Margo Hall

An award-winning actor, director, playwright, and educator, Hall has been a leading presence in national and local theatre communities for more than 30 years. The first female Artistic Director of our theatre named for the trailblazing Black female playwright of A Raisin in the Sun, Hall takes the helm at a moment where artists of color demand representation and change in the American Theatre. With a career dedicated to bringing the stories of people of color to life, Hall is committed to creating a safe space for fostering Black artists, particularly Black female and nonbinary artists who continue to be deeply underrepresented, as well as increasing society’s exposure to diverse perspectives.

Photo Credit: Lisa Keating

Jeunée Simon

Jeunée Simon* is an actor and director in the Bay Area. Recent credits include: La Ronde (Cutting Ball Theater), Men On Boats u/s (American Conservatory Theater), HeLa (TheatreFIRST) The Daughters (SF Playhouse), Bamboozled and Roan at the Gates (Central Works). Simon is a proud recipient of the 2017 RHE Artistic Fellowship and a 2019 Directing Apprentice with PlayGround. She is delighted to be part of this Bay Area community and humbled by the talent of those around her. (*Member of Actors' Equity
Association)

Marjorie Crump-Shears

Marjorie Crump Shears* is enjoying an “encore career” as a professional, working actor having retired from education after 33 years in 1999. She has been privileged to work in many theaters in the Greater Bay Area, and in Sonoma County where she resides. The roles she has played have been varied and cover plays in most genres, including the classics, modern drama and comedy and musical. In addition to stage work, her acting career has expanded to include TV, screen, internet and medical training schools (Standardized Patient). She is an AEA member and a member of SAG/AFTRA. She is a proud and longtime member of Theater Bay Area. (*Member of Actors' Equity Association)

Jasmine Milan Williams

Jasmine Milan Williams is a Bay Area artist. Her main discipline is acting but she also enjoys collaborative, explorative, multiple discipline works that fall under the artist spectrum. Her recent work includes: Bull in a China Shop by Bryna Turner (Aurora
Theatre), Inked Baby by Christina Anderson (Crowded Fire Theater Company), The Last Sermon of Sister Imani (TheatreFIRST), and Waafrika (TheatreFIRST). She has also worked with: Campo Santo (Company Member),TheatreFIRST, Those Woman Production company, African American Shakespeare Company, and New Conservatory Theater Company.

Kim Saunders

Kim Saunders is thrilled to be working with the LHT. She holds a BA in Theatre from Marymount Manhattan College. In New York she worked with The Nat Horne Theatre, Neighborhood Playhouse, Academy Arts Theatre Company and ABT at Lincoln Center. She also performed with The Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 6 years. In California, she's performed with: San Jose Repertory Theatre, San Jose Stage, African American Shakespeare Company and others. Kim is a company member of Custom Made Theatre and Left Coast Theatre. She was nominated twice by BATCC for best female principal as well as choreography and a nomination from TBA for choreography. Kim is a professional director/choreographer and works as a teaching artist in high schools supporting teachers and students.

Dameion Brown

Dameion Brown performed the title role in Othello (Marin Shakespeare Company, MSC) in 2016, and was awarded “Best Lead Actor” from the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle. He was also nominated by The Fallsta! Awards as “Best Principal Actor.” Dameion appeared in The Seagull (Utopia Theatre Project), Waafrika and The Farm (TheatreFIRST) winning another BATCC award, Dance of the Holy Ghost (Ubuntu Theatre Project), and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (MSC). He played the lead role in Pericles (MSC) in July 2018. He’s a Teaching Artist in the Department of Juvenile Justice in Stockton, CA, as well as in the Alameda Juvenile Hall Facility, and an Artist in
Residence at MSC.

Lucas Brandt

Lucas Brandt is a Bay Area based actor and educator. He was last seen on stage in Word for Word and Z Space's production of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Magic Theatre in Visible from Four States. He has worked with a variety of companies around the bay, including Cal Shakes, SF Shakespeare Festival, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Shotgun Players, Cinnabar Theater, Boxcar Theater and Berkeley Rep’s PlayGround. Brandt graduated from UC Santa Cruz with both his Bachelors’ and Masters’ degree in Theater Arts.

Jan Hunter

Jan Hunter (Director) is an actress, director, original Soul Train dancer, and retired theatre educator of 40 years. She was the Performing Arts Director at Skyline High School for 24 years directing and producing 4 productions a year. She directed The Vagina Monologues for BAWAR in 2018. She recently performed in African American Shakespeare Theatre’s productions of Cinderella, Streetcar Named Desire and For Colored Girls, nominated for Outstanding Ensemble performance by Theatre Bay Area. She’s performed in Oedipus, School for Scandal and Pygmalion. Jan is a Board of Directors member of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. She holds a B.A. in Drama, M.A. in Education and M.A. in Teacher of the Arts.