Anastaćia McCleskey
Biography
Award winning actor. Eight Broadway shows, tons of regional, some TV & Films. “I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become & might have done if I had lived in a country which had not circumscribed & handicapped me on account of my race, that had allowed me to reach any height I was able to attain.” — Mary Church Terrell.
Credits
Suffs, Boop! The Betty Boop Musical, Waitress, Caroline; or Change
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Grace McLean
Performer, writer, composer. Broadway: Bad Cinderella, Natasha, Pierre…. Off-Broadway, Regional: Public, New Group, MCC, LCT3, Vineyard, WTF, ART, Weston Playhouse. TV: “The First Lady” (Showtime), “The Other Two” (HBO). Her musical In The Green garnered a Richard Rodgers Award for her writing and a Lortel for her performance. Lincoln Center Writer-in-Residence, SPACE founding member, Vivace Award, Larson Grant, Broadway Women’s Fund Woman to Watch, Civilians R&D, MacDowell, Lincoln Center Emerging Artist. Original music and cast recording for In The Green streaming.
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Christine Heesun Hwang
Christine is a queer, Korean-American writer and actor from the Midwest. Broadway debut! Tour: Les Misérables, Miss Saigon. Writing: BMI Workshop, YES Theatre, Williamstown. Proud YoungArts and Spotlight Education alum. Gratitude to Suffs team, HCKR, and all who continue to pave the path forward. Love to those here and above.
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Monica Tulia Ramirez
Broadway debut! Off-Broadway: Suffs. Regional: A Crossing (Barrington Stage Company), Footloose (Marriott), Evita (Fulton), Godspell (ACT), Snapshots (ACT, Grammy Award nomination). TV: “Uncoupled,” “Elementary,” “Madam Secretary,” “Evil.” Ball State University. Gratitude to HCKR and WAM. Love to my parents, brother Christopher, Logan and Alvaro! Pase lo que pase.
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Hannah Cruz
Hannah is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut. Off-Broadway: The Connector (Robin, MCC), Only Gold (Camille, MCC), Suffs (Ruza, The Public). Tour: Hamilton (IRNE Best Actress, Eliza), Bullets over Broadway (Ellen). Regional: The Da Vinci Code (American Premiere, Ogunquit Playhouse, Sophie Neveu) and Young Frankenstein (OP, Inga). Thank you to my parents, who supported me from the beginning, to Edred, without you I wouldn’t be here and my tireless team at KMR, Brillstein and imPRint.
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Nikki M. James
Broadway: The Book of Mormon (Tony Award), Les Misérables, All Shook Up, …Tom Sawyer. Favorite Theater Credits: Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day (The Public), Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Encores!), Romeo & Juliet, Caesar & Cleopatra (Stratford Theater), Julius Caesar and Shaina Taub’s Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park), Bernarda Alba (Lincoln Center), Preludes (LCT3). Notable TV/Film: “Daredevil: Born Again” (Disney+), “Severance” (AppleTV+), “Proven Innocent” (FOX), “Braindead” (CBS), Spoiler Alert (Focus). BFA from NYU’s Tisch. A proud mama, wife, New Yorker, voter. As always, for Poppy.
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Ada Westfall
Ada was in the cast of Suffs at The Public and is a musician, actor, and proud trans woman. Her work has included playing guitar on Broadway (Jagged Little Pill), composing music for Virgin Voyages and Big Apple Circus, and projects with artists like David Byrne, Thom Yorke, and Alan Menken.
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