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He earned his BFA in Theatre/Acting at Illinois State University. On-screen credits: Chicago PD (NBC) and 61st Street (AMC). His Stage Credits : Gods and Monsters, Judy’s Life’s Work , Reasons: Earth Wind and Fire ,The Three Trials Of Oscar Wilde and many more productions playing a wide range of interesting characters. After a football injury at a young age, he discovered his real purpose. He’s passionate about the arts and is intent on every character he embodies being different from the last. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597816056f4ca3e9c14ed75e/1755316429973-3V9KBJKLNINF36Z2QFSX/Maya+Vinice+Prentiss.jpeg Plenum - Maya Vinice Prentiss as TRACY SAINT MAYA VINICE PRENTISS is an SAFD Certified Actor-Combatant, Fight Choreographer, and Dialect Coach. Acting credits include: CHICAGO: Clyde’s, How to Catch Creation, School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play (Goodman Theatre); Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negroes (The Story Theatre) Eclipsed (Pegasus Theatre Company); An Octoroon, An Educated Guess (Definition Theatre Company).REGIONAL: School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play (TheatreSquared); As You Like It, Pride and Prejudice(Illinois Shakespeare Festival); Q Brothers Christmas Carol FILM: Jade, Nya Does Nothing, PLENUM TELEVISION: The Chi (Showtime), Donut Boyz (Pilot) FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY: Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Timeline Theatre, Babes with Blades Theatre Co., Definition Theatre, Raven Theatre, Remy Bumppo, The Story Theatre, The Impostors Theatre. INTIMACY DIRECTION: Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Raven Theatre, Remy Bumppo, Pegasus Theatre, Shattered Globe Theatre DIALECT COACHING: Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, The House Theatre. EDUCATION: BFA in Drama, Spelman College; MFA in Acting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. AWARDS: Jeff Award- Best Fight Choreography (Ethiopianamerica), Best Ensemble (Marie Antoinette) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597816056f4ca3e9c14ed75e/1755317157831-PO4GLTBDEEDHEW5BYON0/Jonathan%2BGardner.png Plenum - Jonathan Gardner as ASOTTO Jonathan Gardner is an actor based in Chicago. He has been working in the city for the past several years and has accumulated credits in shows like Chicago Fire and The Chi. He will be taking his talents to Spring Green this coming summer to join the American Players Theatre for their 2025 season, where he will be originating the role of Prince in The Death of Chuck Brown. Jonathan is always inspired to work with artists and filmmakers in Chicago and is honored to have been a part of this talented PLENUM cast and crew. " https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597816056f4ca3e9c14ed75e/1755316927045-QBY4VEMSI0DTYQ3UT9CR/Sanford+E+Gaylord+Headshot.jpeg Plenum - Sanford E Gaylord as JOSEPH Sanford E. Gaylord is the founder of Gaylord Consulting, LLC, a public administration and public health focused consulting firm. He brings more than twenty years of experience and leadership in the fields of Public Administration and Health, with a demonstrated history of achievement in program development, evaluation, and social marketing primarily with governmental and nongovernmental organizations. He is also an actor and writer, having worked on stage, screen and behind the scenes. Sanford was a co-founding member of Black Alphabet, the world’s oldest and largest Black LGBTQ+ focused arts organization that produces the Black Alphabet Film Festival. He was the Creative Producer for “HIV and the Journey Toward Zero,” a Chicago Midwest Emmy nominated docuseries produced by the Chicago Department of Public Health. Sanford’s contributions to the LGBTQ+ community are profiled online at Chicago Gay History and the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597816056f4ca3e9c14ed75e/1755317883727-JLG17J1BNPEC7KM39NMS/Farrow%2BKenyon.jpg Plenum - Farrow Kenyon as ESSEX Kenyon Farrow is an award-winning Black gay essayist, activist and strategist. Kenyon has spent the last 20 years working in social movements on campaigns and projects large and small, community-based, national and global in scope. Difficult to categorize, he’s trained and mentored scores of organizers, helped shape local, state and national policy, and his writing has shaped entire debates of national importance on everything from criminal justice issues, housing and urban policy, HIV and public health, and popular culture. While Kenyon is a classically trained actor with a Bachelor's in Theatre from Ohio Wesleyan University, and has credits with LaMaMA, Etc., The Classical Theatre of Harlem, Great Lakes Theater Festival and other venues, PLENUM marks Kenyon's return to acting after a 20 year hiatus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597816056f4ca3e9c14ed75e/1755316934473-M0MSDPKXNA5YM4OX68IC/Toni-Michelle+Williams.jpg Plenum - Toni-Michelle Williams as MONICA Toni-Michelle Williams is a kaleidoscopic force of nature—a living, breathing symphony of resistance, creativity, and radical compassion. She is an award winning- multifaceted professional known for her roles as an event MC, performance artist, creative director, and embodied leadership coach. In addition to her artistic talents, she holds the esteemed position of Co-Founder and Executive Director of Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative, Inc. (SNAPCO). Toni-Michelle received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Norfolk State University and is a graduate from DeKalb School of the Arts in DeKalb County, Georgia. Her advocacy extends to diverse communities, encompassing Black transgender and LGBQIA+ individuals, sex workers, people living with HIV (PLHIV), and Black youth. Her body is a landscape of resistance and joy, a terrain where performance art, community activism, and somatic healing converge in breathtaking harmony. Her remarkable leadership has been instrumental in co-leading citywide campaigns that have given rise to initiatives such as the Atlanta Policing Alternatives and Diversion Initiative, cannabis reform, protections for sex workers, the closure of the Atlanta City Detention Center (ACDC), and the pursuit of police accountability in cases involving the families of individuals like Alexia Christian, Scout Schultz, DeAundre Phillips, Tee Tee Dangerfield, and Rayshard Brooks. Toni-Michelle seamlessly combines her creative prowess with her activism, utilizing supernatural grace and a sense of sacred silliness as tools to unlock joy and satisfaction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597816056f4ca3e9c14ed75e/1758729362701-3FCCBMNIHH99GFECQAI1/IMG_5064.png Plenum - Barbara Washington Barbara Washington has performed in various venues throughout Atlanta for the last 20 years and has been involved in several independent films. She is excited to be performing and working with this group of talented actors. Barbara would like to thank her family and friends for their continued support. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597816056f4ca3e9c14ed75e/1755317422023-6SZAWJP2UL8Q3423QNPC/Charlene%252BA.%252BCarruthers%252B-%252BWriter%252B%252526%252BDirector.jpg Plenum - Charlene A. Carruthers Writer & Director Charlene A. Carruthers Writer & Director https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597816056f4ca3e9c14ed75e/1755316089765-BI7M83C45LFQNH63P8LY/Ahsha+Davis+-+Producer.jpg Plenum - Ahsha Davis - Producer Ahsha Davis is filmmaker, producer, and radio podcaster who is native of Detroit, MI. She received her Bachelor of Applied Arts in Broadcasting and Cinematic Arts with a double minor in Spanish and Communications from Central Michigan University where she began her media career working in radio, news, television, film. She also spent time serving on various campus wide initiatives within equity and inclusion. Her love for media began in 2015 where she worked at WMHW- FM radio station on the News Production team. She then transitioned to the Program Director of a Hip Hop Station and served in that role for 3 years. Ahsha quickly transitioned into the Film and Television industry and is currently a producer helping with the development of stories. Ahsha received her Master of Arts in Electronic Media Studies from Central Michigan where she focused on researching the Emotional Effects of Film through Marvel Cinematic Universe and plans to continue research in the area. She recently graduated with her second masters from Columbia College Chicago in Film and Television Producing. During her time, she has produced on 35 short films, 1 web series, 1 TV Pilot, and many podcast and radio shows. Ahsha truly enjoys being a TV and Film producer and hopes to own her own production company to help young filmmakers achieve their dreams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597816056f4ca3e9c14ed75e/1755316100434-BKE1E2CW1VLG59XW0RFS/Trina+Mulligan+-+Director+of+Photography.png Plenum - Trina Mulligan - Director of Photography Trina Mulligan is a Chicago based cinematographer with an immense and everlasting love for visual storytelling. After graduating from Columbia College Chicago with a BFA in Cinematography in 2020, she has established herself as a successful working DP in the film and commercial industry in Chicago. She enjoys the process of creating a unique, striking and compelling visual language for every film that she works on. She uses her profound knowledge of a variety of shooting formats, from 16mm and 35mm film to digital to create stunning images that bring worlds and characters to life. Trina’s first two features Step Six and What Rhymes With Magdalena are entering the festival circuit this year. When she’s not on set, she enjoys oil painting on raw canvas, and shooting photos with her film camera in nature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597816056f4ca3e9c14ed75e/1755316110392-LSFJYRBPKL308IZPBC43/Tre+William+-+Casting+Director.jpg Plenum - Tre William - Casting Director As a film director and multifaceted creative based in Chicago, IL, I love combining my strengths in directing, creative producing, and community building in all my endeavors to inspire a deeper message. I desire to expand into mediums that allow me to create from a place of authenticity and freedom and let my artistic soul be a catalyst for my natural creative spirit. My mission for all my work, and for what's yet to come, is for it represent life's beautiful nuances and complexities, especially for those of underrepresented backgrounds. Common throughlines that serve as the foundation for my film and creative projects include navigating identity struggles, coming-of-age, Black empowerment, and vulnerable self-discovery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597816056f4ca3e9c14ed75e/1755316181796-WSN8417GEDSNULTMOXR0/Jazz%2BWilliam%2B-%2BEditor.png Plenum - Jazz William - Editor Jazz Williams is a queer non-binary editor from the Southside of Chicago. As a kid, they always had a love for creative arts. They began with writing short stories and when they got their first camera around age 10, then shot and edited their first pieces on Windows Movie Maker. Their love for editing and media production grew when they attended Valparaiso University in 2008 and had the opportunity to start the school tv station. Through that experience they gravitated towards broadcast engineering, sports broadcasting, and theatre production. After they graduated in 2012, they worked at Freespirit Media as the HoopsHIGH Production Coordinator, teaching sports broadcasting, media literacy, and short documentary production. They also worked as an adjunct at Valparaiso University teaching media production. In 2016, they relocated to Madison, WI where they worked as broadcast engineer at PBS. Currently they are a freelance editor based in Chicago and have had the opportunity to work with various clients such as the NFLPA, Northwestern University, and local commercial post-houses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/597816056f4ca3e9c14ed75e/1755316126826-PH7Z6S20US6PPVUKGAVN/Lee+Anderson+-+Composer.png Plenum - Lee Anderson - Composer Lee is a singer/songwriter, producer, and composer. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Lee spent 15 years producing music and performing in the metropolitan Washington DC region with Funk and Soul band AZTEC SUN. Lee has also appeared on stage with national acts and supported background vocals for hundreds of artists. Lee’s music as a producer and score composer has also been heard in online video content and short films, including, most recently, Charlene Carruthers’ debut short film ‘The Funnel.’ Lee believes that with great power (or in this case, talent) comes great responsibility. Seeing himself and his endeavors through that lens has made Lee an active political voice in the social justice movement. “Making music is the ability to tap into your emotion and make another human being FEEL what you feel.” Lee currently lives, performs, works, and plays in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Carmen, and mini