Meet The Cast & Crew

Maria James-Thiaw

Maria James-Thiaw is a spoken word artist, actress, and playwright. She has performed in a number of productions, including Open Stage's Court Street Poetry Jam and For Colored Girls, Sister Art's Women of Strength, and Sankofa's  MLK50 production of F.E.W. Harper. In 2019, she co-wrote  Bridge {the Gap} with Sharia Benn and played a ghostly poetic voice. Maria is the author of HairStory: Reclaiming Our Crown and the founder of Reclaim Arts.

Zari McCullers

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Vanessa Codurniu

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Ari Selvey

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Aaron Bromar

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Alana Cornish

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Janet Bixler

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Yanni Williams

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Kalaya Stroud

RA production assistant, artist,