Artistic Director Jacqueline Moscou
Rehearsals for the US premiere of Obama on My Mind continue at breakneck speed. Cast and crew are busily learning songs, practicing lines and preparing to move to the mainstage after set completion.
The cast of 11 principals and four ensemble dancers is comprised of local equity and non-equity performers. The thread tying all these wacky characters together is their undying passion for their candidate.
Anyone who has ever worked on an election campaign will quickly recognize the archetypes skillfully played by: Ron Davids (LHPAC: Bobbie & Jerome, Dinah Was; Wooden O: A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Nik Doner (LHPAC: Dinah Was; Balagan Theatre: Taming of the Shrew)
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Annie Jantzer (Balagan Theatre: Taming of the Shrew; Picasso at the Lapin Agile; Othello; Leavenworth Summer Theatre: Brigadoon; Oklahoma!; The Sound of Music; West Side Story; Joseph…Dreamcoat) Demene Hall (LHPAC: Diva Daughters Dupree, Bud Not Buddy; Film: Men of Honor), Josephine Howell (Intiman: Black Nativity; CROWNS; The Grapes of Wrath) Kimbre Lancaster (Bainbridge Performing Arts: A Light in the Piazza; Idaho Repertory Theatre), Rebecca Meneses (LHPAC: The African Conexion Project’s Callejon; Book-It: The Highest Tide; Intiman: A Streetcar Named Desire), Phyllis Yasutake (LHPAC: Death of a Salesman; Intiman: Black Nativity; African American Heritage Museum: StoryTelling), Ryan Blackwell “Hazy” in his Seattle stage debut ( Auburn Dinner Theater and Cabaret Magnifique) and Umeme (LHPAC:
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Death of a Salesman; Founding Member of Black Arts West; African American Heritage Museum/CD Forum; one-man show about Jacob Lawrence; Ten Years on the road with The Coasters).
The creative team is comprised of: Jacqueline Moscou (director), Teddy Hayes (bookwriter), Daniel Wilkins (choreographer), Paul Thomas (music director), Tommer Peterson (set design), Herb Thompson (sound design) and Deborah Sorenson (costume designer).
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