SugarHill at Playwrights Horizons Downtown, Presented by Dramatic Question Theatre

Anthony Grace

Anthony Grace (he/X) was recently seen in Jordan E. Cooper’s Oh Happy Day! (Baltimore Center Stage), for the honey, you gotta say when (New York Theatre Workshop), a.k. payne’s Edi Ya & Diamond’s Grove (workshop: City Theatre, Theatre Squared) and BURNBABYBURN: an american dream, Is God Is (Yale Cabaret). As a playwright, X’s works include Van Sonata (Cleveland Public Theatre, Yale Cabaret) and nightfall/nu money. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

Brianna Johnson

Brianna Johnson (she/they) is a NYC-based actor and music enthusiast who seeks to purposefully illuminate the intricacies of the human condition in her work. Brianna's work often centers Black life and artistic expression, and they are so thankful to use their body as a vessel to represent a multitude of lives and histories of people from the African Diaspora. Brianna has earned a BA from Barnard College in Africana Studies and Theatre. Recent acting credits include: axes, herbs, and satchels (Kamara/Cynthia/Ensemble, The Anthropologists) Breath of Life (Toni, Columbia School of the Arts), and Dream a Little Dream of Me (Colleen, SheNYC Festival).

Kiará Lauren

Kiará Lauren is a NYC based actor with an artistic practice that centers empathic driven storytelling as a means to curating radical vulnerability, humanity, and truth for black & brown femmes. Select Acting Credits: Vámonos (INTAR Theatre), Bb Brecht (The Public Theater), Cadillac Crew (WAM), Black Mexican (Wayward Voices), and Every 28 Hours Plays (Long Wharf Theatre). Education: Spelman College For More: http://www.kiaralauren.com

Camille Upshaw

Camille Upshaw is an East Coast based actress, creative, entrepreneur, educator, and mentor. Credits Include: Passing Down, Ceremonies for Alligator Bait or Guttah, Chicken and Biscuits (Broadway), 10x10 Play Festival at Barrington Stage & more. TV/Film: Sundance Film Festival (Still Here), CBS (Blue Bloods), CBS (FBI: Most Wanted) HBO Max (That Damn Michael Che), OXYGN (Monster Preacher) BFA: SUNY Purchase College

Rebecca-Anne Whittaker*

Rebecca-Anne Whittaker (she/her) is a first generation Caribbean-American actor, singer, and writer. Some of her credits include: Betty, The Good John Proctor, Trinity Rep; Johanna, Sweeney Todd, Trinity Rep; Marianne, Constellations, Brown/Trinity Rep; Hero, Much Ado About Nothing, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; Ensemble, Lordes, Ice Factory at the New Ohio Theatre. She is a proud graduate of Vassar College and the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA program in Acting. For Mom, Dad, Christina, and her awe-inspiring Aunties. www.rebecca-annewhittaker.com *Appearing through an Agreement between Dramatic Question Theatre, and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Sharell Williams

Sharell Williams is a Circle in the Square Theatre School graduate. She also holds a broadcast journalism degree from Florida A&M University (FAMU). Past credits include: the Negro Ensemble Company’s Mecca is Burning (AUDELCO nominated for Outstanding Ensemble Performance), Race (The Heather Theatre), My Mama: The Super Action Hero (American Theatre of Actors) and The Buffalo Hero of WW1 (American Theatre of Actors).

Kyra Davis

Kyra Davis is a southern multidisciplinary artist focusing on acting, writing, and producing. She was a part of the inaugural class of the Uptown Collective’s Renaissance Playwright Residency and is currently a producing fellow at The Tank in NYC. Her passion is creating art for underrepresented voices and advancing their opportunities in the industry . Her inspirations are both the Black women who came before her and the Black women who will come after her. She wants to create work that empowers and encourages them to live unapologetically. Selected credits include Law and Order: Organized Crime, Jitney (Rena), Intimate Apparel (Esther), and The Christians (Elizabeth).

Jessica Natalie Smith

Jessica Natalie Smith (she/her) is an actor, director, choreographer, and recent graduate of the Brown University MFA program in Acting and Directing. Jessica is a member of the Drama League's inaugural Irene Gandy Assistantship cohort, the inaugural Choreography Fellow at The Hangar Theatre, the 2022 Lillian Chason Directing Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill, a 2020-2021 Teaching Apprentice at Brown University, and a 24 Hour Plays alum. Her directing work includes Every Tongue Confess (Yale University Theatre), Bulrusher (aso. Nicole A. Watson), TEETH (Jamal Jones Dance Company), The Revolting Teens of Sherwood by Joe Faust and John Maclay (Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn), Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage (asst. Nicole A. Watson, Guthrie Theatre), Dance Nation by Clare Baron (UNC Chapel Hill), soft by Donja Love (asst. dir. Whitney White, MCC), The Murmurations by Alexander Moggridge (Atlantic Theatre Acting School), The Bridge Workshop by Michael Mejias, Doug Silver, and Andrew Frank (Dramatic Question Theatre), seven methods of killing kylie jenner by Jasmine Lee- Jones (Leeds Theatre).

Lauren Pick

Lauren Pick(she/her) is so excited to be making her DQT debut! She is passionate about creating art that fosters community, inclusivity, and joy. In her spare time, Lauren loves to sing and bake!