Georgerinna Farley

Georgerinna Farley is an actor in the Chicago area who is passionate about real, raw, and authentic stories. She holds an MFA in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University, as well as a BA in Theatre Performance from Rhode Island College, where she became a part of the Lin-Manuel Miranda Family Fellowship. Her work spans across stage and screen, including SEND HELP (AMC Networks), In The Continuum (Abigail) at Pegasus Theatre, Julius Caesar (Mark Antony), and RENT (Mimi Marquez). With a strong background in music, dialects, and movement.

Jesi Mullins

Jesi iMullins s delighted to make her Fleetwood-Jourdain debut! Theatre: Racecar Racecar Racecar (Bramble Theatre Company), A Christmas Carol (Metropolis), Fairview (Definition Theatre), Marys Seacole (Griffin Theatre), The Secretaries (First Floor Theater), Bachelor - The Unauthorized Parody Musical, Love Actually? The Unauthorized Musical Parody (Apollo Theater), Macbeth (Spectrum Shakespeare), Exit the King, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (The Theatre School at DePaul). TV: Chicago Med (NBC). Film: Nothing’s Going on with Me and Sandra (Big C Creative), Return to Start (908 Media). Co-host of FYI: The Murphy Brown Podcast (featured on CNN’s “TV on the Edge”). MFA, The Theatre School at DePaul University. Jesi is a certified actor combatant and dialect coach. She is represented by Gray Talent Group. Love to Gabe, my family, and the Purrs. 

Tim Rhoze

has been the Producing Artistic Director of Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre since 2010. His regional and FJT directing credits include: IN THE CONTINUUM, GEE'S BEND, PASSOVER, HONEYPOT: BLACK SOUTHERN WOMEN WHO LOVE WOMEN, UNTIL THE FLOOD, THE LIGHT, AMERICAN SON, HOME, TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES 1992, THE MEETING, FIRES IN THE MIRROR, BLACK BALLERINA (co-writer), NUTCRACKER(ISH), CROWNS, HAVING OUR SAY, FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA, FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF, WOZA ALBERT!, GOING TO ST. IVES, SINGLE BLACK FEMALE, A SONG FOR CORETTA, YELLOWMAN, SWEET, LADY DAY AT EMERSON BAR & GRILL, BEAR COUNTRY, NOBODY, FENCES, PIANO LESSON, AIN'T MISBEHAVIN, K2, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, et. al. Most recently, Tim directed PASSING STRANGE for Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre. He is also the writer/director of WHY NOT ME? A SAMMY DAVIS JR. STORY, and MAYA’S LAST POEM, both produced at FJT; and BLACK BALLERINA, produced at FJT and Pittsburgh Public Theatre. He was co-writer and director of A HOME ON THE LAKE, co-produced with the Piven Theatre Workshop.

Tara Malpass

is thrilled to be working with Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre again after stage managing Gee’s Bend earlier this year. Since moving to Chicago in 2005, she has been fortunate to have worked with many talented artists and designers, as well as extraordinary Chicago theatre companies such as Raven Theatre, Stage Left, Circle Theatre, Trap Door, Collaboraction, InFusion Theatre Company, Babes With Blades, New Leaf, Sinnerman, Eclipse, and The Side Project. Love to Mike!

Joe Ciresi

is very thankful for the opportunity to work with Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre.  He followed his sister to the Chicago theatre world back in 2004 and has worked primarily as an actor with many phenomenal companies and people since landing in this fantastically artistic city.  He has been a company member with such great companies as Infamous Commonwealth Theatre, Innate Theatre Company, Greatworks Theatre Company and Polarity Ensemble.  He’d like to primarily thank his best friend for helping extend his theatre experience.

Shane Rogers

This is Shane’s fourth season with Fleetwood- Jourdain. He has worked in technical theatre for 28 years at places including: Indy Convergence in Indianapolis, Indiana; Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon; Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, Utah; Shadowland Stages and Bard College, both located in the Hudson Valley in New York.

Brenden Marble

He/Him After studying theater design at Eastern Michigan University, the Detroit, MI, native moved to Chicago to start living his dream of becoming a lighting designer! Recent credits include At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen(The Story Theatre) We Always Bounce Black(Second City Chicago) Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea(Pegasus Theatre) Native Son(Lifeline Theatre) An Educated Guess(Definition Theatre), Liaisons(Chicago Tap Theatre), Black By Popular Demand(Second City Chicago), A Hit Dog Will Holler (Artemisia Theatre), Fairview(Definition Theater), and Dance Like There Are Black People Watching(Second City Chicago) Even though his career is just beginning, he knows this is something he wants to do for the rest of his life. Website: www.brendenmarble.com

Rick Sims

Kate Parker-Barrows

is delighted to be back at Fleetwood-Jourdain Theater for her 5th production. She has previously designed costumes for: "Gee's Bend", 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf', 'Until the Flood', and 'Passover.' She works as the Costumes and Props Designer at Niles West High School. Kate is a founding and long-time member of Improvised Jane Austen, which performs at the famed iO Theater every Saturday at 7:30 PM. She'd like to thank her loving family: Jeremy, Shay, & Ambika, for putting up with her crazy theatre schedule!

John Olson

provides marketing and public relations services to a variety of theaters and arts organizations in the Chicago area. He followed a career as an account manager and media planner in Chicago and Milwaukee advertising agencies by moving into arts marketing and publicity in 2010. He worked at ComedySportz Chicago as Marketing Director and Raven Theatre as Director of Marketing and Press before founding John Olson Communications in 2017. Additionally. John has served as Associate Editor for The Sondheim Review and Chicago reviewer for TalkinBroadway.com.

Bria Walker-Rhoze

is a multidisciplinary artist and educator.  She is the Akram and Watfa Midani Associate Professor of Acting at Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) School of Drama and Artistic Associate at Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre in Evanston, IL.  Selected recent acting credits: Primary Trust (Pittsburgh Public Theater); The Garbologists, Crossroad, The Royale, Pop!, Marcus or the Secret of Sweet (City Theatre); The Royale (St. Louis Repertory Theatre); Fires in the Mirror, The Bougie Gentleman, Romeo & Juliet (Pittsburgh Public Theatre Playtime Series); From the Mississippi Delta (Triad Stage); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (The Rep at Point Park); Saints Tour (Bricolage Production Company).  Selected directing credits: upcoming – Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley (City Theatre); Obama-ology, co-director of Crowns (Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre); Fury (Parker Theatre); staged reading Off With Her Maidenhead (The Pitch series for Merry-Go-Round Playhouse); John Proctor is the Villain (CMU); Emilia (Pitt); for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (SUNY New Paltz); Avenue Q (SUNY New Paltz & Pitt). Selected writing & producing credits: co-writer of The Baldwin|Giovanni Experience (FJT); Crossroad (City Theatre Spotlight Series); You think the arts don’t matter? What about quarantine? (Pittsburgh-Post Gazette op-ed); Chant (The Monologue Project); Black Lives in Focus (Pitt Initiative). Education: MFA - Denver Center for the Performing Arts (National Theatre Conservatory); BFA - Wright State University. www.briawalker-rhoze.com

Tyla Uzo

Michael Hoffman

Basil Clunie