Blues for an Alabama Sky

Broadway: the Tony Award Winning Play, Clybourne Park, and Tony Nominated Play, You Can't Take It With You; Recent Off -Broadway credits include: Lessons In Survival:1971 at The Vineyard Theater, Cullud Wattah at The Public Theater, Wine in the Wilderness at Two River Theater, and most recently, The Trees at Playwrights Horizons. She has also performed at Lincoln Center, Signature Theater, Playwrights Horizons and The Atlantic; Film & TV credits: recurring roles on, The CHI and, For Life.

Kevin R. Free is a multidisciplinary artist whose work as an actor, writer, director, and producer has been showcased and developed in many places, including The Moth Radio Hour; The New York Neo-Futurists; and The Fire This Time Festival, where he served as Producing Artistic Director for 5 years, winning an Obie for his work in 2015. He is now the Artistic Director of Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken, NJ (www.milesquaretheatre.org), where he has directed Pipeline, The Burdens and Berta, Berta. He is also the co-writer and co-producer of the award-winning web series Gemma & The Bear! and the upcoming Beckys Through History (MyCarl.org).   As an actor, along with performing in over 100 professional productions, he became the first African-American to play the role of Bellomy in The Fantasticks Off-Broadway. An accomplished voice actor, as well, Kevin is the voice of Kevin from Desert Bluffs on the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale.  He is also an audiobook narrator, having contributed to over 450 projects in the past 20 years, including The Last Slave Ship by Ben Raines and all the books in the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. He was just named a fellow of the historic Apollo Theater’s New Works Lab. Instagram: @kevinrfree More info: www.kevinrfree.com

Maya Jackson (Delia) is delighted to be making her in-person McCarter Theatre debut!  She was last seen with the McCarter in the Adrienne Kennedy Play Festival, a virtual co-production with Round House Theatre Company.  Broadway credits include: Skin of our Teeth at Lincoln Center and the recent revival of Death of a Salesman. Selected regional credits include: Teenage Dick, Full Circle (Woolly Mammoth); Kid Prince and Pablo (The Kennedy Center); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Jar the Floor (Arkansas Rep); and All’s Well That End’s Well, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Theatre). TV: “Suspicion.” Education: MFA, UMKC; BA, University of Maryland. In addition to her work on stage, Maya also works as a long time Camp Director for Plato Learning and as a photographer (with work that can be found in Playbill.com and Broadwayworld.com, more at: mlojackso.myportfolio.com

Stephen Conrad Moore has appeared on numerous theatrical stages in New York City and across the US (such as The Vineyard, American Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theatre in DC, Yale Rep, and The Guthrie -where he recently played Sam in Blues For An Alabama Sky) and has originated leading roles in plays by Thomas Bradshaw, Ellen McLaughlin, and Colman Domingo, amongst others. 

He has appeared on television shows like Empire, The Path, The Good Fight, and the series finale of Better Call Saul (to name a few). He recently completed 5 seasons of The Bold Type (Freeform), where he was a series regular playing Oliver Grayson, the fashion editor of Scarlet Magazine. He studied theatre at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (Double BA in English and Theatre) and The Yale School of Drama (Master in Fine Arts in Acting) and currently lives in New York City.

Brandon is excited to celebrate his second year of living up North with such a talented cast. Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia and recently graduating with his MFA from UNC-Chapel Hill/Playmakers Rep, he’s thrilled to return to the stage again this summer. A few of his credits include Law&Order, Power: Book III and Everything’s Trash.

Darian Dauchan is an award winning actor, writer, poet, and musician who has appeared on both Broadway(Twentieth Century starring Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche) and Off Broadway theater(Classical Theatre of Harlem's Cherry Orchard starring Wendell Pierce). TV and Film credits include Law and Order, Nickelodeon's Bet the House as Darian the "SoundFX" Guy, and the Lionsgate feature film Things Never Said. Darian is most known for The Brobot Johnson Project, an Afrofuturism, Sci Fi Hip Hop transmedia piece which won for Outstanding Comedy Series at the LA Web Festival and BEST soundtrack at the Escape Velocity Festival sponsored by the Museum of Science Fiction. The show The Brobot Johnson Experience is a critically acclaimed Ben Brantley New York Times Critics' Pick. Most recently Darian was nominated for a Drama League award for Darian's piece Brobot PSA in the AFO Solo Short series, a contributing voice-over actor for the short doc Lynching Postcards directed by Christine Turner, produced by Fireflight Films and MTV Studios which won the 2022 Image Award for Outstanding Short Form Special, and is a New Music USA grantee. Newly released music Doin' it Live and Ohm can be found on Spotify and other streaming platforms. www.dariandauchan.com www.brobotjohnson.com