CARL BRYANT is a South Carolina native is honored to be making his Atlantic Theater Company debut in Last Stop on Market Street!  Theater: Our Country’s Good (American Players Theater), As You Like It (American Players Theater) To Kill A Mockingbird (Rhino Leap Productions), The Piano Lesson (University Of North Carolina School of Arts). Training: BFA in Acting, University of North Carolina School of Arts. Bryant would like to thank his village of supporters who contribute to his growth as an Artist. Instagram: @_carlbryant

EMMA CLAYE is an up and coming actress, singer, and songwriter based in New York City. Prior to moving to the city, Emma performed in the Maryland/DC area and released her first EP Arts and Sciences, a blend of original pop-soul and R&B songs. Most recently, she’s performed a solo concert at Rockwood Music Hall and as Willow in Tumbleweed at Dixon Place. Since moving to New York, she has been in several theater and television productions and is currently writing new music. Emma is thrilled to be part of the cast of Last Stop on Market Street! Learn more at www.emmaclaye.com and find her on Instagram at @thisisemmaj.

ANDREA FERRO is a proud alumni of Atlantic Acting School. Previous credits: The Dreams of Anne Frank (Anne Frank), Farhad or The Secret of Being (Farhad), the World Premiere of Baño De Luna (Trini) written and directed by Nilo Cruz, and 24 Hour Play: Nationals. She would like to thank the wonderful team at Atlantic! @andrea_ferroo

KARA GREEN is a New York born actress and singer-songwriter, honored to be making her Atlantic Theater Company debut in Last Stop on Market Street! Theater: Angela’s Justice (Theater for the New City), Funnyhouse of a Negro (ASDS Rep), The Waistmakers’ Opera (University Settlement). TV: “Grave Mysteries,” “Brain Games.” Film: The Bill (Official Selection of the 2017 American Black Film Festival). Currently: Co-producing B-Sides Digital Series. Training: MFA in Acting from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University. www.KaraGreen.com

TREVOR LATEZ HAYES is so excited to be performing with this amazing cast and crew at Atlantic. He is a recent graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Acting and a minor in Africana Studies. As an actor and playwright, he has a passion for telling intersectional stories featuring artists of color. Trevor has had the pleasure of working with Theatrical Greats such as Phylicia Rashad, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Young Jean Lee and Elizabeth Swados. Credits: Boukman in The Hunting Season, Emmett Till in Clover at La Mama E.T.C, Howard in Young Jean Lee’s Safety Net and Phantom in Elizabeth Swados’ The Golem: A Horror Opera.

FELICIA SANTIAGO is a recent graduate of Atlantic Acting School Conservatory. She is grateful to work with such a talented and diverse cast and crew on Last Stop Market Street, a book she has taught many times. Her other credits include Jitney (Rena) at the August Wilson Center, the World Premiere of zounds! (Aphrodite) at Atlantic Acting School, and Advances (Carina) at Player’s Theatre. She would love to continue to reflect and converse with you on any subject matter that springs up within the show, as that’s the beauty of acting in the theater. “What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind.” –Morris Dee. Enjoy the show!

HEATHER SAWYER is from Dallas, Texas and a graduate of the Molloy College CAP21 BFA Program for Musical Theatre. Recently, Heather appeared as James in James and the Giant Peach and is so happy to be back with the ATC family. In 2018, Heather was in the New York Musical Festival song cycle, Breaking Ground. Her favorite roles include: MJ Clarke in Camp Eaglewood (dir. Marshall Pailet), Tweedle Dee in Lost in Wonderland (dir. Baayork Lee), and the Wolf in Into the Woods (dir. Travis Greisler). Special shout out to the amazing cast, crew and creative team, the faculty of CAP21, the Peaches for being the best beans, The Misfits for being the greatest stars of NYC, and her wonderful family (hi, Mom and Dad) for the endless love and support. Without all of you this wouldn’t be possible. @heathersawyer14 www.theadventuresofheathersawyer.com

JAEVON WILLIAMS is from Greensboro, North Carolina. He is a recent graduate from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Class of 2019. Recent past productions include King Richard II as Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London, UK and Ten Blocks on the Camino Real by Tennessee Williams. Atlantic for Kids’ Last Stop on Market Street at the Atlantic Theater Company will be Williams’ New York theater debut!

MATT DE LA PEÑA is The New York Times Bestselling, Newbery Medal-winning author of six young adult novels (including Mexican WhiteBoy, We Were Here, and The Living) and four picture books (including Love and Last Stop on Market Street). In 2016 he was awarded the NCTE Intellectual Freedom Award. Matt received his MFA in creative writing from San Diego State University and his BA from the University of the Pacific where he attended school on a full basketball scholarship. de la Peña currently lives in Brooklyn NY. He teaches creative writing and visits high schools and colleges throughout the country.

CHRISTIAN ROBINSON is a 2016 Caldecott Honoree and also received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for his art in Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña (Putnam, 2015). Leo: A Ghost Story, illustrated by Robinson and written by Mac Barnett (Chronicle, 2015), was named a 2015 New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year. His Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker, written by Patricia Hruby Powell (Chronicle, 2014) received numerous awards and accolades including a Sibert Informational Book Award Honor and a Coretta Scott King Award Illustration Honor from the American Library Association; a Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Honor; a Parents Choice Gold Medal for Poetry 2014; and a place on the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Children’s Books of the Year List. Robinson, based in Sacramento, CA, is also an animator and has worked with The Sesame Street Workshop and Pixar Animation Studios.

CHERYL L WEST’’s plays have been seen in England, Off-Broadway, Broadway, and in numerous regional theaters around the country. She has written TV and film projects at Disney, Paramount, MTV Films, Showtime, TNT, HBO, and CBS. Ms. West is currently working on commissions for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theater, and University of California Santa Barbara.

LAMONT DOZIER has written and produced over 54 #1 hits for The Supremes, Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, and a host of others crediting Lamont as one of the primary Architects of the Motown Sound. He is an inductee in the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He is pleased to present his newest score and collaboration with his son Paris Ray Dozier for Last Stop on Market Street.

PARIS RAY DOZIER is a composer/lyricist from Encino, CA. Credits include: Hollywood Records, Disney (Singer/Songwriter, Producer), UPN’s B In Tune TV (Musical Theme Writer, Co-Host), and Saturday Night Live’s The Kicker (Composer). He and his father, Lamont Dozier, also collaborated on the musical Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money. Paris is currently working on the musical Girlhood, slated to premiere in 2019.

DAVID MENDIZÁBAL is a director, designer, and one of the Producing Artistic Leaders of The Movement Theatre Company. Directing credits include: And She Would Stand Like This, Look Upon Our Lowliness, Bintou (The Movement), On the Grounds of Belonging (Public), Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic – Drama League Nomination), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (A.C.T.), and Locusts Have No King (INTAR). David is the Associate Artistic Director of The Sol Project, former Artistic Associate at Atlantic Theater Company, member of the Latinx Theatre Commons, Rattlestick Literary Team, and Wingspace. Alumnus of The Drama League, LCT Director’s Lab, LAByrinth Intensive Ensemble, NALAC Leadership Institute, and artEquity. BFA NYU/Tisch. www.davidmendizabal.com

DESMAR GUEVARA is the Musical Director of the Award-winning Bronx based theater ensemble, Pregones Theater and PRTT.  He has been pivotal in developing an original musical theater repertory that employs traditional Afro Puerto Rican instruments in unfamiliar and highly stylized settings. He is the recipient of a 2002 National Theater Artist Residency Program Award from the Theater Communications Group and the Pew Charitable Trusts, a 2003 BRIO Award in Composition from the Bronx Council on The Arts, and a 2004 “Individual Artist Fellow” recipient from the New York Foundation for the Arts. 2008 Ford Foundation FY12 Summer Creation Fund Awards NPN. Also, Desmar has done many workshops on Musical Theater, Bomba, Plena and Jazz among other styles, throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America.
He has composed jingles for national-level accounts and has performed and toured extensively throughout Europe and Latin America, as lead pianist, with legendary artists Pleneros De la 21, Song by Four, Celia Cruz, Tito Nieves, Pete “El Conde” Rodriguez, Louie Ramirez, Paquito Guzman, Andy Montañez, Conjunto Clasico, Alfredo De La Fe, Ray De La Paz, Ismael Miranda, Luigi Texidor, Justo Betancourt, Soledad Bravo, Lalo Rodriguez, Herman Oliveras, Franky Morales, Franky Vazquez, Domingo Quinones, Papo Pepin, Afromantra, Jose Alberto“El Canario”, Cano Estremera, Hector Tricoche, and Xiomara Fortuna, among many others. Composer, arranger and Musical Direction of Red Rose (2005), Aloha Boricua (2008), Harlem Hellfighters on a Latin Beat (2010), Los angeles se han fatigado (2003), Dancing in my cockroach killers (2012), I like it Like that (2016), Marchers. Now is composing the music of on La Guaracha del Macho Camacho by Luis Rafael Sanchez’s book, produced by Pregones/PRTT opening on 2019 fall season.

nicHi douglas is a Brooklyn-based performer, choreographer, director, playwright and activist.  She has performed all over New York and the country as a freelance actor/dancer, in addition to performing nationally with The Dance Cartel and literacy-focused children’s theatre company The Story Pirates. She currently teaches Movement & Choreography and Performance Symposium at NYU/Tisch – Playwright’s Horizon Theater School studio.  Recent stage credits: A Time Like This: Music for Change (Carnegie Hall, Stage Director), Runaways (City Center/Encores! Off-Center and The Delacorte/Public Theater, Associate Director & Associate Choreographer), Primer for a Failed Superpower (Roulette, Choreographer), BLACK GIRL MAGIC SHOW! (Ars Nova ANT Fest and JACK, Director/Choreographer/Playwright), they told us not to pray (Playwrights Horizons Downtown, Director & Choreographer), and Girl From the North Country (The Public Theater, Associate Choreographer).

CHRISTOPHER SWADER & JUSTIN SWADER. Recent collaborations include designs with Two River Theater, Miami New Drama, The New Victory Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Big Apple Circus, Sotheby’s, National Geographic, Lincoln Center Education, ArtsEmerson, Emerson String Quartet, IBEX Puppetry, La MaMa, Park Avenue Armory, National Black Theatre, York Theatre Company, Ars Nova, 3LD, HERE Arts Center, Trusty Sidekick, Luna Stage, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Manhattan School of Music, Kitchen Theatre Company, and Mason Holdings. 2016 American Theatre Wing Henry Hewes Design Award Nomination, 2017 AUDELCO Award, 2018 IRNE Award, Boston. Originally from Indiana, they are graduates of Ball State University. cjswaderdesign.com

ASA BENALLY. MFA, Yale School of Drama. B.F.A., Parsons School of Design. Credits include Coriolanus and The Seagull (YSD); Cymbeline (Yale Repertory Theater); Tricks the Devil Taught Me (Minetta Lane Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth (Frog and Peach Theater Company); Far Away, Platonov (Columbia University); The Crazy Shepherds of Rebellion, The Secretaries, Roberto Zucco, Trouble in Tahiti (Yale Cabaret); The Winters Tale (HERE Arts Center); Father Comes Home… (Juilliard); Peer Gynt, Big Love (Amherst College); The Brobot Johnson Experience (The Bushwick Starr); She Loves Me, The Saringa Tree (Creede Repertory Theater); Whale Song (Perseverance Theater). He is originally from the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona. asabenally.com

STACEY DEROSIER is a NYC-based lighting designer. Her credits include: Miss Julie, Dance of Death (Classic Stage Company); The Good Person of Szechwan, tick, tick…BOOM! (Brown/Trinity MFA); Lewiston/ Clarkston (Rattlestick Playwright’s Theatre); Detroit ’67 (The Juilliard School); The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d (Playwright’s Realm); 1969: The Second Man (3rd Place Projects, as co-lighting designer).

FIVE OHM PRODUCTIONS is a full- service production company comprised of audio/video and creative professionals from every facet of the entertainment industry. Collaborators include: SoHo Rep, The New Group, Vineyard Theatre, Primary Stages, Pipeline, Playwrights Realm, TFANA, Atlantic Theater Company, CSC, New World Stages, Yale Rep, Playwrights Downtown, The Van Alen Institute, WorldStage, Satis&Fy, and Intel. fiveohm.com

DEB GAOUETTE. Recent credits: Other Dessert Cities, Shining City, Constellations, Switzerland, Outside Mullingar, Hounds of Baskerville, Animals Out of Paper, Will You Remember Me (Hudson Stage); The Other Josh Cohen (The Westside Theater); Desperate Measures (New World Stages and The York Theatre); On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Irish Rep); Switzerland (59E59); Unexpected Joy (The York Theatre); Satellites (Fordham Main Stage); Party Face (City Center Stage 2), and Atlantic Acting School’s fall and spring semester.

STEPHANIE KAY GARCIA is a Brooklyn-based stage manager and caffeine enthusiast, who loves to remind everyone that she’s originally from Texas. Stephanie holds a BFA in Stage Management from NYU, and has worked with various Off-Broadway and regional theaters including Atlantic Theater Company and Atlantic Acting School, The Public Theater, Strathmore, the Hammerstein Ballroom, New York Theatre Workshop, and SoHo Playhouse. She is so thrilled to be working with the Atlantic for Kids family again, and is excited to help bring this much-loved story to the stage! Infinite love and thanks to her family, to Kat, to her endlessly patient roommate, to Matt, to this wonderful cast and creative team, and to whoever invented Red Bull.

CHILDREN’S THEATRE COMPANY is the nation’s largest and most acclaimed theatre for young people and serves a multigenerational audience. It creates theatre experiences that educate, challenge, and inspire for more than 295,000 people annually. CTC is the only theatre focused on young audiences to win the coveted Tony Award® for Outstanding Regional Theatre and is the only theatre in Minnesota to receive three Tony® nominations (for its production of A Year with Frog and Toad). CTC is committed to creating world class productions at the highest level and to developing new works, more than 200 to date, dramatically changing the canon of work for young audiences. Since its launch in 2005, Chicago Children’s Theatre has cemented its reputation as the city’s largest professional theatre company devoted exclusively to children and families. The company evolved out of Chicago’s need for high-quality, professional year-round children’s programming to match the quality, and significance of theatrical powerhouses such as Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre and Lookingglass Theatre. Likewise, CCT has always believed children should be treated as the sophisticated audiences that they are, showcasing high-profile and award-winning talent, inventive production values and compelling stories that challenge, educate and entertain.

Since its launch in 2005, Chicago Children’s Theatre has cemented its reputation as the city’s largest professional theatre company devoted exclusively to children and families. The company evolved out of Chicago’s need for high-quality, professional year-round children’s programming to match the quality, and significance of theatrical powerhouses such as Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre and Lookingglass Theatre. Likewise, CCT has always believed children should be treated as the sophisticated audiences that they are, showcasing high-profile and award-winning talent, inventive production values and compelling stories that challenge, educate and entertain.