wrong, & Aaron Burr in Hamilton an American Musical. On television he’s Eric Houston on “Empire” and Trevor in “Chicago Med”. Feature film credits include Miss Juneteenth, Spilt Milk, and the upcoming Solidarity. Voice over credits include Satoshi on “Michiko & Hatchin”, Psycho P in “One Piece the Movie”, Chris in The Walking Dead Video Game, and Dunks Watson in “Borderlands, the Presequel”. He’s a golden ticket recipient on American Idol, Season 7.

Giving all glory to God, this NYC based actor, concert artist, competition singer, voice teacher and acting coach is grateful for her New Group debut, after making her Broadway debut in Waitress the Musical. Other notable performances: Gigantic (Off-Broadway), Wicked and the Color Purple (National Tours), and leading Anything Goes and Gypsy (both at NYU). She attributes her success to her faith, her parents, her education, CGF Talent, and her professional and personal influences. Thank you to the amazing team, of Black No More and Telsey & Co. for this opportunity. www.queennyla.com @brandnewnyla. Acts 4:7-12.

Broadway and NYC credits: Scandalous, Superman in It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman, The Fantasticks, The Most Happy Fella, and Show Boat. Tours: The Book of Mormon, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Les Misérables, and The Little Mermaid. Regional highlights include The Grinch in Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas (The Old Globe), Harold Hill in The Music Man (Goodspeed Musicals), Joe Bradley in Roman Holiday (Guthrie Theater) and Miles Gloriosus in A Funny Thing… Forum (Shakespeare Theatre Company—Helen Hayes Award nomination.) TV/Film: “NCIS: New Orleans”,“The Sopranos”,“Rescue Me” and upcoming “Better Nate Than Ever”. EdwardWatts.net.

Lillias White is an award-winning performing artist. For The Life– Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Tony awards. For Fela!– Tony nom. Other credits: How to Succeed…, Once On This Island, Cats, Dreamgirls. FILM/TV: “Sesame Street” (Emmy) “The Get Down”, Disney’s Hercules. OFF BROADWAY: Dinah Was, Romance in Hard Times (Obie), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (NAACP Theatre Award). Honorary Ph.Ds- CUNY and UWV.

Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, novelist, playwright and showrunner whose credits include 12 Years A Slave, Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992, “American Crime,” and Jimi: All Is By My Side. His latest film, Needle In a Timestack, which he wrote and directed and stars Leslie Odom Jr., Cynthia Erivo, Freida Pinto, and Orlando Bloom, will be released by Lionsgate on October 15. He is currently in production on “Five Days at Memorial,” a limited series for Apple TV+ based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink.  Ridley and Carlton Cuse both serve as showrunners, writers, executive producers, and directors on the series, which chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. The Other History of the DC Universe, a graphic miniseries he wrote for DC Comics, launched in November 2020 to critical acclaim.  Ridley is also currently writing a new Batman series for DC Comics and a Black Panther series for Marvel. In the fall of 2018 Ridley opened NO Studios, a space for the arts and community, in his hometown of Milwaukee.

As Co-Founder of The Roots, a critically acclaimed solo artist, actor, writer, producer, and creator, Tariq Trotter—aka Black Thought—has quietly affirmed himself as one of the most prolific, prescient, and powerful voices in hip-hop. Over the course of his career, he has won four GRAMMY® Awards and three NCAAP Image Awards. Not only did he deliver eleven applauded albums with The Roots, but the group also joined “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” as the house band and now a beloved mainstay of late-night television for over a decade. Beyond collaborations with everyone from Eminem, John Legend, J Dilla, and Big Pun to Linkin Park, Logic, and Fall Out Boy, he co-produced the multiplatinum GRAMMY® Award-winning Original Broadway Cast Recording of Hamilton. Alongside fellow The Roots co-founder Questlove, he launched the production company Two One Five Entertainment, executive producing the AMC documentary series, Hip-Hop: The Songs That Shook America. Teaming up with Academy® Award winner John Ridley, he makes his theater debut with the musical Black No More in 2021. His presence has also seamlessly translated into roles in film in television such as HBO’s “The Deuce”. Black Thought’s solo career accelerated at full speed with his Streams of Thought series in 2018. Pairing him with a legendary producer for each release, Streams of Thought, Vol. 1 with 9th Wonder generated millions of streams as Pitchfork proclaimed he “is somehow still improving decades after his peers’ primes, which in hip-hop sounds almost as crazy as a professional athlete doing the same.” He joined forces with Salaam Remi on Streams of Thought, Vol. 2 before returning with producer Sean-C for 2020’s Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able. Marking his debut for Republic Records, it features collaborations with Portugal. The Man and ScHoolboy Q as well as the lead single “Good Morning” [feat. Swizz Beatz, Pusha T, & Killer Mike]. Lyrically dexterous, politically provocative, and consciously incisive, Black Thought encourages the game to move forward with him yet again.

BROADWAY: MJ the Musical, Moulin Rouge!, Purlie Victorious, A Soldier’s Play, American Son, The Parisian Woman, The Price, Noises Off, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Gigi, Anything Goes, The Heiress, The Best Man, Follies, How to Succeed In Business Without Even Trying, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Million Dollar Quartet, Ragtime, 33 Variations The Pajama Game, I Am My Own Wife. OFF-BROADWAY: Here There Are Blueberries, Black No More, Merrily We Roll Along, The True, Jerry Spring the Opera, If I Forget, The Whirligig, Into The Woods, Love, Love, Love, Sweet Charity, Evening at the Talk House, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Buried Child, The Spoils, Sticks and Bones, The Last Five Years, A Lie of the Mind, Ruined, Hurlyburly. TELEVISION: He designed the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018 Academy Awards, 2024 SAG Awards, 2024 Met Gala as well as the NBC LIVE! Musicals The Wiz & Hairspray and others. AWARDS: Winner of 1997 + 2004 OBIE Awards, 2004, 2005, 2007 Lortel Awards; 2009 + 2021 Tony Award, 2011+ 2021 Drama Desk Award, 2015, 2016 Art Directors Guild Award, 2014 + 2017 Emmy Award.

The New Group: more than 15 shows including: The Seven Year Disappear, Sabbath’s Theater, Black No More, Jerry Springer: The Opera, Sweet Charity. Broadway: Gutenberg The Musical, Cost of Living, Freestyle Love Supreme, Bandstand, Falsettos, Holiday Inn, Something Rotten, Penn&Teller, Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Disaster, Jekyll and Hyde, Next Fall, among others. Off-Broadway includes: Night of the Iguana, The Fears, Only Gold, Hyprov, Beyond Babel, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Tiny Beautiful Things. Received Tony, Hewes, Bass awards, and Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lortel, NAACP, Ovation, IRNE, and AUDELCO nominations. Jeff is a producer of Light Humor and has been the designer for Jennifer Muller The Works for 25 years.

Nevin Steinberg (Sound Design): Broadway: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Tony nomination),  Hadestown (Tony award), Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Freestyle Love Supreme, The Cher Show,  Bandstand, Bright Star, It Shoulda Been You, Mothers and Sons, Rodgers+ Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Tony nomination), The Performers, Magic/Bird.  Over thirty other Broadway productions with Acme Sound Partners and five additional Tony nominations: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Bengal  Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Fences, Hair and In The Heights. 

is a multi-hyphenate actress and wig designer. She holds an MFA in Acting from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. As a designer, she is the recipient of the Henry Hewes Design Award, The Antonyo Awardand is a Drama Desk nominee.Her design & styling credits include Broadway: Chicken & Biscuits; Off-Broadway: MCC Theatre, Nollywood Dreams; The Public Theatre, For Colored Girls“, Page 73 Productions: Stew; Soho Rep: For all the Women Who Thought They WereMad, Women’s Project Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Ars Nova: Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of The Future, Ensemble Studio Theatre: Travisville, National Black Theater: Crowndation. Regional: Baltimore Center Stage: The Glorious World of Crowns Kinks & Curls; LaJolla Playhouse: The Garden; Berkshire Theatre: Hair, Huntington Theatre : Skeleton Crew; Longwharf Theatre: An Iliad; Hudson Valley Shakespeare: The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial…

Zane Mark is a composer, orchestrator, arranger and programmer with credits that include his co-writing Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk; for which he received Tony and Grammy award nominations. Some of his other Broadway credits include Mrs. Doubtfire,The Cher Show, Holler If Ya Hear Me, Motown The Musical, Pippin, Leap of Faith, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, All Shook Up, Never Gonna Dance and The Full Monty. His Off- Broadway credits include Smart People, Frog Kiss, Harlem Song, The Brother/Sister Plays and Radiant Baby.

Kristy Norter is a freelance musician specializing in woodwind instruments. She has been hired as the music coordinator for Six, making her the only female music
coordinator currently on Broadway. Kristy also plays Saxophone on Broadway in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. Some of her past credits include: A Bronx Tale, In the Heights, Newsies, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Radio City Spring Spectacular, Himself and Nora, and multiple shows at the Paper Mill Playhouse including originating the Reed 1 books for: Ever After, Bandstand, Bronx Tale, The Sting, The Honeymooners, Halftime the Musical and Benny and Joon. She has also subbed on dozens of Broadway musicals. Kristy has performed with many talented musicians including: Idina Menzel, Chita Rivera, Nancy Wilson, Bernadette Peters, Kristin Chenoweth, Michael Feinstein, Bootsy Collins, the Four Tops, the Temptations, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Broadway Backwards Orchestra, Broadway on Broadway Orchestra, Diane Schuur and Alan Cumming. Music Coordinator credits include: The New Group’s production of Cyrano, For Colored Girls at the Public Theater, Kristin Chenoweth’s For the Girls Concert Series, and SIX on Broadway. She is scheduled as Music Coordinator for upcoming new musicals: Mr.
Saturday Night, The Suffragists, and Black No More.

This is Valerie’s 26th season with The New Group. Babe; The Seven Year Disappear; Sabbath’s Theater; The Seagull/Woodstock, NY; Black No More; The Fever; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice; Happy Talk; The True; Peace for Mary Frances; Good for Otto; Downtown Race Riot; The Whirligig; Evening at the Talk House; Sweet Charity; Buried Child; Steve; Mercury Fur; The Spoils; Rasheeda Speaking; Sticks and Bones; Annapurna; Intimacy; Clive; The Jacksonian; Bunty Berman Presents…; A Lie of the Mind; The Kid; Things We Want; Rafta, Rafta…; Marie and Bruce; Abigail’s Party; Hurlyburly; Aunt Dan; and Lemon. Broadway: Barefoot in the Park and The Women.

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Daryl Waters was the music supervisor/orchestrator/arranger for The Cher Show (Drama Desk nomination for best orchestrations); Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (Tony/Drama Desk nominations for best orchestrations); Holler If Ya Hear Me; Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk; Street Corner Symphony and A Civil War Christmas. He arranged and conducted After Midnight; orchestrated Memphis (Tony/Drama Desk awards) and Bella; and created the dance music for The Color Purple and Jelly’s Last Jam. His composing credits include Noise/Funk (Tony/Grammy nominations for best musical) and Drowning Crow. Mr. Waters is a graduate of Livingstone College, a historically Black college in Salisbury, NC.

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Founding Artistic Director: New York Live Arts) is the recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke Award; the 2013 Presidential Medal of the Arts, the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; Tony Awards for Best Choreography of the FELA! and Spring Awakening, Obie Award & Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation CALLAWAY Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography forThe Seven; the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; the 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award; the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and the 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award. In 2010, Mr. Jones was recognized as Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named Mr. Jones “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure.”

Scott Elliott is the founding artistic director of The New Group theater and New Group Off Stage, a multi-media division of the company. He most recently directed Jessica Goldberg’s Babe, featuring Arliss Howard, Gracie McGraw and Marisa Tomei.  Other recent productions include the world premieres of The Seven Year Disappear by Jordan Seavey, The Seagull/Woodstock, NY by Thomas Bradshaw, and the musical Black No More by John Ridley and Tariq Trotter.