The Realness

MRT: Debut NYC: The Green Plays, Naked Angels; Anna Nicole, BAM. Regional: Arena Stage, Arden Theatre Company, Florida Studio Theatre, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Luna Stage, and Arrow Rock Lyceum. Workshops and Labs: New York Theatre Workshop, Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, HBO/ABFF Showcase, Playwrights Horizons, Playwrights Realm, National Black Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, and Arena Stage. Film/TV: Mother of George; Aissa’s Story, FESPACO; The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Upcoming: Dirt, World Premiere: Sundance 2016, Tampere 2016, Aspen Shortsfest 2016, New Directors/New Films 2016. Other: 2014 LAByrinth Ensemble Member. Education: Duke University, Political Science.

MRT: Debut  New York City: Frida Liberada (Frida Kahlo), Urban Stages (Dir. Lydia Frost); Diablo Love (Mephistopheles), Summer Stage (Dir. Alfred Dreisser). Regional: Patience, Fortitude, and other Anti-Depressants, Encuentro Festival at LATC in Los Angeles (Dir. Daniel Jaquez). Film/TV: Law and Order: SVU; Money Monster (Dir. Jodie Foster); I Love You but I Lied, Lifetime. Education: BA in Theatre, City College of New York.

MRT: Debut Off-Broadway: Dakota Atoll, Lark Theatre; Dunkfest ’88, P73; Find and Sign, Naked Angels. Regional:  A Christmas Carol, Hartford Stage; FLY, Cincinnati Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis;  How We Got On, B Street Theatre, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival; By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, Lyric Stage Co.; Cardboard Piano, Imaginary Music Critic Who Doesn’t Exist, The Solid Sand Below, Alligator, The Eugene O’Neill Memorial Theatre; Find and Sign, Much Ado About Nothing, Pioneer Theatre Co.; The Crucible, Trinity Rep Co.; Othello, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co. TV/Film: Elementary; How To Win; New Millennium Studios:  Blues in The Night, Troop 491  Other Selected Credits: The Threepenny Opera, Vieux Carre, The Lady From Dubuque, Blood Knot, The Duchess of Malfi, We Are Proud to Present…, Much Ado About Nothing, The Piano Lesson, Sally’s Rape (Director), Betrayal (Director).  Education: Terrell holds an M.F.A. from Brown University/Trinity Rep and is a Yale University graduate. Other: Terrell thanks God and his loving family for their support and commitment.  www.terrelldonnellsledge.com

Idris Goodwin is an award winning playwright, essayist, and spoken word artist. His play How We Got On, developed at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville's 2012 Humana Festival. Nominated for an ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award. Critically acclaimed and published by Playscripts, How We Got On is being widely remounted across the country. Goodwin was back at Humana Festival in 2014 as co-writer of Remix 38. Other productions include: This is Modern Art at Steppenwolf Theater and And in this Corner: Cassius Clay at StageOne. He holds writing commissions from B Street Theater and InterAct (as recipient of their annual 20/20 Award). Goodwin has been a writer in residence at Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor Program, The Kennedy Center and New Harmony Project. Goodwin is a Core Writer with The Playwrights' Center and a proud member of the Dramatist Guild. An accomplished poet and essayist, his book These Are The Breaks was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He's performed on HBO, Discovery Channel, and Sesame Street. Goodwin teaches performance writing and hip hop aesthetics at Colorado College.

MRT: Debut Off-Broadway: Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky, Playwright’s Horizons; The Mistress Cycle, NYMTF; Walk Two Moons, Lucille Lortel;  Opus, Boy, Primary Stages; Blind, Rattlesitck. Regional: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, St. Louis Rep.; As You Like It, Center Stage; Intimate Apparel, Chautauqua; The History of Invulnerability, Cincinnati Playhouse; Two Things You Don’t Talk About at Dinner, Denver Center; Sarah Plain and Tall, Dallas Theatre Center;  Assassins, Playmaker’s Rep; The Glass Menagerie, The Old Globe; False Creeds, Alliance; Geometry of Fire, NYSF; The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, Arena Stage; Tribes, Gutherie; Nijinsky’s Last Dance, Berkshire Theatre Festival; Light in the Piazza, Philadelphia Theatre Co.; The Last Goodbye, Williamstown Theatre Festival; The Clean House, Woolly Mammoth; Passion, Sunday in the Park with George, Sondheim Celebration/Kennedy Center; among others. Awards: Helen Hayes Nominations:  Urinetown, Side Show, The Fix. Multiple productions at The Juilliard School of Drama.

MRT: Debut Regional: Into The Woods, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Little Shop of Horrors, Cleveland Playhouse; The Verona Project, King Lear, California Shakespeare; Blood Wedding, Lookingglass Theatre; Start Down, The Alliance;  An Iliad, Geva, Kansas City Rep;  A Raisin in the Sun, Milwaukee Rep;  Baskerville, Arena, McCarter; Oliver, Arena;  Comedy of Tenors, Cleveland Playhouse, McCarter;  Immediate Family, The Mark Taper Forum; A Long Red Road, Goodman Theatre; Civil War Christmas, Long Wharf; Crime and Punishment, Centerstage; Winesburg, Steppenwolf; Porgy and Bess, Titus Andronicus, Court; Circle Mirror Transformation, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Clay, Lincoln Center. Other: Joshua is a Bay area and Chicago award winning Sound Designer/Composer/Music Producer. Mr. Horvath has taught sound design for theatre and film at Northwestern University and DePaul University.  He is a four-time Joseph Jefferson Award winner and a LA Ovation winner, a company member of The House Theatre of Chicago, an artistic associate of Lookingglass Theatre, and a collaborative partner with The Goodman.