WHAT I’M UP TO

Boy in Smith Street Stage’s production Henry V in Carroll Park directed by Artistic Director Jonathan Hopkins.

read stage directions for a reading of The Observer Effect by Zachariah Ezer directed by Dominique Rider at Dramatists Guild.
participated in a reading of This is a Face by J.C. Pancratz directed by Dominique Rider at HERE Arts produced by Ten Toes Theater Collective.
played e-cad in a reading of Zachary Desmond’s play Tent City.
participated in a workshop of BOIDS by reid tang, directed by Kedian Keohan with Breaking the Binary Theatre.

played Aphrodite in Man-Hating Lesbians, a reimagining of the L-Word. Directed by Sharik Geneve, and written by Malea Kimberly and Jess Stoker. Follow @manhatinglesbians on instagram to find out what’s next!
workshopped the role of Peanut in obit, or no more dead dogs by Mik Johnson directed by abigail jean-baptiste at Playwrights Realm.

played Gravedigger/Player King/Doctor in a staged reading of Hamlet at Playwrights Horizons directed by Sarah Jack.
performing in a staged reading of The World Only Spins Forward (Phase III), conceived by Lily Mannon and directed by Nate Flower, at the MSNR Alumni Creative Incubator.
workshopped and devised with other Mercury Store cohort members Jing Dong’s adaption of War and Peace as part of their Big Play Residency Program.
played Moth/PA in Smith Street Stage’s production of Love’s Labor’s Lost, directed by Raquel Chavez.

performed in a reading of Run Against the Wind, a piece developed by Taji Senior and Thalia Sablon and directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps. Run Against the Wind is a piece that uses text from Black feminist and scholarly writers and activists to be in dialogue with Palestinian resistance and liberation in the midst of the current genocide. This piece was presented at JACK and all proceeds were used to purchase E-sims for people in Palestine.

workshopped Dominique Rider’s RACIAL BONUS (former title) with Breaking the Binary Theatre.
performed in a reading of Twelve Angry Black Women by Andrea Ambam and directed by Taylor Reynolds at New York Theatre Workshop.
acted in Joey Massa’s proof of concept film, Pink Noise.

read stage directions for YOUR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL by travis tate, directed by Dominique Rider with Breaking the Binary Theatre.

collaborated with director abigail jean-baptiste, one of New Georges Audrey Residents, to explore the destruction of the movie-musical White Christmas, and see the piece through the lens of the often uncredited black train car porters.
had the pleasure of being in a Benefit Reading of A Long Time Since Yesterday by PJ Gibson, directed by Awoye Timpo at The New Federal Theatre.
played Mayo, a fifth grader on a gender journey, in Ally Merkel’s The Bogeyman that went up at the Tank in the Under Construction 3 series.

Time and Time Again, a collection of three short plays that experiment with time and structure, at The Chain Theater in NYC. Vann was featured in when superheroes die and how we mourn them… by Luis Roberto Herrera directed by Mia Fowler.
played Tilly in a reading of Troglobites by Zachary Desmond produced by Undiscovered Works.

had the opportunity to workshop a new queer black musical, Be Like Bone, by Storm Thomas and directed by nicHi douglas, with some of their favorite collaborators at Musical Theatre Factory.
appeared in Robert O’Hara’s production of A Raisin in the Sun at The Public Theater.

participated in the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals where they got to meet and collaborate with an amazing network of artists and make messy, fun, and meaningful theatre.
performed at the Ars Nova Ant Fest with an ensemble of dancers in a piece entitled my saturday night did not go as planned by evan ray suzuki.