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DAVE J. ABRAMS (u/s Thought 2, u/s Thought 3; he/him) is exultant to be a part of A Strange Loop! Recent credits include: Hippest Trip – The Soul Train Musical (u/s Tony Cornelius, Ensemble), Center Rep's In the Heights (Benny), BAMSF’s' Hairspray (Seaweed) for which he received a Theater Bay Area Award (TBA) for Outstanding Featured Actor, and Berkeley Playhouse's Ragtime (Coalhouse) which awarded him another TBA Award for the principal role. Dave holds a BA in Theater and Dance from the University of California, Berkeley. May you all enjoy this big, Black, queer ass American Broadway show! IG: @davejabrams

ANGELA ALISE (u/s Thought 1, she/her) is an actor, writer, and producer making her CTG debut. Some regional credits include The Wolves (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Nothing to Lose But Our Chains and Black Side of the Moon (Second City @ Woolly Mammoth Theatre); Almost Accurate Guide to America (Second City @ The Kennedy Center); Hairspray (Drury Lane Theatre); The Wolves (Goodman Theatre); The House That Will Not Stand (Victory Gardens Theatre), and Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (2014 Steppenwolf Garage Rep). Her TV credits include American Housewife (ABC), Pretty Smart (Netflix), As We See It (Amazon), Perry Mason (Max), and South Side (Max).

JORDAN BARBOUR (Thought 5) CTG Debut! A New York- based actor, singer, and writer, Barbour recently appeared on Broadway in the closing cast of Come From Away and originated the role of Tristan in The Inheritance (2020 Tony Winner, Best Play). Barbour has toured internationally with Peter Brook’s The Suit, Come From Away, and Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment. Notable U.S. venues include Theater for a New Audience, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Kennedy Center, Diversionary Theater, Denver Center, Seattle Rep, and Pasadena Playhouse, among others. Additionally, Barbour voices Black Panther in Marvel’s Mech Strike animated comic series.

J. CAMERON BARNETT (Thought 2, he/him) is best known for his recurring role as Castle on the series POSE. Other Film/TV credits include Allswell in New York (Tribeca Film Festival Winner) Line of Duty, The Twilight Zone, and Gotham to name a few. He has toured the world in musicals such as Hair (Europe & South America), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Europe), and The Buddy Holly Story (National). His select Off-Broadway & Regional credits include F*cking A (Signature Theatre/NYC), The Emperor Jones (The Irish Repertory Theatre), The Wiz, and The Winter's Tale (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Finian’s Rainbow (Goodspeed Opera House), and The Producers (Ogunquit Playhouse), and others. Mad appreciation to his team at Buchwald and Vault Entertainment. More at jcameronbarnett.com or follow him on Instagram @jcameronbarnett.

CARLIS SHANE CLARK (Thought 6, he/him) is so excited to join this talented company! A performer since age 9, Carlis obtained a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and has performed on stages in NYC, Edinburgh’s International Fringe Festival, and Los Angeles where he was honored at the LA Drama Critics Circle Awards, Stage Raw, and Ovation Awards. Carlis most recently performed with the Boston Lyric Opera and Long Beach Opera’s The Feast, and episodic series desert in. Other recent television credits include Dear White People (Netflix) and Jean-Claude Van Johnson (Amazon Original). Film: Clemency (2019 Sundance Grand Jury Prize) and Dutch. Thank you Telsey Casting, NOVA, BQ, and family. @carlisshane

ALVIS GREEN, JR (Usher Alternate) made their west coast debut at A.C.T! Past credits include Once on This Island (Blackfriars Theatre), The Prom (JCC Centerstage), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Blackfriars Theatre), Urinetown (Gatessingers CO), and Sister Act (OFCCreations).

ALBERT HODGE (u/s Thought 4, he/him) Albert is thrilled to be part of this powerful production. Recent credits: Mr. Bones in The Scottsboro Boys (42nd Street Moon); Pierre Bezukhov in the West Coast premiere of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812 (Shotgun Players); Narrator in Passing Strange (Shotgun); and Tom Collins in Rent (Landmark Musical Theatre).

AVIONCE HOYLES (Thought 3, he/him) Avionce is a Rock Hill, SC native & a graduate from AMDA NY. Some of his credits include (Film/TV) Grayland, FBI: Most Wanted, Orange Is The New Black, (Off Broadway/National Tour) Bat Out Of Hell, Titanique, Memphis The Musical, Rent, and Jesus Christ Superstar. Recently, Avionce has been touring the globe with his love letter to the Queen of Rock 'n Roll entitled Dear Tina. Huge thanks to my Kreativ Artists family, CTG, Kyle Garvin, and this company. Ephesians 3:20 @theeavioncehoyles @deartinashow For Quenton.

TARRA CONNER JONES (Thought 1, she/her) Tarra is a NYC based singer/actor/writer originally from Jacksonville, Fl. She recently made her Off-Broadway debut in Michael R. Jackson’s White Girl In Danger, where she received Drama Desk and Drama League Nominations, and an Audelco Award for her role as Nell Carter Gibbs. Past credits include: The Music Man, Hairspray, The Color Purple, Little Shop of Horrors, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Shrek The Musical, Chicago The Musical, Dreamgirls, and From Birmingham To Broadway (A one act play with music about Nell Carter, written by Tarra). Tarra forever performs in memory of her mother, Chonita Conner, who cheers from heaven. Much appreciation to her agent, Dave Secor (Daniel Hoff Agency).

MALACHI McCASKILL (Usher, he/him) is excited to be making his Center Theatre Group debut in the Tony Award winning, hit Broadway musical, A Strange Loop! This North Carolina native hails from Jackson Springs, NC. He took his dreams of being on Broadway to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he is a current junior obtaining his Bachelor’s in Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre. Since being in college, Malachi has been working throughout North Carolina and in his school’s program. Some credits include: The SpongeBob Musical (Ensemble, Patrick u/s, Krabs u/s) at UNC Greensboro, Rock of Ages (Lonny Barnett) at UNC Greensboro, Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea (Dontrell Jones, Jr.) at UNC Greensboro, Godspell (John The Baptist/Judas) at UNC Greensboro, The Color Purple (Ensemble) at The Barn Dinner Theatre, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Swing) at The North Carolina Theatre, and Elf The Musical (Macys Store Manager) at The North Carolina Theatre! Instagram @malachimccaskill

JOHN-ANDREW MORRISON (Thought 4, he/him) is a Tony Nominee and Lucille Lortel and OBIE Award Winner for his work in A Strange Loop (Broadway and Off-Broadway). JAM, as he's commonly called, is on both the Original Broadway Cast and Original Cast recordings for A Strange Loop. He was an Outer Critics Circle Honoree for his work in Blues for an Alabama Sky Off-Broadway (KEEN Company). His recent work includes Malvolio with The Classical Theater of Harlem and his fourth season with Hartford Stage doing A Christmas Carol. He holds a BA from Brandeis University and an MFA from UC San Diego. He is a company Member of The Actors Center. @jandymorri

TRISTAN J SHULER (u/s Thought 5, u/s Thought 6) , a bicoastal writer/director/actor, is lucky to be back in the theatre and making this Center Theatre Group debut after being highlighted in YesBroadway's 40Under40. Most recently, Tristan J was seen in the world premiere of Prelude to a Kiss: The Musical at South Coast Repertory. More at: @TristanJShuler TristanJShuler.com

EDMOND O'NEAL (Production Stage Manager, he/him) is a New York-based freelance stage manager and educator. Broadway credits include Hadestown. National Tour credits include Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations and An Officer and a Gentleman. NYC workshop/reading credits include The Wrong Man, The Outsiders, and Pal Joey. Selected regional credits include American Conservatory Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Lyric Repertory Company, Guthrie Theatre, and the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre. Edmond also works proudly with Broadway and Beyond Access as well as Black Theatre United. Proud graduate of the Stage Management program at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and the University of Central Florida.

camella coopilton (Assistant Stage Manager, she/her) Camella Coopilton’s stage management credits include Both/And by Carolyn Ratteray at The Wallis Annenberg/Boston Court, SHE by Marlow Wyatt at Antaeus Theatre Company, Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage, and King James by Rajiv Joseph at Center Theatre Group.

JULIA FORMANEK (Assistant Stage Manager, she/her) is a Bay Area based stage manager. Recent credits include: A Strange Loop, Hippest Trip – The Soul Train Musical (American Conservatory Theater), Let The Right One In, Cambodian Rock Band, Goddess, Culture Clash (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Sleeping Beauty: Panto in the Presidio (Presidio Theatre), Romeo y Juliet, House of Joy, and Everybody (California Shakespeare Theater).

MICHAEL R. JACKSON (Book, Music, and Lyrics; he/him) is one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2022. His Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle winning A Strange Loop (which had its 2019 world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in association with Page 73 Productions) received 11 Tony nominations in 2022, and was called "a full-on laparoscopy of the heart, soul, and loins" as well as a "gutsy, jubilantly anguished musical with infectious melodies" by Ben Brantley for The New York Times. In The New Yorker, Vinson Cunningham wrote, "To watch this show is to enter, by some urgent, bawdy magic, an ecstatic and infinitely more colorful version of the famous surreal lithograph by M. C. Escher: the hand that lifts from the page, becoming almost real, then draws another hand, which returns the favor." In addition to A Strange Loop, he also wrote book, music and lyrics for White Girl in Danger. Awards and associations include: a New Professional Theatre Festival Award, a Jonathan Larson Grant, a Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, an ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award, a Whiting Award, the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk Award, an Obie Award, a Fred Ebb Award, a Windham-Campbell Prize, a Dramatist Guild Fellowship and he is an alum of Page 73’s Interstate 73 Writers Group.

STEPHEN BRACKETT (Director, he/him) has directed A Strange Loop on Broadway (Tony nomination), in London, DC, and Off-Broadway (Obie Award for Creative Team and Ensemble, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical.) Other credits include A.D. 16, Be More Chill, The Lightning Thief, and Buyer & Cellar.

RAJA FEATHER KELLY (Choreographer, he/him) is a choreographer and director, and the Artistic Director of the feath3r theory (TF3T), a dance-theatre-media company. Kelly has created 18 evening-length premieres with the feath3r theory. The company’s latest work, The Absolute Future, premieres in April 2024 at The NYU Skirball Center. His choreography can currently be seen in Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacob's Teeth at Playwrights Horizons and Lempicka written by Matt Gould and Carson Kreitzer on Broadway. He choreographed the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical A Strange Loop, and is also a choreographer for Off-Broadway theatre with frequent collaborators like Jackson, Blain-Cruz, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and Sarah Benson. He has received numerous accolades, including a Princeton Arts Fellowship (2023-2025), three Princess Grace Awards, and a Tony Award-winning musical A Strange Loop, to name a few.

ARNULFO MALDONADO (Scenic Deesigner, he/him) is a New York City based set and costume designer. He is a Tony Award Nominee for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for the Broadway production of A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson (Lyceum Theatre) directed by Stephen Brackett. Notable design credits include the recent 20th Anniversary Broadway production of Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks (Golden Theatre), directed by Kenny Leon and the Broadway premiere of Alice Childress' Trouble In Mind (American Airlines Theatre), directed by Charles Randolph-Wright. West End/U.K.: A Strange Loop (Barbican Theater), In Dreams (Leeds Playhouse), The Comeuppance (Almeida). Off-Broadway: Atlantic, CSC, Lincoln Center, MCC, MTC, New Group, Playwrights Horizons, Public Theatre, Roundabout, Second Stage, Signature, Soho Rep. Regional: Alley Theatre, Berkeley Rep, CTG, Guthrie, Steppenwolf, Woolly Mammoth. International Tour: The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir. In addition, Arnulfo received an OBIE for Sustained Excellence in Set Design, as well as a Special Citation Obie as part of the Creative Team of the Pulitzer Prize winning A Strange Loop. Arnulfo is a recipient of a Princess Grace Faberge Theater Award, Lucille Lortel Award, and a multiple Henry Hewes Design nominee. arnulfomaldonado.com IG: @arnulfo.maldonado.design

MONTANA LEVI BLANCO (Costume Deesigner, he/him) CTG debut. Broadway: The Skin of Our Teeth, A Strange Loop. Select Off-Broadway: Fairview, Is God Is (Soho Rep); The House That Will Not Stand (NYTW); Ain't No Mo' (Public). Opera: Champion, El Niño (Metropolitan). Honors: Tony, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Henry Hewes, and Obie Awards. Education: Oberlin College & Conservatory of Music, Brown University, and the Yale School of Drama. montanaleviblanco.com

JEN SCHRIEVER (Lighting Designer, he/him) was lighting designer on Hippest Trip – The Soul Train Musical at A.C.T. Broadway credits include Mother Play, A Strange Loop (Tony nomination), Death of a Salesman (Tony nomination), 1776, Birthday Candles, Lackawanna Blues, What the Constitution Means to Me, Lifespan of a Fact, Eclipsed, Ghetto Klown. Jen recently lit A Transparent Musical at the Mark Taper Forum in L.A. Opera credits include A Thousand Splendid Suns (world premiere, Seattle Opera), Die Fledermaus, Pearl Fishers (Metropolitan Opera), Faust, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Traviatea (Mariinsky, Russia). Jen has an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence and is an adjunct at Purchase College. Mom to Henry. Jenschriever.com

DREW LEVY (Sound Designer, he/him) Broadway: A Strange Loop (Tony nom.), Oklahoma! (Tony nom., Drama Desk nom.), Honeymoon in Vegas (Drama Desk nom.), Chaplin (Drama Desk Award), The Winslow Boy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Present Laughter. West End: A Strange Loop, Oklahoma! (Olivier nom.). Off-Broadway: Brynolf & Ljung's Stalker; Oh Mary!; Judgment Day (Park Avenue Armory); Oklahoma! (St. Ann’s); and others. Regional: The Old Globe, ART, Williamstown, Huntington, Two River Theater, and others. Other: Reconfiguration: An Evening with Other Lives at BAM; Metropolitan Opera 125th Anniversary Gala; annual holiday installations for Saks 5th Avenue, Cartier, and others.

COOKIE JORDAN (Wigs, Hair, and Makeup Designer) Broadway: A Strange Loop, Camelot, The Piano Lesson, Into The Woods, Trouble In Mind, Clyde’s, POTUS, Slave Play, Choir Boy, The Cher Show, Once on This Island, Sunday in the Park with George, In Transit, Eclipsed, Side Show, After Midnight, FELA!, A View From The Bridge, South Pacific. Off-Broadway: Flex, Orpheus Descending, White Girl in Danger, Flex, Girls, Fefu and Her Friends, Ain’t No Mo’, Fairview, Toni Stone, If Pretty Hurts, The Secret Life of Bees, Boseman and Lena, Fabulation, Our Lady of 121st Street, In The Blood, Daddy, Hercules. Television: Emmy nominated for makeup design for NBC’s The Wiz Live. Recipient of 2019, 2020 OBIE Award.

SEAN KANA (Music Director/Keys 1, he/him) Kana is an award-winning music director known for his recent work on Hippest Trip – The Soul Train Musical, as well as being the associate music director for the show run and pre-Broadway tour of Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Sean just finished a world premiere new musical at Brava Theatre, Larry the Musical, where he served as co-composer, orchestrator, and music director. Kana has been involved with BRT as music director on Swept Away: A New Musical Tale. Sean has worked extensively with TheatreWorks and CenterREP and has toured around the globe in varying capacities. seankana.com

CHELSEA PACE (Intimacy, she/her) returns to A.C.T. following her work on Big Data. Pace’s credits include the Broadway productions of A Strange Loop, Leopoldstadt, and K-POP, and a number of Off-Broadway productions. Select regional credits include La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, Studio Theatre, Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, and Philidelphia Theatre Company. Her film and television work includes Drive Away Dolls, HARLEM, Dr. Death, A League of Their Own, Ramy, Wu-Tang, and Elsbeth. Pace founded Open Intimacy Creatives and is the author of Staging Sex: Best Practices, Tools, and Techniques for Theatrical Intimacy. Chelseapace.com @professorpace

KATIE CRADDOCK (Casting, she/her) is the literary manager and casting associate at A.C.T. Her favorite casting processes here so far include The Headlands, The Wizard of Oz, Big Data, and workshops of commissions by Aleshea Harris, Eisa Davis, Craig Lucas, RyanNicole Austin & Adesha Adefela & Beau Lewis, Anne Washburn, and Kate Attwell. Previously, she was the artistic associate at Berkeley Rep, where she supported season planning, casting, and dramaturgy; mentored artistic fellows; moderated post-show discussions; taught playwrighting and dramaturgy to teens; served on the board/staff anti-racisim taskforce; and facilitated the making of new plays at The Ground Floor.

NAILAH HARPER-MALEVAUX (Associate Director, she/her) is a director and a member of the Shared Leadership Team at Crowded Fire Theater. Directing credits include the West Coast premiere of Edit Annie by Mary Glen Fredrick and the world premiere of Getting There by Dipika Guha. She has worked at Woolly Mammoth, Pasadena Playhouse, Williamstown Theater Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Baltimore Center Stage. Yale University: BA in American Studies and Theatre Studies.

CANDACE TAYLOR (Associate Choreographer, she/her) is a multi-passionate, Dream Doula, whose work exists at the intersection of coaching, consulting, personal empowerment, and creative expression. She has had the honor of working on A Strange Loop since 2019 helping to bring to life the Playwrights Horizon production and has had the pleasure to reimagine the piece with every production since! @candacethedreamdoula

AARON TACY (Associate Lighting Designer, he/him) is a lighting designer who primarily works as an associate on a wide variety of creative projects. With Jen Schriever on Broadway: A Strange Loop, 1776, Birthday Candles, Lackawanna Blues; Off-Broadway: White Girl In Danger (2ST/Vineyard); Regional & Touring Includes: Hippest Trip – The Soul Train Musical (A.C.T.), A Transparent Musical (CTG), and Blue Man Group (North American Tour). Activist for equitable practices in the arts, eliminating uncompensated labor, and a union-strong entertainment industry. Proud member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, IATSE. aarontacy.com

DAVID MÖSCHLER (Associate Music Director) is an award-winning conductor based in Oakland and is thrilled to make his debut at CTG and return to A.C.T. where he was last seen music directing The Wizard of Oz and Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play. Since then, he has music-directed over 135 professional theatre productions and toured with bands like The Dear Hunter and Pop Up Magazine throughout North America. Möschler has worked as Resident Music Director for YMTC since 2010 and has served on the music staff at College Light Opera Company since 2005. In 2013 he founded Awesöme Orchestra Collective, which he conducts every month. davidmoschler.com.

SNEHAL DESAI (Artistic Director, he/him) was appointed Center Theatre Group’s third artistic director in 2023. As an artistic leader, Snehal has sought to raise awareness on social issues that affect Angelenos through impactful and empowering storytelling. Previously, he was the Producing Artistic Director of East West Players. A Soros Fellow and the recipient of a Tanne Award, Snehal was the Inaugural Recipient of the Drama League’s Classical Directing Fellowship. He has served on the boards of the Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists (Caata), Theatre Communications Group (TCG), and currently serves on the board of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT). Snehal was on the faculty of USC’s graduate program in Arts Leadership and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

MEGHAN PRESSMAN (Managing Director/CEO, she/her) joined Center Theatre Group in 2019. Previously, she served as Managing Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (D.C.), Director of Development for Signature Theatre (N.Y.), and Associate Managing Director of Berkeley Rep. She is a graduate of Yale School of Drama/Yale School of Management and serves as a mentor in the Theater Management program. Meghan has served as the Vice-Chair for the Theatre Communications Group Board of Directors and is a member of the Broadway League.

DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director, he/him) ) League, the Independent Presenters Network (IPN), and is a proud member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers (ATPAM). In 2013, Doug received the Broadway League’s prestigious Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management Award.

LINDSAY ALLBAUGH (Associate Artistic Director, she/her) is a member of Center Theatre Group’s artistic staff and has served in varying capacities for the past 15 years. Selected producing credits include—Mark Taper Forum: Archduke, Bent, What the Butler Saw, Steward of Christendom, Waiting for Godot; Kirk Douglas Theatre: Block Party, Big Night, Good Grief, Vicuña, Throw Me on the Burn pile and Light Me Up, Endgame, Women Laughing Alone With Salad, Chavez Ravine, Race, different words for the same thing, The Nether. Co-Artistic Director of the Elephant Theatre 2004–2014.

GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic Director) led the Taper throughout its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 productions to its stage and winning countless awards for himself and the theatre—including the Tony Award for theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship. The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America (Part One) won the Pulitzer in consecutive years and, in 1994, three of the four plays nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play were from the Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989, Gordon took over the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he produced the inaugural season in the Kirk Douglas Theatre.