Kym Moore (Director) is co-founder/co-artistic director of Antigravity Performance Project and Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. She is an award-winning playwright and director with a broad range of aesthetic interests in theater and performance. If necessary, one could categorize her aesthetic comfortably within Afro Futurism. She directs plays, musicals and devises performance that capture the imagination. Moore’s directing style is grounded, imaginative and compelling. Her works are designed to reveal the multi-sensory, multi-dimensional, and mythic dimensions of reality. Her well-honed sense of craft and keen understanding of the materials of theater (actor, text, space, light, sound, etc.) elevates her work beyond the ordinary. Recent directing credits include Zora on My Mind (RJI/Georgetown University), Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea (Williams College), and Do Eye Know You? (performance installation @Yale/CCAM).
Alexandria Davis (Choreographer/Performer/Original Collaborator) is a dancer, Teaching Artist, Choreographer, and Screendance maker, and a 2020 MFA dance choreography graduate of the University of Michigan. Born and raised in Gainesville, Florida, Alexandria is an integrated mover trained in liturgical dance, modern (in all its forms and facets), jazz, ballet, pointe & partnering, hip hop, West African, Afro-Caribbean, contemporary, contact improvisation, Laban/Bartenieff fundamentals, Katherine Dunham technique, historically black college, and university auxiliary technique. Alexandria creates dangerous work, often using her choreography to instigate conversations that challenge tradition and collectivist thinking. Her movement is a manifestation of resilience and years of self-interrogation often presented through the vehicle of a three-dimensional conversation. Her style is driven by triumph and encouraged by rhythm and bass. Alexandria earned her BFA in Dance Performance and Dance in Medicine certification from the University of Florida. Alexandria is a dance activist dedicated to community partnership and performing arts education.
Diana Lawrence (Composer/Lyricist/Music Director/Performer/Collaborator) works across genres and disciplines to tell essential human stories through music. Her musical, Mill Girls, released a 2021 EP featuring Nikki Renée Daniels, Alysha Deslorieux, and Val Vigoda. Diana has worked as an improvising music director for The Second City, and was commissioned to write original music for Steppenwolf Theatre’s premiere of Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlowe. Diana & the Dishes, Diana’s original pop-soul project, has shared the stage with artists such as Nellie McKay and Becca Stevens. Dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices, Diana is a member of the feminist vocal trio, Artemisia, and works with Storycatchers Theatre, a company that creates original musical theatre with incarcerated youth. A member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, Diana is a 2021 recipient of the Jerry Harrington Award.
Shaka Gonzalez Brown (Performer/Choreographer/Collaborator) is a native Washingtonian, but his passion for the stage has taken him around the world. From Croatia to China, Brazil to Berlin, Shaka has taught, performed, and trained dancers in over 40 countries. Founder of the Capital Congress Latin dance convention, technical director of the Interfusion Healing Arts Festival, and professional dance instructor, Shaka lives to teach, travel, and help others bring their vision to reality.
Fredi Walker-Browne (Original Collaborator/Performer) is best known for creating the role of JoAnne Jefferson in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical RENT which celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year. She recently directed Bob Stewart’s LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY – an eerily prescient and disturbing look at the post-COVID world produced by OUT OF THE BOX THEATRICS in association with HOLMDEL THEATRE COMPANY and, her original play #RENTStories will be a part of THE HOLMDEL THEATRE COMPANY’s 2022 Season. “Miss Fredi” is a proud Arts Worker and advocate of Arts Education. She is the creator of THE PROFESSIONAL SKILLS FOR ACTORS SERIESTM a comprehensive course on the business of Acting. The single IT TOOK A LAW 2 MAKE ME HUMAN from her new album #1PEOPLE-1PLANET is now streaming everywhere.
Nicole Hill (Performer and Collaborator) is a classically trained actress (and all around clown) who has worked extensively on Broadway and Off as part of production. Onstage, in addition to numerous NY credits, she has toured regionally, most notably as standby for “Da Singer” in Savion Glover’s “Bring in Da Noise Bring Da Funk”. Nicole’s work abroad has spanned from Europe to Africa, where she debuted her one woman show “All Up in a White Woman’s Closet” as part of the Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe. Nicole is a member of the NY Neo Futurists and the recipient of the 2014 New York Innovative Theater Award for outstanding innovative design for her work in shadow puppetry. Current projects as writer/producer/lyricist/ include: the musical podcast, “The Misadventures of Clown ZerO” and the web series, “Escape From Boo-Boo-Ville (a child-like show for grown-ass folk!)
Reginald Richard (Performer and Collaborator) is excited to be onboard for the premiere of ZORA ON MY MIND. Trained at National Conservatory Of Dramatic Arts, he’s performed at various theaters throughout the D.C./MD/VA area including Arena Stage, SOURCE, WSC Avant Bard, and The Kennedy Center. Having established a resume that stretches over a ten-year span, Reginald rightfully considers himself a ‘script artist’.