Karole Foreman

Theatre: 1^st Broadway National Tour, 1776; Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (Ovation Award) National Black Theatre Festival, freeFall, Ebony Rep, ICT, PCPA; A Few Good Men (La Mirada); Blues in the Night (ICT/ Ebony Rep/NC Rep); Stupid F’ing Bird, A Little Night Music (Cygnet, SD Theatre Critics Nomination); Porgy and Bess, Sweeney Todd, Intimate Apparel (Ensemble Theatre Company); Mamma Mia! (Vegas Premiere); Caroline or Change, Fences, (PCPA); Next to Normal (Cal Rep-OC Weekly Award); Wedding Band (Antaeus-Stage Raw Nomination); Parade, Jelly’s Last Jam (Mark Taper/Alliance-Suzi Bass Award); Minamata, The Illusion, The Crucible, 10 November (L.A.T.C.); Good Body, Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Crowns, Cabaret, Whole World is Watching (S.D. Rep). Member L.A. Women’s Shakespeare Company, two seasons at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and numerous regional theatres. Television: Days of Our Lives, Dahmer, The Conners, Magnum PI, The Resident, Broke, Good Trouble, Rebel, Black Lady Sketch Show, N.C.I.S., Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, I’m Sorry, Brooklyn 9-9, G.L.O.W., How to Get Away with Murder, Young & the Restless, Bold & the Beautiful, Stitchers. Film: The American, Something About Mother, The Banality, I’ll Be Next Door for Christmas, Rebirth, Buddy Solitaire, 42. Shorts/Independent: Paper Boy, Light Bunny, For the Record. Member Actor’s Equity, SAG-AFTRA, and The Dramatists Guild. www.karoleforeman.com.

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Lanie Robertson

Lanie Robertson’s first plays The Insanity of Mary Girard and Back County Crimes are frequently performed by schools and community theatres. His play about Billie Holiday, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, was produced on Broadway and in London’s West End with Audra McDonald. Many of his works are about iconic artists and the societal issues they faced: Nasty Little Secrets (Joe Orton), Woman Before a Glass (Peggy Guggenheim), Alfred Stieglitz Loves O’Keeffe (Georgia O’Keeffe), Nobody Lonesome for Me (Hank Williams), The Gardener (Claude Monet) and Blythe Coward (Noël Coward). His works have been produced at the Alley Theatre, the Alliance Theatre, Annenberg Center, Arena Stage, Barrington Stage, the Edinburgh Festival, Festival d’Avignon, George St. Playhouse, Kennedy Center, Old Globe, Primary Stages, Playwrights Horizons, Theatre de la Huchette, Theatre Petit Montparnasse, Theatre Silvia Montfort, Vineyard Theatre, Virginia Stage, the Walnut Street Theatre, Westside Arts Theatre and Williamstown Theatre Festival. His first novel is to be published in 2024. He is a member of the Dramatist Guild, the Society des Auteur et Compositeurs Dramatiques and the Writers Guild, East.

Wren T. Brown

Wren is a fourth generation Angeleno, and is very proud to be in his fourth decade as an Actor, Producer and Director. He is descended from a long line of talented performers. Among Wren’s film appearances are: Beyond The Lights, Waiting to Exhale, Heart and Souls, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory,  The Dinner, Hollywood Shuffle, Biker Boyz, The Importance of Being Earnest, Midnight Clear and David Mamet’s Edmond. On television, Wren co-starred as Whoopi Goldberg’s brother and comic foil in NBC’s “Whoopi” and was a regular in “Flipper: The New Adventures, ” as well as CBS’s “Bless This House.” He has also guest starred or recurred on: “The West Wing,” “The Practice,” “Touched by an Angel,” “Frasier,” “Seinfeld,” “Charmed,” “Star Trek: Voyager,” “Eli Stone,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Women’s Murder Club,” “Everybody Hates Chris,” “The Game,” as Professor Wilkinson in “Half & Half,” Hallmark’s “McBride: Tune in for Murder,” “Transparent,” “Dear White People,” “Being Mary Jane,” “Grey’s Anatomy” (recurring), the voice of Virgil Simpson on “The Simpsons,” and a recurring role as Moclan Ambassador Rechik on the hit sci-fi series “The Orville.” Some of his theatre credits include: Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” (Drama-Logue Award winner), “On Borrowed Time,” “Burning Hope,” his NAACP Image Award-nominated performance in “Jeffrey’s Plan” and The Public Theatre’s “The Gospel at Colonus.” Wren has appeared in over 100 commercials and a broad range of voice-over and spoken word projects including being tapped by acclaimed pianist Billy Childs to recite the classic Langston Hughes poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” on Childs’ GRAMMY Award nominated album “I’ve Known Rivers.” He narrated The History Channel’s “U.S.S. Constellation: Battling For Freedom,” The Learning Channel series “Scene of the Crime,” and “E! True Hollywood Story” on the life of Diana Ross. He also voiced Disney’s Br’er Rabbit for various projects and can currently be heard narrating Laurence Fishburne’s “Bronzeville,” a 1940s-era Chicago podcast. In his directorial debut, he directed over thirty-five actors and actresses in their performances in Inspired By…The Bible Experience, winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year in which Wren also narrated the book of Matthew. Wren made his theatre directing debut on the Lone Tree Arts Center stage with August Wilson’s Fences. Brown followed this up with the critically acclaimed production of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. Recent Theatre Directing: Blues In the Night, Ain’t’ Misbehavin and The World Goes Round. In 1999, Wren made his debut as a producer with the critically acclaimed feature film Boesman & Lena starring Danny Glover and Angela Bassett, followed by Dianne Reeves’ concert film of her GRAMMY Award winning CD In the Moment: Live in Concert. In 2007, Wren founded Ebony Repertory Theatre (ERT), the first African American professional Equity theatre company in Los Angeles history where he serves as its producing artistic director. ERT, under Wren’s leadership, has produced Ovation Award and NAACP Theatre Award winning productions of Two Trains Running, Crowns, A Raisin in the Sun Fraternity, Robeson, The Gospel at Colonus, Five Guys Named Moe, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, and Blues In The Night. Wren periodically gives a six-week entertainment industry seminar through the ERT Performance Lab entitled, “Purpose, Passion & Possibility.” Wren has formerly served on the board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild, Antioch University, Los Angeles, the Friends of Washington Preparatory High School, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and Charles R. Drew University.