NSANGOU NJIKAM (Playwright and Performer) is an actor, playwright and Hip Hop Theatre artist originally from Baltimore, MD. His writing credits include Syncing Ink, Re:Definition, When We Left parts 1 & 2, I.D., 21 STRINGS, and he is one of seven writers of Hands Up: Seven Plays; Seven Testimonials. Acting credits include Syncing Ink (Victoria Stage at the Apollo), Re:Definition (LaMama), Henry V (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Deep Azure (Congo Square Theatre). NSangou’s play Re:Definition (Hip Hop Theatre Festival reading) was developed and directed by Chadwick Boseman. NSangou has also written for and collaborated with Grammy Award winner Common, specifically on his Audible.com project “BlueBird Memories,” the 2020 NBA All Star Game, and the Audible interview series “Mindpower Mixtape.” His Hip Hop Theatre play, I.D. (commission by Penn State University) premiered at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa. NSangou is a member of the 2015 Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater as well as a member of UNIVERSES, a theatre company fusing jazz, blues, hip hop, Spoken Word, and Spanish boleros. He received his BFA in Acting from Howard University. After tracing his African ancestry, he received his name from the Bamum King in Cameroon. NSangou is also an initiate of the Yoruba spiritual tradition Ifa, under the training of Chief Ayanda Clarke. 

DENNIS A. ALLEN II (Director) is a multi-hyphenate in the world of theatre. As a director he has had the pleasure to direct and develop new plays by NSangou Njikam, Aziza Barnes, Tanya Everett, a.k. payne, Thaddeus McCants, Rudi Goblen, Craig “Mums” Grant, Kemiyondo Coutinho, Maria Smith, Hayley Spivey, Keith Josef Adkins, and more. Allen also directed the Brooklyn College 2022 production of Fucking A by Suzan-Lori Parks. As a playwright, his play The Mud is Thicker in Mississippi won the 35th annual Off Off Broadway Samuel French Festival. He is the recipient of Atlantic Theater Company’s inaugural Launch Commission, Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writer’s Group, and National Black Theatre’s “I Am Soul” Playwright Residency. He also served as the National Playwriting Program Vice Chair for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival region 1. An adjunct professor at LaGuardia Community College, Montclair State University, The New School, and is the Co-Program Director for the MFA Playwriting program at Brooklyn College. Dennis received his MFA from Brooklyn College’s Playwriting program. 

DJ MONDAY BLUE (Performer). A daughter of the Southern Diaspora, DJ Monday Blue is a Brooklyn-based DJ who plays music to help you unlock your old memories while creating new ones. With over ten years experience as a disc jockey, Monday Blue has worked with organizations and brands such as The Meteor, Soho Grand Hotel, Weeksville Heritage Center, Soul in the Horn, The Pulitzer Prizes, Spelman College, Black Girls Love Vinyl, 651 Arts, Virgin Hotels NYC, H&M, Andscape, and Buy From A Black Woman. Monday Blue plays both digital and analog, but her heart beats with vinyl. A featured DJ at Soho Grand Hotel in New York City, Monday Blue is also the official tour DJ for the Buy From A Black Woman Inspire Tour presented by H&M. Additionally she performs in the theatrical realm. Monday Blue was the onstage DJ for Stacey Sargeant’s production Buh Wha’ Trouble is Dis? as part of New York Theatre Workshop’s 2019 summer residency at Dartmouth and also lent her skills to Life In Sepia: Vermont’s Black Burlesque Revue in 2021. Monday Blue is the founder and resident DJ of Doyennes of Disc, a vinyl party featuring all women selectors. You can listen to and watch her live when she pops up to stream “Follow Your Bliss With Monday Blue” on twitch.tv/DJMondayBlue.