Lawrence Brown Macon Laurence is a San Diego native. His first taste of theater was in the fourth grade where he was persuaded into trying out for the school play The Music Man. Officially bit by the acting bug; he was in any production he could get into from reciting Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech in front of high school classmates to community theater. He attended Saint Augustine High School in North Park and Dillard University in New Orleans. Recently he has performed at Cygnets The Piano Lesson and award winning Fences as well as Moxie's Wet and Devil Dog Six. Recent TV and film credits include My Name Is Khan, Monk, I Carly, and Cartoon networks new show EagleHeart.
Monique Gaffney* Sadie Monique was last seen performing in the production of Piano Lesson as Berniece at Cygnet Theatre directed by Delicia Turner-Sonnenberg. Local credits: Man From Nebraska, Yellowman (2007 Craig Noel Award), Bug and Las Meninas at Cygnet Theatre; Doubt at San Diego REP; No Exit at Diversionary Theatre; Medea and I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given To Me By A Young Lady From Rwanda at Compass Theatre(2006 Patté Award); Gibson Girl and BlueBonnet Court for Moxie Theatre in collaboration with Diversionary Theatre; In Arabia We'd Be Kings at Lynx Progressive Theatre; Still Life at New Village Arts; The Scottish Play and Phaedra in Delirium at Sledgehammer; Story Theatre, Stories About the Old Days and The African Company Presents Richard III at North Coast Rep. New York credits: Willie Mae/Martha in Mamba's Daughters at the International Spoleto Theatre directed by David Herskovitz; Josephine Baker/Oscar Micheaux in American Silents directed by Anne Bogart. Also, she is a company member of Omo Ache a local Afro-Cuban dance company. She received her BA from UCSD in acting and also holds an MFA in acting from Columbia University.
Charmen Jackson Alice/Asia I was introduced to theatre in 2003 as a vocalist in Handel's Messiah-A Soulful Celebration with Common Ground Theatre. Since then, I put my love of writing to use in a play called Ain't You Heard? which was also my directorial debut with the Ira Aldridge Repertory Players. Other directorial credits include Night Mother with Ascension Theatre Co, Company Men with Compass Theatre, Co-director for Black Girl with CUFAA, Assistant Director for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom with San Diego Black Ensemble Theatre, and much to my delight, Assistant Director for The Old's Globe's production of SAMMY, starring Obba Babatunde as Sammy Davis Jr.
My onstage credits include role of Dussie Mae in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom with San Diego Black Ensemble, understudy for Rasechaba in 'Gangsters' for San Diego Black Ensemble, Netta in Black Girl with CUFAA, ensemble in 5 Shades of Blues, Passion & Honey, and Ernestine Anderson in Raisin the Rent with IARP, ensemble in Dreamgirls with San Diego Musical Theatre Co, and understudy as Mrs. Muller in Doubt by the San Diego Repertory Theatre. Gee's Bend initially caught my attention a couple years ago and I intended to direct it in the future, but, the future included my acting in it and I am thrilled to participate in sharing this bit of history that is so relatable to me and my own family legacies.
Licia Shearer* Nella Licia is an actress, singer and dancer whose credits include: (Stage/Lead) Ain't Misbehaven', A Little Meditation (Best Actress nomination by the NAACP Theatre Awards Committee), For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, Little Shop Of Horrors, Eden (Director and Lead), Finian's Rainbow, Godspell and Hangin' On A Mustard Seed (one-woman show), (Television/Guest Star & Co-Star) Dexter, Cold Case, Scrubs, House, Help Me Help You, General Hospital, One On One and The Parkers, (Film/Principal & Supporting) Gang Of Roses, How To Be A Player and Radio Free Albemuth. Licia is also a voice-over artist (star of one of radio's longest running soap operas, It's Your World, as Sarah Regal and Traniece Atwater) and is the voice of countless radio commercials across the country and around the world. Licia speaks French fluently and is in development with her next one-woman show, based on the life of Josephine Baker.
*Member of Actors' Equity Association
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